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1970's California Essays and Term Papers
NAFTAThe North America market is one of the richest in the world. Measured in terms
of GDP, it is the equivalent of Western Europe. But with a somewhat smaller
population, GDP per capita in North America, Canada, Mexico and the U.S., is
around 12 percent higher than in Western Europe. The North ...
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How Has AIDS Affected Our Society??
Today more Americans are infected with STD's than at any other time in
history. The most serious of these diseases is AIDS. Since the first cases were
identified in the United States in 1981, AIDS has touched the lives of millions
of American families. This deadly disease is unlike any other in ...
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Mexicowas the site of some of the earliest and most advanced civilizations in
the western hemisphere. The Mayan culture, according to archaeological research,
attained its greatest development about the 6th century AD. Another group, the
Toltec, established an empire in the Valley of and developed a ...
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Hantavirus: A Four Corners Study
When a new virus appeared in the Four Corners region, American scientists were stumped. What was causing such a quick death to such healthy people? Was there a potential epidemic on their hands? No one knew, and when they finally determined that a strain was involved, ...
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Ku Klux Klan 4The Ku Klux Klan, or KKK as known today, was started in the spring of 1866. Six Confederate veterans formed a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee. This KKK only lasted a short six years, but left tactics and rituals that later started in generations. (Ingalls, 9) The Klan was a small group very much ...
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What Is Marijuana?? Marijuana is a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa (or Cannabis indica). It can be smoked by rolling in tobacco paper or placing in a pipe. It is also otherwise consumed worldwide by an estimated 200,000,000 persons for pleasure, an escape from reality, ...
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Agenda Settingin the Internet The 2000 Presidential Elections are upon us and who do we turn to for information regarding the candidates? What issues will be the hot topics for the election race? For that matter, what will be the hot topics in the media for next week? Just as this paper must be structured, ...
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Chinese AmericansThe Lost Ones – Young Due to harsh immigration laws, in American history, Chinese have often relied on illegal means of entering the United States. For example, in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act (Chinese Exclusion Act, Documents on Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy.) was passed, the first and only ...
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The Anti-Trust Case Against MicrosoftSince 1990, a battle has raged in United States courts between the United
States government and the Microsoft Corporation out of Redmond, Washington,
headed by Bill Gates. What is at stake is money. The federal government
maintains that Microsoft’s monopolistic practices are harmful to ...
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The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18The legal drinking age in all states should be eighteen. First, the
problems and costs associated with underage drinking might be alleviated.
Second, studies show that alcohol is easily obtained, and most eighteen-
year-olds who do so drink sensibly. Next, Louisiana's experiments with
lowering ...
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Teenage SmokingAt the age of ten, Sean Marsee began smoking cigarettes. Two years later, he was persuaded to give up by a caring uncle. A few weeks after quitting, he received a free sample of smokeless tobacco at a rodeo. Once again, Sean Marsee was addicted to tobacco. At 16 he had developed lip cancer. At 18, ...
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Increasing Shareholder WealthINTRODUCTION
The goal of all corporations is to increase shareholder wealth.
Shareholder wealth is increased is by increasing the corporation's profit. In a
corporation involved in manufacturing, reducing the cost of the factors of
production is essential for growth.
One of the major components ...
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Computers And SocietyThe decade of the 1980's saw an explosion in computer technology and
computer usage that deeply changed society. Today computers are a part of
everyday life, they are in their simplest form a digital watch or more complexly
computers manage power grids, telephone networks, and the money of the ...
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Bluegrass MusicBluegrass is a style of country and western music that developed
during the 1940s, based on traditional ballads, fiddle tunes, and gospel
hymnody of the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States. It
evolved from the backwooks, blue-collar music of the South, particularly
Appalachia. ...
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Racism"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
The Declaration of Independence
The legal barriers to racial equality have ...
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Lyme DiseaseIn the early 1970s, a mysterious clustering of arthritis occurred among children in Lyme, Connecticut, and surrounding towns. Medical researchers soon recognized the illness as a distinct disease, which they called . They subsequently described the clinical features of , established the usefulness ...
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PrisonAmerica's prisons have been called "graduate schools for crime." It stands to reason: Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their cell-block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered ...
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WavelengthBy Matej Jancar
Wavelength (1967) is a continuous forty-five minute zoom from its widest field to its smallest and final field which rests on the photograph of ocean on the wall. The camera is motionless and is facing far side of eighty foot New York loft with windows. There are four human ...
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Albert GhiorsoOne of the last remaining veterans of the Manhattan project, Albert Ghiorso, passed away on 24 December 2010, at the age of 95.
Ghiorso was an astonishingly productive scientist whose successes go back to an earlier day, when science was done differently. Ghiorso began working in nuclear science ...
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Plastics Pollute Our OceanBinh Nguyen
Professor Jackson
English 110-81611
5 May 2011
Plastics Pollute Our Ocean
Within the last few decades, plastics have revolutionized our daily lives. The use of plastic has now become very controversial because of the major environmental impact it is having. Plastic is ...
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