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Biography Of Pocahontas

For more than two centuries since the death of the Indian princess Pocahontas, legends and stories of romance have been imbedded into our minds, but her dramatic life was more important to the creation of a segment of American history than legend. Around the year of 1595, Pocahontas was born to ...

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The Future Looks Bright For Ja

pan Over the past 40 years nuclear energy has gone from being the energy source of the future to the energy source that everyone fears. The world has faced 20 plus nuclear accidents since testing began in the 1950’s (www.hempwine.com). Three of the four most disastrous nuclear accidents ...

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Li

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who lived from 1882 to 1945, was the 32nd President of United States (Electric Library). Roosevelt became the president in March 1933 at the depth of the Great Depression, was re-elected for an unprecedented three more terms, and died in office in April 1945. He died ...

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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombing

Fifty four years ago, the detonation of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima (and later on Nagasaki) ushered to the Nuclear Age. It was a moment full of horror, in which the eyes of the whole world were opened to the unimaginable possibility of nuclear holocaust. The ...

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Aristotle’s Rules For Tragedy

Laid Down In Poetics As They Apply To Blood Relations By Sharon Pollock Aristotle could be considered the first popular literary critic. Unlike Plato, who all but condemned written verse, Aristotle breaks it down and analyses it so as to separate the good from the bad. He studies in great ...

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The Iron Heel

is a novel of and for the great working class. Its inner idea of laborer and boss working and helping each other through the social and economic mountains of equality will always try to be enforced from years to come, but sadly, will never happen. It just can't happen. Boss's rules over workers, ...

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Cooper's "Deerslayer": View Of The Native Americans

James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey. He was the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper, the twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first American ...

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Culture From Cranium

Throughout the history of anthropology it has been a popular view that people are largely products of their culture, and not the other way around. Yet culture is an exclusively human phenomenon. While it is true that everyone lives within a cultural context, and that context accounts for varying ...

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Infrastructure And Economic Pr

osperity A famous Canadian geographer was once quoted saying, “ …any region which has a well developed transportation and communication network also enjoys a high degree of economic prosperity…”. This statement has sparked much controversy between geographers, as well as economists. The argument ...

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Oliver Cromwell

was an English soldier and statesman who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars. He was lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 to 1658 during the republican Commonwealth. As a general on the parliamentary side of the English Civil War vs. Charles I, Cromwell ...

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Pocahontas

For more than two centuries since the death of the Indian princess , legends and stories of romance have been imbedded into our minds, but her dramatic life was more important to the creation of a segment of American history than legend. Around the year of 1595, was born to chief ...

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The Death Penalty

There have been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of on persons convicted of a major crime. It isn’t ...

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Arcadia As A Postmodern Text

Arcadia, a typically postmodern play by Tom Stoppard exemplifies this movement through use of the features of postmodernism and by it’s ambiguous ending. Some of the features used in the play which demonstrate this include the shifts in time from past to present, concurrent props used sets of both ...

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Are UFOs Real?

Unidentified Flying Objects are supposed space vehicles sent to earth from elsewhere in the universe. These are just one of the unknown mysteries of the world today and has been for quite some time. From as far back as biblical times people have generally believed in the existence of demons, ...

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Early Western Civilization, Egyptian Tomb

Egyptologists had lost interest in the site of tomb 5, which had been explored and looted decades ago. Therefore, they wanted to give way to a parking lot. However, no one would have ever known the treasure that lay only 200 ft. from King Tut's resting place which was beyond a few rubble strewn ...

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Violence in the Media Affects Children

The article, written by Senator Orrin G. Hatch, “Children, Violence and the Media: A Report for Parents and Policy Makers” is an article informing everyone (especially parents) about the effects that the media, including video games, internet, and television shows has on kids today. Their ...

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Legalization of Marijuana

What Is Marijuana Marijuana, is a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the ubiquitous hemp plant Canabis sativa (or Cannabis indica). It is commonly smoked by rolling the marijuana in tobacco paper or placing it in a pipe. It is also otherwise consumed worldwide by an estimated ...

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Racism Breeding Hatred

Less than only 60 years ago racism and segregation in schools became a huge issue. In 1954, it was announced by the Supreme Court that the schools were not equal and ruled and that was believed to be unconstitutional. As a result, all schools were forced to desegregate; but some schools, such as ...

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Indian Boarding Schools

Indian Boarding Schools: “Kill the Indian and Save the Man” Introduction In the late 1800’s the US government began the Indian Boarding Schools in America. The goal was the same as always but the method was a faster, more affective way to “kill” the Indian language and culture and “save” ...

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Censorship

Censorship -- the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society -- has been a hallmark of dictatorships throughout history. In the 20th Century, censorship was achieved through the examination of books, plays, films, television and radio programs, news reports, and other forms of ...

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