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Washington D C Nineteenth Century
1,188 wordsLacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stick ball games being played by American Indians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from the others, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and convey it into or past a goal to score a point. The cardinal rule in all varieties of lacrosse was that the ball, with few exceptions, must not be touched with the hands...
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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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William Penn Adair Penn Adair World
501 wordsWill Rogers is one of Americas great folk heroes. He was born on November 4, 1879, in Oologah, Indian Territory (now Claremore Oklahoma). His full name is William Penn Adair Rogers. He was # 2340 on the official Cherokee roll. He was named for one of the most revered Cherokees Col. William Penn Adair (hence his name). Will often joked, My parents didnt come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. He married Miss Betty Blake in 1908, and they had four children. He grew up on a ranch and beg...
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Ernest Hemingway Front Porch
750 wordsA Soldiers Home by Ernest Hemingway takes place during the late summer of 1919, during the post-war era of WWI. Krebs, the main character in the story, returns to his small hometown in Oklahoma much later than when the rest of the soldiers had returned. The men from the town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return (Hemingway, 145). The people seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over (Hemingway, 145)...
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S E Hinton Easy To Understand
1,016 wordsThe year is 1966 and if you were a kid growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. You belonged to one of two groups, you were either a soc or a greaser. Soc is pronounced like society, and means just that: money, nice cars, nice homes and a bright future. Greasers are the poor kids from the bad side of town with no future and no real hope. Always at each other's throats, the two warring groups fight to save face and prove themselves. The Outsiders is the story of two of the Greasers who come to realize that...
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Boot Camps Recidivism Rates
1,066 wordsIn 1983, the first Juvenile Boot Camp was opened in Georgia. These Juvenile camps have become a very popular answer in controlling the behavior of our youths. The adult system was using boot camps for a few years before the juvenile system did. The reason the juvenile system did not use them right away was, because there were questions about their appropriateness for delinquents. Due to the increase population of juvenile offenders, the facilities started to overcrowd. Therefore, the correctiona...
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The Theme Of Uncertain Journey In Bean Trees
747 wordsUncertain journeys are numerous in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees. Many characters in the novel put their current lives aside to go off in hopes of finding a better one. By embarking on these journeys, the plot lines begin and end with risk taking. Taylor's move away from Pittman and her taking Turtle, Louann not going after her husband, and the many risks of Estevan and Esperanza, create conflicts which drive the plot of The Bean Trees. While growing up Taylor knows that she has no desire ...
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Man In The Grapes Of Wrath
1,326 wordsA study of the characters in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, reveals mans indomitability and endurance. Steinbeck potently suggests that there is a distinct time in life where the choice must be made to either sacrifice ones spirit, or to stay true to ones self. In spite of their lack of food and without having a direct promise of a stable job, the Joad family perceptibly allow their spirit to lead them to obtain their individual goals. Evidently, the theme of spiritual survival ultimately...
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Grapes Of Wrath Jim Casy
614 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath is set in the horrible stage of our American history, the Depression. Economic, social, and historical surroundings separate the common man of America into basically the rich and poor. A basic theme is that man turns against one another in a selfish pride to only protect themselves. For example, the landowners create a system in which migrants are treated like animals and pushed along from one roadside camp to the next. They are denied decent wages and forced to turn against ...
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Trail Of Tears And Cherokee Women
1,316 wordsTrail of Tears and Cherokee Women More than 150 years ago, in 1839, the United States forced the Cherokee Nation West of the Mississippi River into what later would become the state of Oklahoma. The weather was unusually harsh that winter and the cold, the disease and the hunger cost the Cherokee Nation the lives of at least four thousand of the fifteen thousand people who traveled the thousand miles West (Perdue 93). Not only was the journey a very cruel and dangerous one for the Native America...
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Grapes Of Wrath Intercalary Chapters
2,699 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath Joad's Journey- Through out history man has made many journeys, far and wide. Models great march through the Red Sea and Columbus transferring the Atlantic are only, but a few of mans great voyages. Even today, great journeys are being made. Terry Fox's run across Canada while having cancer is one of these such journeys. In every one of these instances people have had to rise above themselves and over come essence odds, similar to a salmon swimming up stream to fulfill its li...
