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Benjamin Franklin Ben Franklin
1,709 wordsIn his many careers as a printer, moralist, essayist, civic leader, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, and philosopher, for later generations of Americans he became both a spokesman and a model for the national character. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Jan. 17, 1706, into a religious Puritan household. His father, Josiah, was a candlemaker and a skillful mechanic. His mother, Asian Bens parents raised thirteen children -- the survivors of Josiah's seventeen children by two wives ...
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Juvenile Justice Quality Assurance
267 wordsJuvenile Delinquency 5. 11 Juvenile Probation Officer is responsible for preparation and presentation reports to the court, service providers and various commitment programs. Juvenile Probation Officer also documents and provides case management and supervision of clients placed on supervision, as it is foreseen by the statute, department procedures and policies as well as Quality Assurance Standards concerning probation, conditional release, commitment, to mention a few. Juvenile Probation Offi...
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Thomas Paine 1737 1809
1,107 wordsThomas Paine (1737 - 1809) Thomas Paine is a recognized figure of the American history. His contribution to its history was criticized but John Adams said about him: Without the pen of the Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain. Paine was a famous author and a revolutionary activist, who played a monumental role in American and European histories. His Common Sense shook the Americans like no other book, his Rights of Man made him a national hero, his Age of Reason still s...
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World Trade Center U S Senate
1,551 wordsThe World Trade Center bombing in February, 1993, became a landmark in the new wave of terrorism, with civilians involved into the tragedy. The World Trade Center served as the target of the bombing. As a result of the terrorist act, six people were killed and more than thousand were injured. But taking into account the fact, that there used to be about 20, 000 people usually working at the Center simultaneously, and more than 80, 000 people visited or traveled along the complex, the consequence...
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Mandate Of Heaven Han Dynasty
749 wordsWhat factors have contributed to Chinas political and cultural unity Confucians never gave up the idea that the aim of political power and activity is the fulfillment of individuals and the welfare of society. To achieve these ends, Confucians resorted to the supreme authority of Heaven with theological implications. In the Sung era, the concept of the Mandate of Heaven was rationalized to a greater extent than before, being transformed into the innate voice of conscience, the very nature of hum...
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Lewis And Clark Meriwether Lewis
1,283 wordsStephen E. Ambrose, the best-selling author of D-Day and the distinguished biographer of Richard Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower, has now written the definitive account of the most momentous expedition in American history -- Lewis and Clark's pioneering journey across the North American continent from the Mississippi to the Pacific, carried out under the personal direction of President Thomas Jefferson. In this book, the authors thesis was to reveal to the reader the numerous adventures while exp...
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George W Bush President George W
1,113 wordsWar in Iraq War in Iraq has become another bloody page in American and world history. Many people compare it with the War in Vietnam. I think that such comparisons are false and forced. Each war has some common features and each of them differs greatly. There is no sense to compare wars but there is a great reason to avoid them especially when there are no chances for victory. I will explain to you my point of view later. Now I want to say that not everyone was agreed with USA policy against the...
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Simon Wiesenthal Death Camps
1,082 wordsRegime of Petain The WWII became a bloody page of world history. It brought not only the tremendous destructions but also held a train of crippled humans lives. Many countries and nations suffered during the WWII. Among them Jews suffered a lot more due to the Final Solution. It was Nazi plan to totally exterminate the Jews of Europe. Between 1941 and 1945, about six million Jews were murdered throughout Europe; killed either near their homes by firing squads or transported to concentration camp...
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Did Timothy Mcveigh Deserve The Death Penalty
803 wordsDid Timothy McVeigh deserve the Death Penalty? According to the statistics, the punishment overtakes criminals more and more often. But the existing sociopolitical roots of terrorism will have new fears in the world community for a long time. From the middle of the last decade the terrorism has ceased to be characterized as only foreign policy. In 1995 there were two events which made the whole world shudder. A Jew Iraq Amir has lifted a hand against his relative a Jew Yitzhak Rabin, prime-minis...
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Roman Empire Feudal Society
952 wordsRoman Empire overview Rome was once a world power. The Roman Empire lasted from 23 B. C. To About 476 A. D... In all there were 57 emperors of Rome. Behind Rome's great military and leaders was the brilliant political system, senators, and laws of Rome. Ancient Rome had the best political system for that time. Rome's political system was harsh early on but became greater as timed pasted, also Rome's leaders and laws were the best too. Feudalism overview In any event this early medieval period is...
