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United States Senate Missouri Compromise
926 wordsBy 1819, a heated controversy over whether or not Missouri was to be admitted to the Union as a slave state or as a free state was underway. Before Missouri's admission to the Union, there was an equal balance of free state and slave state senators in the United Sates Senate. If Missouri was to be admitted as a slave state without the admission of another free state, it would have upset the balance in the Senate. Not too long after the conflict over Missouri had begun, Maine had applied for stat...
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Fellow Cadets Rewarding Experience Camp
433 wordsBeing a cadet in Campbell Battalion has been a very rewarding experience but there are a few things that I would change. I think that the first thing I would do is to devise a more calibrated evaluation system like an ARTEP style system. We would still do blue cards but this would help evaluators in the evaluating process as well as give cadets a standard for training. The second thing I would do is to allow the less experienced cadets the chance to lead more often in military labs. Last year I ...
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Returned To New York Coleman Hawkins Jazz
1,070 words"I think he was the most interesting jazz musician I've ever seen in my life. He just looked so authoritative... I said, 'Well, that's what I want to do when I grow up. '" (Deveaux, 35) Cannonball Adderley said these words when he first saw Coleman Hawkins with the Fletcher Henderson band at the City Auditorium in Tampa, Florida. Just as Hawkins influenced one of the greatest alto players in history, he has influenced many people to become phenomenal saxophone players. Lester Young and Sonny Rol...
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Avant Garde Grove Dictionary
1,051 words... ed at the Golden Gate Ballroom, the Savoy, and the Apollo Theater. His dance band also toured some, but did not last long. Hawk resumed working in the small group genre in ' 41. The next two years he devoted to playing mostly in Chicago and the Midwest until retuning to New York in ' 43. Between the demise of his dance band in ' 40 and the three years following, Hawkins appeared in only one commercial recording session. However, in the thirteen months from December, 1943 and the end of ' 44,...
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Miles' Tone Jazz Music
561 wordsEven in the beginning he was already miles ahead. It's very evident that Miles knew and lived by that old axiom if it's named, then it's outmoded. Miles Dewey Davis was born May 25, 1926 in Alton, Illinois and grew up in East St. Louis. Miles collected records and for his 13 th birthday was given his first trumpet. By age 16, Miles was playing professionally and received his first real taste of what playing jazz was like when Billy Eckstine's band was traveling through and needed to replace a si...
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Cuban Jam Session Tenor Sax Cachao
1,370 wordsHis name is Israel Lopez, but he is known as Cachao. His real name is music though. Born into a family who were all bass crazy, at least thirty five members of the Cachao clan have played the double bass at one time or another, either with the Havana Filarmonica, or in popular combos. Some of them, like his older brother the late Orestes played with the Filarmonica under the baton of Eric Kleiber, formerly the conductor of the Berlin Opera Orchestra. Cachao was so young then that they had to bui...
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Closed Loop Control Learning A New Skill Juggling
1,121 wordsSkills are defined by psychologist E. R. Guthrie as the ability to bring about some end result with maximum certainty and minimum outlay of energy, or of time and energy. This project has made me appreciate the difficulties a learner faces in trying to acquire a new skill. Many factors affect a person's success in learning a new skill such as arousal level and visual tracking. Even after over twenty practices I never reached the final stage of learning. I have never attempted to juggle before an...
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Cross Dressing Sexual Arousal
1,342 wordsIntroduction Someone you know-any male close to you-could be having a secret "affair" behind closed doors and you may not even be aware of it. Not to worry, it may not involve another woman. This man may be having an affair with female clothing. If so, it is safe to say that this man is suffering from a transvestite fetish. What is a transvestite fetish? Transvestic Fetishism is a psychosexual disorder found mostly in men. To better understand this disorder, we must first look at the definition....
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Day To Day Literary Works
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Boo Radley Bob Ewell
939 wordsTo Kill A Mocking Bird deals with many primal and basic lessons in human nature. The book exposes many issues that affect most people throughout their lives. Scout, the main character was one of the most affected by these lessons. During the book she was exposed to many profound experiences, which no doubt will leave a lasting impression. In the three years that the book took place, she may have learned the most important things she will learn over her entire life. One person that affected Scout...
