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Ulysses S Grant Secretary Of War
1,128 wordsUlysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was an American general and 18 th president of the U. S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, the son of Hannah Simpson and Jesse Grant, the owner of a tannery. Taken to nearby Georgetown at the age of one, he was educated in local and boarding schools. In 1839, under the name of Ulysses Simpson instead of his original Hiram Ulysses, he was appointed to West Point. Graduating 21 st in a class of 39 in 1843, he was assigned to Jefferson Barr...
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Gun Control Legislation Federal And State
834 wordsSection 1. Overview The issue of the letter which I sent was gun control legislation. The recipient of my letter was United States Senator George V. Voinovich of Ohio. This issue is an important topic in our country at this time which involves critical and controversial legislation, a large industry and special interest groups. Section 2. Summary of the Issue The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution states, ? the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shal...
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Removed From Office Bill Of Rights
1,178 wordsThe verb impeach as defined by Websters Third International Dictionary is to cause an official to be removed from office because of conviction of impropriety, misdemeanor, or misconduct while in said office. The right to impeach public officials is secured by the U. S. Constitution in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, which discuss the procedure, and in Article II, Section 4, which indicates the grounds for impeachment: the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall ...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
561 wordsDo you think that special interest groups such as homosexuals, women, and other minorities need special constitutional amendments to protect them from discrimination? Explain. Whenever this subject is brought up it usually brings a lot of controversy with it. I am one of many I am sure who is torn when it comes to discussing the rights of minority groups. Although I dont feel that any specific group deserves special protection over another group; I do feel that all groups of people deserve equal...
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Internet Piracy Senator Issues
309 wordsIn this day and age where technology is rampant and advance, it is critical that we comprehend the possibilities that such technology has, no matter whether it is good or bad. From our very own households, we can now? get connected? and experience this technology first hand. No longer do we have to go to a theater to watch a movie, buy a compact disc to hear some music, or even spend an abundant amount of money to get the latest software package. With the Internet we are just two clicks away fro...
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Members Of Congress Mass Media
959 wordsIs Our Congress Bad? Twenty-five years ago, Richard F. Fenno, Jr. said that people love their members of Congress but hate the Congress, but at the end of the 1990 s, Fenno might be wrong because of some potential problems for the members of Congress and the Congress. People do not love their members of Congress at all because the members of Congress do not know what people really want and also public lack of information about what they do by the modern mass media at the end of 1990 s. Another p...
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Four Months Customs House
645 wordsJAMES A. GARFIELD James A. Garfield was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. His father died in 1833, when Garfield was only two years old and so his mother had to carry on working the family farm by herself. With the death of his father, the family feel into poverty. Even though they had very little money, his mother made sure that her children went to the neighborhood school to get a good education. He belonged to the Disciples of Christ Church. While growing up, James drove canal boat team...
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France And Great Britain House Of Representatives
1,278 wordsJames James Madison JAMES MADISON James Madison was born in 1751 and died in 1836. He was the fourth president of the United States (1809 - 1817). Madison worked for American independence, helped to establish the government of the new nation, and went on to participate in that government as congressman, secretary of state, and president. Madison's work on the Constitution of the United States gave him his best opportunity to exercise his great talents and is generally considered his most valuabl...
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Play Julius Caesar Roman Empire
664 wordsIn William Shakespeare s, play Julius Caesar a group of men come together to assassinate the man they feel will destroy the Roman Empire if he comes to Power. In their eyes he is not worthy of a stately position such as emperor. They also fear that they will loose their free will, and live under tyranny. Marcus Brutus, a close friend to Caesar, chooses to kill Caesar to try to prevent that future from falling upon the Roman Empire. Although he is a friend to Caesar he knows that power would easi...
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Woodrow Wilson Vice President
306 wordsThomas Riley Marshall was born in North Rochester, Indiana on March 14, 1854. He graduated from Wabash College in 1873 where he studied law. Afterwards he was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1875, practicing his profession in Columbia City. His father was a physician. He was also a popular public speaker and active in local Democratic politics. Marshall was a small town lawyer when he received the nomination for governor in 1908, a compromise dark horse candidate. His political party for governor...
