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Lewis And Clark Clark Expedition
547 words
Sacajawea was born sometime during 1786 in a
territory located in todays Idaho. She lived in
her Rocky Mountain homeland the first 12 years of
her life, up until she was kidnapped from her
Shoshone people by an enemy tribe, the Hidasta's.
Sacajawea was then sold to a French-Canadian fur
trader named Toussaint Charbonneau as a slave, and
was soon after claimed as one of his wives. During
this time an expedition to explore the Louisiana
Territory was being formed by Meriwhether Lewis
and William C...
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Drug Legalization Drug Addicts
777 words
Drug Legalization Dear Drug Czar, I understand how
busy you are, so I will try to be as brief and
precise as possible. My name is Mike and I am 32
now, though I look as a very old and sick man. Out
of my thirty-two years I have really lived only
sixteen. My life stopped when I was in high school
and tried marijuana for the first time. I will
never forget that day! It was such an unusual
feeling. I felt so exhilarated, so happy and so
independent. How cruel this life is! The very
first time you f...
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Bubonic Plague Infectious Diseases
1,096 words
The Bubonic Plague Devastating epidemics and
infectious diseases took place in all periods of
the mankind's history. The number of the victims
at times considerably exceeded losses during
military actions. Plague was one of the terrible
general illnesses of the classical Middle Ages
period. 3 enormous plagues are known in the
history. The first is Justinian's plague (sixth
century A. D. ), which, having left Egypt, has
devastated almost all the countries of the
Mediterranean and it was kept abou...
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Foster Dulles Cold War
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Hist. 5240 james martel H. W. Brands claims that,
the burden of responsibility for the cold war
rested on the United States, the more powerful of
the two countries, and the one with less to fear
from the other. (The Devil We Knew: Americans and
the Cold War, 1993) This statement stems from the
idea that America had no evidential basis for a
foreign policy that called for a containment of
Soviet expansion. Brands is claiming that the US
had less to fear because an aggressive foreign
force did not...
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President Of The United States Years Ago
351 words
Chet Arthur, President of the United States? Good
God! That is what many of us were saying when
former President Garfield died and Republican
Chester A. Arthur took over. However, Chet Arthur
has proved us all wrong. We are living in a time
of prosperity, well after the Civil War. Arthur,
even though he will not go down into the history
books as one of our greatest presidents ever,
Arthur has done nothing to stop to progress of our
great society. Even the recent miniature scandal
has been proved...
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People Per Square People Of China
1,218 words
Chinas Population Problem The Chinese government
has taken the enforcement of family planning and
birthrate laws to an extreme by violating the
civil rights of its citizens, which has had bad
effects on the morale of its people (Whyte 161).
Chinas population has grown to such an enormous
size that it has become a problem to both the
people and government. China, the most populous
country in the world, has an estimated population
of about one thousand-one hundred-thirty three
point six million (H...
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Ottoman Turks Pope Urban
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Later Crusades Essay. After the first Christian
Crusade that begun in 1095 there were eight
classified crusades that generally aimed towards
the area of Sir and Palestine that lasted untill
the 1270 s. Yet after much humiliation and the
repeated defeat of the Crusaders in the Lavant,
most of the European powers understood the fact
that the Holy Land was unattainable. Most the
crusading efforts were aimed at the enemies of
Catholics such as the Turkish invaders who sought
to destroy Christianity ...
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World War Ii United States And Russia
1,106 words
After World War II, a struggle between the
Communist nations and the democratic nations
occurred which is known as the Cold War. The
United States had a policy set up that clearly
stated that any nation invaded by a communist
country would have the assistance of the United
States Government in controlling Communism
expansion. This theory was known as containment.
Containment was used throughout the Cold War, and
the policy appeared to be a success by stopping
communist Russia. Was the United Sta...
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Civil War Long Range
657 words
The artillery crews of both armies of the Civil
War worked with the first guns that would
eventually come to be the long-range killing
machines that are used by the modern armies of
today. The Civil War saw the beginnings of rifled
barrels and breech loading artillery, with limited
service however these new concepts were not fully
developed and perfected until the years after the
war. On the battlefields of the Civil War the
smoothbore guns reigned supreme. There were three
types of field ordina...
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World War Ii Book Was Written
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Secrecy: The American Experience? By Senator
Daniel Secrecy: The American Experience? By
Senator Daniel P. Moynihan According to a survey
performed for the Defense Department in 1996, it
was found that the majority of U. S. citizens
believe that the government withholds too much
information by classifying it as a secret. In this
book, ? Secrecy: The American Experience? ,
Senator Daniel P. Moynihan reinforces that view.
