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Teenage Boys S E
524 wordsS. E. Hinton is considered to be one of the greatest writers about youth of all time. Since she often writes from a boys point of view, she uses her initials S. E. instead of her name Susan Eloise. She explains this by saying, I figured that most boys would look at the book and think, What can a chick know about stuff like that? She was born in 1948 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was raised there and went to college at the University of Tulsa, with education as her major. She wrote her first, and proba...
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Pearl Harbor Attack Aircraft Carriers
1,189 wordsDecember 7 th, 1941, was the opening of World War 2, in the Pacific arena. In 1931, Japan invaded China's northern parts and then in 1937, Japan announced a full invasion of China. The United States couldn't just stand by and let Japan take over Asia's parts, so they moved their fleets to Pearl Harbor. The strongest ships were the battleships, which were named after the states of the union. U. S. Arizona was made in 1915 and then was Rebuilt and updated in 1930. The ship was surrounded with over...
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Oklahoma City First Aid
1,046 wordsOther than the sweltering heat in the summer time in Oklahoma City, the only dilemma are tornadoes. I grew up in the middle of this tornado alley and eventually developed a sixth sense for detecting tornado activity. Even in the 1980 s tornadoes were known for their violent crime wave, vandalizing neighborhoods and kidnapping children and adults. Imagine a beautiful evening in Moore, a suburb lying on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. Mom is in the kitchen and the kids are playing in the yard. In ...
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San Carlos White Men
922 wordsFor generations, the Apaches resisted white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest (presently New Mexico and Arizona) by both Spaniards and North Americans. In 1848, when gold was discovered in California, the Apache were threatened by the incursions of white fortune-seekers. In an incident at a mining camp, Mangas Coloradas, chief of the Mimbreo Chiricahua, was whipped, an act that resulted in his life-long enmity against white men. Though his nephew Cochise had long resisted fighting ...
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Form Of Racism Covert Racism
1,944 wordsRacism and Hatred Racism has become one of the many burdens amongst multi-cultural worlds like the United States. Different beliefs, different cultures, different skin color, all of these act like building blocks to help construct what we know as Racism. Racism is a part of each and every one of us. No doubt, we are all racist, but the term racism has been used too loosely. Racism has been mutated to such an extent that it could be a reason for war or rioting, a symbol of terrorism, and even an ...
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Marilyn Manson Satanic Bible
1,532 wordsMarilyn Manson is a name that one hears everywhere they go. Today's media is constantly reporting on Marilyn Manson's controversial looks, shows, and religious beliefs. Manson's controversial nature has gained him much infamous in the media world today. Many people believe that Marilyn Manson is strange, considering he wears various women's clothing, heavy makeup, and loads of large jewelry. Many oppose his shows, because of reports of Satanic rituals, bodily harm inflicted on himself and on oth...
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Important Theme White Americans
418 wordsAs a sequel to The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolvers Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle. The main events of the story start at the Hoover Dam where an illegally adopted six-year-old Cherokee kid, Turtle, saved the life of a man who fell off from the dam. This incident brings Turtle and her mother Taylor not only great recognition, but also to the attention of Annawake Fourkiller, a young Cherokee lawyer in Heaven, Oklahoma. Fourkiller finds out that the adoption of Turtle was i...
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Native Americans Lou Ann
1,233 wordsThis book report deal with the Native American culture and how a girl named Taylor got away from what was expected of her as a part of her rural town in Pittman, Kentucky. She struggles along the way with her old beat up car and gets as far west as she can. Along the way she take care of an abandoned child which she found in the backseat of her car and decides to take care of her. She end up in a town outside Tucson and soon makes friends which she will consider family in the end. From as early ...
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National Security Agency Weapons Of Mass Destruction
1,389 wordsWhat can we do about weapons control? In times like the present, the U. S. and the United Nations are dealing with a huge international problem known as weapons control and an example of the weapons control problem, is the constant battle with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, involving weapon inspections by the UN. The UN has the right to inspect weapon facilities and the manufacturing of weapons of any country in the world. But the problem is how do we go about demolishing weapons that are chemical, bi...
