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  • Summary of the First Ten Ammendmants

    Summary of the First Ten Ammendmants

    Article I. - The Legislative Branch Section 1 - The Legislature This Section states that all legislative (bills, vetos, ect.) powers belong to congress and its branches. Section 2 - The House This section states that The House of Represenative should be voted for every two years and meet the following qualifications: 25 years or older Seven year Citizen At time of being elected live in elected state It also describes the House's right to

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Jessica
  • American Literature

    American Literature

    Literature has been a huge part of American Culture dating back to the beginning of the United States. Over the years, literature has emerged and each movement has different qualities that make them different from each other and set them apart from each other. Each and every movement of American Literature has its own qualities and pieces that stick out from the crowd. From the New England Renaissance to the Contemporary Movement, American Literature has

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Will American Education Crash?

    Will American Education Crash?

    Will American Education Crash? Like the stock market, American education has its ups and downs. Unfortunately, today American education is coming closer and closer to crashing. If the stock market crashes people lose millions of dollars. If American education crashes the country will lose millions of intelligent young minds. Just as if a stock holder was to make poor choices, people everywhere today are making bad choices with how students across America are being taught.

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Monika
  • Comparison of Treatments of Native Americans in the East and West

    Comparison of Treatments of Native Americans in the East and West

    East of the Mississippi Early European colonists that came to North America found a sparsely inhabited coastline which gave them opportunities to settle and succeed where others had previously failed. Since many of the pilgrims were in search of religious freedom they saw a land their god had prepared for them by wiping out the natives through pestilence and disease. The fact is that the plague of disease that wiped out more than 90% of

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Criticisms of First Past the Post (fptp) System

    Criticisms of First Past the Post (fptp) System

    In what ways has First Past the Post been criticised? In Britain our voting system is called First Past the Post (FPTP). The UK is split into 646 different constituencies and each constituency elects a single MP to enter the House of Commons. The candidate with the highest number of votes automatically wins whether they have more than 50% of the votes or not. The party that forms the government however is not decided by

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Steve
  • Mexican Americans

    Mexican Americans

    Mexicans immigrated to the United States back in the 1800’s (Stanford, 2006). During 1848 the United States took over a part of Mexico which is now the Southwest (Stanford, 2006). Mexicans living in these areas were Mexican citizens before the acquisition. The United States even went into agreements with Mexico to have Mexicans work in the United States. Mexicans were treated with cruelty, while working the agriculture fields for years. The United States made several

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Anna
  • The American Apocalypse

    The American Apocalypse

    In spite of its critically cherished commitment to post-modern ambiguity, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America unapologetically weaves a through-line of stark apocalyptic imagery into its eighties Reaganite tapestry of failed ideological narratives and corrupt American realpolitik. There are cainite markings, divine plagues, holes in the ozone-layer, a demonic Roy Cohn; lest we forget the descending angel and naught-prophetic Prior, for whom the impending Armageddon is strictly personal. The forbearer of all this doom and gloom

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Yan
  • The First Societies

    The First Societies

    Paleolithic, in Greek means “old age of the stone" which consumed 99% of humanities existence. Small groups or tribes of people were clumped together, no more than 25 to 50 people per community. All tribes were nomads, and they mastered the ways of hunting and gathering to survive. Everybody was nomadic so not much time was spent on their shelters. All tribes also were about at the same level technologically using; stone hand axes and

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • Genesis of Contemporary Russian-American

    Genesis of Contemporary Russian-American

    Genesis of Contemporary Russian-American Anton Gurov En 102-6: Wasilko May 12, 2004 Final Paper In the 1990s the United States of America was marked with an incredible surge of immigration from the territories of former Soviet Union. “Liberated” йmigrйs decided to take a chance, leaving everything they had behind in pursuit of a better life. They brought with them education, numerous skills and talents. Their difficulties, however, including a foreign language, their age and

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Victor
  • American Religious Movements

    American Religious Movements

    American Religious Movements: Fundamentalism and Its’ Influence on Evangelicalism American fundamentalism and American evangelicalism seem to go hand in hand. Evangelicalism and fundamentalism both stress life based on the bible, repentance, and a personal relationship with God. No one would deny the massive influence that fundamentalism had on evangelicalism or the similarities between the two. Although some historians would suggest that evangelicalism was experiential and sectarian while fundamentalism was conservative and anti-modernist, it is clear

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Yan
  • American History X

    American History X

    This movie begs to the viewer to think about the views of black and white. With the issues raised in this movie, one must write it down to get the full effect of all that is going on in this movie. One of the ideas in this movie is to show that a person, who can see both sides of an issue, can make better decisions based on that knowledge. That is the key to

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Victor
  • American Parenting (and the Beng Too!)

    American Parenting (and the Beng Too!)

    American Parenting (And The Beng Too!) Euro-Americans can be some crazy people. Let’s just put that out there in the first sentence shall we? No sense beating around the bush I always say. So, what are we (or they, I’d rather not be included sometimes) thinking when it comes to parenting? And how can we compare this to Beng society, which is written about in The Afterlife is Where We Come From by Alma Gottlieb?

