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Lewis And Clark Meriwether Lewis
1,353 words
In the early hours of October 11, 1806, while
en-rout to Washington to defend himself against
accusations made on him in accordance to the
financial decisions made by him as goober of the
Louisiana territory, Meriwether Lewis shot himself
in the head with his own pistol at Natchez Trace.
1 However, the ball only grazed his skull. Of
course, after doing so he fell to the floor in
pain. After this, Lewis drew his second pistol,
and shot himself in the chest, this passing
through his body and exiti...
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Eighteenth Amendment Labor Unions
1,389 words
... , perhaps the largest social conflict over
Prohibition occurred with the working classes and
labor unions: central to the support of
Prohibition was the idea that alcohol and
alcoholism caused working class poverty. Labor
unions, on the other hand, tended to think the
reverse that alcoholism was a result of working
class poverty. Instead of eliminating alcohol in
the hope that it would improve the conditions of
the working, labor forces hoped to improve working
conditions and worker standing...
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Jim Crow Cash Crop
1,183 words
... from hemp (8). Hempseed oil can also be used
for lighting, and was at one time, the most
popular fuel of choice for this purpose.
Futuristic US citizens, such as Henry Ford,
envisioned a nation powered by organic, renewal
Bio Mass Energy derived from hemp. Its demise was
realized as the large monopolies were negotiating
their rise to power (8). So how did this gift from
God, this plant that served as legal currency
become illegal? Why? Many factors came together,
which eventually ended up ya...
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Achieve This Goal Letter Of Credit
1,180 words
By the late 1700 's, the young United States began
to look westward and dream about the possibilities
it presented. They wondered if there was in fact
an all water route from the Mississippi to the
Pacific, what the whole continent actually looked
like, and really, what was out there. There were
many individual and groups of people that helped
pave an opening for the eventual settlement of the
American west. Two of the most recognizable and
important groups that opened up the west were the
Lewis...
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Agamemnon Was Destined Justice As Revenge Orestes
1,309 words
The Oresteia trilogy consists of three closely
connected plays. In Agamemnon, the great Greek
King of that name comes home after the long war;
they are victorious over the Trojans. Unbeknownst
to him, his wife Clytaemnestra has been plotting
his death with her lover Aegisthus. Clytaemnestra
feels this act is just because she is avenging the
death of her daughter Iphigenia, whom Agamemnon
sacrificed before he left for Troy to have a
speedy journey. The Libation Bearers is the second
play of The O...
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High School Students Distribution Of Condoms
685 words
In the essay Condom Availability promotes Health,
Saves Lives, by Margaret Pruitt Clark, she states
high school health clinics should make condoms
available to all of their students upon student
requests. Schools providing condoms to students
have many advantages. It has brought communities
together in awareness of teen intercourse. Condom
distribution also educates young adults on the
danger of unprotected sex and it has received
great support from cities all over the country.
This paper will f...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Frontal Lobes
1,231 words
... n of responsibility for keeping the household
running smoothly and meeting the needs of the
children, the spouse with ADD, and, if he or she
has time, his or her own priorities. Raising a
child who has ADD can be an exhausting and, at
times, frustrating experience. Parents play a key
role in managing the disability. They usually need
specialized training in behavior management and
benefit greatly from parent support groups.
Parents often find that approaches to raising that
work well with ch...
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War Of 1812 Lewis And Clark
894 words
There were many changes taking place in the US
around the year 1800. The frontier land was
constantly being pushed back by new settlements
and would contribute to the history of slavery and
African Americans. Louisiana was purchased in 1803
and freedom-loving young settlers as well as
successful cotton plantation masters moved west to
try and exploit the unsettled land. This conflict
was complicated by the Industrial revolution and
development of the cotton gin which only promoted
the use of sla...
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Degrees Fahrenheit Specialty Coffee
1,789 words
For many people coffee is just a drink that acts
as an alternative to tea or soda pop. For others,
coffee is necessary for survival to help them stay
awake during long meetings, and for some, coffee
is an art that requires much planning and high
efforts are made to maintain its best quality. In
any case, coffee must travel through a complicated
process before it reaches ones cup. Coffee beans
come from a tropical evergreen shrub, which grow
as high as 100 feet, although it is usually kept
much s...
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Civil Rights Movement Majority Of The People
1,493 words
... e power of the strong central government in
supporting the majority unbiased part of the
American culture. Kennedy also believed that
nobody should defy the federal government either.
Kennedy gave a speech to the nation both on
television and on radio at the same time in order
to inform the nation of the situation in
Mississippi. Theodore Wind did a written recording
of this speech. Wind recalls in his book Kennedys
speech in great detail. Kennedy began his speech
by stating the facts and gi...
