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National Park Service San Francisco Bay
1,096 wordsNestled in the foothills of San Francisco, lies one of the United States most beautiful and historic national parks. Dating back to 1776 when Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza established the Presidio as a military garrison under commission of the government of Spain. In 1848 it was transferred by a treaty from Mexico, to the United States. The Presidio has played a major role in the settlement and defense of the West for more than 200 years. It served as a mobilization and embarkation poin...
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Warsaw Ghetto Wannsee Conference
1,117 wordsThe Holocaust is likely one of the most misunderstood historical events of modern times. There are those that underestimate the extent of world knowledge about the German atrocities. There are also those whom are ignorant of the way in which the Jews reacted to their situation. The incredible extent of incorrect information about the Holocaust which people have been taught is a severe problem that must be corrected immediately. The only solution is the education of the masses. It is imperative t...
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Indentured Servants Seventeenth Century
460 wordsThe Societies of Colonial New England and Virginia The societies of New England and Virginia in the seventeenth century contrasted each other greatly. Many of the immigrants that settled in these regions were from English or European origin. Ironically, the life expectancy, family life, and types of communities that these societies created completely contradicted each other. Virginias society was a gold rush society where a majority of the colonists were men who became indentured servants. Docum...
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Police Public Interactions Definitions Of Police Public Interactions Force
741 wordsUse of Force Ambrose Bierce, a social critic known for his sarcasm and wit, once described the police as "an armed force for protection and participation. " In this pithy statement, Bierce identifies three critical elements of the police role. First, by describing the police as "armed, " their ability to coerce recalcitrant persons to comply with the law is emphasized. Because police carry weapons, it follows that the force they use may have lethal consequences. The capacity to use coercive, dea...
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Native Americans Tribe Members
1,136 wordsThe current use of gaming as an alternative form of making money on reservations may have negative effects on tribal communities. For instance, many who oppose gaming say that casinos are also a factor with crime. In addition, the issue of gaming itself is an occasional source of conflict among tribe members, conflict that in the past has erupted into violence between other people. This conflict involves concern over the impact gaming might have upon Indians. Some people are worried that the Ind...
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Canada And The United States Women Of Color
1,310 wordsCrime has a thousand roots... but a single outcome. It stems from fear and hatred, greed and corruption, deprivation and suffering. But it always ends with one thing: victims. Peter Kent, journalist In a single generation, communications technology has turned the planet into one small global village. Within minutes television and radio relay stories across the country and around the world. The same edition of newspapers can be printed simultaneously in cities everywhere and be on the street with...
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Booker T Washington Turn Of The Century
1,001 wordsWhat is position do Black American hold in society today? If Black Americans were to just disappear without a trace, would it effect America economically, politically, and socially? The answer is yes, but we would not have the power to survive on our own. The only power that we truly have is buying power in America. Black Americans are infamous for putting their money into things that are materialistic rather than things that will turn their money over. Things that will build up the community su...
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Third World Countries Percent Of Americans
784 wordsThe World Trade Organization, (WTO), is the primary international body to help promote free trade, by drawing up the rules of international trade. It has been criticized for being very opaque and not allowing enough public participation, while being very welcoming to large corporations. I do not think that it helps the claims of free, open, and democratic globalization. Criticisms have taken form in many ways, one of which was an enormous protest in Seattle, November 1999. In which people marche...
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Eudora Welty And Jack London
1,766 wordsThere is a silent shadow which seems to mirror a gaunt, dark, figure who prowls the busy airports, silent streets, and even the cozy homes. There is no escaping this man, the destroyer. No walls are thick enough to shut him out, no mountain high enough to evade his wrath. He is death... he is predetermined... he is unpredictable... to some he is simply fascinating. The wish to live, the inability to believe in ones own menacing death, the universal human faith in ones own immunity to death- all ...
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Children And Adults Wheel Chair
686 wordsTreatment of the emotionally and mentally handicapped has changed dramatically over the years. Back in the 1930 s and beyond there were really not that many handicapped (mentally or emotionally) around in the class room. Normally back in the 1930 if there was a child that was born with a disorder mentally or emotionally, those children were shipped off to institution were they would never see there real parents again. The parents were to forget that they had ever had a child and move on with the...
