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Southwest Airlines Triple Crown
1,415 words
... ne. Same Three comes to the surface to fly its
colors. Lone Star One takes to the sky as
Southwest Airlines' 20 th Anniversary flagship
Boeing 737. 1992 Wins the first annual Triple
Crown in 1992 - a feat no other airline has been
able to match in a single month! 1993 Expand to
the east coast and begins service to
Baltimore/Washington International Airport.
Captures the second annual Triple Crown in 1993.
1994 Introduces Ticketless Travel in four cities.
Morris Air is merged with Southwest. ...
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Compromise Of 1850 Runaway Slaves
498 words
Compromise Measures of 1850 also known as the
Compromise of 1850. This act was a series of five
legislative enactment's passed by United States
Congress. Many territories from the west were now
asking for admittance into the United States as an
official state. This brought many questions to the
table. Today at a meeting many other states
followed California as they applied to enter into
the union. This will be a problem for the north
and south. Before now there were 15 free states
and 15 slave s...
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Unborn Child Supreme Court
664 words
Roe vs. Wade Roe vs. Wade was a court case based
on abortion and a womans right to choose. At the
time of this court case the present law in Texas
stated that it was illegal to get an abortion,
unless the mothers life was in danger. The main
character in this movie was named Ellen. Ellen was
a single woman who was pregnant; the father was
out of the picture. Ellen had already given birth
to one child named Cheryl a few years before. Her
mother adopted this first child and moved to new
Mexico. El...
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Franklin D Roosevelt Third Party Candidates
1,672 words
... ifi cantly changes, thus causing some major
upsets. Wilson won because congress voted him in,
not because he was elected. If Roosevelt hadn't
formed his own party, Taft would have had a better
chance of becoming President of the United States.
1936 The candidates in the election of 1936 were,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, Alfred M.
Landon, a Republican, and Norman Thomas, a
Socialist. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882,
at Hyde Park, N. Y. , to James Roosevelt. He was
an average stu...
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Texas V Andrea Yates
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Texas v. Andrea Yates A 37 year-old women stunned
the nation when she drowned all five of her
children on June 20, 2001. Her name is Andrea
Yates and she went on trial for their murders in
the case known as Texas v. Andrea Yates. Her trail
lasted for four weeks and much controversy
surrounded it. Andrea admitted to police that she
drowned her five children: Noah, 7, John, 5, Paul,
3, Luke, 2, and Mary 6 months. This whole
situation turned into a controversy because
prosecutors in the case tried ...
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Mannlicher Carcano Rifle Lee Harvey Oswald
1,622 words
# 8220; The Warren Commission concluded that Lee
Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed President
Kennedy. Do you agree?" Contrary to the Warren
Commission's findings, Lee Harvey Oswald, acting
alone, did not kill President John F. Kennedy.
There are several crucial areas of evidence, which
prove Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill the
president. Numerous eyewitness accounts show that
the shots came from the direction of the grassy
knoll (Jack Hill), and not from the Texas School
Book Depositary. The nu...
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Women And Girls Womens Rights
1,049 words
Abuse transitive verb 1: to put to a wrong or
improper use; 2: obsolete (deceive); 3: to use so
as to injure or damage (maltreat); 4: to attack in
words (revile). noun 1: a corrupt practice or
custom; 2: improper or excessive use or treatment
(misuse); a deceitful act (deception); 4: language
that condemns or vilifies usually unjustly,
intemperately, and angrily; 5: physical
maltreatment. Abuse, in any and all of its forms,
is something many Korean women and girls deal with
every day. In 2002, a...
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Fight To The Death Due To The Fact
1,067 words
... one. While the siege was going on nearly ten
thousand more settlers assembled outside the city.
The one problem was that these soldiers were
getting bored and had nothing to do. Many started
to return home either out of boredom or belief
that the war was over. Only one hundred and fifty
men were left to face the winter under the
leadership of Sam Houston. The soldiers assumed
that the Mexicans who now were driven South were
very unlikely to return for the duration of the
winter months. Sam H...
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United States Of America Santa Fe
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/> [The following is an earlier version of the
essay published under the title "Begetting the
Mexican American" in Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of
Fair, LPD Press, c. 1998, pp. 345 - 72. Permission
from Publisher and my own as author to use for
educational purposes. ] PADRE ANTONIO JOSE
MARTINEZ: BROKER FOR NON VIOLENT CONQUEST AND THE
TAOS UPRISING OF 1847 by Rev. Juan Romero
INTRODUCTION The year 1998 will mark the fourth
centennial of the founding in northern New Mexico
of the second oldest Eur...
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Major League Baseball Baseball Player
1,154 words
The film Rookie is a factual drama that is based
on the life of Jimmy Morris, an ex-major league
baseball player. The subject matter of the movie
was to never quit; try, try again or at least
until you reach your goal. This film inspires the
person to fulfill their dreams no matter how
impossible they may seem. There were not many
major characters in this movie, but all played an
important roll to the subject matter. Jimmy Morris
was the main character, a young man, about 30
years old with a wif...