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Custodial Parent Child Support
1,736 words
Statistically, in our world today, half of all
marriages will end in divorce. About fifty-percent
of our population will also live in a stepfamily
environment. In other words, more than half of the
American families today, are now or eventually
will be in involved in one or more stepfamily
situations during their life according to the U.
S. Census Bureau in 1990. The "U. S. Bureau
decided to discontinue providing estimates of
marriage, divorce, and remarriage, except for
those that are available...
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Social Inequality Poverty Throughout The United States
1,115 words
Social Inequality - Poverty throughout the United
States ABSTRACT Being the only remaining
superpower in the world, it is difficult to
imagine that extreme poverty still exists in the
United States. How can the country that boasts of
Hollywood, Broadway, Disneyland, Las Vegas
casinos, Beverly Hills, and Rodeo Drive have
millions of destitute and homeless people? Indeed,
what most people see is the hedonistic,
devil-may-care attitude characterizing the
American lifestyle, which to an outsider app...
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4 Th Ed Drop Out Of School
888 words
For hundreds of years, English has been
continuously changing. Words that were
unacceptable 300 years ago are now commonplace.
English has always had a trademark of being a
comfortable language, the language of the common
people (MacNeil 143). Change in the grammar and
diction of a language is natural, and English is
always confronted with changes. Among them are the
use of slang, clipped word endings, and new
dialects. Some Conservatives do not like changes
because they claim that standard Engl...
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18 Th Century Failure
2,346 words
English Property Rights Vs. French Peasant Farming
English Property Rights Vs. French Peasant Farming
& Productivity The view that England? s
advantage in terms of agricultural productivity
was related to its system of property rights and
agrarian institutions is far from new. ? It was
Arthur Young in the late 18 th century that
famously cited enclosure as the major factor in
the differing levels of agricultural productivity
the two countries. ? To Young big was beautiful
and the agglomerate...
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Freud Theory Sigmund Freud
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Freud? s Seduction Theory During 1895 - 1896
Sigmund Freud practiced psychoanalysis by
listening to his women patients weave cryptic
trails down memory lane, as well as trying to
decipher them. What he uncovered was that
something awful and violent lay in their past. The
majority of psychiatrists in this era would have
deemed their patient as a hysterical liar,
dismissing their memories as fantasy. Freud
strayed from the norm in the sense that he
believed that these women were telling the
truth....
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Real Estate Agent Father
1,776 words
Author: Mary Higgins Clark Number of Pages: 318
Publication Date: 1997 Summary Pretend You Don? t
See Her is one of my favorite murder mysteries
that I have ever read. My favorite part of this
novel is that the ending is very unpredictable.
This story started out when a real estate agent in
New York, Lacy Farrell, who was assigned to a new
client, Isabelle Waring. Isabelle's daughter,
Heather Landi, had died in the previous year and
it was Heathers apartment she decided to put on
the market. Isa...
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Commission Merchant Business Clark 038 Rockefeller Cleveland
386 words
On 18 March 1859 several months before his 20 th
birthday Rockefeller goes into business for
himself forming a partnership with a neighbor,
Maurice Clark. Each man put up $ 2000 and formed
Clark 038; Rockefeller commission merchants in
grain, hay, meats, and miscellaneous goods. At the
end of the first year of business, they had
grossed $ 450, 000 making a profit of $ 4400 in
1860 and a profit of $ 17, 000 in 1861. The
commission merchant business was very competitive
and Clark 038; Rockef...
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Goneril And Regan Thousand Acres
1,031 words
In William Shakespeare s King Lear and Jane Smiley
s A Thousand Acres, the reader will find that both
works use similar character types that mirror each
other to increase further the similarities and
meaning of the works. Perhaps no similarity is as
striking as that of the fathers. They share three
characteristics which bind them and make their
parallels unmistakable. The first, and most
obvious, is that they are both proprietors of a
large estate. King Lear s property consists of
England and La...
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Native Americans Political Correctness
1,366 words
Like so many other traditions, the burning of the
bruin was put on the chopping block recently. The
long running University of Southern California
spirit activity consisted of throwing a large
stuffed bear in a bon fire the night before the
football game against their rival, the University
of California at Los Angeles. The Black Student
Union and other student organizations recently
questioned the event. Their concern was that the
event too closely resembled past lynching of
African Americans in...
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Pp National Geographic Edward S Curtis West
1,146 words
Go west, young lady Edward S Curtis: Coming to
Light Anne Makepeace 216 pp, National Geographic
Sacagawea's Nickname Larry McMurtry 178 pp, NYRB I
Dwell in Possibility Donna M Lucey 256 pp,
National Geographic Phoebe Ann Mosey doesnt figure
in I Dwell in Possibility, a history of women who
built the United States: no mugshot, no mention,
not even under her arena name of Annie Oakley.
Likewise left out is Sacagawea, or however you
spelled her Shoshone name; she bore a son and
carried him on her b...
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