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Local Culture Essays and Term Papers
Calvin CoolidgeOn August 2, 1923, was vacationing at his father\'s home at Plymouth,Vermont when one night he was awakened by the tragic news of Warren Harding\'s death. Harding ,who had been on a public speaking tour of the West, when his health began to deteriorate, tried poorly to alleviate the scandal that ...
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The Journey Of Lewis And ClarkMeriwether Lewis,
Lewis was a United States explorer and administrator. Lewis and
William Clark led an expedition to explore uncharted lands in America from
1804 to 1806. They traveled several thousand miles from St. Louis to
Pacific Ocean and back. Lewis was born near Charlottesville, ...
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Hong Kong, British dependency in eastern Asia, on the South China
Sea, bordered by China on the north. It is made up of many islands, a
portion of the mainland, and a considerable expanse of water surface. It
has a land area of 1076 sq km (415 sq mi). Despite its small size, Hong
Kong plays an important ...
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SocialismThe term is commonly used to refer both to an ideology--a
comprehensive set of beliefs or ideas about the nature of human society and its
future desirable state--and to a state of society based on that ideology.
Socialists have always claimed to stand above all for the values of equality,
social ...
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Ethnic Diversity In NigeriaThe inherent differences in Language, religion, and politics of the various nations found within Nigeria have contributed heavily to failed attempts in democracy and political turmoil in general. The ammount of ethnic variety found within the borders of Nigeria is both "dazzling and confusing." ...
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SwahiliThe name derives from an Arabic word , the plural of
sahel, which means coast. The are the descendants of the Arabs who came
to the East African coast and intermarried with the Local Bantu-speakers. Arab
traders sailed down to the coast on the north-east monsoon winds, between
November and ...
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Black And White - A Look At The Existance Of Racial DifferenAmerican tradition and culture is based around the concept of free speech. One can say what he likes, make any point he chooses, and express any opinion he desires in America. Anyone, from the homeless person, to the workingman, to the President of the United States himself is entitled to have an ...
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Abraham Lincoln 2Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, in Nolin Creek , Kentucky.
His father was Thomas Lincoln from virginia born january 6, 1778,and Nancy Hanks born February 5, 1784, they were married June 12, 1806.
He developed into a tall angular man had developed terrific stenghth
he could hold an ax ...
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Ovid The PoetNot exactly considered a "serious" poet or author, Publius Ovidius Naso, or Ovid as he is more commonly called, captured the spirit of Greek and Roman mythology in his most noted work The Metamorphoses. The stories told in this work are commonly thought of as not serious enough for adults. ...
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The Kalapalo Indiansof Central Brazil are one of a few surviving indigenous
cultures that is uniquely protected by a national reserve in lowland South
America. Through no effort of there own, they have been isolated artificially
from Brazilian social and economic influences that reach almost every other
Indian tribe ...
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AIDS And YouIntroduction:
AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a
sentence of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost one friend to
AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of
my friends has been profoundly altered by it. ...
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Hong Kong 2It’s March of 1997, and a political cartoonist who goes by the pen name “Zunzi”, sketches in a cafe in Hong Kong. Many Americans take this right for granted. Zunzi, however, is thankful that his newspaper is among the few that have avoided self-censoring as the Chinese take-over approaches, ...
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Brown Vs. Board Of EducationBrown v. Board of Education was a landmark case in the history of American education. There were several events and issues which led up to this critical event. From the 1892 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case, the precedent of "separate but equal" was set. This doctrine effected the school ...
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AustraliaHistory
The first people to live in were called Aborigines. They
migrated there about 40,000 years ago. The continent remained relatively
unknown by outsiders until the 17th century. The first Europeans to settle
were British convicts in 1788. They arrived at Botany Bay in ...
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Radio - Making Waves In AmericaRadio: Making Waves in America
Radio-wave technology is one of the most important technologies used by man. It has forever changed the United States and the world, and will continue to do so in the future. Radio has been a communications medium, a recreational device, and many other things to us. ...
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Kate Chopins The AwakeningThe novel opens on the Grand Isle, a summer retreat for the wealthy French Creoles of New Orleans. Leonce Pontellier, a wealthy New Orleans business man of forty years of age, reads his newspaper. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lebrun's parrot repeats phrases in English and French and her mockingbird sings in ...
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RealismI will be discussing two different perspectives in the literary movement called “”. I have chosen a great writer from both “Regionalism” and “Naturalism”, which are subcategories of . By choosing two writers, I will be able to compare and contrast the writings of each.
In the time that was being ...
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Gambling 2It is becoming a familiar scenario. A city or town in need of money
and jobs finds itself confronting an idea that promises to bring plenty of
both. This idea is bringing in legalized gambling to the community. “All of
a sudden it’s like bang, legalized gambling is the biggest ...
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Sitting Down As A Family For DinnerHumanities
Pop Culture is constantly fluctuating. Things that were popular twenty years ago are no longer considered "cool" or "in". Fads come and go some you are relieved to see go and some you wish would return because you can see a drastic negative change in their leaving.
A fad that swept ...
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Causes Of The First World WarThe First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his ...
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