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Joint Venture Graph Shows
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Dred Scott Decision Constitution Of The United States
1,561 wordsMr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reache...
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Indian Tribes La Belle
1,650 words... xp loring the hinterland of the Lavaca River, still hoping that it was really an outlet of the Mississippi. Finally, conceding that he had settled on the wrong river, he decided to try to find the Mississippi by hiking east along the coast, with the help of the ship La Belle sailing offshore. La Salle selected twenty soldiers to accompany him. On October 31, 1685, the group set off with their weapons, provisions, and Indian trade goods slung from their backs. Other soldiers, commanded by the...
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Jane Addams Hull House
1,362 wordsJane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860, and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abraham Jane's mother dies when she was only two. Her father remarried and her new stepmother brought along two new stepbrothers to add to the already large family. With the fact of Jane's mother passing away she w...
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Black And White Alfred Stieglitz
1,212 wordsAlfred Stieglitz, was born in January 1 st, 1864, in Hoboken, New Jersey, and died in July 13 th, 1946, in New York City. In 1902 Stieglitz founded the Photo-Secession Group, as a protest against the conventional photography of the time. He took pictures in a time when photography was considered a only scientific curiosity and not art. The controversy over the art value of photography became widespread. Stieglitz began to fight for the recognition of his chosen medium. Alfred Stieglitz, one of t...
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Federal Income Tax Sales Tax
850 wordsIn the United States, the history of taxes goes far back in time. During the Civil War, there was a tax on income for a short period of time. In the 1890 s, the tax was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. In 1913, the 16 th Amendment was passed which gave the United States the power to tax personal income. Congress imposed taxes to help raise money to fight wars. Before, the government relied on excise taxes on liquor and tobacco for its revenue. These taxes benefited American manufactu...
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Censorship And The Catcher In Rye
1,009 wordsKatie Johnson sent me the exact info about the censorship of "The Catcher in the Rye." She found it in "Banned Books: Suppressed on Social Grounds" by Dawn B. So. vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, c. 1998. 'The novel has long ignited disapproval, and it was the most frequently banned book in schools between 1966 and 1975. Even before that time, however, the work was a favorite target of sensors. In 1957, Australian Customs seized a shipment of the novels that had been presented as a gift to the g...
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Large Amounts Great Lakes
407 wordsThis report is about the lifestyle of my own life, which would seem like an easy one but everyone today is so different so I had to dig a little deeper into the roots of the Midwest. The Midwestern states include Ohio, the Dakotas, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, and Nebraska. South of these states is the great Mississippi River and to the north is the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes were formed by the glacial ice cap that moved down over large parts of North America so...
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Abraham Lincoln Civil War
681 wordsFun Fact: During the Civil War, telegraph wires were strung to follow the action on the battlefield. But there was no telegraph office in the White House, so Lincoln went across the street to the War Department to get the news. Fast Fact: Abhorring war, Abraham Lincoln accepted it as the only means to save the Union. Biography: Abraham Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The go...
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University Of Chicago Chinese History
468 wordsHerrlee GlessnerKate Chopin China Herrlee Glessner Creel wrote The Birth of China. The book was published in 1937 at Frederick Longer Publishing in New York City. Creel was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 15 1905. Both Creels mother and father were writers. Creel attended the University of Oklahoma, Creighton University, and finally the University of Chicago where he received his Ph. D. in 1929. In 1922 he worked as a newspaper reporter and later became a Sinologist discovering oracle bones...
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Emily Dickinson Life After Death
1,365 wordsWith the thought of death, many people become terrified as if it were some creature lurking behind a door ready to capture them at any moment. Unlike many, Emily Dickinson was infatuated with death and sought after it only to try and help answer the many questions which she pondered so often. Her poetry best illustrates the answers as to why she wrote about it constantly. She explains her reason for writing poetry, ? I had a terror I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Buryi...
