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The Influence Of Thoreau On Gandhi And Martin Luther King Jr.

I have heard it said that the pen is mightier than the sword, but can mere written words change the course of history? Henry David Thoreau did nothing to directly change the course of history, but his words did influence others who did change the course of history; two notable names that the ...

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The Chernobyl Accident

“No center of population on the earth’s surface is secure from surprise destruction in a single attack. There is no defense in science against the weapon which can destroy civilization.” (Gale 210) The Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 is described as one of the most frightening environmental ...

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Reconstructing A Crime Scene

It was a gorgeous Thursday afternoon. The men were in the family room watching the special Thanksgiving Day football game. The Chicago Bears were playing against the Minnesota Vikings. Norton McCarthy and his brother-in-law, Simon Fletcher, were wagering as to whom had the better offense. From ...

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Spy Games - Creative Essay

Being an international spy is no walk in the park. Death can be waiting for you around the corner or around the world. However when you're only 17 years old, death is the furthest thing from your mind. So here we were on a hot summers day playing international espionage. Of course to six of us ...

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Kurt Cobain: Collection Of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives

I would like to share some of the memories and perceptions I have concerning this unique, rare and original human being called Kurt Cobain. I knew Kurt during his teen-age years in the period from about 1979 to 1984. I was in my mid-30s and living in and near Montesano. My sister married Kurt's ...

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Affirmative Action

Since its inception in the early 1960’s, has been ranked among the most controversial issues in the United States. By definition is the equal opportunity of women, minorities, and small groups so they will have the same tools, education, and allotment to achieve their goals. Legal scholars and ...

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Darkness, Be My Friend - Revie

Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden's series consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Corrie set out ...

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Convicts And Australia

WHO WERE THE CONVICTS? WHAT SHORT AND LONG TERM CONTRIBUTION DID THEY MAKE TO AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY?" During January 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip landed in New South Wales. Of the one thousand people who made the journey, roughly seven hundred were convicts, transported for various crimes, to aid in ...

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Ku Klux Klan 4

The 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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With Malice Toward None By Ste

Stephen B. Oates is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of eight other books, including The Fires of Jubilee and To Purge This Land with Blood. His task in this biography was to perpetuate Lincoln as he was in the days he lived. His purpose of this ...

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Mark Twain 3

I chose to do Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) because I believe Twain is the greatest American author of all time. Samuel Langhorne Clemens may have been one of the greatest American authors of all time. Samuel, Son of John and James Clemens, was born on November 30, 1835 in the town of ...

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Abraham Lincoln

Although other states such as Indiana lay claim to his birth, most sources agree that was born on February 12, 1809, in a backwoods cabin in Hodgeville, Kentucky. In an interview during his campaign for the presidency in 1860 Lincoln described his adolescence as "the short and simple annals of ...

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Grapes Of Wrath Essay

People have been on the planet for millions of years, and things haven’t always been the same as they are presently. The planet and its environment and inhabitants along with everything else inside the atmosphere, have been altered, changed, and reshaped an infinite number of time since we are ...

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Chief Seattle

When stories are told about the American Indian it is usually the Indians that are looked upon as the heathens. They are portrayed as savages who spent most of their time raiding wagon trains and scalping the white settlers just for fun. The media has lead us to believe that the American ...

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1984: Dystopian Visions

"Pictures and posters on every corner, reminding the citizens of Oceania that Big Brother is watching you." No words could speak more truly, for the time was 1984 and the people of Oceania were being watched; practically their every move was being recorded through the telescreen. Big Brother ...

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UFOs

"Little Green Men", "Martians", "Outer Limits" ! That is what people think about when aliens and come to mind. Aliens have been around, as far as we can see, since 1561. The question is now asked, How come because they [] have been sighted, encountered, and taken hostage; Why have we been kept in ...

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Henry Ford

was known for mass producing cars and for the first time the average family had the chance to own one. Henry was born to the name Henry William Ford. His parents William and Mary Litigot Ford were married in 1862 waiting just one year to have Henry as their first born on July 30, 1863 in ...

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Transformation Power Of Love

In the world today the word LOVE has become corrupted, sentimentalized, cheapened, almost exhausted because it is used so randomly and without thought, so much so that when it is used with power and integrity it is often dismissed and ignored. In a simple way, power is the ability to make someone ...

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"Fire From Heaven", "Much Ado About Nothing", And "The Flea": Sinful Acts

In Fire from Heaven, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Flea, the authors take a stance on men and women committing sinful acts and using it as a main position in their work. They write from a very religious perspective which is probably due to the time period in which their work was written ...

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Escape Towards Death

As the cliched statement says, "Nobody's perfect." Everyone's life has some difficulties, with which one may arrive at a variety of resolutions. For instance, if one has lost a love to something other than death, he may simply discuss it with his friends; if someone is troubled by family memories, ...

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