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The Great Gatsby: Doubleness

All of this doubleness Fitzgerald puts into the novel you are about to read: The Great Gatsby. As you begin reading think about Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, and Jay Gatsby, the hero of the novel, as the two sides of Fitzgerald. Think of Fitzgerald as putting into his two main ...

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Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H

“Dealers of Lightning” the legendary story of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Written by Los Angeles Times corespondent, Michael Hiltzik. The Book brings together moments behind the research labs trailblazing technological achievements. Hiltzik also gives you vast ...

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Harriet Tubman 3

Her name deserves to be handed down to posterity, side by side with the names of Jeanne D'Arc, Grace Darling and Florence Nightingale, for not one of these women, noble and brave as they were, has shown more courage, and power of endurance, in facing danger and death to relieve human suffering, ...

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Orson Welles

The term 'genius' was applied to him from the cradle, first by the man who would vie with Orson's father to nurture the talent all agreed resided in the fragile boy.(Leaming, 3) George was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin on May 6, 1915. He was the second son of Richard Head Welles, an inventor, and ...

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P. T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum reinvented the circus. His knowledge of what people want and how to make people think they want what he had was amazing. He constantly fooled people and had a way of making the customers come back. Barnum was ultimate salesman. He single handedly turned the circus into the ...

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Endangered Species In Canada

There are many trillions of living creatures, and millions of different kinds of animals and plants share our planet (pg 46, Savage). Each Kind, or species, is special and unique. But, some of these species are in danger of disappearing forever, just as the passenger pigeon did. When the last ...

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Fillmore

Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth president of the United States of America, came of a family of English stock, which had early settled in New England. His father, Nathaniel, in 1795, made a clearing within the limits of what is now the town of Summerhill, Cayuga county, New York, and there Millard ...

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The West Indies

Alan Taylor in his book American Colonies talks about how the West Indies became the crown jewels of the English colonial empire. In 1686, West Indies produced more than all North American colonies. As Alan Taylor mentions, Tobacco was valuable to the empire but sugar was more profitable than ...

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Mexican American War

The war between Mexico and America has been labeled “an unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression and territorial aggrandizement.” The actions of the United States toward Mexico were of no such consequence. They were deliberately aimed at national security, and aiding Texas in its ...

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US History

AP US History Review 2009 Session #4 Progressivism-Truman Includes the following chapters from The American Pageant (12th edition): Ch 29-37 Ch 29 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912 Progressivism: The "real heart" of the progressive movement was effort by reformers to - ...

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The Growth of Programs for Mentally Retarded Citizens

The Growth of Programs for Mentally Retarded Citizens Christina Menichini Columbia College HUMS 250 Abstract Throughout the last century, in the United States, there has been a continual growth of programs created to help and enhance the lives of mentally retarded individuals. Parents, ...

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Serial Killing

To what extent are the causes of serial killing behaviour environmental? CHOI, Da Yeon Extended Essay Final Draft Ms. Heath Word Count: 4072 18[th], May 2012 Table of ...

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The Different Facets of Manifest Destiny

The Different Facets of Manifest Destiny Over the years the phrase ‘Manifest Destiny’ has come to mean many different things to many different people, as the inherent ambiguity of the phrase has made this easy to happen. The phrase was first coined, however, by John L. O’Sullivan in his ...

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis (rough draft) Born in Kentucky, Jefferson Davis lived from June 3, 1808 to December 6, 1889. He attended Transylvania University, graduated West Point, and became an American statesman and leader of the confederacy during the civil war, which he served between 1861-1865. He ...

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Applications of Artificial Intelligence

The Real Application of Artificial Intelligence A computer that thinks is probably the most advanced technology that current computer scientists dream about. It would be such a wonderful time when one day human can see a smart, efficient, creative, faithful, programmable companion that also ...

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Individuals and Society

Individuals and society Action theories and structural theories are both endeavors to understand different aspects of society. They try to explain the behaviors of individuals as separate entities and also as a part of group. They further attempt to explain the effects or implications of ...

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Adult Education In The U.S

In adult education, The concept of central learning theory is self-directed learning. He (1985) said that because the concept is so central to what adult education is all about, self-directed learning has been one of the field's high-interest topics for more than a decade (Mezirow, 1988). Many ...

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Jumanji

A novelisation by Todd Strasser Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and Greg Taylor & Jim Strain Based on a screen story by Greg Taylor & Jim Strain and Chris Van Allsburg Based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg. Type of Story: Adventure The story is set in Brantford, ...

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Cuban Missle Crisis

Many agree that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war; but exactly how close did it come? The Crisis was ultimately a showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union from October 16 to October 28, 1962. During those thirteen stressful days, the world’s ...

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Joel Poinsett

In 1825 President John Quincy Adams appointed as the first U.S. minister to Mexico. His first assignment was to persuade the Mexican government to sell the U.S. the province of Texas, thus continuing the rapid expansion of the American democracy. The United States continued to pursue Texas with ...

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