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Eighteenth Amendment Business Opportunities
845 wordsIn 1917 Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution which prohibited the export, import, manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States. This new law is believed to have had the greatest effect on the twenties creating a feeling of rebellion and wild behavior. Many people thought this law violated there right to live by their own standards and have a good time. The Volstead Act passed by Congress set up penalties to all violators of the Eightee...
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Pride And Prejudice Jane Austen
697 wordsIn the classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, originally entitled First Impression, Jane Austen approaches satire and irony with full force exhibiting both throughout the novel. In this novel Austen is critical of the English societies and prejudices of its upper classes. During this era class divisions were related to family connections and wealth. Throughout this novel Austen's characters convey irony in their actions and satire in their tone. Although Austen is notorious for writing novels o...
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Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru
1,172 wordsFrom cool jazz to Chicago blues, gospel to R&B, reggae, and gangsta rap. For a century, African-Americans, Blacks, Negro's and or Niggas, or (what ever label or category is decided this millennium), have been in the vanguard of recorded music in every style imaginable. Rap's origins stretch far back to African oral tradition; it has a more immediate predecessor in the spoken-word expressionism of 60 's activists like the Last Poets, or Le Roi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), who performed ac...
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Witch Trials Sleep Deprivation
1,516 words"Thou must not suffer a witch to live. " This single phrase justified the death of thousands of victims throughout Europe and North America. Matthew Hopkins was an English witch finder who was responsible for the ruthless persecution of scores of alleged witches during the witchcraft mania that swept parts of England under the Puritans. Born in c. 1621 Hopkins was a son of a minister and raised in Essex, which had a long tradition persecuting witches. Hopkins studied law and had a variety of car...
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How To Make The Perfect Cup Of Coffee
583 wordsHow to Make the Perfect Cup of Coffee Its the mandatory wake-up call, the focal point of social gatherings, dessert after a fine meal and the notorious drink for last minute cram sessions. Coffee has driven its way to become one of the vital threads in the fabric of our lives. A favorite throughout history, coffee has reached the pinnacle of popularity among Americans. Yet even with the collection of whole beans, flavored syrups, and fancy coffee machines, individuals still strive to reach that ...
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Jumping Frog Mark Twain
564 wordsSamuel Langhorne Clemons, also known as Mark Twain, was considered important in American Literature for several reasons. Living his adolescent life on the banks of the Mississippi, Twain accumulated numerous experiences that enabled him to write both humorous and amusing stories that were appealing to a wide audience. One of the reasons Mark Twain became popular and his works were so important was because he poked fun at the disturbing way life in his time really was. He did this using a method ...
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Carbon Monoxide Concentration Camps
522 wordsThe Holocaust was a horrible time. Part of this tragedy was the concentration camps. During the 1930 s and 1940 s, German Nazi leaders established 22 concentration camps where Jews, but also along with Gypsies, homosexuals, Communists, Slav, and others who were judged undesirable were imprisoned. Most prisoners were worked to death, shot, gassed, or given lethal injections. By the end of the war, six million people had died in concentration camps. Here is an inside look on these unthinkable crim...
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Capital Punishment Is A Just Action
1,393 wordsA strong case can be made in principle for and against capital punishment. The argument in favor of capital punishment should be based on justice and the nature of a moral community; this is the definition of a just action. People who commit the act of first-degree murder should be brought to justice. Being brought to justice requires that each person respect the life and liberty of others. Respecting the life and liberty of others means that we as United Sates citizens have freedom of thought a...
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George Orwell Animal Farm Symbolizing Totalitarianism
311 wordsTotalitarianism a type of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. This form of tyranny was a 20 th -century development that was instituted to serve the goal of transforming society according to socialist principals. All previous political institutions and constitutions were relinquished and replaced by new ones. This thought of government was meant to make everyone equal and ironically strips everyone of his or her basic rights. Totalitarianism is expres...