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: regina
  • Obesity: An American Epidemic

    Obesity: An American Epidemic

    Obesity: An American Epidemic "Hello, Sir Welcome to Wendy's what can I get for you today? Yes I would like a Triple Cheese Burger with large fries and a large Dr. Pepper, Oh yeah and could I have that Biggie Sized." This is something that is heard all over the United States, everybody wants to have the biggest thing they can get. From our cars to our houses Americans want the biggest there is. Yup

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    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: regina
  • Industrial, French, and American Revolutions: Common Social Revolutions?

    Industrial, French, and American Revolutions: Common Social Revolutions?

    Throughout history there have been many important revolutions that have help to shape society as it is today. There are different causes, from political to religious, economic to social. Any revolution affects those in society, and creates changes for the people in the society. There are three important revolutions that took place in the late 18th century that changed the world for the better. The French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution all

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    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Yan
  • Response to American History

    Response to American History

    Response to “American History” The story “American History” by Judith Ortiz-Cofer is one that many people can relate to. It is not merely a Latina girl’s experiences with prejudice and growing up in New Jersey. The story rings true for many. In “American History,” Elena is a ninth grader at a large public school in Paterson, New Jersey. On this day, a cold gray November day, President Kennedy has been shot. The reader can see

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Wendy
  • American History

    American History

    The Act requires the CEO/CFO to certify They have reviewed the annual and quarterly reports Based on the officer's knowledge, the report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements not misleading Based on their knowledge the fairness of the financial statements and the financial information included in the quarterly reports, fairly represent the financial conditions and the results

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War

    The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War

    The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War H.W. Brands' book was a pretty solid read. It provided a different outlook on the Cold War, as it sought to show that it was not merely an American victory over "communism" and the Russians. There was far more to the Cold War than most Americans would care to admit, but Brands puts it out there for the reader to take in. Brands' purpose for writing

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Great American Poets

    Great American Poets

    Carter Revard and Joy Harjo are both well known Native American poets. They grew up fighting against racial discrimination, poverty, and all the common struggles that come along with life. Joy Harjo story is viewed as one that often involves some aspect of fear or negativity. Carter Revard’s story is depicted as often marked with troubles, but it also has a positive outcome or a sense of hope. Joy Harjo writes more metaphorically, while Revard

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The American Encounter with Buddhism

    The American Encounter with Buddhism

    Before reading “The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent” by Thomas A. Tweed I had no experience with Buddhism except for what I have seen in the movies and in the media. Seeing Buddhism through these different sources, it does not portray an accurate illustration of what the religion is truly regarding. Having little to no knowledge about the background of the religion makes reading this book both

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mikki
  • American Imperialism

    American Imperialism

    American Imperialism American Imperialism has been a part of United States history ever since the American Revolution. Imperialism is practice by which powerful nations or people seek to expand and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or peoples. Throughout the years there has been many instances where the Americans have taken over other people countries, almost every time we go into we have taken over a new piece of land. The Americas first taste

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • After the First Dealth

    After the First Dealth

    Terrorism is the usage of violence or mass destruction to gain political or religious ends. In the novel After the First Death the author Robert Cormier attempts to shape our response to terrorism. Cormier uses, characters as a tool, to shape the reader’s response towards terrorism. Cormier does this through fully laying out the characters’ emotions, thoughts, beliefs and the usuage of the plot. Since everybody show some emotion to something, emotions is something every

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Vika
  • American Coastal Settlements

    American Coastal Settlements

    The coastal settlements that was very different from the backcountry that is discussed in Chapter 14. This paper will discuss the idea of law that was enforced in practice opposed to the idea of a sheriff. The first idea would be to discuss the makeup of these regions. The makeup of the colonial backcountry is very different in comparison to the colonial settlements. There is a set of checks and balances that are able

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Nafta - North American Free Trade Agreement - Impact on the U.S., Canada and Mexico

    Nafta - North American Free Trade Agreement - Impact on the U.S., Canada and Mexico

    The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is one of the most influential and extensive treaties in the world and is the expansion of the legacy Canada-US Free Trade Agreement of 1988 (Private Rights, 2001, Mayer, 1998). The agreement governs the whole spectrum of North American trade and it history extends from hemispheric cooperation on the largest scale ever seen (Private Rights, 2001). NATFA is a treaty between Canada, Mexico and the United States and

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Americans Take Up Arms Against British Gov.

    Americans Take Up Arms Against British Gov.

    Short Essay The Americans were justified in taking up arms against the British government, They were not overreacting. Great Britain had taken away many rights that a human had. They were taking advantage of America and using it as a source to pay the debts from war. They were taxed very heavily but yet still they were not able to have any representation of the country which they were taxed by. Also Great Brittan had

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Analysis of American Reconstruction and the 14th Amendment

    Analysis of American Reconstruction and the 14th Amendment

    Analysis of American Reconstruction and the 14th Amendment Legal scholar Gene Healy has made a powerful argument in favor of abolishing the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. When a fair vote was taken on it in 1865, in the aftermath of the War for Southern Independence, it was rejected by the Southern states and all the border states. Failing to secure the necessary three-fourths of the states, the Republican party, which controlled Congress, passed

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Bred

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