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American Indian Movement Washington D C
1,889 wordsAnna Mae Pictou Aquash, a Micmac Indian rights activist, was born on March 27, 1945 in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, the third daughter of Mary Ellen Pictou and Francis Thomas Levi. In 1949 her mother married Noel Super, the son and brother of traditional Micmac chiefs, and the family moved to Pictou's Landing where the family was raised in poverty. Anna lived in a house with no heat, water, or electricity and subsisted largely on the wild turnips and potatoes harvested by her family. Although Anna...
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Roaring Twenties Versailles Treaty
1,765 wordsThe decade of the 1920 s has been given a lot of nicknames. Some of these names have been the Jazz Age and the Era of Isolationism. Perhaps the most accurate name for this decade was the Roaring Twenties. And that is exactly what the decade of the 1920 s was all about. It was a time characterized on one side by a search for safety, religious certainty, business capitalism, and patriotic commitment. On the other side was the increasing appeal of the modern: new technology, consumer goods, and new...
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Discussing Waterlily Marriage And Dakota Life
600 wordsIn modern Euro-American culture, if a man were to simply mention the idea of buying a wife he would face certain ridicule and would be considered sexist. Wife buying is not a pc option in todays society as it stands in direct opposition to the mainstream idea of womens liberation and independence. That is not to say that it doesnt happen (remember the show Who wants marry a Millionaire? ) it is just to say that it is not overtly accepted. Waterlily, by Ella Cara Deloria, details the religious an...
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Men And Women South Dakota
1,469 wordsA Book Report: on The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw 2001. Tom Brokaw is hailing from South Dakota, graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in political science. He started his journalism career in Omaha and Atlanta before joining NBC News in 1966. During Watergate scandal investigation, Tom Brokaw was the White House correspondent for NBC news. He had anchored from 1976 to 1981 Today on NBC. Since 1983, he has been sole anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly news. Tom ...
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Ernest Van Den Haag Death Row Inmates
2,310 wordsImagine a man who commits murder once, is given a fifteen-year jail sentence and is returned to the streets where he kills again. He is imprisoned again only to be released. This could happen since almost one in ten death row inmates has been convicted of murder at least once. That means that some death row inmates have been given more than one chance to rehabilitate in prison and continue to commit violent crimes. Should the United States justice system continue to let violent criminals back on...
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Blue Bird Star Elk Dakota
360 wordsWaterlily by Ella Cara Deloria Mn. History 2 - 3 - 97 Waterlily is a book based on the events that happen within a particular Dakota Indian family's life. Not only does it depict the affairs of blue Birds life and her family, but it documents the rituals and culture of the Dakota people. With illustrative words and graphic details, the incidences within the story can be visualized and understood. The story begins with the occurrences that take place with a certain individual, Blue Bird. Blue Bir...
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Hall Of Fame Roger Maris
811 wordsRoger Maris is probably one of baseball? s most misunderstood baseball heroes. Still now after almost 40 years Maris has still not achieved his rightful place in baseball history, the Baseball Hall of Fame. Roger Maris has had a picture-perfect life starting in Hibbing, Minnesota to where he grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. His young life was marked with athleticism. He excelled at many sports not just baseball. Roger was affluent in football and track among others. His baseball career began with...
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Health Care Reform Luke
1,562 wordsIntroduction The Fargo, North Dakota healthcare market is served by many different physicians and hospitals. This area includes an eastern North Dakota and a portion of western Minnesota. St. Luke? s Hospital and the Fargo Clinic are both major players in this region. St. Luke? s was a community not-for-profit hospital, and the Fargo Clinic was two separate for-profit corporations. Until recently, they have been operating as separate entities. In 1986, they formed a partnership and proceeded to ...
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Compulsive Gamblers Lottery Tickets
1,345 wordsHow Does Gambling Effect Society? Its just another Saturday night in just about any common town in America. The family sits around the television discussing how much money the twenty tickets in their hands are going to make them. The jackpot is fourteen million. Before the numbers have been shown, the family discusses how to spend the money and how much better their lives are going to be after they win the money. Then finally, the moment of truth. The numbers come across the screen. The first on...
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U S Census Bureau South Dakota
400 wordsSOUTH DAKOTAN SMOKERS: AGES 18 AND OLDER By Karen Kezar A Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for MA 211: Business Statistics Dr. R. L. Freese, Instructor National American University Sioux Falls Campus August 7, 2001 INTRODUCTION Smoking is a great concern in our society. Smoking is a danger to not only the smokers? health but also those around him or her. It is hard to spend a day in public without seeing someone smoking. Is this amount of smoking as common in the rest...
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World War Ii North Dakota
5,271 wordsFredrick C. Stern A Biographical Sketch of Thomas McGrath THOMAS McGRATH WAS born in 1916, the oldest son of James and Catherine (Shea) McGrath. There were four younger brothers, Jim (killed in World War II), Joe, Martin, and the youngest, Jack. His sister Kathleen was born between Joe and Martin. His parents were farmers, the second generation of them, working the land in Ransom County, North Dakota, near the town of Sheldon, about forty miles west of the Minnesota border, between the Maple and...
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Iron Ore Tall Grass
1,804 wordsMinnesota, state in the north central United States, south of Canada and west of Wisconsin. Its total area is 225, 181 sq km (86, 943 sq mi). The state name comes from a Sioux word meaning cloudy water, first applied to the Minnesota River. Minnesota is known as the Gopher State; no one is sure why. It is also called Land of 10, 000 Lakes and in fact contains 15, 000. The capital is Saint Paul. II. Physical Geography Most of Minnesota has been shaped by glaciers. The northeastern part of the sta...
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Millions Of Americans Roaring Twenties
3,605 words? The Year Was 1925? By The decade of the 1920? s has been given a lot of nicknames. Some of these names have been the? Jazz Age? and the? Era of Isolationism. ? Perhaps the most accurate name for this decade was the? Roaring Twenties. ? And that is exactly what the decade of the 1920? s was all about. It was a time characterized on one side by a search for safety, religious certainty, business capitalism, and patriotic commitment. On the other side was the increasing appeal of the? modern? : ne...
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Minimum Drinking Age Years Of Age
651 wordsIn 1987, the power of the 21 st Amendment of the Constitution was in question by South Dakota and the State Secretary of Transportation (1983 - 87), 1 Elizabeth Dole. The 21 st Amendment declares that states have complete control over production, sale, and transportation of alcohol and that liquor importation and sale are no longer prohibited among states of the US (since the prohibition law of the 18 th Amendment). However, a federal law states that in order for a portion of federal highway fun...
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T Rex South Dakota
711 wordsSue is the largest, most complete, and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex. Fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson discovered her in 1990, in the badlands of South Dakota. The Field Museum purchased Sue at public auction in 1997 with generous financial support from McDonald s Corporation, Walt Disney World Resort, and private individuals. Sue s scientific name is Tyrannosaurus rex, which is from the Greek and Latin for tyrant lizard king. Sue s is from the late Cretaceous period and is 67 million years. Sue...
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