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Chaim Potok Asher Lev
611 wordsChaim Potok Chaim Potok lives a very full life he has served his country, peoples, and religion very well and with great impact. First, to be discussed is his life birth through the present. He was born at a very early age on February 17, 1929, in New York, New York to Benjamin and Mollie Potok. The first university he went to was Yeshiva University where he graduated in 1950 with a B. A. , summa cum laude, in English Literature. He also went to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where h...
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Exam Sychological Exam Central Intelligence Agency Cia
260 wordsThe Central Intelligence Agency? s Part In Watergate There are different things in Watergate that the CIA did. First here are some people in the CIA that had to do with the Watergate Scandal Richard M Helps: He was the director of the Central Intelligence agency until december 1972. He told the agency to stay away from any watergate connections. He was told by John D. Enhrlichman to aid in the cover up, but he didn? t ultimately comply. He was replaced as director of the CIA and later served as ...
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Clinica Romero Medical Services Pay
272 wordsNamed after the martyred Salvadoran archbishop and dedicated to the people that he also served, Clinica Romero is a free clinic offering no-questions-asked, pay-whatever-you-can medical and dental services and prescriptions to everyone who comes to its door. The clean and bright facility is located in the basement of the Royal University of Americas Oriental Medical Center, Straightforward in its operation, Clinica Romero originally offered all its medical services through volunteer physicians, ...
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African American Community First African American
700 wordsHiram Revels Hiram Rhoades Revels was born a free man of African American and Indian descent in a slave state and became the first African American member of Congress. In the process, Revels ministered to the spiritual needs and expanded opportunities for education for the African American community. He began his life in North Carolina. Hiram Revels was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1822, but an exact birthplace has not been identified. He was born of mixed African and Croatian Indian ...
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Means Of Physical Surrender Unconditionally Japan
604 wordsNo man has the right to seek values from others by means of physical forces, no man or group has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others, however men have the right to use force in self-defense and against those who initiate its use. Claims philosopher Ayn Rand. The Japanese were seeking values (land, natural resources etc. ) by means of physical force, and therefore, according to this philosophy which I whole heartily agree with, any method the United States government us...
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Prince William Sound Exxon Valdez
1,369 wordsOil Spills: It will happen again Imagine that you are a just a small, ordinary seabird. It is March 24, 1987 and far away from you is an enormous tanker called the Exxon Valdez, coming at an astonishing speed. You do not worry, for these huge ships come along very occasionally in the Alaskan waters. The next thing you know when you turn around is that something wrong. The tanker is heading towards Bligh Reef, which is a mass of granite pinnacles. It crashes into the reef and something black, thi...
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Quot Quot Anne Sexton
1,761 wordsDiane Wood Middlebrook Sexton stayed in the Boston suburbs, where she and Maxine Kumin provided each other with unflagging support as they built what Kumin called their " cottage industry" into successful careers. Of the four, Sexton was the first to tap the constraints women felt in conforming to prevailing feminine stereotypes, perhaps because she was developing her art under the psychological influence of a mother identified not with self-sacrifice but with writing. The last poem Se...
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Roman Triumphal Painting Roman Historical Painting Paintings
1,040 wordsIn 211 BC the great general M. Claudius Marcellus returned to Rome after his decisive defeat of Syracuse. With him came a vast booty of Hellenistic artifacts. Remaining outside the sacred precincts of Rome, he supplicated the Senate for the purification and glory of a triumphal procession, realizing that they would both make a visual impression in his triumph and also be an ornament for the city. He opened his triumph impressively with an allegorical painting of Syracuse made prisoner. Paintings...
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Stainless Steel Korean War
634 wordsThe Korean War Veterans Memorial is located near the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. It was dedicated on July 27, 1995. The Memorial commemorates the sacrifices of the 5. 8 million American who served in the U. S. Armed Services during the three-year period of the Korean War. Set on 2. 2 acres directly across the reflecting pool from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the $ 20 million memorial was paid for largely with private donations and is a dramatic blend of granite, st...
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Virginia Military Institute United States Army Patton
1,082 wordsGeneral George Smith Patton was fierce. He is as close to Hollywood s Arnold Schwarzenegger, Batman, or, more appropriately, John Wayne as the United States army is likely to get. He was a one man war, who in many ways had a bigger jock strap than a brain. But in a war time situation, that s in no way a bad thing. Patton was born on November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California. His grandfather had been a colonel in the Confederate Calvary and had perished in the Civil War. Patton s own father ha...
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