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Natural Born Killers Oliver Stone
731 wordsGrisham s Gripe, Stone s Reply In a suburb of Muskogee, Oklahoma, this morning started out just as any other morning should. School children woke up at the same time as always, got ready to go to school, and left their homes. While preparing for school, a thirteen-year-old takes his father s nine millimeter handgun from his home. The boy walks into a school, and unloads the gun on his classmates for no reason, but fortunately no one was killed. Although this news is devastating and hard to imagi...
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Air Force United States Bill
514 wordsBill Rocket joined the United States Air Force on January 17 th, 1949, at the age of 17. Since he was a minor, he couldn t enter the service without a parent s permission. Instead of going through all the legal paper work, Bill slipped a tiny piece of paper in his shoe that said 18. When the army made him swear that he was over 18, he could straightforwardly say yes. Bill began his time of service as a standard solider, and was involved in both the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. By the tim...
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Marilyn Manson Satanic Bible
1,516 wordsMarilyn Manson is a name that one hears everywhere they go. Todays 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 womens 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 other...
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Trail Of Tears Indian Territory
999 wordsThe Trail of Tears, was it unjust and inhumane? What happened to the Cherokee during that long and treacherous journey? They were brave and listened to the government, but they recieved unproductive land and lost their tribal land. The white settlers were already emigrating to the Union, or America. The East coast was burdened with new settlers and becoming vastly populated. President Andrew Jackson and the government had to find a way to move people to the West to make room. President Andrew Ja...
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Wanted To Hear Soldiers Home
760 wordsKrebs in Soldiers Home In Ernest Hemingway Soldiers Home there is a young man named Harold Krebs, who served in the Marines for two years during WWI. He returned home to Oklahoma to find out he had changed, but the town had not. Trying to adjust to the way life was had become a struggle for him. The effect that the WWI had on Krebs after the war mad his life at home hard to deal with. Krebs was not pleased when he returned home. He returned from the war and was not welcomed by the towns people. ...
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Warner Brothers Experimental Psychology
2,898 wordsThe next of kin a documentation of mind matter and love. This book was very inspirational it gives you a whole new outlook on the experience and the feelings of animals. Trying to relate with how much Roger Fouts has accomplished in his life is unbearable he has had so many experiences that have been recorded in this book. It was the type of book that was hard to put down from the beginning. In the next few pages I will discuss parts of the book that really moved me and left an impression on me....
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Child Pornography Electronic Communications
1,390 wordsIn On-Line Dangers On-line Dangers In this day and age of super high-speed networking and digital communications, just about anything on any subject can be found on the Internet. Some materials, such as online libraries are helpful, some, such as students personal homepages are fairly useless, and some sites, such as online medical references, can be lifesaving. All these sites have a right to be on the web. However, there are also sites that could be detrimental to people, such as pornography s...
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Pay Tribute Taking Care
959 wordsLane Frost Lane Frost was a bull rider that had a talent for riding bulls and died doing what he loved. Lane died at the Cheyenne Frontier Days in a battle between a 511, 145 -lb. man and a 2000 lb. bull named Taking Care of Business. He rode bull the for eight seconds, then tried to get off of it but as he did the bull turned and hooked him. It broke his ribs which punctured a main artery. Because of this Lane Frost died at 1: 30 p. m. July 30, 1989 (Angier 1 - 76). The Movie Eight Seconds was ...
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Men And Women Sexual Harassment
1,171 words" Sexual harassment is not about sex, it is about power. " -Gretchen Morgenson An unwanted sexual advance, an offensive touch, and suggestive comments illustrate examples of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is defined by Stephanie River as, " unwanted sexually oriented behavior in a work context. " However, sexual harassment does not only appear in an occupational environment, and this form of harassment is not limited to a specific race, a specific gender, or any certain...
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