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Robert E Lee Killer Angels
1,421 words
Drive half an hour north of Washington, D. C. and
you will find verdant rolling hills and flat, rich
farmland, broken here and there by granite
outcroppings and dark poplar forests. A place of
great beauty and serenity. Close your eyes a
moment, efface the houses and stores and gas
stations from your mind's eye, and it looks pretty
much as it did in July, 1863. That summer its
green fields were stained red with the blood of
50, 000 Americans dead and wounded. 50, 000. In
just three days of slaug...
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U S Carnegie Steel
372 words
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. He
went to the U. S. in 1848 and soon began work as a
bobbin boy in a cotton mill in Allegheny,
Pennsylvania, for $ 1. 20 per week. The following
year he became a messenger in a Pittsburgh
telegraph office and learned telegraphy. He was
then employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as the
private secretary and telegrapher to the railroad
official Thomas Alexander Scott. Carnegie advanced
by successive promotions until he was
superintendent of the Pittsbur...
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The Acid Rain Issue
1,108 words
... ece sources are required to install systems
that monitor emissions in order to track progress.
The average annual cost for this phase is about
one hundred and eighty five to two hundred and
twenty dollars per ton. 7 To cut down on nitrogen
oxide pollution, EPA will require power plants to
reduce their nitrogen oxide releases, and will
require reductions in nitrogen oxide releases from
new cars. Reducing nitrogen oxide releases will
reduce both acid rain and smog formation.
Companies that rel...
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Meet New People Friends I Knew School
772 words
Moving away from all of your best friends can be a
real tragedy in a sixteen-year-old teenagers life.
It's hard to get up and go eight hundred miles
away from everyone you know and everything you
grew up around. I had this happen to me about
three years ago and it is the largest change I
have ever had to adjust to in my life. It wasn't
the changes around me that I was bothered by; it
was that I did not know one living soul for
hundreds of miles and all I wanted was a friend.
Two days into the su...
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Cause And Effect Paine Argued
1,477 words
Many colonies were founded for religious purposes.
While religion was involved with all of the
colonies, Massachusetts, New Haven, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania were established exclusively for
religious purposes. Massachusetts's inhabitants
were Puritans who believed in predestination and
the ideal that God is perfect. Many Puritans in
England were persecuted for their nihilist beliefs
in England because they felt that the Church of
England, led by the Kind, did not enforce a
literal enough interp...
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Underground Railroad Ohio River
1,294 words
... Maryland in order to save slaves. She never
lost one slave. There were many other influential
women that played a role in the Underground
Railroad and the fight for equality among blacks.
Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton were fighting the twin fight for women's
suffrage and Negro emancipation. Jane Lewis from
New Lebanon, Ohio found her way to the river and
rowed runaways from the far side of the Ohio River
to the Ohio freedom. Calvin Fairbanks was one of
the first of...
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Andrew Carnegie Cut Costs
1,998 words
Andrew Carnegie was born into a poor working class
family living in the town of Dunfermline,
Scotland, in 1835. His father operated a small
hand looming business located in the family home.
The Carnegie's was literate, well read, and active
in the politics of the day. It was a time of
repression of the Scottish worker by the
Government, the employers, and the culture.
Rebellious in thought as well as actively
participating in protests was part of the Carnegie
family life style. He was exposed to...
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Washington D C Battle Of Gettysburg
838 words
Since the battle of the First Bull Run two years
elapsed before the decisive battle of Gettysburg.
Many battles were fought during this period. They
were Shiloh, Seven Pines, The Seven Days, Second
Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Stones River,
and Chancellorsville. In theses battles the
outcome was either indecisive or a victory for the
South. After these major battles, Lee decided to
move his army north into Pennsylvania with the
thought of encircling Washington. This danger was
clear to th...
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University Of Pennsylvania Science Degree
287 words
During the past few years, nursing leadership
skills have changed dramatically. Covering the
schedule and ensuring orientation for new
employees are not adequate skills for nursing
leaders to measure up in today's health care
industry. Today's nursing leaders are faced with
such problems as justifying staff member and
equipment expenditures, predicting staffing levels
and hours per patient day, calculating the number
of full-time equivalents (FTEs) needed, and
predicting cost savings. Complex bu...
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Athletic Trainer Occupational Therapy
387 words
Specific Licensing Requirements The paper presents
the list of health care professionals who must be
licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. Health-Related Boards
Description,
Regulation, Examinations, Changes
Chiropractic
The "Pennsylvania Chiropractic Law Examination"
is no longer required. The applicants must
complete a "Pennsylvania Chiropractic Legal
Review" page. Parts I - IV of the National Board
Examinations are still required.
Dentistry
For
examinations the applic...
