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Wooden Ships Revolutionary Change
852 wordsFrom the many inventions that emerged from the American Civil War, the Ironclad, designed by Captain John Ericsson and Robert L. Stevens, has impacted the world by advancing naval warfare technology. It gave America more influence in Europe and put America ahead of Europe in naval matters. The impact and influence changed naval warfare's forever by forcing wooden ships to become obsolete. The Ironclad was among the first technological and modern tools of war. Its impact on technology in navies c...
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Rio De Janeiro Sao Paulo
1,284 wordsStretching over 2, 500 miles form east to west and 2, 700 miles from north to south, Brazil is the world's largest tropical country. The only nations that are larger are the lands of Russia, Canada, China and the United States. Brazil has more then 150 million people spread unevenly over its huge land area, making it the fifth most populated country in the world. (Encyclopedia. com) More then two thirds of Brazil's people live in the cities and towns and more then 29 percent of them are in the t...
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Nafta The Timber Industry And Some Consequences
1,358 wordsAgricultural Trade Policy INTRODUCTION Over the past four hundred years or so, timber has helped to fuel the economy of the United States of America. Billions of dollars change hands every year on timber alone just from the United States's producers and their counterpart retailers. In the 1970 's the United States was second on the list of the largest lumber producing countries in the world trailing only Russia (by a few billion board feet per year). We were the powerhouse when it came to timber...
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Men And Women Gender Roles
644 wordsGendered roles are evident in all forms of the media. For my research, I decided to view the gender construction in cartoons. After viewing the Cartoon Network for a day, I decided that Dexter's Laboratory would be the best show to document the gender roles and common ideologies of men and women in society. Dexter's Laboratory is based on the tale of a child genius. A small, red-headed boy genius, Dexter lives in a quiet suburban neighborhood with his mother, father, and older sister Dee Dee. Qu...
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Defense Against Nature Defense Against Nature Power Society
760 wordsIn 'Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art, ' Camille Paglia claims nature is inherently stronger than society. 'Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power. a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. ' (Writing in the Disciplines 572) I agree with the majority of Paglia's opinions, however, I believe that there are points that could have been elaborated on more substantially. In this essay, Paglia states that man is born evil and it is soc...
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People Who Live Nile River
415 wordsThe Comparing and Contrasting of Snails of the The Nile River is a river that winds through Africa into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile River is considered to be the river of life for both people and wildlife. People who live along the river have the highest rate of bladder cancer. The Schistosoma Haematobium or blood fluke, which is carried by a snail called the Bulinus Truncatus, infects many people who live along the river. There is a parasitic worm which burrows into blood vessels of the hum...
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Policy Issues Geographic Information
819 wordsPolicy issues and availability of Geographic Information Geographical Information is a computer-based tool for mapping and analyzing things that exist and events that happen on earth. The major components of a GI are: a user interface; system / database management capabilities; database creation / data entry capacity; spatial data manipulation and analysis packages; and display / product generation functions. GIS technology integrates, via the Internet, common database operations such as query a...
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City In The World Grand Prix Melbourne
652 wordsMelbourne, one of the most beautiful city's in the world. I have traveled through the USA, Canada & the Bahamas, and still, I find Melbourne is the greatest. In 1981 I was born in a New South Wales mid-coast town of Port Macquarie. I lived there until I was the age of four, and that's when we made the move to Victoria. I grew up in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, not far from the actual city. Most of my family lived there, and was the main cause for the move. I went to school and met lots of friends...
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Age Of 18 National Assembly
989 wordsHISTORY: The Gambia, translated from the French La Gambia was first colonized by Portugal in 1445 on what was later named St. Mary's Island. Subsequently, the area was visited by France and later, Britain who began to build strong trading posts along it's western shores. In the 1700 's The Gambia was proclaimed to be part of Britain. By 1969 The Gambia became a republic within the British commonwealth of nations. In 1982 it was declared a republic in what was later declared the Senegambia n conf...
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American Labor Movement Development Of Unions
1,260 wordsThe American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of a free country. They refused to be treated like slaves, and work under unbearable conditions any longer. Workers joined together and realized that a group is much more powerful than an individual when protesting against intimidating companies. Unions,...