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Tax Rate Social Security
605 wordsThe budget of the United States is a document that announces how much the government will collect in taxes and spend in revenues and how those expenditures will be allocated among various programs. The basic jist of it is how much money the government is going to spend and where it is going to spend it. There are three major areas the government spends this money: the country? s defense, Medicare, and social security. These are called uncontrollable expenditures because they involve contracts al...
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Forms Of Government Roman Republic
467 wordsPolybius wanted to explain to his fellow Greeks how the Romans had risen to world power in a short span of time. Polybius criticized bitterly those writers of his time who wrote history as romance or who blindly celebrated their homelands or famous men without regard to deeper truth. Polybius? combination of philosophical underpinnings, clear purposes and capable narrative made the important influence which he has been. Polybius saw in the Roman constitution a marvelous combination of the three ...
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Communist Party Polish Workers Poland
740 wordsCommunist-Socialist strength in the government grew steadily during 1946 and 1947. In the 1947 parliamentary elections the two-party coalition won more than 85 percent of the vote. Beginning in September 1948 the Polish Communist Party purged itself of many thousands of so-called national Communists who were accused of approving Yugoslavia's defiance of the USSR. Among those jailed in the purge was Wladyslaw Gomulka, secretary general of the party and first deputy premier. In December the Social...
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Federalist Papers Impeachment Trial
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George W Bush U S Senate
1,635 wordsFor the next 12 months over 11 presidential candidates will be racing to win a nomination from their respective parties. Only a select few will get a nomination as well as a few will get a vice president nomination. All of these nominations will be determined at the National conventions held for each different party. I have selected 4 candidates to discuss primarily because I think they are the strongest candidates of the democratic and republican parties. From the Democratic Party, I have chose...
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Brother Robert Kennedy
916 wordsRobert Francis (? Bobby? ) Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy was born in 1925 in Brookline Massachusetts, and was raised with traditional family values. He was a true patriot, with a strong sense of nationalism. While Attending Harvard University, he saw that his country needed his help, so he put his undergraduate studies on hold to serve his country? s Navy in World War II. When he returned home, he finished his Bachelor? s degree at Harvard, and received an LL. B. from the university of Virginia Law....
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Supreme Court Ruling George W Bush
1,349 wordsFive weeks after Election Day, George W. Bush at last laid claim to the presidency Wednesday night with a pledge to seize this moment and deliver reconciliation and unity to a nation divided. Al Gore exited the tortuously close race, exhorting the nation to put aside partisan rancor and support its new chief executive. I was not elected to serve one party, but to serve one nation, the nations soon-to-be 43 rd president told Americans in remarks prepared for a nationally televised address from th...
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End Of The Film False Statements
359 wordsThe film Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (dir. Frank Capra, 1939) emphasizes honesty verses falsehood. Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) has great honor and he upholds his integrity. Smith is always in constant danger because he lets his honesty take over. Fallacy and lies manipulate Smith s integrity to achieve their purposes. Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold) and Senator Paine (Claude Rains) play great harm to Smith in the film. Taylor sharply utter, I ll break him so wide open they ll never be able to fi...
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Welfare To Work Five Years
511 wordsJanuary 19, 1999 BY JUDITH HAVEMANN AND WALTER PINCUS WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON President Clinton will propose in his State of the Union address tonight a $ 1 billion expansion of the federal governments efforts to help the nations most disadvantaged families move from welfare to work, White House officials said Monday. The officials said the initiative will help about 200, 000 welfare families get jobs. Despite the enormous progress we have made in the last few years in moving people from welf...
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Corpus Christi John Kennedy
645 wordsLyndon Baines Johnson the 36 th President of the United States was born near Stonewall, Texas in 1908. He was the eldest of five children. His father had served on the Texas legislature five times. Although Johnson shared his father s interest in politics he went to college and began working on a school teaching career. He graduated with a degree in history and went on to teach at a high school in Houston. After two years he became interested in a political position and took the job of private s...
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