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Columbine High School Gun Violence
637 wordsOverview From the Oscar award winning director, Michael Moore brings us a very thought provoking film that questions the very foundations of American society. Bowling for Columbine is a film directed, written and produced by Michael Moore. Through his trademark comedic style and his informal tone his quest takes into the Columbine massacre, Oklahoma bombing and other acts of gun violence. And he asks the ultimate question: What is the cause of Americas gun violence? No matter what your opinion i...
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Events Of September 11 Terrorist Attacks
1,371 wordsIt is not a secret that terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City had many bad effects. Thousands people died that day. The marvel of New Yorks architecture, the highest building of the city was destroyed. The world was in panic and in absolute helplessness for several days after the event. Whole country was shocked after realizing that it is possible for something like this to happen. This event was of a great importance and had influenced the perception of the world of many....
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Medical Services American College
1,573 wordsIn a perfect world, violence, plane crashes floods and other disasters would not occur. Disease and illness would be non-existent. Emergency medical services would not have a basis for fruition. Unfortunately, the world is not perfect place. EMTs and other EMS workers are vital to all societies globally. According to the American College of Emergency Physicians, the definition of an emergency services is, Emergency services are those health care services provided to evaluate and treat medical co...
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Oklahoma City Bombing Definition Of Evil
515 wordsSince the beginning of time, evil has existed and evolved. There are many questions and theories about what evil is and where it comes from. There are three meanings of evil in particular: my definition of evil, the real life situation? s definition of evil, and Wiesel? s meaning of evil. My definition of evil is having the intent to do harm. An example of intending to do harm to others would be the Oklahoma City Bombing, or the mass murders of Charles Manson. They both killed many, many people,...
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Oklahoma City Bombing Concept Of Choosing The 12 Jurors
316 wordsMUST A JURORS MIND BE EMPTY TO BE OPEN? This article is about a concept of choosing the 12 jurors. In any case, jurors always play important roles in the court since they are the people who will come up with a verdict. Because of this, people believe that when the jurors are chosen for a certain trial, they must be aware of that case and know what is going on in that case. It is not necessary to be rich or well educated, but they must judge their decision base on the evidence and belief beyond t...
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Santa Fe Country Music
723 wordsTroyalGarth Brooks Garth Brooks Total Garth Brooks was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma of February 7, 1962. He was raised in Yukon about one hundred miles away from Tulsa. Ray, his father, worked as a draughtsman for an oil company while his mother Colleen was a country singer in the 1950 s and appeared on radio and television show, as well as recording various recordings for Capital Records. Country music played a role in the Brooks household, but not a dominant one. But, by the time Garth was born, hi...
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Grapes Of Wrath Dust Bowl
758 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is a novel about the Dust Bowl migration. It is the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, and it is also the story of thousands of similar men and women. The Joads are forced off their land, so they move West to California. When they reach California, they are faced with the harsh reality that it is no the Promised Land. Steinbeck's purpose in writing The Grapes of Wrath was to inform the public of the migrants plight hoping that it would cause soc...
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Tom Joad Jacket Struggles Against Nature
1,215 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930 s live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930 s. The Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. The bank took possession of their land because the owners co...
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Testosterone Levels Sporting Events
516 wordsThe disrespectful and unruly behavior of fans at sporting events has become a great problem over the past few years. There are several factors attributing to this behavior including drugs and alcohol, testosterone levels, and other psychological factors. The behavior of fans in a problem at many events, from youth little league games, to champion World Cup soccer. At a recent football game in Philadelphia several fans were dejected from the stadium for unruly behavior (Adamson, Philadelphia Inqu...
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Billy Red Fern
566 wordsBook Report: Where the Red Fern Grows Where the Red Fern Grows, is a novel written by Wilson Rawls, and originally published by The Curtis Publishing Company in 1961. Wilson Rawls was born in the Oklahoma Ozarks (also the setting of the book) and spent most of his childhood wandering around the Ozarks with his blue-tick hound. He did not really learn how to write until his family moved away and he was able to attend school. Where the Red Fern Grows is the only book I could find written by him, b...
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Woody Guthrie Great Depression
633 wordsFor my project, I chose to go look at the exhibit, The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie, at the J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries. It told about his life story, and presented many of his famous works of art. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born in the small town of Okemah, Oklahoma on the fourteenth of July in 1912. His grandparents moved to Oklahoma trying to seize the opportunity to seize land from the Indian Territory. In his lifetime, Woody experienced and saw much hardship, which he ref...
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