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Tennessee Valley Tennessee River
722 words
In 1933, Congress created the Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) as a federal corporation. TVA was
perhaps the most original and broad reaching
program to come from FDR's 'New Deal' to put
America back on its feet. The TVA was created to
improve and develop the Tennessee River Basin
which reached across 7 states in the South '... an
act to improve the navigability and to provide for
the flood control of the Tennessee River; to
provide for reforestation and the proper use of
marginal lands in the T...
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Trail Of Tears And The Five Civilized Tribes
1,042 words
Trial of Tears and the Five Civilized Tribes
During the early years of 1800 s, valuable gold
deposits were discovered in tribal lands, which by
previous cessions had been reduced to about seven
million acres in northwest Georgia, eastern
Tennessee, and southwest North Carolina. In 1819
Georgia appealed to the U. S. government to remove
the Cherokee from Georgia lands. When the appeal
failed, attempts were made to purchase the
territory. Meanwhile, in 1820 the Cherokee
established a governmental ...
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Played A Big Sugar Cane
958 words
Despite the horror of the word slavery we have to
admit that slaves have played a big role in rising
big empires. For example the Egyptians used slaves
to build their majestic pyramids, the Chinese and
Indian used slaves for large-scale construction
and agricultural and the Hebrews also used slaves.
Slaves were brought from Africa to the British
American colonies to work in agriculture and
farming, which among other factors made the
British colonies in America become so strong and
prosperous. Th...
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George Washington Carver Booker T Washington
582 words
George Washington Carver was a good innovator and
developed many useful agricultural products.
Carver worked with many agricultural and plants.
He went to a good college and worked and studied
at one. George lived a plantation life in Missouri
and studies in Kansas. Carver won awards and had a
statue in his honor. The stories of his childhood
and his mother will be stated. This information
will be presented in this paper. George Washington
Carver was born in 1861 near Diamond Grove,
Missouri. Di...
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Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases
827 words
Carbon dioxide is a gas comprising less than 0. 04
% of the atmosphere. It is used by plants to make,
directly or indirectly, all of the food that we
eat. Increases in the concentration of carbon
dioxide generally increase the growth rate of
plants and decrease their water use. The
concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
is increasing, mostly as a result of burning of
coal, oil, gas and forests. Its concentration may
double by the end of the next century. Carbon
dioxide also significan...
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Chinese Communist Party Great Leap Forward
855 words
The Little Red Book written by one of China's most
influential characters of the 20 th century, Mao
Zedong. His folly known as the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution caused a tragic period for the
Chinese people and the nation itself. As a child,
Mao Zedong had a dream to become a leader of his
own country, China. Although he was born into a
poor family, it did not prevent him from
accomplishing his dreams. Without his existence,
there would not be a People's Republic of China.
We cannot, of ...
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North And South Parts Of The Country
1,585 words
There were numerous issues that led to the
American Civil War, including were significant
differences in political views between the North
and the South. Moreover, the two sections were
totally different socially, and had disparate
economies. However, all of these differences and
the problems that resulted were a direct result of
slavery. Indeed, it was because of slavery that
the Civil War was fought. By analyzing issues on
local and national levels through the "Valley of
the Shadow Project" wh...
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Parent Company News Coverage
1,305 words
In this book report, the book that I read was The
Media Monopoly, the Fifth Edition. This book was
written by Ben H. Bagdikian, who is a Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist and dean emeritus of the
Graduate School of Journalism at the University of
California, Berkeley. Bagdikian originally
published this book in 1983. Author Bagdikian
explores the way in which the media functions. His
particular area of interest is the way in which
the media is controlled. His exploration details
various forms of...
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Industrial Revolution Agricultural Revolution
829 words
There are many similarities between the industrial
revolution and the technological revolution that
is still progressing as I write this paper. These
similarities range from rapid growth to that it is
improving ways of life, or is it? The
technological revolution would have not even begun
if the industrial revolution didnt occur. Because
after the industrial revolution, people thought
that they had invented everything that they needed
so they looked to science to improve their lives
even more th...
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Social Security Act Public Works Projects
1,055 words
The 1930 s were one of the most difficult times in
American history. It was the time of the Great
Depression. Millions of Americans suffered
hardships as the economy continued to be in a free
fall. Many Americans were unemployed and lost
almost everything they had owned. In 1932, America
realized it was time for a change, and elected
Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a landslide vote.
Roosevelt promised to help end the depression and
with his New Deal. The New Deal was Roosevelt's
plan to end the Gre...
