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Shrinking Buying Power Of The Middle Class
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The Shrinking Buying Power of the Middle Class
According to the Merriam-Websters Online
Dictionary, the middle class is a class occupying
a position between the upper class and the lower
class; especially: a fluid heterogeneous
socioeconomic grouping composed principally of
business and professional people, bureaucrats, and
some farmers and skilled workers sharing common
social characteristics and values
(Merriam-Webster). In the United States, their
family incomes would generally range from $ 2...
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Discrimination Against German And Irish Immigrants
1,478 words
The Declaration of Independence states, All men
are created equal, , but, taking a look at our
nations history, we can clearly see that this
statement is not valid. This was not accepted by
the thousands of slave owners based in the South
and the people who enforced oppression upon womens
rights as equals. The nation's relatively
newly-established independence, escalating
prejudices against blacks, differing viewpoints
regarding slavery, monetary inflation, and
antagonism to womens basic rights ...
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Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Back To Jamestown Lucille
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... in the entertainment world. She even tried
using stage names, she encouraged people to call
her Montana. No matter what she called herself,
Lucille could get no further than auditions. She
supported herself by getting part-time jobs
selling theatrical cosmetics at Greys drugstore
and clerking at Woolworths. Lucille even
considered becoming a beautician, but she didnt
have the money to take the course required to get
a license. During this time she lived with a
family in Washington Heights wh...
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Places Of Worship Dalai Lama
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we have all been born on this earth as part of one
great human family ultimately each of us is just a
human being like everyone else: we all desire
happiness and do not want suffering. " The birth
of the first Buddha started out with a dream.
Queen Maha-Maya of the Sakya warrior caste had a
dream when the moon was full during the midsummer
festival. Four guardian angels lifted her up and
took her to the Himalaya Mountains where they laid
her under a sal-tree. While there she was attended
to by t...
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Microsoft Internet Explorer Effects Of Television Violence
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Censorship of the media is a hotly contested topic
that has spawned a controversial outcry from the
public. The public has also declared that there is
excessive violence portrayed on television and
that this violence ultimately negatively affects
viewers, especially children. Hence, there exists
a double-edged sword. Censorship is the regulation
and control of information and ideas that are
circulated among people within a society. It
refers to the examination of electronic and print
media for t...
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Iran Iraq War Facts On File
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Kuwait is located on the Northwest coast of the
Persian Gulf in Southwest Asia. It is bordered by
Iraq on the Northwest and North sides, and by
Saudi Arabia on the South side. The countrys total
area, including the islands of Bubiyan, Warbah,
and Faylakah is 6, 880 square miles. (Encarta)
Virtually the entire country, except for some
small coastal areas, is barren desert, with a flat
to rolling terrain. Soils are practically
nonexistent. The average annual temperature is 77
F, and the average an...
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Russian Orthodox Church 18 Th Century
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Mankind has always aspired to be the largest,
biggest, strongest, highest, essentially the best
in everything. This is not untrue for the Russians
who have had the largest country in the world for
quite some time now. Russia covers one-sixth of
the entire worlds land mass and has had a
significant part in modern history. However, in
order to understand why a country has become what
it is now, one must look at its culture. A
countrys culture not only reflects its citizens
now but also its history...
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Concentration Camps Anti Semitism
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The holocaust is an atrocity to human intelligence
and human dignity. It overshadows all other events
in history in terms of organized crimes. The
question of how it happened and why no one stopped
still prolongs today. Many believe that it was
caused by racial intentions, and a belief of a
superior race. All these theories are compounded
into one simple solution. Adolf Hitlers upbringing
instilled anti-Semitism attitudes, which lead to
the Holocaust. Hitlers childhood was the main
influence in ...
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Causes Of The Salem Witch Craft Trials
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... Hanson was certain that the girls were not
possessed, but clinically insane (x). And that, he
explained, may have been the result of witchcraft
which, contrary to popular belief, is psychogenic,
rather than occult. That means that the girls may
have experienced their hysterical symptoms as a
result of their fear. Regardless, the girls were
insane, Hanson contended, long before any
clergyman got to them. Another possible
explanation for the girls insanity was ergot
poisoning, a common problem...
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Young Women Article Titled
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Many young women Bulimia BULIMIA Many young women
have developed abnormal eating-related behavior.
The growing preoccupation with slimness has caused
girls and young women to feel overweight or fat,
even if they are of normal weight. Many young
women have developed abnormal eating-related
behaviors. Now, slimness, which is seen as
synonymous with self-discipline and control, is
the desired goal. Mitchell (1990) said that young
women are expected to be attractive and domestic
in traditional femin...