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Sam Houston White Settlers
1,090 words
Whatever you Want The Texas War for Independence
was fought from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836.
It came as the result of White anglo-season
settlers' continuing frustration with Mexican
government, which was striving hard to rid them of
their ancestral traditions by enforcing
Catholicism. They rightfully considered such
practice as the ultimate tool of making them to
disappear in the racial melting pot that became of
Mexico. It took less than ten years for the
Protestant colonists to increas...
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Chiang Kai Shek Cuban Missile Crisis
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy John
Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35 th President of the
United States, the youngest person ever to be
elected President, the first Roman Catholic and
the first to be born in the 20 th century. Kennedy
was assassinated before he completed his third
year as President therefore his achievements were
limited. Nevertheless, his influence was
worldwide, and his handling of the Cuban Missile
Crisis may have prevented the United States from
entering into another wo...
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Flag Burning Supreme Court
505 words
Flag burning is absolutely not a valid form of
political expression under the first amendment.
Though the Supreme Court, in the case of Gregory
Johnson, ruled that it was in fact constitutional
to allow people to burn the flag, the evidence
against this ruling is overwhelming. First, the
first amendment does provide protection to
demonstrators wishing to voice their political
opinions vocally and symbolically, the amendment
does not allow for the desecration of sacred
objects such as flags, ceme...
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George W Bush Television And Radio
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Both campaigns running at full steam; Gore,
Bradley release fresh TV ads CLINTON, S. C. Texas
Gov. George W. Bush expressed confidence Friday
that he would win South Carolinas Republican
presidential primary while Sen. John McCain
declared that a victory for him would show that
the Republican establishment cant stop us. Buoyed
by polls showing him ahead, Bush said he was very
optimistic about whats going to happen (Saturday).
I feel great about my chances. In Charleston,
McCain told a thunderous...
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Annotated Bibliography Solid Waste
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HOUSEHOLD RECYCLING: EASIER THAN YOU THINK! by Amy
Newman Thesis: After reading this essay, I will
fully understand the issue of recycling and the
three solutions I have found. Primary Audience:
Myself Purpose: To provide myself with the
information necessary to choose the proper
recycling program I feel is the most efficient and
effective. English 1302, 7010 Professor Ice
September 22, 2000 Annotated Bibliography Carless,
Jennifer. Taking Out The Trash: A No-Nonsense
Guide to Recycling. Washing...
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20 Th Century Attention To Detail
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The Life and Legend of Howard Hughes Throughout
the 20 th century, it has been the media? s job to
pinpoint what events and people would prove to be
an effective story. This was certainly the case
for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard
Hughes Sr. , Howard became the interest of the
American people and newspapers for most of his
life. Being deemed one of the most famous men of
the mid- 20 th century was greatly attributed to
Hughes? s skills as an industrialist, aviator, and
motion-pictu...
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Supreme Court Appellate Court
544 words
Qualifications for judges of district-level courts
include U. S. citizenship, residence in the
district for two years immediately before election
or appointment, and a license to practice law in
Texas. As a guarantee of practical legal
experience, a district-level judge must have been
a practicing lawyer, a judge of a court of record,
or both for at least four years prior to election.
As in the case of Texas judges in other state
courts, a vacant judgeship (resulting from death,
resignation, ret...
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Harper Collins Publishers Border Patrol
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Militarization of the U. S. Mexico Border By Joan
J. Jaime's June 22, 2000? Corranle, all? viene la
might! , translated into English, this means Run,
there comes immigration! This is what illegal
immigrants shout everyday when they are about to
cross the Rio Grande in search for better lives.
Unfortunately, not many get through alive because
of the militarization that has developed on the U.
S. border with Mexico. Operation Rio Grande
continues a process put in motion over a century
ago by the T...
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Ku Klux Klan Commit A Crime
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Racism 038; Hate Crimes in America Blacks were
introduced to American soil during the 17 th and
18 th centuries via the triangular trade route,
and were welcomed by whips, chains, shackles, and
all the horrors of slavery. Slavery was
legitimized by our government and continued for a
few hundred years, taking a civil war and sixteen
presidents before it was abolished. To this day,
there is still much hatred between blacks and
whites despite emancipation, desegregation, and
integration; some wo...
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Governor Of Texas Radical Reconstruction
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1. Who were the Scalawags? ? Scalawags is the name
given to native or local whites who supported the
Rep party. The origins of the word is uncertain
but the term came from Scalway, a district in
Seton Island, where small cattle lived. Used in US
before the Civil war to mean scrawny or undersized
cattle. It was also a synonymy for good for
nothing. Southern conservative whites found the
scalawags uniquely hateful. Blacks were
considerable more understand then the faults of a
scalawags who was con...
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