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Controversial Topic Recording Industry
1,078 wordsThe Internet provides many different types of information on virtually any topic possible. There are many components that make up the Internet besides text. Software that is available on the Internet is ever-changing and is rapidly growing. Napster is a software company located in California, that distributes music, to users all over the world. Napster is among the many programs that enables you to "share" audio files with people all over the world on the Internet. The controversial topic is, wh...
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Argument Against Lowering The Legal Drinking Age
764 wordsIt is estimated that underage drinking costs the US $ 58 billion each year in accidents, crime and hospitalizations. An estimated one-third of Americans abstain from drinking alcohol or liquor. The number of college binge drinkers in the 1999 Harvard study (44 percent) was the same as in the 1993 study. In the Harvard study, 0. 6 percent of respondents required medical attention for alcohol overdoses. This could equal 30, 000 such instances a year when applying the number to the nation's entire ...
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Love For Nature Individual Freedom
460 wordsA loud crack pierces the still silence of the forest as Manual, a Huron guide, plunges his tomahawk into the body of a British soldier. Gunshots erupt from the darkness of the forest all around Cora and Alice cutting down the company of soldiers assigned to protect them. As if appearing from thin air two Mohicans and a white man come to their rescue, killing all of the Hurons. This white man was named Hawkeye, and was the main character of the movie The Last of The Mohicans. The romantic theme o...
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Joseph Banks Suggested Aboard The Endevour Sailed
343 wordsIn June of 1769, aboard the Endevour, Captain James Cook completed his scientific assignment to observe a transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun from Tahiti in the South Pacific. Afterwards, Cook and his crew headed westward; their secret mission was to find the undiscovered southern land, Terra Australias Incognita. Many geographers believed it had to exist to counterbalance the northern continents. They were ordered to travel as far south as the fortieth parallel in their searc...
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New England And Chesapeake Colonies
811 wordsDuring the 16 th and 17 th century many emigrants settled upon the coasts of The New World - North America. People, mainly form England, who were either pursued by nation's economical recession or religious discrimination, decided to start a new life in America. Throughout the course of history and many expeditions, the colonies set their own rules based on different ideas. Two separate regions emerged: New England and Chesapeake; although occupied mostly by people originating from the same loca...
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Whigs And Tories Favor Of George Favored
390 wordsThe main political groupings in Parliament were the Whigs and the Tories. Despite both groups being in Parliament, the differentiation between programs of the Whigs and the Tories were quite noticeable. During the reign of Queen Anne, the Whig faction was seeking favor from the Hanoverian, George I. Meanwhile the Tories strived to make a rapid peace settlement with France. The Whigs strategy clearly paid-off when George arrived in Britain, and favored them over the Tories. They supported monarch...
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League Of Nations Treaty Of Versailles
560 wordsThe Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty signed at the end of World War I between Germany and the Allies. It was negotiated during the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles, beginning in early 1919. Four major powers were represented at the conference- the United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy. Not present, however, was Germany who had been excluded from the meeting. President Wilson desired the war treaty to be guided by his Fourteen Points plan. The Fourteen Points called for fre...
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French And Indian War Stamp Act
1,288 wordsThe American Revolution was an inevitable conflict. The French and Indian War had major effects on the British and American colonists. This war doubled England's already existent debt. America's little financial and military help outraged many British offical's during the war, which largely benefited the Americas. They were also bitter about the Colonists trading goods with enemies of the British. Because of this the British increased authority over the colonies after the war. The British began ...
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Osama Bin Laden Abdullah Ocalan
1,691 wordsHe has used Abu Muhammad (Abu Mohammed), Abu Fatima, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abu Abdallah, Abu al-Mu " iz, The Doctor, The Teacher, Nur, Usa, Abu Mohammed Nur al-Deen, Abdel May (Abdel More, Abdel Me), and other names as aliases. In 1998 he formally merged Egyptian Islamic Jihad into al-Qaeda. According to reports by a former al-Qaida member, he has worked in the al-Qaida organization since its inception and was a senior member of the group's shura council. He is often described as a 'lieutenant' to t...
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One Of The Biggest Workers' Compensation
873 wordsHowever, the system's delays make workers wait to get medical treatment and benefits, some for months. Some workers, depending on the seriousness of their injury, receive as little as $ 39 a week. In 1993, the main goal of the new legislation was to reduce costs for employers and raise the benefits for workers. So far, costs have fallen 34 % for employers, and they save up to $ 3 billion a year (Morton). However, benefits for workers are the lowest in the United States, and ranks California 45 t...
