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2,167 words... cycled into cardboard at the factory's own paper mill. River Rouge was built to produce Model T Fords for decades to come, by the time it was capable of full production later in the decade, a factory a tenth its size could have handled the demand for Model Ts. On June 4, 1924, the ten millionth Model T Ford left the Highland Park factory, which would remain the main facility for T production. While the flivver outsold its nearest competitor by a six-to-one margin that year, its unbridled run...
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Native American Speak Spanish
867 wordsThe Inca were originally a small warlike tribe inhabiting the south highland region of the Cordillera Central in Peru. In about 1100 AD they began to move into the valley of Cuzco, where, for roughly the next 300 years, they raided and imposed tribute on neighboring civilizations. Until the middle of the 15 th century, the Inca undertook no major imperialistic expansion, their farthest advance prior to this time was southward about 32 km (about 20 mi. ) from Cuzco in the reign of the sixth ruler...
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The Celtic Voice In Walter Scotts Waverley
1,128 wordsThe Celtic Voice in Walter Scott's 'Waverley' One aspect of this novel which may not have received its due attention is Scott's emphasis on the strength and vitality of traditional Scottish culture, especially folk poetry and music. The presence of such an element is hardly surprising, in as much as Scott's first important literary work was an edition of Scottish folk ballads ('Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', 1803). The Celtic cultural aspect of 'Waverley' is scarcely mentioned by the author...
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4 Th Ed Chichen Itza
1,641 words... e Highland Maya of Guatemala -- Cakchiquel, Quiche, Pokomam, Tzutuhil -- established fortified cities on hillside acropolises at Iximche, Utatlan, and Mexico Viejo, and scrapped among one another for control of precious resources, such as obsidian. The Quiche had made alliances with the Aztecs, but at the time of the conquest, the Cakchiquels aided the Spanish cause. In 1527, the Europeans established their own capital. A few years later, a young Quiche nobleman wrote down the Pool V, the gr...
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Golden Age Land Ownership
1,493 wordsThe popular conception of the Highland clearances depicts a simple, clear-cut tale of injustice depicted through sensational images of massacre and destruction. The clan ship is often romanticism and the issues surrounding the clearances often trivialized to the extent that process of homogenization occurs whereby all historical data becomes subsumed into one overriding dominant narrative. Usually glorifying the Highlanders and vilifying the Southerners. Unsurprising as most accounts were writte...
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Golf Courses Hundred Years
1,434 wordsScotland has a very interesting and rich culture. Its long history has contributed much to the traditions that still stand today. Whether it be its literature, music, art, food, clothing, or sports, Scotland has a lot to offer. a Scotland has contributed many novelists and poets to the world of literature. Such poets include Sydney Goods Smith, Norman Mccain, Iain Crichton Smith, Edwin Morgan, George Mackay Brown and Robert Garioch (Fraser 185). Poet Survey Maclean (1911 - 1996), also known as S...
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Irish Bagpipes Brian Boru Pipe
1,568 wordsIrish Bagpipes (Brian Boru pipe) The bagpipes have been a huge part of Irish music for many years. Today the bagpipe is synonymous with Scotland, but the pipes really came from Ireland. The earliest bag pipes date back to 4000 B. C. in the Middle East, where a bagpipe is found in Chaldean sculptures. This evidence shows it is ancient, certainly as old as the harp and nearly as old as the drum. Greeks, Egyptians and Romans all marched to the sound of the pipes to battle. As for Ireland, a seventh...
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Dasani In The United States
1,686 wordsDasani In the United States Coca-Cola sells more than twenty brands of bottled waters in 100 countries. The company announced the debut of new bottled water Dasani on Feb. 19, 1999 in the United States. Independent data for full-year 1998 showed Pepsi's Aquafina as the number one water in C-stores, Evian was in number two spot. In supermarkets, Dannon leaded. Dannon is Evian's stable-mate; both owned by French-based Groupe Danone. Dasani has been a successful brand in the US. Soon after the laun...
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Zone Which Spreads Commonwealth Immigrants England
635 wordsEngland is a very small country with a huge population. This report will tell you some features and facts about this country. I will be talking about its people, it s government, it s industry, it s resources, it s land, and finally it s religion. The reason I said England has a big population is because they have about 47, 505, 000 people living there. The numbers speak for themselves. Most of England s population is descendants of the original inhabitants. There are Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Scan...
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Fell In Love Side Of Paradise
712 wordsThe dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, and his mother, Mary McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a grocer in St. Paul. Both were from Catholic families. Edward Fitzgerald failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture in St. Paul, and he became a salesman fo...
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Ford Motor Company Henry Ford
857 wordsFord Car Company The first piece of material I gathered was a picture via the internet. This picture is of the River Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan. This picture shows the manufacturing of the fender for a Ford Motor Company product. It also shows the facilities of the Rouge plant and how the plant it self was state of the art. This plant was the largest of its kind at the time of its construction. The Ford Motor Company at the time was one of the leaders in labor relations. This pic...
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Charles Scribner Sons Ford Motor Company
4,467 words(1863 - 1947) American Henry Ford HENRY FORD (1863 - 1947) American Industrialist Dennis Keating English 103 Professor Tague May 12, 2000 A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. -Henry Ford Henry Fords parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840 s. Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, was the first of William and Mary Fords six children. He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan. Henry enjoyed a ch...
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Edison Illuminating Company Ford Motor Company
770 wordsHenry Fords life spanned the period from the Civil War to past World War II. During this time, America was transformed from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial one. Henry Ford, who left the farm for the factory, helped develop mass production, assembly-line methods of manufacturing, and put America on the road with an affordable car, both symbolized and contributed to this American transformation. Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in Greenfield Township, Michigan. He was the...
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Modern World Small Country
1,435 wordsReview: Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots Invention Of Review: Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots Invention Of The Modern World By Arthur Herman The flowers of Scotland Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots Invention of the Modern World Arthur Herman 402 pp, Fourth Estate It seems a grandiose contention that a small country like Scotland could come from the most adverse of circumstances to forge modern western democracy. Indeed, only the most patriotic Caledonian's would proffer it without some retic...
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20 Th Century 4 Th Ed
3,197 wordsMaya{my-uh}The ancient Maya were a group of American Indian peoples who lived in southern Mexico, particularly the present-day states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, and in Belize, Guatemala, and adjacent Honduras. Their descendants, the modern Maya, live in the same regions today, in both highlands and lowlands, from cool highland plains ringed by volcano's to deep tropical rain forests. Through the region runs a single major river system, the Apasion-Usumacinta and it...
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