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Long Run Three Articles
783 wordsCritical Review Ecstasy makes an interesting topic for public discourse due to its increasing popularity and questionable side effects. The public as consumers of the media must decide if any information given about this topic is accurate and reliable. In this paper three articles will be analyzed. The first one, ? Bill to Increase Penalties on the Drug Ecstasy? by AnneMarie Tavella, deals with the legal aspects of the drug and argues that a bill should be passed to change possession of 15 grams...
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Jane Addams Ch 1
435 words&# 9; Even Jane Adams &# 9; &# 9; &# 9; Jane Addams &# 9; Even as a little girl in the serene community of Cedarville, in northern Illinois, Jane Addams was busy with the old question eternally suggested by the inequalities of the human lot. (Pg. 47 Ch. 1) There were not many inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were poverty and frustration: the war widows, the desolate old couple who had lost all five of their sons, the farmers who were victims of the postwar depression, and the newcomers...
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Illinois At Urbana Champaign Illinois At Urbana Nuclear
519 wordsPersonal Statement: Interests, Experiences, and Goals in Nuclear Engineering Money and fame do not motivate my goals. Engineering in all forms is a field of innovation and invention. Aspirations of any great engineer should be to introduce to the world a new idea, product, or service that will make people happier and the environment safer. Success in these challenges is a reward greater than any dollar amount or public recognition. Engineers bring societies to new levels of civilization through ...
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Museum Of Modern Art Quot Quot
1,507 wordsMark Doty Urbane, ironic, sometimes genuinely celebratory and often wildly funny, OHara would allow a realm of material and associations alien to academic verse to pour into his poems: the camp icons of movie stars of the twenties and thirties, the daily landscape of social activity in Manhattan, jazz music, telephone calls from friends; anything seemed ready material for inclusion into the particular order that the moment of composition would call for. Dadaist even in his approach to his own wo...
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Gun Control Laws 2 Nd Amendment
532 wordsPeople against gun control often argue cars kill more people than guns. But ask yourself, can a gun get you to work quickly? Or does a gun have room to take a 4 member family to Florida? No, it is obvious that guns have one purpose. To kill. Al Gore agrees. Weve got an epidemic of violent crime and a lot of members of the NRA have told me, these assault weapons were not made for hunting deer or squirrels or for homeowners. They shouldnt be in the hands of our children on the streets of our citie...
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Gwendolyn Brooks First Chicago
212 wordsBiography Criticism Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks was born to Keith Corine Wims and David Anderson Brooks on June 17, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Her family moved to their permanent residence on Champlin Avenue in Chicago when Brooks was four. Shortly after their move (at the age of seven), Brooks began rhyming and by the young age of thirteen she had her first poem published. She became a weekly contributor to the Chicago Defender and attended Wilson Junior College from which she graduated in 1...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Library Of Congress
842 words" Sympathy" On " Sympathy" Jean Wagner " Sympathy" is a heartfelt cry of a poet who finds himself imprisoned amid traditions and prejudices he feels powerless to destroy from Black Poets of the United States, from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. Copyright? 1973 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Peter Revell A poem like " Sympathy" with its repeated line, " I know what the caged...
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Modern American Poetry Poetry Quot
506 wordsWe Syllabi We invite people to submit course syllabi based on Anthology of Modern American Poetry disk to Cary Nelson or by e-mail (to) for us to place on line. We are especially interested in courses that use both Anthology of Modern American Poetry and the web site. Courses may range from broad surveys to concentrated treatments of specific modern American poetry topics. They may focus on all or part of the century. Since each course will have its own link, you may include not only a syllabus ...
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Hiv Infected Women American Medical Association
1,148 wordsPrevention of HIV Transmittance to Babies Last year, it was cause for celebration. The cause of celebration was for the results that several clinical trials of zidovudine cut the risk for mother to child transmission of human immune deficiency virus (HIV) by two thirds. Although, this year, it is the basis for new federal recommendations that all pregnant women should receive HIV testing and counseling. But, these findings have been cause of protests by several activist groups. Activists fear th...
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