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Fort Duquesne Continental Congress
1,107 wordsBorn February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, he was the first son of his father Augustine's second marriage; his mother was the former Mary Ball of Epping Forest. When George was about three, his family moved to Little Hunting Creek on the Potomac, then to Ferry Farm opposite Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock in King George County. In the interim, the powerful Fairfax family of neighboring Belvoir introduced him to the accomplishments and appropriateness of mannered wealth and, in 1748, prov...
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San Carlos White Men
922 wordsFor generations, the Apaches resisted white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest (presently New Mexico and Arizona) by both Spaniards and North Americans. In 1848, when gold was discovered in California, the Apache were threatened by the incursions of white fortune-seekers. In an incident at a mining camp, Mangas Coloradas, chief of the Mimbreo Chiricahua, was whipped, an act that resulted in his life-long enmity against white men. Though his nephew Cochise had long resisted fighting ...
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Animal Farm Provisional Government
1,314 words... the Duma doing little to satisfy the people the revolutionaries and others began to take matters in their own hands. Many of the laborers showed no enjoyment at all. Alexandra wrote to her husband about the riots but he was too far away to realize how serious they were. Russias economy was dropping dramatically. Massive price rises and severs e shortages of food and fuel caused anger against the whole government. The Duma was at loss and had nothing they could do to help the people. During F...
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Rail Road Farquhar Neck
629 wordsAmbrose Bierce's short story transpires in Northern Alabama at Owl Creeks Bridge. This bridge is used for railroads to crossover the river unearthed below. The scenery as describes in the story is a forested area on a bright sunny day and carries over night until the next mourning. This time frame is in the eyes of the main character, Peyton Farquhar, but in actuality the events in the story occurs in less than a day, realistically in a few hours. Farquhar is minutes from being hung from the Owl...
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Sitting Bull Exile To Canada
1,424 wordsMany things influenced Sitting Bulls decision to cross the border into Canada. After Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had to live life in fear. He fought on the defensive for years. Sitting Bull and his followers fled from the onslaught of American howitzers. He then was able to find sanctuary in the White Grandmothers Country, north of the international boundary. Most of the band drifted back in the next few years; Sitting Bull himself was to return in 1881 to end his exile (Andr...
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Flying Tigers Plane Caught Jim
443 wordsFlying Tigers is the name of a mercenary group of American pilots that helped defend China and the Burma Road from the bombing of the Japanese during World War II. The name of their planes was Tomahawks, but the Chinese called them Fei Hu for the sharks teeth painted on their planes. Flying Tigers were known as the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force. The Flying Tigers did not see combat until December 1941 when the Japanese started bombing China. Jim Gordon, the leader of the Flyi...
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Point Of View Expansion Of Time Rambo
1,105 wordsTed Kotcheff's First Blood is the story of a burned out Vietnam Vet, who after being trained as a Green Berette, and decorated with several metals of honor, has been dumped back into society and left to his own vices. Though generally a mild mannered individual, he has been trained not to be pushed. So when a judgemental Sheriff mistreats him, he brings the war to this small town, and this time he wants to win. This film was filmed in Hope, British columbia, Canada, though it is meant to take pl...
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French Government Cell Phone
1,508 wordsIn the year 2132, life is much easier some say, because technology is so advanced. To Sage Leonhart however, it was another exhausting day. He wore a light blue t-shirt with a dark blue jacket to go along with his aqua colored hair, and a pair of grey trousers that went along with his black leather shoes. He, as a member of the elite Guardian Force (GF), has to work on a mission within an unbelievably short time limit again. GF is the department above the usual Police Force; it contains fighters...
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Timeline Of The Life Ernesto Che Guevara
1,156 wordsToday I would like to tell you the Biography of Ernesto Guevara also called El com andante che. First of all does anybody no anything about che? Young Ernesto Guevara Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is born June 14, 1928 in Rosario, one of the most important cities in Argentina, in a well off family. A family with aristocratic roots but socialistic ideas. After attending a primary school in 1947, Ernesto Guevara meets the young Berta Gilda Infante, also known as Tita. She is a member of the Argentin...
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Grassy Knoll Kennedys Assassination
1,237 words... et that wounded Kennedy wasnt the same one that responsible for his wounds. A FBI supplementary report states that the bullet that entered Kennedys back had penetrated to less than a finger length. If this is true, how can the bullet have exited from the front of his neck? There are of course other facts that warp this theory such as the fact that the bullet was mysteriously found on a hospital stretcher in pristine condition. Yet the bullet should have been out of shape and showing signs of...