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Managing The Sexual Harassment Crisis At Mitsubishi Motors
1,289 wordsMANAGING THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT CRISIS AT MITSUBISHI MOTORS ABSTRACT The debate on what constitutes prohibited acts of sexual harassment continues to linger through the years. As a matter of fact, both national and international communities do not have exact definition of the term sexual harassment and this leads to a lot of confusion among employees affected. While some define sexual harassment in a broader sense as a form of discriminatory treatment and violence against women and weak people, t...
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English Civil Part 1
1,680 wordsEnglish Civil War English Civil War was the clash of two clearly differentiated social groups or classes: the fullest possible knowledge of men's social and economic background, if it leaves out the preaching available in their home parishes, tells us nothing about their likely allegiance in the Civil War. Yet even if the search for the causes of the Civil War has a distorting effect on historiography, the fact remains that the Civil War, like Mount Everest, is there, even though Professor Elton...
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Ho Chi Minh U S Troops
1,282 wordsIn the late 1800 s a French missionary had raised a missionary force to help Nguyen Anh become Vietnam's emperor in hope that the new emperor would look favorably upon France as a trading partner. After this new bond was formed France fought for possession of Vietnamese land so they granted the French land in the Mekong Delta. France grew greedy and proceeded to fight for North Vietnam as well, but the North created the Vietminh to fight off the French and their influence (Karnow). The impositio...
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Class Action State Courts
836 wordsPassage of the Class Action Fairness Act is good for America Class-action lawsuits have become a problem in the United States. The judicial system is not fair. It is unbalanced, it is tilted, " said President Bush. "And members around this table understand that, and members around this table are willing to set aside their political party to do what is right for worker and business owner alike, " he added, as he met with both Democrats and Republicans from the House and Senate. (1) My opinion is ...
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Lewis And Clark Meriwether Lewis
1,283 wordsStephen E. Ambrose, the best-selling author of D-Day and the distinguished biographer of Richard Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower, has now written the definitive account of the most momentous expedition in American history -- Lewis and Clark's pioneering journey across the North American continent from the Mississippi to the Pacific, carried out under the personal direction of President Thomas Jefferson. In this book, the authors thesis was to reveal to the reader the numerous adventures while exp...
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Breaking Up Microsoft Settlement Talks Quot
570 wordsWednesday, many government sources confirmed that Justice Department lawyers have proposed splitting Microsoft Corp. as a remedy for the companys allegedly anti-competitive behavior. The proposal was discussed over the weekend at a secret meeting of officials from the U. S. government and 19 states that have sued Microsoft. The position of the Federal government and the states was presented to Federal Mediator Richard Posner last Monday, which was the filing deadline. Posner has been meeting in ...
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Considered To Be The First Natty Bumpo Cooper
900 wordsJames Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey on September 15, 1789. He was the eleventh of twelve children born to William and Elizabeth Cooper. When James was one year old the family moved to the frontier, and his father established the settlement of Cooperstown at the head of the Susquehanna River. Cooper attended a private preparatory school in Albany, New York, and was then admitted to Yale in 1803. He was expelled during his junior year because of a prank. His family allowed him...
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Espa Ola Santo Domingo
511 wordsColumbus, Christopher (1451 - 1506), Italian-Spanish navigator, who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but landed on islands in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. In the mid- 1470 s he made his first trading voyage in the Aegean Sea. Believing that the earth was smaller than was previously thought and that it was composed mostly of land, Columbus eventually decided that Asia could be reached quickly by sailing west. His request to the king of Po...
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Cuban Missile Crisis U S S R
1,258 wordsCuban Missile Crisis When given the opportunity to write a research paper on any conflict or battle during recent American History, one has a number of options: World War Two, the War in Vietnam, and the Korean conflict to name but a few. However, I have chosen a brief period of two weeks during which the very existence of the United States was seriously threatened. To most of my generation the Cuban missile crisis is nonexistent. No one tends to look at non-physical actions as ones of any impor...
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Daniel Boone Age
372 wordsDaniel Boone was responsible for the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. Daniel? s father was a weaver and blacksmith, and raised livestock in the country near Reading, Pennsylvania. Daniel was born there on November 2, 1734. Daniel was a man of the wild, an explorer of unmapped spaces, his boyhood was the perfect preparation. HE cam e to know the Indians in the forest. Early on he was marking the habits of wild things and bring them down with spears. he hunted with anything that he could fi...
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