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"Roseanne And The Kiss"

This past winter break, myself and one of my best friends were driving down one of the main roads in our home town of Elmira, New York. I happened to look up at a billboard that was on the side of the road, and saw a sign that read something like: “Be safe, be smart, be protected.” I thought to ...

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Government Spending & Budget

As many Federal departments and agencies lurch into an era of running without funds, the leaders of both parties of Congress are spending less and less time searching for a compromise to balance the budget, and more and more time deciding how to use it to their advantage on the campaign trail. ...

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Wyatt Earp

was an American frontiersman and law enforcement officer, born in Monmouth, Illinois. As a young man Earp was a stagecoach driver, railroad construction worker, surveyor, buffalo hunter, and policeman, and in 1876 he became chief deputy marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, a lawless frontier town. In ...

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The Policies Of My Way

Unlike the United States, with its generalissimo politics-Washington, Jackson, Grant, Eisehower- the martial arts have been conspicuously absent from Canadian politics. But there in one exception: in 1968 Pierre Elliot Trudeau became the first Canadian leader to bring the gunslinger-Lone Ranger ...

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Facism And Patriotism

In the minds of the masses the concepts of Fascism and Patriotism are dichotomized, even polarized, but without an understanding of the meaning of such strong emotional response. Many of those now living have very little personal memory, if any, of the period preceding World War II. What is ...

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Dead White Males - David Williamson

"Carpe Diem" In the film Dead Poet’s Society there is an environment created that was rigid and strict. At Welton Academy there were four pillars of ideals that students must attain to and follow. These were excellence, honor, tradition, and discipline. A new teacher was appointed to ...

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Book Review On Theodore Draper’s A Struggle For Power: The A

Theodore Draper’s A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution was published by Vintage Books in 1996. In his novel, Draper heavily relies on primary resources to show us the complexities of policy and personality that led to war. He makes a persuasive case that the American Revolution was ...

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Cuban Missile Crisis 4

The world will never be the same since October of 1962. It is now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The U.S. learned that the Soviets were building nuclear missile bases on Cuba because the Soviets wanted to close the missile gap. Even though the Soviet Union promised they would not attempt to ...

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Child Labor

E-mail: Budweisergirl211@aol.com Letty Leal Mrs. Hall English 1301, AP-4 5 December 1999 In America, people believe that does not affect them, not realizing that the Persian rugs they put their feet on are made by suffering children in a dark, small room. They don’t realize the soccer balls ...

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Curfews

While driving home from work late one Tuesday night, he noticed the blare of a siren and the blinding lights in his rearview mirror. “I was stopped and questioned five times, by five different police officers on my three-mile drive home,” said a 16-year-old from Monrovia, CA (“Do You Know Where ...

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Is There Such A Thing As The American Dream?

? People always ask me, how can a patriotic Bahamian be so much into American history? I find Americans fascinating, actually, and I will not say to much in case I hurt anyone's feelings, but I find the United States to be a strange, self-destructive nation, clinging to long ago exploits while ...

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The Red Scare

One evening in 1950 a Houston couple entered a Chinese restaurant. The woman, a radio writer, wanted the proprietor's help in producing a program on recent Chinese history. Overhearing their conversation, a nearby man rushed out, phoned the police, and informed them that people were "talking ...

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The Webb Story And The Efforts To Rebut It

Webb focused on three figures. One was "Freeway Ricky" Ross, a black dealer who introduced L.A. and other cities to crack. A second was Daniel Blandón, a Nicaraguan who not only supplied Ross (and others) with his cocaine, but developed the concept of creating a mass market for crack. The third ...

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Ford, The Company And The Man

Throughout his childhood Henry Ford liked to tinker with things and find out how and why they worked. Ford went from tinkering with his fathers farm equipment to trying to build a self propelled vehicle. Ford finally accomplished his goal in 1896. ford’s success with the self propelled vehicle ...

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Preservation Of The Environment

Predicting the fate of the Earth has long been a gloomy business, a profession where bad things only seem to get worse over time. From books like "The Population Bomb" to "The End of Nature," ecological pundits of the past 40 years have forecast a dark future of pollution, extinction and growing ...

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Gaius Marius: Savior.. Or Destroyer?

? Gaius Marius was the Janus-faced savior of Rome. On one hand his sweeping military reforms intensified Rome's might at a crucial time, during the Jugurthine war, saving Rome from the steady advance of their Italian enemies. On the other, his no-frills military-minded personality drove him to ...

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Religion,physics And A Social

The key to humanities freedom lies in its religious and sexual paradigms. Religion, as a social control mechanism, has sought to limit mans sexual freedom. The stigma associated with sexual promiscuity permeates every level of our society. I believe that in time people will demand freedom in ...

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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes Of George Orwell

Throughout history, writers have written about many different subjects based on their personal experiences. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair. He is one of the most famous political satirists of the twentieth century. He was born in Bengal, India in 1903 to an English Civil ...

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History Of The American Drug War

The first act of America's anti-drug laws was in 1875. It outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. This was a San Francisco ordinance. The basis on passing this law was that Chinese men had a way of luring white women to their dens and causing their "ruin", ...

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Reason For The Growth Of Infor

In this essay I will endeavour to provide reasons for the phenomenal growth of the informal economy. Firstly, I will provide a brief definition of informal and formal economies. I will also discuss the inequalities and instability of the formal economy environment. Focusing on the manoeuvres ...

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