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Cause Harm Fraternity Members
1,341 words... es only and jeopardize the safety of the new members. It is this kind of behavior that has brought laws against hazing and weakened the fraternity system as a whole. Forbidding hazing, as a whole is not the right way to solve the problem... one should not look down upon the system as a whole just because it has a few bad seeds. We do not kill every person in this world because there a re a few rapists and murderers... we merely punish those who cause harm people. A fraternity without hazing ...
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Soiled Knickers Utilized Condoms Feminist
637 wordsEmins confessional art - with its intimacies of pregnancy, abortion, rape, and ass stuffing, the explosive rage of pain of overstretch anus, the destructiveness of guilt - has much in common with feminist consciousness-raising of an earlier generation when speaking the unspoken about domestic violence and sexual bondage and discipline could lead to a sharing of experiences and a recognition of the structures in which they took place. In the detritus beside the couch with sperm spots on it, and i...
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B I G Racial Minorities
1,799 wordsNyisha T Coven Music: 230 Dr. Hollerbach The Story of Sean (1) Sean Puffy Combs was born in 1970 in Harlem. His father fell victim to gang related violence when Sean was 3 years old. Combs went to the private Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx, before getting into prestigious Howard University in Washington, DC and leaving after a year to pursue a career in the music business. Even in his early years, Combs proved that he was able to make a lot of money, while getting involved in various bus...
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'paradise Alley ' 'paradise Alley Irish
1,295 wordsParadise Alley Until September 2001, three summer days in 1863 were the most frightening in the history of New York City. From Monday, July 13, through Wednesday, July 17, mobs held much of Manhattan. The rioters were working class, overwhelmingly Irish Catholic and filled with smoldering resentments -- at the Yankee Protestants who exploited and demeaned them, at the squalor in which they were forced to live, at inflationary prices and lockouts and strikebreaking. But the final spark was provid...
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B I G Ancient Times
714 wordsCensorship Censorship is the supervision and control of the information and ideas that are circulated among the people within a society (Censorship). I believe that music, books, and the media should not be censored. In the first amendment, it states that it is a right to have free speech. So if it is in the constitution, then why is everything censored. Throughout history there has been many cases of censorship. Every society has had customs, religious observances, dress, and sexual expression ...
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Clean Water Act Federal Government
1,013 wordsKeep Our Water Clean: Clean Water Act The Clean Water Act has made advances to our society that have helped our environment to flourish with life. The objective of the Act when it was enacted in 1972 was to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nations water. This objective was accompanied by other statutory goals to eliminate the discharge of pollutants into waters used by boats by 1985 and to attain waters deemed? fixable or swim mable? by 1983. So far, t...
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Witch Trials Sleep Deprivation
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Eh Eh Eh Eh Eh Eh Eh Thought
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Fellow Athenians Trial Socrates Jury
723 wordsWho was Socrates? Socrates was born and raised as a native Athenian. He was a stonecutter by trade and spent most of his life in poverty. He was married to his wife Xanthippe and had three sons, Lamprocles, Sophroniscus (named for Socrates father), and Menexenus. Socrates spent much of his time in the agora conversing about ethical issues to his many followers. He had a fondness for exposing hypocrisy, ignorance, and conceit among his fellow Athenians. At the time of his trial Socrates was appro...
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B I G Tupac Shakur
856 wordsIntroduction: Guns have become a wide-spread problem in today? s schools. It is partially due to their glorification in movies and music. Over the past few years, movies and music have taken violent turns and have been filled with tragedy. Gangster Rap made it? s way up from the underground in the early 90? s with stars such as Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg. Their record label, Deathrow Records, led the way. Later, though, the addition of the late Tupac Shakur to Deathrow? s payroll proved to be ...
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B I G Rap Artists
1,069 wordsStereotypes of a black male misunderstood and it s still all good raps the Notorious B. I. G. as I turn the volume on my stereo louder. The song entitled Juicy illustrates the struggles the Notorious B. I. G. went through before making it big in the music industry. The song insinuates drug selling, living in poverty, and gang violence. These are just some examples of stereotypes that are being placed on young black males in today s society. Everybody has stereotyped an individual or a group beca...
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