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Christian Temperance Union Alcoholic Beverages
1,157 wordsIn Illinois during the year 1900, temperance and prohibition were prominent issues on the social and political stage. The temperance movement found most of its adherents in middle-class women. Urban women saw the linkages between poverty and alcoholism, while many rural women were aware of how the isolation of farm life amplified the horrors of alcohol abuse. The temperance movement was directly related to the women's suffrage movement going on across the country. The temperance movement enabled...
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Illinois Michigan Canal Canal Was Completed Chicago
1,278 wordsDidnt expect no town -Early Chicago Settler Mark Beaubien The I&M Canal is universally considered the driving force behind the huge surge of growth that turned the tiny hamlet on the banks of Lake Michigan named Chicago, in to a huge metropolis and bustling center of trade. Ever since Joliet first crossed the portage between the Chicago river and the Des Plaines river in 1673, explorers, investors, politicians, and farmers alike all agreed that constructing a canal across the continental divide ...
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Foreign Relations Harvard Law
1,324 wordsREPRESENTING ILLINOIS One public official is now making waves not only as TIME magazines 100 most influential people in the world, but also a candidate in the 2008 presidential race. Lauded by millions of Africans during his 2006 tour of their continent, he is also the writer of two best-selling books, not to mention the many other civic works that occupy his time. (US Senator Barack Obama of Illinois). Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, he rose to prominence because of his inspiring ke...
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Rest Of The World Death Penalty
1,717 words... on death row (Cornell Law Review, 542). Death-penalty advocates often point out that no one has been proved innocent after execution. However, the DNA evidence that could establish such innocence has frequently been lost by prosecutors with no incentive to keep it. In Virginia case, a court actually prevented posthumous examination of DNA evidence. On the defense side, lawyers and investigators concentrated their scarce resources on cases where lives can be spared. And while DNA answers some...
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Continental Illinois Case Part 1
1,631 wordsContinental Illinois case study Settings: Continental Illinois was one of the largest banks in the world. The bank in the seventies benefited from its aggressive strategy that was limited to taking a great number of deposits across industries as well as making a great number of loan across industries hardly assessing any risks associated with the loans. Quite often, as the case reads the bank would provide a loan at a rate below the prime rate, if the loan officers found it necessary. What shoul...
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Continental Illinois Case Part 2
1,633 words... to ones investment and risk, the Continental Illinois bank should have been allowed to fail just like Prof. Kaufman claimed in his 1995 report. The USA has historically allowed windfall gains as well as bankruptcies to contribute to the competitive environment within the States and to the market economy this country strived to uphold throughout its history. From the utilitarian point of view the Continental Illinois bank should not have been allowed to fail due to the fact that it would have...
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Death Row Inmates Pope John Paul Ii
4,139 wordsAuthor: Clarke, Kevin. Source: U. S. Catholic v. 65 no 10 (Oct. 2000) p. 27 ISSN: 0041 - 7548 Number: BRDG 00052997 Copyright: The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited A GROUP OF DISTINGUISHED ILLINOIS CITIZENS, including former Senator Paul Simon and attorney-novelist Scott Turn, did something remarkable last August. They sat in silence while some not-so-f...
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Secretary Of State George Ryan
1,526 wordsGovernor George Ryan of Illinois is in trouble. He has been linked to a massive drivers license selling scandal that might eventually cause him to be impeached. In 1991, George Ryan became the Secretary of State, which puts all Illinois drivers license facilities under his control. Ryan has had a career crowded with achievements and a public service marked by openness and fairness, (Hanania). This scandal is the first real problem Ryan has had to face. This is the first blemish on his character ...
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Ohio Valley Separate Peace
4,175 wordsThe Kickapoo Indians The Kickapoo Indians are Algonkian-speaking Indians, related to the Sauk and Fox, who lived at the portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, probably in present Columbia County, Wis. , U. S. , when first reported by Europeans in the late 17 th century. The Kickapoo were known as formidable warriors whose raids took them over a wide territory, ranging as far as Georgia and Alabama to the southeast; Texas and Mexico to the southwest; and New York and Pennsylvania to the ea...
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Muriel Rukeyser Poem Quot
8,423 wordsRuth Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Ruth Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Mary Ann Wehler Mary Ann Wehler Ruth Stone was forty-four when she published her first book, In an Iridescent Time, in 1959. In fact, Norman Friedman states in his essay, " The Poetry of Ruth Stone" (46) that Stone had mastered the elegant formal conventions of that era. Soon after, Harvey Gross deems in his article, " On the Poetry of Ruth Stone, " that Stone was versed in " balanc...
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