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Blacks In Major League Baseball
1,399 wordsApril 15 th will bring the fifty-third anniversary of the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. Blacks have now been an integral part of the game of baseball for the last fifty-three years and are continuing to find their place within the game. This term paper will discuss the history of blacks in major league baseball, the role that they play now and how the game of baseball brings some form of liberation to the black people. Blacks have come a long way in the game of basebal...
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Ideal State Three Parts
1,197 wordsEven after thousands of years Plato and Socrates teachings are as valid in today communities as it was in their times. Plato left us a blueprint etch in stone in becoming an idealistic human being and righteous community. Through Crito, Apology, and the Republic, Plato reveals that even though the unjust ideals may be enticing it will bring a just happiness. In book VII of The Republic, Socrates speaks with Glaucon about the analogy of "The Cave." This analogy represents humanity as being ignora...
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Type Of Music Limp Bizkit
1,046 wordsMusic has been around for thousands of years. Music appeals to everyone. When was the last time you have heard someone say, "I hate all music. "? Lately though music has been criticized for corrupting teen's minds. Rap is being blamed for all the crimes and murders in cities all over America and heavy metal is being blamed for giving teens only dark images and thoughts in their minds. Although the media and public criticize rap and rock music and blame the music for influencing teens negatively,...
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Men And Women Cultural Context
1,199 wordsThroughout the history of anthropology it has been a popular view that people are largely products of their culture, and not the other way around. Yet culture is an exclusively human phenomenon. While it is true that everyone lives within a cultural context, and that context accounts for varying degrees of who that person is (indeed, there are those who say that certain people are wholly products of their culture), the reverse is also true. Each person, then, has some degree of impact on the cul...
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Bell Atlantic 000 Employees
363 words? Governments should discourage mergers in the communication industry. ? Our group will be disagreeing with this statement through out the project. We will be using texts and examples in order to support our ideas. Also we will be using reasoning and common sense in some cases. Our group believes the most important mergers in the communication industry are the telecommunication companies? . Bell Atlantic and GTE are the two big mergers in the industry and are a good example for our case. This me...
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Daisy And Tom Tom And Daisy
1,237 wordsMoney Equals Happiness (The Great Gatsby) Throughout history many societies have had upper, middle, and lower classes. The classes formed separate communities of diverse living and never crossed social barriers. In the book, The Great Gatsby, instead of streets and communities separating each class there was a sound. On West Egg, the rich received their money not from inheritance but from what they accomplished by themselves. They worked hard for their money and received no financial support fro...
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Native Culture Government Ryga
215 wordsIt would be short-sighted to presume The Ecstasy of Rita Joe a somewhat dogmatic condemnation of English Canadas indeed, all of Canadas neglect of Native culture. What George Ryga likely intended was more a universal pronouncement of guilt on the governments part with regard to all issues of morality, whether unrecognised or, if you will forgive my coyness, unintended. At the plays most fundamental level, however, there can be no doubt as to Ryga's dissatisfaction with the governments injurious ...
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Animals That Eat Plants And Animals Grassland
342 wordsFound only in the midwestern region is the North American Grassland. Housing small lakes and rivers, this grassland is home for many plants and animals. The grassland and its components is one of the four chief kinds of natural vegetation. Surrounded by mountain ranges, the grassland is nowhere near any major bodies of water. The grassland stretches across most of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa, creating seven communities of grassland. These seven communities are tall grass prairie, mixed p...
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Unequal Distribution Of Wealth Land Reform
1,057 wordsWe cant expect the poor to limit their family sizes when they need children to help support their family. The real problem in their world is not overpopulation but poverty and the unequal distribution of wealth. These must be tackled first. Examine this statement and discuss appropriate solutions. While overpopulation is a problem that plagues many developing nations, it would be wrong to assume that it is their main problem, or that the countering of overpopulation should receive priority above...
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Christian Temperance Union Alcohol Abuse
739 wordsAs under a spell, the people had suffered this act to be brought to its fatal conclusion, but with the first touch of cold reality the charm was undone, and the law appeared in its true aspect. Brought about by the Eighteenth Amendment and enforced through the Volstead Act, prohibition lasted for over a decade. Despite a growing lack of public support for both Prohibition and restraint itself, the ban on alcohol continued throughout the United States, at least in the law books. In practice, howe...
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