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Poe Edgar Allan Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe In every story conceived from the
mind of Edgar Allan Poe, a scent of his essence
had been molded into each to leave the reader with
a better understanding of Poe's life. Poe
displayed his greatest lifes achievements and his
worst disappointments in a series of stories
created throughout his whole life. It is the goal
of this research paper to reveal symbolic facts
about his life and define these hidden maxims in a
way that is easy to understand and beneficial to
the reader. Edga...
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Christian Science Monitor 18 Th Century
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Who is really voting, the people or the selected
few. The recent election involving Bush and Gore
has heated up a fifty year old debate. The debate
is about whether the Electoral College is still an
effective system considering the circumstances the
United States now faces compared to when it was
created by the founding fathers. The Electoral
College is an outdated system of election that
misrepresents the people of the United States
today. The college was created in a time where
communication w...
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Lyndon B Johnson Antiwar Movement
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Vietnam War vs. Great Society Anonymous: [Johnson]
had miscalculated: Even the richest and most
powerful nation in the world could not do it all
(q. in Turbulent Years: The 60 s 36). Lyndon
Baines Johnson is a president torn to pieces by
war. He glows in the passage of bills benefiting
American society. He is someone who has suffered
through an entire generation of rebellious teens.
What impact did Lbj's foreign policies concerning
Vietnam War have on American society? The Vietnam
War really isn...
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Ku Klux Klan Copyright C 1994
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How Phreaks, Anarchist, The Kkk, And Swp How
Phreaks, Anarchist, The Kkk, And Swp Compare To
Big Brother From 1984 Many organizations today are
considered bad or evil. Groups like the Ku Klux
Klan, The Anarchy Organization, Supreme White
Power, which are Skinheads and Neo-Nazis, and
Phreaks are a few of these groups. These groups
all have one thing in common they somehow break
the law. The Ku Klux Klan terrorized public
officials in efforts to drive them from office and
blacks in general to prev...
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Religious Beliefs Jewish Religion
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Throughout Jewish History Jewish History
Throughout the history of the world, the Jewish
people have been persecuted and oppressed because
of their religious beliefs and faith. Many groups
of people have made Jews their scapegoat. Jews
have suffered from years of intolerance because
people have not understood what the religion
really means. They do not understand where and why
the religion began, nor the customs of its people.
For one to understand the great hardships,
triumphs, and history of t...
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Knights Of The Round Table Code Of Chivalry
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What is a knight? What is the concept of
knighthood all about? Knighthood exists in two
places simultaneously in the world and in our
imagination. We can speak of ideals versus
realities, probably the central problem with
knighthood and the chivalric ideals. Swords,
horses, jousts, armor, castles, fair maidens,
kings, queens? these are the words that come to
mind when people mention the word knight. The
mental image of a knight embedded in everyone? s
minds shows an armor-clad man on a horse. Th...
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Chaos Theory Sickle Cell
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The Fun Filled Fractal Phenomenon A fractal is a
type of geometric figure. It is generated by
starting with a very simple pattern such as a
triangle and, through the application of many
repeated rules, adding to the figure to make it
more complicated. Often, an input will be entered
into a recursive function and it will yield an
output. This output is then inserted back into the
function as an input and the process is repeated
infinitely. Fractals often exhibit
self-similarity. This means that e...
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Isn T Doesn T
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Who was Prometheus 2 Prometheus Who was
responsible for bring fire to mankind, who was
chained to the top of a mountain and had his liver
devoured by an eagle every night? The answer:
Prometheus. This god was part of a mighty group of
gods called Titans. The poet Hesoid described
Prometheus as a trickster, and a troublemaker.
Aeschylus described Prometheus as a tragic hero.
Many plays have been written about Prometheus,
including Prometheus. Prometheus was a cunning,
intelligent being. During th...
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Love For God Religious Community
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The exponential growth of the Cyber society and
Cyber culture within the Internet has not gone
unnoticed by the? religious community. ? As I
write, church web sites are being published and
electronic prayer groups zip by in modems and wire
networks across the globe. Even isolated
monasteries like the Monastery of the Christ in
the Desert (see sidebar) are able to send their
Benedictine messages from their cloister in New
Mexico. New age religions also use the [virtual]
soil of the Internet as th...
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Frosts Poems Frosts Poetry
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The Robert Frost Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
038; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep Robert Lee
Frost is an American poet who is known for his
verse concerning nature and New England life. He
was born in San Francisco in 1874. When his father
died in 1885, his mother moved the family to
Lawrence, Massachusetts. Frost attended college
sporadically after graduating high school and made
a living by working as a bobbin boy in a wool
mill, a shoemaker, a country schoolteacher, editor
of a rural newsp...
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