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World Trade Center Past Few Years
1,704 wordsTrent Kenya 5 / 15 / 00 Over the past few years a new threat has been encountered by the United States. This threat does not come from away, but from within. It is know as domestic terrorism. This has been seen over the past decade in the form of violence and terrorism across the United States. This has become a threat to American security and the American people in general. To battle against this issue, Congress has upheld the Anti-Terrorism Act in 1996. One of the best examples on examining th...
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Trail Of Tears And The Five Civilized Tribes
1,042 wordsTrial of Tears and the Five Civilized Tribes During the early years of 1800 s, valuable gold deposits were discovered in tribal lands, which by previous cessions had been reduced to about seven million acres in northwest Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and southwest North Carolina. In 1819 Georgia appealed to the U. S. government to remove the Cherokee from Georgia lands. When the appeal failed, attempts were made to purchase the territory. Meanwhile, in 1820 the Cherokee established a governmental ...
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Long Term Debt Past Three Years
1,544 words... serves. As a result, total property, plant and equipment was 85 % of total assets in 1998 compared to 77 % in 1997. In comparison, Unocal's PP&E was 66 % and 64 % of total assets respectively. Long-term debt increased over $ 400 million in 1998, totaling $ 920 million compared to $ 510 million in 1997. The $ 920 million was 113 % in relation to total liabilities and owners equity of $ 813 million. In 1998, current liabilities were $ 131 million compared to current assets of $ 118 million. Th...
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Hall Of Fame 1 Million
1,670 words... that will say, 'A gift from Barry Sanders. ' " All of this giving, all of this helping, and Sanders still turns down most of the endorsement offers that come his way, deals that could bring him an additional $ 4 million to $ 5 million a year, Sc! harder says. "You can put $ 1 million in front of him that he turns down, but he " ll say yes to the Michigan state seat-belt patrol campaign, " Schaffer says. "A lot of football players have tremendous egos. They like to see themselves on TV. Not B...
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Lethal Injection Death Penalty
1,296 wordsCapital Punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty. In the United States capital punishment is legal in thirty-nine of the fifty states. Beginning in 1973, prison populations began an inevitable growth. There were 204, 211 inmates in 1973, and by 1977 the number of prisoners had grown to 285, 456, which later grew to 315, 974 in 1980. By 1976, it was clear that the death penalty had to be reinstated. America's twenty-one year experiment with capital punishment has resulted in a tota...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,634 wordsTwo great writers of American musical theatre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, had one idea in common. They wanted to present to the American public a new and revolutionary musical that would stand out above the rest. They wanted to make an impact on the societies of the era. They wanted to be creative and do something that was considered rebellious. When they finally combined their ideas together they created an American masterpiece in musical theatre: Oklahoma! . It was the first Rod...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,611 words... oma! had proved, on opening night, a stunning stage experience such as one does not often encounter in a lifetime of play going. From the moment the curtain rose and the first lines of the first song were sung, down to the final scene with the presentation of the title number, the audience sat spellbound as a new kind of stage art unfolded with incomparable beauty and majesty. (181) Along with dance and villains, Rodgers and Hammerstein also took on a new approach to forming the music that t...
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World War Ii Grapes Of Wrath
1,188 wordsBefore assessing the historical merit of such a work it is important to systematically debunk the gross inaccuracies of the text. When assessing the historical writing of narrative, especially fictitious writing that presents itself as history, it is important to take into account the inherent subjective nature of a narrative. When creating any account of history it is unavoidable that the writer of fiction (or even brute fact) will select and combine sources he designates as relevant in order t...
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Oklahoma City Bombing Traumatic Stress
1,396 wordsTerrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. -- FBI Definition On Tuesday September 11 th, 2001 our Nation was forever changed. Following the single largest terrorist attack ever experienced by this country, thousands are dead or missing, tens of thousands of people in this country know someone who was killed or injured, and ma...
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Supreme Court Case Cruel And Unusual Punishment
1,506 wordsThe eighth amendment in the constitution states, Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. What this means is that the punishment should fit the crime. For example if someone was to rob a convenient store, they shouldn t be sentenced to the death penalty. The death penalty also known as capital punishment is a controversial issue in every state, since every state has a different stance on capital punishment. Capital punishment ...