This is a distinctive book with numerous
weaknesses, some errors, and one gr...
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Iv Scene Iii Act Iv Scene
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Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare A pair of
star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. From the
opening scenes of the play these two children of
feuding families were destined to fall in love
together and eventually die together. How does the
reader see this? How do we know it was fate, which
triggered these events? Coincidence caused the
death of these two lovers. For this reason Romeo
and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's great
tragedies. For coincidence to have caused the
death of Romeo and Ju...
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Vikings Lived Boots Made
842 words
Culture topic from Norway Much of the culture from
Norway during the period of the 10 th to the 11 th
century came from the Vikings. They came from many
villages and military camps from all over
Scandinavia. They were excellent seamen and
warriors. Because of their geography the people
were forced to use the sea as their
transportation. The traveled in long boats
decorated with dragonheads on their prows and used
for raiding, warfare, and exploration. According
to many historians, the Vikings li...
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Sire Sven Troile Latched Onto Sven Magnetic James
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World War I left many families dead, creating
large numbers of orphans. Jamaie (later to become
James) Decartes was one of those orphans. His
father died in the trenches in France, and his
mother was stolen away, never to be seen again.
James was 14 when this happened, he hid under
floor boards when his mother was taken away. His
humble french hometown village, was over run with
german foot traffic, traveling to and from the
front line. James? decided this was no life for
him, so he ran south, t...
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God Does Not Exist Concept Of God
1,718 words
For being accustomed in all other things to make a
distinction between existence and essence, I
easily persuade myself that existence may perhaps
be separated from the essence of God, and thus God
might be conceived as not existent actually. PROP.
XI. God, or substance, consisting, of infinite
attributes, of which each expresses eternal and
infinite essentiality, necessarily exists. Proof.
If this be denied, conceive, if possible, that God
does not exist: then his essence does not involve
existe...
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Dna Testing Court Cases
794 words
Studies say that even though 50 % of eyewitness
testimonies are wrong, the information given to
the jury by a confident eyewitness beats the
reliable facts of fingerprints and DNA.
Researchers have studied the affects of eyewitness
testimony and it is said that incorrect eyewitness
identifications account for more convictions of
innocent people than any other causes combined.
Two studies have shown that after being questioned
for a crime, positive feedback by police enforcers
or other investigat...
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Major Difference Research Paper
1,284 words
Compare 038; Contrast While comparing and
contrasting information from, The Shaped Ski
Revolution, by Sonoma County Ski and Snowboard
Guide, and an article written by Rich Taylor of
Popular Mechanics called Shaped Skis I found
information on many aspects of the new shaped ski
technology. Information ranged from safety to ski
technique. Rich Taylors article is a better source
for my final research paper because of its
relevancy, accurate depiction, and it is a
reliable and accurate resource. T...
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Mohandas Gandhi Civil Disobedience
664 words
Civil disobedience and passive resistance was
morally superior to all other types of resistance
to unjust laws. The philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi
did not incite violence and was the safest and
best way to resolve and abolish unjust laws. An
example of this can be found in the incident at
the Dharassana Salt Works, a British factory. The
aspects of his philosophy were all peaceful and
did not incite violence. The aspects were civil
disobedience, live simply and serve others. The
most important of...
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Violence On Television Violence On Children
861 words
Media Violence and? Real-life? Violence There is a
general consensus among people that media violence
fosters deviant behavior in children. However,
some argue that media violence has no effect on
its audience. Nevertheless, there has been a
tremendous amount of research that proves that
violence on television and other forms of mass
media profoundly influences the minds and actions
of children. Some may argue that violence in the
media does not have a detrimental effect on
children. Instead, it...
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Published His First George Gershwin
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George Gershwin (1898 - 1937) George Gershwin,
born in Brooklyn, New York on 26 September 1898,
was born the second of four children of Morris and
Rose Gershovitz, Russians who immigrated to New
York in 1891. George and his family lived on
Manhattans lower east side in a poor Jewish
community. After settling down in New York, his
father changed the family name to Gershwin. It was
George who later altered his last name to Gershwin
when he entered the professional world of music.
Most of his famil...
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Electromagnetic Radiation Electromagnetic Waves
538 words
James Clerk Maxwell Introduction James Clerk
Maxwell was a British physicist. Maxwell was born
in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 13, 1831. He
was educated at Edinburgh Academy from 1841 to
1847. He then entered the University of Edinburgh,
and went on to study at the University of
Cambridge in 1850, graduating with a bachelors
degree in mathematics in 1854. In 1860, he moved
to London to become a professor of philosophy and
astronomy at Kings College. Due to the death of
his father in 1865, Max...
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