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Hudson Bay Company Louis Riel
934 wordsWhen people hear the name Louis Riel, some fill up with anger, others fill up with a thankful sense of happiness, like me and my grandfather for example. Louis was Metis, this was the product of a Voyageur and Indian women having a child. The Metis were famed for their hunting and tracking abilities and were often employed individuals or groups as guides or interpreters. Their farming tradition had its roots in the Red River settlement of Manitoba. Following the massive exodus into Saskatchewan,...
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Friend Of Dr Jekyll
620 words1. Name of Book? The name of the Book is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 2. Author of Book? The author is Robert Louis Stevenson. 3. Setting? The setting took place in London England in the year (1885 and 1886). 4. Identify the theme of your Book. According to the author every person has good and bad inside of him. There is a continuous battle between the two forces, when the bad force won Dr. Jekyll committed suicide which is a lesson for us to keep the good force always on the outside and inside of u...
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Kings Park Psychiatric Center
1,094 wordsThe Kings Park Psychiatric Center has had a large effect on the social changes of Long Island. A small town grew larger and prosperous from the direct effect of this State hospital from the time of 1885 to the present. The history of the town, the patients and court cases held, and the concluding plans for the land after its closing have all had a significant mark on the social changes of the town. The first hospital was built in a quiet farming town later named Kings Park. In 1885, officials of...
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Henry Ford Auto Industry
1,026 wordsThe first internal combustion engine was built in 1860 by Etienne Lenoir in France, but it ran on illuminating gas and was quite different from the modern engine. In 1876, Nikolous Otto patented in Germany the four-stroke gasoline engine type used today in most cars. Karl Benz's first automobile had a mid-mounted engine with semi-elliptical leaf-spring suspension in the rear and none in the front. It had a tiller for steering. The engine was a 1. 7 -liter one-cylinder unit that put out 1. 5 hors...
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How Democratic Was Britain By 1914
973 wordsIn a democracy, there should be a vote for all adults and voters should be able to cast their votes without fear. The country should be divided into equal constituencies and anyone should be able to stand as an M. P. The government should be by the elected representatives of the people elections should be held regularly. In order to ascertain whether Britain was democratic by 1914 it is necessary to examine whether these features were in place at that date. One of the most important features of ...
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Theoretical Physics Quantum Theory
491 wordsMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Plank was born on April 23, 1858. Plank was born in Kiel, Schleswig, but spent most of his childhood in Munich. Him and his family moved there the spring of 1867 when he was nine years old. Max's family included his mother, Emma Patzig, and his father, Johann Julius Wilhelm von Plank. Both of his parents were very intelligent. His father was a professor of law at Kiel and both his grandfather and great-grandfather were professors of theology at Gottingen. Max's very well li...
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One Man And One Woman Homosexual Couples
1,101 words... ty is not normal behavior. Homosexual activists are asking us to normalize strange behavior, even though, by definition, it just can't be done. And we are being asked to believe that same-sex marriages will bring every group in society closer together. Ah yes, and we will all go off into the sunset with birds singing, with no more wars and no more hatred, because homosexual couples can now marry each other. Isn't the traditional view of marriage religious in nature? And if so, doesn't the re...
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20 Th Century Van Gogh
1,353 words... and atmosphere. Finally, living as a solitary in Aix rather than alternating between the south and Paris, C'elaine moved into his late phase. Now he concentrated on a few basic subjects: still lifes of studio objects built around such recurring elements as apples, statuary, and tablecloths; studies of bathers, based upon the male model and drawing upon a combination of memory, earlier studies, and sources in the art of the past; and successive views of the Mont Sainte-Victoire, a nearby land...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Reader Is Told
829 wordsThe Presence of Racism In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn There is a major argument among literary critics whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is or is not a racial novel. The question comes down to the depiction of the character Jim, the black slave, and the way he is treated by Huck and other characters. The use of the word nigger is also a point raised by some critics, who feel that Twain uses the work too much and too loosely. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn migh...