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Minimum Wage Laws Equal Rights Amendment
1,193 words
Equal Rights Amendment Clearly, pro ERA
spokesperson Alice Paul presented the most
persuasive winning case for equal rights. Alice
Paul was highly educated with an undergraduate
degree in biology from Swarthmore, and M. A. and
Phd in sociology and economics from the University
of Pennsylvania with law degrees from Washington
College and American University. She was a member
of the Executive Board of Student Government and
named Ivy Poetess. She was a commencement speaker.
Her strongly held belie...
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Health Care Professionals University Of Pennsylvania
1,705 words
Bachelor in Nursing Sciences During the past few
years, nursing leadership skills have changed
dramatically. Covering the schedule and ensuring
orientation for new employees are not adequate
skills for nursing leaders to measure up in
today's health care industry. Today's nursing
leaders are faced with such problems as justifying
staff member and equipment expenditures,
predicting staffing levels and hours per patient
day, calculating the number of full-time
equivalents (FTEs) needed, and predic...
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Kidney Failure Sq Km
2,426 words
Access in quality care for dialysis patients in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Description of selected
community (location, statistics, etc) Philadelphia
is the second largest city on the East Coast
(North America). The city of Philadelphia is
located 100 miles south of New York and 133 miles
north of Washington, D. C. The city ranks fifth in
the nation. Population of Philadelphia reaches 5.
8 million people. (Philadelphia Facts & Figures)
Metro:
6, 188, 463 (2000 census)
5, 892, 937
(1990 censu...
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Irish Immigration To The United States
2,218 words
Irish Immigration to the United States Immigration
into America has shaped and molded us into who we
are today. Without groups such as the
Scotch-Irish, English, Dutch, etc. America would
not be the great melting pot that it has now
become. Each of these cultures brought with them a
sense of religion, culture and spirit. They took a
chance to better themselves, leaving everything
that was remotely comfortable in their life
behind, bringing with them great hope to the New
World. One such group is...
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Expansion Of Slavery Army Of The Potomac
1,630 words
The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery This paper
is about the civil war and about how it ended
slavery with the emancipation proclamation. I will
also talk abou the physical loses of the war. The
South, overwhelmingly agricultural, produced cash
crops such as cotton, tobacco and sugarcane for
export to the North or to Europe, but it depended
on the North for manufactures and for the
financial and commercial services essential to
trade. Slaves were the largest single investment
in the South, an...
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Diesel Fuel Oil Spill
1,486 words
James M. CrunkletonWeek Six: Ashland Oil Inc. Case
Study Excellent Press Release. Good ethical
analysis, but pretty light on legal analysis.
Watch sentence construction, review assignments
before submittal. 25 points. Ashland Oil Case
Study On Saturday, January 2, 1988 at 5: 02 pm. a
four million gallon storage tank at the Florence
terminal outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
collapsed while being filled, releasing a 3. 9
million gallon wave of diesel fuel. As the fuel
gushed, it slammed into a...
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Commander In Chief French And Indian War
4,651 words
George Washington: George Washington was commander
in chief of the Continental army during the
American Revolution and first president of the
United States (1789 - 97). Early Life and Career
Born in Westmoreland County, Va. , on Feb. 22,
1732, George Washington was the eldest son of
Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary
Ball Washington, who were prosperous Virginia
gentry of English descent. George spent his early
years on the family estate on Popes Creek along
the Potomac River. His ea...
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Rabbit Run John Updike
2,265 words
John Updike tells good stories in his new
collection, Pigeon Feathers. Whats more or,
rather, what helps to make them good is his
conspicuous devotion to the perilous marksmanship
of words. All readers are bound to be grateful to
him for that. He is no Pater and he is no Joyce.
Clich s and banalities he knows, have their valued
uses in making a story flow. They provide
comfortable, reassuring cadences and he employs
them when he does not want to interrupt our
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Mumia Abu Jamal Crime Scene
3,183 words
America, the land of the free, the land of the
just. It is here, where people from all over the
world can come for refuge from tyranny. Here,
people are not judged by their color, but by who
they are. Too bad it isnt true, for what you are
about to read will contradict everything that
America is supposed to be. Mumia Abu Jamal, a
former Philadelphia journalist, was put through an
unfair and biased trial, then convicted of
murdering a Philadelphia cop in 1982, and has been
on death row since. And...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Confederate Troops
1,051 words
The battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 1
through July 3, 1863, considered by most military
historians the turning point in the American Civil
War (Johnson 84). The Battle of Gettysburg was a
decisive engagement in that it arrested the
Confederates second and last major invasion of the
North, destroyed their offensive strategy, and
forced them to fight a defensive war in which the
slowness of their manufacturing capacity and
transportation facilities doomed them to defeat
(McPherson 25). The...
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