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Criminal Activity Third Party
2,259 wordsRe: Fitzhugh v. Fairview Gardens Partners Cause of action in negligence against the owner for injury to a tenant of an apartment complex resulting from third party criminal activity. Question Presented Under Oklahoma state law, does a tenant of an apartment complex in a high crime area have a cause of action in negligence against the owner of the complex for injuries suffered from third party criminal activity when, the owner fails to repair inoperative lights near a common passageway, fails to ...
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Fake Id Birth Certificate
761 wordsRough Draft I believe that fake Ids are too easy to get because Oklahoma hasnt done anything to try to prevent people from having one. I estimate that 25 % of all college students in Oklahoma have and use a fake Id. Anybody who wants a fake Id in Oklahoma can obtain one very easily. There are several ways to get one. One way and the most commonly used method is obtaining someone elses birth certificate. Most people get a brothers or friends. Now all you have to do is take it to the tag agency an...
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Miles An Hour Sixty Five
1,523 wordsGovernment Bureaucratic Half-Witted Laws Todays big government is a typical display of bureaucracy in its most creative state. Due to the enormous bureaucracy within todays state governments, many laws have been passed through legislation that really didnt need to be passed. These laws are a display of the way government likes to show power over the people using legal suppression. Governments have created laws governing almost anything that the people do as an act of blatant suppression, even if...
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Tom Joad Jacket Intercalary Chapters
7,093 wordsGrapes of Wraith by John Steinbeck portrayed the awakening of a mans conscience dealing with his troubling trials throughout the novel. The character that goes through this monumental change is Tom Joads, son of two tenant farmers from Oklahoma. Toms conscience was changed from a loner who cared nothing about the people to a hardy leader of them. He first looked after his family on their trip that evolved into including the impoverished migrant farmers in California. At the beginning of the nove...
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Joad Younger Siblings
1,779 wordsJohn Steinbeck uses symbolism to enrich his writing. Several of these symbols can be found in his book, The Grapes of Wrath. The Joad? s, a family from Oklahoma, are in search of a better life. They leave their home in journey to California because of the dust bowl. The symbols in the book are the dust, the turtle, names of people, and the grapes. These symbols give the reader an additional perspective of the book. Dust represents life and death. Dust makes a mess of things and leaves possession...
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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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Wearing Uniforms Wal Mart
2,569 wordsMandatory Uniforms in Public Schools Do you want equality among students in your childs school? Do you want less violence within your childs school? Would you like your daughter to concentrate more on her schoolwork and less on what name brand jeans she is wearing? All this is possible with mandatory uniform policies in public school districts. School uniforms may seem outdated for some people, but in many cases they can improve school spirit, attendance and student behavior. According to The Hu...
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Long Term Debt Marketable Securities
3,094 wordsOil and Gas Industry Chesapeake Energy Corporation Group 5 Kurt Alvarado Chris Bailey David Naranjo Marci Rees Robert Sanchez Finance 335 Monday, 7 PM November 15, 1999 Firm Description Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK), headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ? owns 1. 1 trillion cubic feet equivalent (the) of proved oil and gas reserves, one of the largest inventories of onshore U. S. natural gas? {Chesapeake Annual Report, 1998, p. 1 }. Recently, Chesapeake finished the transformati...
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Oklahoma City Bombing Men Women And Children
681 wordsOklahoma City Bombing April 19, 1995, is a day that will go down in history. Just around 9: 02 am, a major explosion blew up the Murray Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. This explosion was caused when a rental truck filled with explosives was deliberately parked in front of the Federal Building. The people responsible for this bombing is 27 -year-old Timothy McVeigh and his ex-Army buddy, Terry Nichols. It was about 90 minutes after the explosion when an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer...
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Andrew Jackson White Men
371 wordsThe Seminoles The Seminole Indians are a tribe of Indians who now have territory and reservations in Florida and Oklahoma. They once belonged to the Muskogee tribe that lived along streams in what are now southern Georgia and Alabama. The Seminoles moved to Florida and Oklahoma around 1708 when the white men drove them out of their homes and took their land. The Seminoles adjusted well toile in Florida. In the late 1700 s and early 1800 s Florida was a territory of Spain, that made the Seminoles...
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