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Coastal Plains North Carolina
860 words
The coastal plains of North Carolina is
characterized by flat land, wide rivers, beautiful
and diverse ecology and rich agricultural soils,
however many environmental pollutants are defiling
this fragile ecosystem. There are several factors
that are associated with the destruction of the
coastal plains ecosystem, but there is one factor
that stands out more than all the others. The
major source of pollution that is threatening
eastern North Carolina's ecosystems is industrial
swine farming. Swin...
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Mccormick Harvesting Machine Mccormick Harvesting Machine Company Time
623 words
The mechanical reaper. A time-saving invention
which allowed farmers to more than double their
crop size while at the same time spurring other
innovations in farm machinery. This reaper, which
combined all the steps that earlier harvesting
machines had performed separately, was the
brilliant innovation of a man, a man named Cyrus
Hall McCormick. Born in Rockbridge County,
Virginia, Cyrus was son to a man who's imagination
also boggled with new inventions. As a child,
Cyrus experimented with diff...
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American Civil War World War Ii
1,161 words
Throughout American History, there has always been
a directUcorrolation between the level of internal
and external violence Uin our society, and the
relative strength of our economy. NoU process
illustrates this better than that by which
warUstrengthens our economy. We live in a society
which thrivesUon wartime, one in which external
conflict only makes us strongerUeconomically. One
of the best examples of this aggressive economics
byU which America thrives are the conditions by
which AmericaUre...
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8 Th Century Century Bc
1,161 words
Judaism, the religious culture of the Jews, claims
over fourteen million followers throughout the
world. It is the oldest living religion in the
Western world. Historically, Judaism served as the
model for Christianity and Islam, the other two
great monotheistic religions, which together with
Judaism claims half the world s population as
followers. The basic source of Jewish belief is
the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament by
Christians) especially its first five books called
the Torah or th...
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Great Leap Forward Standard Of Living
1,289 words
Mao vs. Deng Chinas transition from the leadership
under the iron fist of Mao Zedong to the more
liberal Deng Xiao Ping gave the Peoples Republic a
gradual increase in economic freedom while
maintaining political stability. During Mao's
regime, the country focused on bolstering and
serving the community, while subsequently
encumbering individual growth and prosperity. Deng
advocated a more capitalist economic ideology,
which established China as an economic force in
the global community while en...
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14 Th Century Middle Ages
700 words
The Middle Ages brought forth many inventions.
Most inventions, however, were actually invented
by workers / smiths as opposed to scientists.
Millers invented waterwheels and wind mills to use
for energy. Inventions such as the water pump and
the wheel barrel also came about in the Middle
Ages. In the 13 th century glass workers ground
lenses to make spectacles. True clocks were
invented during the Middle Ages (before that
people used sundials which relied on the sun).
Sometime during the 14 th ...
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Population Growth Rate Purchasing Power Parity
703 words
Population growth rate: Psy paper Russia
Population growth rate: - 0. 33 % (1999 est. )
Birth rate: 9. 64 births/ 1, 000 population (1999
est. ) Death rate: 14. 96 deaths/ 1, 000
population (1999 est. ) Natural resources: wide
natural resource base including major deposits of
oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic
minerals, timber note: formidable obstacles of
climate, terrain, and distance hinder exploitation
of natural resources Natural hazards: permafrost
over much of Siberia is a major i...
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Rapid Population Growth Population Density
586 words
There are 6 billion human beings on the face of
the Earth. According to our best estimates, there
are somewhere between three and seven times more
people than this planet can possibly maintain over
a long period of time. Non-renewable resources are
being used at an incredible rate, and we are
destroying the capability of the planetary
ecosystem to renew the supply of renewable
resources. The worse however is yet to come. We
need to realize the necessity of a population plan
which will make our f...
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Development Of Nuclear University Of California
1,850 words
Should Resisting The Introduction Of A New Should
Resisting The Introduction Of A New Technology Be
Seen As Anti-Progressive Should a group resisting
the introduction of a specific technology be seen
as anti-progress? Why? Support your argument with
one or more examples of disputes about
technological developments. Technology has been
defined as the application of science to
production, by Webster s Third New International
Dictionary, this definition for the sake of this
argument is too narrow. ...
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Spare Parts Human Cloning
831 words
Is cloning Cloning 5 Cloning Is cloning ethical?
the majority of the world would say no but the
medical research possibilities associated with it
are endless. In 1997 when Dolly the lamb was born
we began to think, wow if it s possible toulon an
animal why not a human in the future? It soon
became known that it was possible and people were
horrified at the thought of an organism being
created by a human being. 90 % of Americans polled
within the first week that the Dolly news broke,
thought that...
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