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Fourth Of July Born On The Fourth War
1,115 wordsfar worse than any battle they fought while in Vietnam. No one seemed to fully understand what these men had went through. They came home looking for love and comfort; little did they know that they had not yet experienced the worst of the war. A numerous amount of people were for the war, but the reality was, many were against it. ' During 1967 public support for the war dropped sharply. By October approval of Johnson's handling of the war dropped to 28 %. A number of major metropolitan newspap...
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19 Th Century 2 Nd Ed
1,590 wordsThe History of Police Technology Police technology increasingly involves borrowings from the physical and social sciences, as well as from the fields of jurisprudence and education. Although it was only in the 1960 s that police technology became recognized as a distinct academic and scientific discipline, the proliferation of professional publications, educational programs, workshops, and international conferences of police reveals the growing importance attached to the technical aspects of pol...
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Tupac Amaru Gangsta Rappers
725 wordsIn the stifling Bulletproof Bulletproof In the stifling post-boxing match Las Vegas traffic jam, a new black 1996 BMW inched along impatiently, it? s gold detailing glimmering brightly under the street lights. Any attempt to catch a glimpse of the passengers within the tinted windows revealed only a distorted reflection of the chaotic, yet relatively motionless urban scene. The glass sunroof slid open and a dark figure rose partly through the opening, like a tank commander surveying the horizon ...
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Wachowski Filming Methods Eyes Are Dazzled Matrix
531 wordsHere is the essay I think the uploader strung the sentences together so the paragraphs are in one long line: As the worlds technological capabilities reach increasingly impressive new heights, we are faced with new problems caused by these new technological capabilities. Along with these newfound problems, such as the now infamous Y 2 K, come the latest futuristic prophecies about the worlds damnation due to the new technologies. Thus is the need for, and theory behind the movie Matrix. The Matr...
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Law And Order Johnny Torrio
1,679 wordsBengsch 1 Reid Bengsch March 12, 2001 Mr. Schauer AP US History Blk. 2 Capone On Top of Chicago After the end of World War I, America had immediately felt the effects of what they got themselves into. We started to go in a decline and there was not a whole lot that we could do about it. So we had to make a few changes in all aspects of the country including politically, socially, and economically. We tried a few things just as an experiment and some of it had started to work, but nothing drastic...
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Paul Castellano John Gotti
488 wordsClenched Clenched Fist John Gotti Clenched Fist It was early evening on December 16, 1985. The sidewalks were jammed with people who had just flooded out of the many office buildings around East 46 th Street between Second and Third Avenue. Some rushed home from work, eager to get out of the wintry gloom; others were lured by the strings of brightly colored lights into the stores for some Christmas shopping. There in the midst of the mid-town bustle on 46 th was an elegant steakhouse called Spar...
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Quot Or Quot Ice Crystals
533 wordsIf you know where and when to look, you can treat yourself to a colourful display of atmospheric halves, spots and pillars. These images can tell you something about the clouds overhead and possible changes in the weather. All of these images are created by light shining through cirrostratus clouds. These clouds occur at an altitude of 6, 000 - 12, 000 metres. They appear as a thin sheet or layer (strata) that is pure white. The layer of cloud is so thin (only 100 - 450 metres) that is doesnt ob...
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Middle America History X
1,595 wordsI Hate Lima Beans! I hate lima beans! Mom, please dont make me eat those, theyre soo gross! kids say things like this all the time. Hate, it rolls off the tongue with ease; yet, we do not feel the power it brings. We learn hate at a young age, no matter what background we grow up in. From children of Klansmen to intercity father-less poor kids, and yes even to our seemly protected clean suburbs. Children are so impressionable; if mommy tells you to hate the niggers b / c theyre bringing our soci...
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Day Waiting Period Majority Of The Population
1,122 words? The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall. ? This quote was said by the ruler of Germany, Adolph Hitler, during the Edict of March 18, 1938. He realized that the people were violent, and allowing them to carry arms would be disastrous. Today, in America handgun violence is at an astronomical high. Statistics prove that...
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Quot Boxers Quot Society Of Harmonious Fists West
588 wordsAround 1900, after many years of succumbing to the superior military of the West, the Chinese stood up for their country. China was a weak, backwards, country, exploited by the West. They felt that they could counter the foreign domination, but reforms were useless because they needed the West to help with the reforms. But something sparked their confidence, and they believed themselves to be able to conquer any foreign power. This spark was the Society of Harmonious Fists, commonly known as &qu...
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