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Catholic Church Ecumenical Council
1,383 wordsStarting with the First Council of Nicaea in 325 the Catholic Church established a tradition of ecumenical Council meetings to help decide on and shape the future of the Church. The most recent Council, called Vatican II, is considered to be both the largest ever in scope and also the most ground breaking in the amount of change it yielded. The changes in doctrine, dogma and procedure they enacted had major effects both inside and outside the Catholic Church and continue to today. Before the Vat...
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Hundred Thousand Dollars State Supreme Court
1,490 wordsThe term Court Hierarchy is a very important word in the law world in modern society. Its definition gives a very clear and concise meaning to the law industry. The phrase can be split into two words to be easily dealt and understood. The word court is from a Greek derivative colors or cohort meaning courtyard or retinue. Its definition from the dictionary certainly portrays the law as a very important and distinguished practice. a. A person or body of persons whose task is to hear and submit a ...
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People Can Change Danny Is A Success Tom
1,010 wordsAt the conclusion of the novel Tom decides he is looking at success in Danny Is this an objective assessment, or does Tom need to think this? The conclusion of the novel portrays Danny at university working towards an established goal and most importantly - socialising. When compared to events such as Danny's attempted suicide, these final events surely show a remarkable improvement. Tom even goes so far as to say that he is looking at success; however it is important to acknowledge that Tom, hi...
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Business Ethics An Office Wide System
1,137 words... il ethics training programs to try to increase ethical behavior. Recent estimates indicate 33 % of companies provide some ethics training (Chappell 147). The primary debate is whether or not you can actually teach ethics. Critics stress that the effort is pointless since people establish their individual value system when they are very young. However, supporters note that several studies have found that values can be learned even after early childhood. Evidence shows that teaching ethical pr...
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Television Stations News Corp
1,025 wordsThe weekly periodical TV Guide needs to both create and market two new products, TV Guide On Screen, and TV Guide Online. These two new forms of the periodical should be worked on and made available to the consumer as soon as possible, as there are several companies working to undermine TV Guides dominance in the industry and are threatening to beat them to the new and informative mediums. Perhaps the most logical way to have the new products gain recognition is to heavily advertise through vari...
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Obsessive Compulsive Conditioned Stimulus
1,115 wordsCompare and Contrast Behavioural and Cognitive Approaches in the Management of Anxiety The Behavioural Model sees the cause of abnormality as the learning of maladaptive habits. It aims to discover, by laboratory experiment, what aspect of the environment produced this learning, and it sees successful therapy as learning new and more adaptive ways of behaving. There are two kinds of basic learning processes that exist: Operant and Pavlovian conditioning. These have generated a set of behavioural...
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Deaf And Dumb Nurse Ratched
1,281 wordsThis movie demonstrates much of what I despise about my fellow feeble-minded Americans. In this movie, I saw stereotypes galore, and almost every cliche in the book. For example, one voluntary patient is seeking therapy for his marital problems. It seems that he and his wife were having " sexual" problems. This ultimately leads everyone, patients and viewers alike, to believe that this man must be gay. As if this werent enough, we have to have the " blind-deaf-and-dumb-guy" ,...
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Hester And Pearl God And Man
1,561 wordsThe Transformation of the Reverend Master Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a classic novel that tells the story of two adulterers, except in this account, only one is punished publicly. The other, although just as guilty, is not exposed and therefore remains held in high esteem by the public eye. As the unknown guilty party, the Reverend Dimmesdale not only becomes a hypocrite, but on the inside, he is torn apart. As Dimmesdale becomes more and more distraught over his p...
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Nellc 244 Te Exile On Main Street Stones
798 wordsStoned on the Riviera Mick Jagger and Keith Richards by Dominique Tarl? Exile Dominique Tarl&execute; Genesis Publications? 245, pp 248 Early 1971 found the Rolling Stones still sucking on the sour, sticky end of the Sixties. Following the abdication of the Beatles, they were now rocks reigning monarchs, but after the death of Brian Jones (and those of Joplin and Hendrix), and in the aftermath of their personal Apocalypse Now at Altamont, the fancies of the previous decade looked suddenly remote...
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Scuba Diving Basic Principles
909 wordsThis Essay will illustrate some of the basic aspects of scuba diving. It will show the steps involved in assembling the scuba gear. The price range of scuba gear. The basic principles of diving, and were to go to get certified in scuba diving. It will also reveal some fun things that can be done while diving. The assembly of the scuba gear is very simple. First have your tank filled to the recommended amount of pressure (usually 3000 psi). Take the tank with the valve handle to the right, and se...
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