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George B Mcclellan Concern For His Fellow Man Life
629 wordsGeorge B. McClellan The Disposable Patriot George B. McClellan, The Disposable Patriot by Micheal J. McHugh recounts the struggles of the young Napoleon, George B. McClellan, as he lived out his life. George B. McClellan lived a long and fulfilling life in both the military and politics, and still had a good loving christian family. Through out the book George B. McClellan is determined to live his life for the Lord. George B. McClellan came from a well-to-do family. His father was a Doctor, whi...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Twain
658 wordsName Teacher class date Opinion on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel that will continue to be read for many years to come. Why? This novel has many themes that relate to society today and also did when it was written. There is still talk about whether this book should be read amongst students because society still deals with racism, and this book effecting African Americans. Ever since its publication in 1885, it has been subject to co...
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Harry S Truman President Of The United States
968 words1. Harry S. Truman Biography 1. Date of Birth &# 038; Birth Place Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. 2. Childhood John A. Truman sold and bought livestock form a lot adjacent to their house when Harry was first born. When Harry was ten months old the Truman's sold their house and stockton to move to Harrisonville, Missouri. From Harrisonville they moved to Belton, then to Grandview, and finally settled in Independence, Missouri when Harry Truman was six years old. Presid...
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Helen Hunt Jackson Jackson
1,066 wordsA Century Of Dishonor, a Triumph or Tragedy? The author Helen Hunt Jackson had hoped for a triumph over the mistreatment, abuse, and mainly the deaths of seemingly innocent Native Americans with her novel, A Century Of Dishonor. However, when the hard cold reality set in, her novel was merely a small tragedy in the battle for the Native Americans that sadly went unnoticed. ? What treaty that the whites ever made with us red men have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world....
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Point Of View Nineteenth Century
512 wordsHenry James was one of the great American literary critics, but James was better known as a novelist and short-story writer (Magill 750). In the nineteenth century James was considered to be an important and influential writer. James s writing career has been separated into three phases. The first phase of James s career was from 1875 to 1885. This phase begins with the story Madame de Mauves. In this story James shows how different the American and European cultures are compared to one another....
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
332 wordsHuckleberry Finn Should Not Be Banned If Mark Twain was alive today, he would probably be appearing at libraries and in online chat rooms during Banned Books Week to discuss the fate of his own books. He certainly deserves recognition for the number of times his books have been challenged or banned in the past 112 years ever since Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885 and immediately banned by the Concord, Massachusetts, Public Library. In some ways, not much has changed since 188...
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Washington D C Museum Of Fine Arts
1,464 wordsRecognized as the leading portraitist in England and the United States at the turn of the century, John Singer Sargent was acclaimed for his elegant and very stylish depictions of high society. Known for his technical ability, he shunned traditional academic precepts in favor of a modern approach towards technique, color and form, thereby making his own special contribution to the history of grand manner portraiture. A true cosmopolite, he was also a painter of plain air landscapes and genre sce...
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Marshall Field Wholesale Marshall Field Wholesale Store Design
549 wordsThe Chicago School marks the beginning of a new development in architecture. Based on the earlier Victorian models, from about 1885 great commercial structures are built with new designs and new construction techniques. During these later years Richardson produced the buildings upon which his reputation principally rests. He designed houses, community libraries, suburban railroad stations, educational buildings, and commercial and civic structures. Instead of the splintered massing, narrow verti...
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Protestant Church Home Rule
756 wordsGladstones mission to pacify Ireland was essentaillyan attempt to achieve a just relationship between landlord and tenant and grant Ireland certain independence. He attempted to succeed in his conquest with the introduction of several Land Acts (1870 - 1881) and the disestablishment of the Protestant Church (1869). The first Land At was passed in 1870, following the Fenian uprising of 1867. This act legalized the Ulster Custom of fair rent, free sale and fixity of tenure in areas where it operat...
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French And English Rest Of Canada
1,112 wordsQuebec has Quebec Quebec Separation Quebec has always been trying to maintain it s cultural identity. The path that led to separatism is long and winding one. The French saw Confederation as the only solution in 1867. They needed Confederation to remain in control of their own language, religion and way of life. The paradox of the situation was that they also fully understood that they would always be the minority in Canada and that as more regions joined Confederation, the situation would be co...
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Middle Class Main Street
317 wordsLewis, (Harry) Sinclair (1885 - 1951), American novelist, whose naturalistic style and choice of subject matter was much imitated by later writers. He replaced the traditionally romantic and complacent conception of American life with one that was realistic and even bitter. Lewis was born in Sauk Center, Minnesota, on February 7, 1885, and was educated at Yale University. From 1907 to 1916 he was a newspaper reporter and a literary editor. In Main Street (1920) Lewis first developed the theme th...
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