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Son Of Sam David Berkowitz
2,084 words... d trial... the defendant is a normal as anyone else. Maybe a little neurotic. "Ultimately, it didn't matter because David Berkowitz pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 365 years in jail. In 1979, Robert Ressler, the FBI veteran, interviewed Berkowitz in Attica Prison three times. Berkowitz had been allowed to keep a scrapbook he had compiled of all the newspaper stories about the murders. He used these scrapbooks to keep his fantasies alive. Ressler made it clear that he didn't buy the demon...
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1,704 wordsTrent Kenya 5 / 15 / 00 Over the past few years a new threat has been encountered by the United States. This threat does not come from away, but from within. It is know as domestic terrorism. This has been seen over the past decade in the form of violence and terrorism across the United States. This has become a threat to American security and the American people in general. To battle against this issue, Congress has upheld the Anti-Terrorism Act in 1996. One of the best examples on examining th...
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Aaron Burr Alexander Hamilton
1,028 wordsBurr, Aaron Although Aaron Burr, b. Newark, N. J. , Feb. 6, 1756, fought in the American Revolution and became an important political figure, serving a term (1801 - 05) as vice-president of the United States, he is best remembered today for having killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. The son of a president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and the grandson of another (Jonathan Edwards), Burr could trace his ancestry back to the earliest Puritans. He entered Princeton at the...
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1,478 wordsThe Declaration of Independence states, All men are created equal, , but, taking a look at our nations history, we can clearly see that this statement is not valid. This was not accepted by the thousands of slave owners based in the South and the people who enforced oppression upon womens rights as equals. The nation's relatively newly-established independence, escalating prejudices against blacks, differing viewpoints regarding slavery, monetary inflation, and antagonism to womens basic rights ...
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Complete Control York City
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2,398 wordsThe Alger Hiss Spy Case During the late nineteen forties, a new anti-Communistic chase was in full holler, this being the one of the most active Cold War fronts at home. Many panic-stricken citizens feared that Communist spies were undermining the government and treacherously misdirecting foreign policy. The attorney general planned a list of ninety supposedly disloyal organizations, none of which was given the right to prove its loyalty to the United States. The Loyalty Review Board investigate...
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Theodore Roosevelt Hyde Park
922 wordsRoosevelt served longer than any other president. His unprecedented election to four terms in office will probably never be repeated; the 22 nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, passed after his death, denies the right of any person to be elected president more than twice. Roosevelt held office during two of the greatest crises ever faced by the United States: the Great Depression of the 1930 s, followed by World War II. His domestic program, known as the New Deal, introduced f...
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York City Police Crimes Committed
2,165 wordsRobert Korn May 13, 2000 Sociology of the Police Dr. Vrettos The Police In todays society the police, play may roles. They are the peacekeepers, law enforcement and many other jobs. However, recently they have become the subject of a very heated and large debate. Many believe that the police should give up their brute type tactics for a more civilized and humanized approach, while others feel that the police should crack down on the most insignificant of offences to type and disparage crimes tha...
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Increased Demand Economic Growth
1,368 wordsNew Yorks growth between the years 1825 and 1860 can be attributed to a number of factors. These include but cannot be limited to the construction of the Erie Canal, the invention of the telegraph, the developed of the railroads, the establishment of Wall Street and banking, the textile, shipping, agriculture and new paper industries, the development of steam power and the use of iron products. On October 26, 1825 the Erie Canal was opened. The canal immediately became an important commercial ro...
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4,651 wordsGeorge 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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Acute Georgia Okeeffe
3,356 wordsNobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We havent time and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself Ill paint what I see what the flower is to me but Ill paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. Well, I made you take time to l...
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President Of The United States Elected President
900 wordsIn History Of Photography Daguerreotypes In 1839 the Academy of Science in Paris, France made an announcement that would change our view on the world and ourselves forever. An artist named Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre and a amateur french scientist had developed a process by which a permanent image could be printed on a silver plated sheet of copper and the process could be duplicated and used commercially. France decided to give this gift to the world and thus the first Daguerreotype was born. A...
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3,192 wordsHISTORY OF WEED Marijuana in the New World By: Erica Marijuana in the New World The first definite record of the marijuana plant in the New World dates from 1545 AD, when the Spaniards introduced it into Chile. It has been suggested, however, that African slaves familiar with marijuana as an intoxicant and medicine brought the seeds with them to Brazil even earlier in the sixteenth century. There is no record that the Pilgrims brought marijuana with them to Plymouth but the Jamestown settlers di...
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406 wordsOne Homeless Essay Homeless Essay One of Mayor Guiliani s promises early in his candidacy was to reduce the homeless population in New York City. He has not achieved his goal. There are 90, 000 people in New York City living on the streets. The number is growing more rapidly. In order to reduce this number, the causes of homelessness must be examined. Three main causes that contribute to homelessness are drugs and alcohol, having been battered, and having a mental illness. First, people who beco...
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Half Lives Middle Class
1,686 wordsThe novel How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis shocked middle and upper class Americans when it was published in 1890. Riis created a sensation when he revealed to the world, combining detailed written descriptions with graphic photographs, the horrific conditions of New York City? s tenement housing. How the Other Half Lives raised many questions, such as how and why the poor are subjected to such terrible living conditions and how that environment affects them. Riis also reveals his fears an...
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20 Th Century Irish Immigrants
3,512 wordsINTRODUCTION The history of Ireland that most distressful nation is full of drama and tragedy, but one of the most interesting stories is about what happened to the Irish during the mid-nineteenth century and how millions of Irish came to live in America (Purcell 31). Although the high point of the story was the years of the devastating potato famine from 1845 to 1848, historians have pointed out that immigrating from Ireland was becoming more popular before the famine and continued until the tu...
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Death Of His Wife Type Of Writing
1,301 wordsUpton Sinclair was an American writer whose works reflects not only the inside but also the socialists view on things. Upton sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born into a family which held to it? s Southern aristocracy in every thing that was done. When Sinclair was ten years old, the family packed up and moved to New York City (Where there were more opportunities to succeed). Upton Beall Sinclair began writing when he was 15 years old. He mostly wrote ethnic jokes and fiction for...
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Bill Of Rights Mount Vernon
1,790 wordsGeorge Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Here he received little formal education. Historians have speculated that he attended a school in Fredericksburg, or may have been tutored by an indentured servant. Washington lived with his mother until the age of 16. At the age of 15, Washington took a job as an assistant land surveyor. In 1748, he joined a surveying team that was sent to the Shenandoah Valley to help survey the land holdings of Lord Fairfax. By ...
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U S Schools Make More Money
3,109 wordsJonathan Savage Inequalities Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities is a haunting, disturbing look at the condition of some of Americas schools. Throughout the book, he describes the conditions in several cities: crumbling school buildings, teachers who do not care about the students, astronomical dropout rates, abysmal environments, and much more. Savage Inequalities posits that the leading problem in the school system is the condition of these neglected schools, and that this...
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