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War Of 1812 Northern And Southern
697 wordsThe conclusion of the War of 1812 was the beginning of the industrial revolution that, by the time of the civil war, divided the US into Northern and Southern cultures. This division was gradual, and greatly motivated by technological, international, and agricultural factors of the time. Canals linked the agricultural Northwest to the industrial Northeast, creating an economic relationship that excluded the Southern states. The steady flow of cheap labor was supplied by a huge international immi...
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Susan B Anthony Gave Women
911 wordsAt the turn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth century women began to get the equality, most women were so desperately fighting for. Women wanted the right to be able to vote in the next election, work in establishments outside of their homes, own land, and to be independent from the traditional male chauvinistic society. Over the years it became a long, grueling, and frustrating task, fighting for their rights, especially for those who led the battles; like one woman, who could be con...
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Widely Accepted Insurance Premiums
1,713 wordsFire sprinklers are widely recognized as the single most effective method for fighting the spread of fire in their early stages, before they can cause severe injury to people and damage property. Fire sprinkler systems have had a dramatic influence in the designing of new buildings. Fire sprinkler systems prevent fires from spreading, and contain it to a small area. This has allowed arkatecks the flexibility to design floor plans and not have to worry as much about codes relating to fire safety....
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Water Quality Water Sources
572 wordsForest Roads And Their Effect On Water Quality Roads are often necessary to perform certain tasks in the forests. When roads are made, they often pose the problem of erosion, and damage to nearby water sources. The two articles I read on this topic were both from the August 1999 issue of the Journal of Forestry. Both discuss the different techniques and methods for trying to limit the amount of silt that contaminates roads due to disturbance. The first article, ? What We Know- and don? t know- a...
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Good Teacher Subject Matter
960 wordsTeachers have the very important responsibility of shaping the lives of young, impressionable children. With this responsibility comes great pride and joy. Therefore all teachers should strive for what can be considered to be a? good teacher. ? A good teacher can be defined as someone who always pushes students to want to do their best while at the same time trying to make learning interesting as well as creative. A positive or negative influence from a teacher early on in life can have a great ...
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Standard Of Living Hispanic Americans
1,150 wordsPost-War Economy After years of living with a strict budget because of the Great Depression and the war, during the post-war period, Americans wanted to get their hands on anything they could get, especially automobiles and television sets, which advertised for other products during commercials. They also purchased more refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and cameras than ever before. Electric can openers, electric garage door openers, and electric pencil sharpeners appeared on the...
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Union Pacific Credit Mobilier
367 wordsBlack friday Scandal 1869 Early in Grants first term, two gold speculators Jay Gould and James Fisk hoped to buy gold at $ 130 per ounce and sell it at $ 160 per ounce. They tried o corner the gold market. They went to Grant, who had no understanding of monetary issues, and convinced him to tell Treasury Secretary George Boutwell to stop selling gold. The price rose to $ 162 per ounce before Grant realized what he was tricked into doing. Grant ordered Boutwell to release $ 4 million in gold. The...
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Stock Market Crash Great Depression
252 wordsGreat Depression began in the early 1930 s, and lasted about a decade. The main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920 s and extensive stock market speculation that took place during the later part that same decade. The Great Depression was a time in America where jobs were scarce and economic safety was not present. The main cause of The Great Depression was the October stock market crash. From the end of World War I ...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Police Brutality
1,178 wordsUnfortunately, nowadays the people who are supposed to protect us and help us when we are in need, cant be trusted. Police brutality has always been a problem, but theres been a dramatic rise in police murders and brutalization of citizens. Police Brutality is anything from harassment from a police officer to being murdered by one. And Martini; Live chat room, 10 / 27 / 99 web Of course, harassment is much more common than being murdered by a police officer. Here are some cases of police brutali...
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Three Dimensional Laser Light
1,264 wordsNearly everyone is fascinated by holograms. The often brightly colored three-dimensional images are constantly showing up in more and more places. From the security holograms on CDs and computer software, to hologram artwork, they are becoming ever more popular. But few people realize just how incredible holograms are. The Hungarian-born scientist Dr. Dennis Gabor first described the principles and technique of holography in 1947 (he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics for this contribution...
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