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American Indian Movement Bureau Of Indian Affairs
1,622 wordsOne of the modern Native Americans' most prominent leaders, Leonard Peltier, was arrested in the summer of 1975 and eventually sentenced to two life terms for a crime many believe he did not commit. The conviction and imprisonment of Leonard Peltier is an injustice. His prosecution by the United States government represents yet another attempt to snuff out American Indian culture and leaders. The outspokenness of Peltier and other AIM members may be the only reason why Leonard Peltier has sat in...
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1,889 wordsAnna Mae Pictou Aquash, a Micmac Indian rights activist, was born on March 27, 1945 in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, the third daughter of Mary Ellen Pictou and Francis Thomas Levi. In 1949 her mother married Noel Super, the son and brother of traditional Micmac chiefs, and the family moved to Pictou's Landing where the family was raised in poverty. Anna lived in a house with no heat, water, or electricity and subsisted largely on the wild turnips and potatoes harvested by her family. Although Anna...
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Ms Dos Cd Roms
1,412 words... age that is audible as a short (less than 1 / 75 th second) click. The fix is to split the track on 2352 -byte block boundaries. A program called "WAVECLIP" will remove. WAV headers and footers, and will either pad out the last block or remove silence from the end of a WAV file to make it an exact multiple of 2352 bytes. The program is available from web Another choice is "Strip Wave", from web If you must use track-at-once, make sure you " re writing it all in one session. PC-based CD playe...
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Canadian History And Defining Moments
1,392 words"Just watch me. " Thats what Pierre Trudeau said when asked by a reporter if he was willing to bring in the military, under the War Measures Act, to calm the FLQ separatist terrorist group, and quell their acts of terror on the citizens of Quebec. Canada had a unique and exciting history that has many defining moments. Three such defining moments are Vimy Ridge in World War One, Canadas participating in D-Day in World War Two, and the Avro Arrow Jet Program. To begin, Canadas victory at Vimy Rid...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Peach Orchard
1,692 words... a half miles long, following strategic landmarks of the area, later to be a part of the Gettysburg Cemetery, which resembled a large fish hook. The Union had a distinct advantage in this battle because they seized the high ground before the Confederates. They were on the defensive, on their own turf. The Confederates had also assembled quite a formidable force, about 50, 000 strong commanded by General Lee and his Major Generals Ewell and Hill. The federals had 60, 000 on Cemetery Ridge, and...
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Quot Quot Intense Emotion
5,400 wordsF. Hackett " Lola Ridges Poetry" One of the hardest things in life, especially literary life, is to admit ones significant emotions. Appropriate emotions are quite a different story. Almost everyone, from President Wilson down to the cheapest writer of advertising copy, has had practice in meeting circumstance with just the right kind of propitiatory words. But outside this game of rhetoric, which is not always so easy, there is the infinitely harder and finer art of self-expression th...
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Mentally Retarded Baseball Bat
2,027 wordsBernard Lefkowitz? s Our Guys raises a lot of issues, all of which have been discussed throughout this semester. Just a few pages into the book, words had already begun to jump out at me, capturing my attention. ? The kids in Newark, black and brown, speaking Spanglish, hoods over their heads, wheeling their stolen cars over to the local chop shop they were aliens in America. Strange, forever separate and separated from the American ideal. But these Glen Ridge kids, they were pure gold, every mo...
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Eyes Wide Setting Sun
5,319 wordsGideon darted out his head like a snake, aiming for the leg of the rider just ahead. Seas! Jamie wrenched the big bays head around before he could take a bite. Evil-minded whoreson, he muttered under his breath. Adam Chisholm, unaware of his narrow escape from Gideon's teeth, caught the remark, and looked back over his shoulder, startled. Jamie smiled and touched his slouch hat apologetically, nudging the bay up even with Chisholm's long-legged mule. A bit edgy, he said, with a nod toward the ho...
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30 P M Cemetery Ridge
1,396 wordsThis most famous and most important Civil War Battle occurred over three hot summer days, July 1 to July 3, 1863, around the small market town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It began as a skirmish but by the time it ended, it involved 160, 00 Americans. Before the battle, major cities in the North such as Philadelphia, Baltimore and even Washington itself, were under threat of attack from General Robert E. Lee s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia which had crossed the Potomac River and marched ...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Cemetery Ridge
2,068 wordsIt? s All My Fault? Gettysburg is the most significant battle in the history of the United States of America. The fate of the nation would be determined in the Civil War. The outcome of the Civil War rested on a battlefield in southern Pennsylvania. The battle of Gettysburg reached its climax on the third day, when the men of General George Pickett charged up Cemetery Ridge. Therefore the outcome of the battle, the war, and ultimately the direction the nation would take rested with the victor in...
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