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Olmstead V. United States (1928)Olmstead v. United States (1928)
Opinion delivered by Chief Justice Taft
Vote: 5-4
Case reached Supreme Court by writ of certiorari.
Facts:
The evidence in the records discloses a conspiracy of amazing magnitude
to import, possess, and sell liquor unlawfully. Involved were not less than
fifty ...
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Emily Dickinson"" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet of the nineteenth century. She was one of the greatest masters of the short lyric poem. Not much is known about her life, but what is known is unusual and interesting. was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December tenth, eighteen hundred thirty, ...
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Quest For FireThis story happens 80,000 years ago when our ancestors first discovered the power of fire, but did not know how to master it.
One day, a peaceful tribe is attacked by apes and wolves. Many die in the fighting and the tribe is forced to leave their territory. They move to a small island, and on ...
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Death Of A Salesman'He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.'
To what extent do you agree with this assessment of Willy Loman by his son Biff?
Willy Loman was a man of 'greatness', a man who was 'way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine' and but was a man who 'didn't know who he was'. Above ...
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The CrucibleAs I watched \"\" taking shape as a movie over much of the past year, the sheer depth of time that it represents for me kept returning to mind. As those powerful actors blossomed on the screen, and the children and the horses, the crowds and the wagons, I thought again about how I came to cook all ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright“ The greatest artist this country has ever produced seems to at last be coming into his own. America’s other great artists—our painters, sculptors, composers—don’t really rank with the tops of all time. They’re not Rembrandt or Michelangelo or Beethoven. Wright alone has that standing.” (Robert ...
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Frankenstein 6The novel begins in a frame narrative: Robert Walton, the captain of a ship, recounts his adventures through a series of letters to his sister back in England. Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein in the seas near the North Pole and is told his story, and the major part of the novel consists of ...
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Julius Caesar’s legacy and attributes are just as robust today as they were in his time. From the time he took power to the time of his death he accomplished more than many other men would have done in a lifetime. He brought the Roman Empire to its height and from his death on, the Empire did nothing but ...
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Bad ChoosersThe tired cliché has rung throughout the halls of maternity wards and
law firms for years. "The Battle of the Sexes" as it is called; the everlasting
struggle for supremacy among men and women. However, in the wider scope of
events, how easy one's life is would ideally be more important than how ...
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Stephen King"The most haunted of houses is the human mind."
When you read that quote, what does it make you think? Well, it makes me think of one thing. It makes me think of all of the terrifying stories I’ve read by the master of the macabre himself, Stephen Edwin King. His mind has conjured up countless ...
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Les MiserablesThe musical plays today in the Imperial Theater on Broadway. The play is based on the book by Victor Hugo, in which the story of the French Revolution from the perspective of the lower class that would do anything to get their freedom. Cameron Mackintosh, produced the play, while Alain Boublil ...
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Demeter And Persephone: Relationship Between Parent And ChildIn the Story of Demeter and Persephone we learn about the
relationship between parents and their children. More importantly, this
relationship is a mother daughter relationship and has Ideas that Greek
culture might have practiced. In this story we also see the growth of
characters and the ...
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Obasan"I want to break loose from the heavy identity…I am tired of living between deaths and funerals, weighted with decorum, unable to shout or sing or dance, unable to scream or swear, unable to laugh, unable to breathe out loud." (102). In Joy Kogawa's . Naomi, a young female of Japanese ...
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Assassination Of JFKOn Friday, November 22nd 1963 at 12:30 P.M. the 35th
United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy
assassinated while he
rode in an open limousine though the streets of Dallas.
This event, which
abruptly and severely altered the course of history, it has
created more
controversy than ...
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The Seminole"As the United States is a nation made up of people from many nations, so the
Seminole is a tribe made up of Indians from many tribes." (Garbarino 13) The
Seminole are the indigenous people living in southeastern America. They lived
in what is now Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South ...
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Odysseus: SummaryAfter a long and exhausting struggle on the sea, Odysseus finally
reached the gorgeous shores of Cuba. The land was warm and consisted of
primarilly flat land (Lindop 3). The coastline was jagged and odd,
different from any other of the shores he had been to (Vazquez 15). After a
strenuous two ...
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Creative Writing: Life In SumitvilleSumitville is a city with 1,000,000 people in it. It’s is prosperous city because it has a great economy, government, and social structure. The city is also very well maintained and fits the peoples needs. All basic things needed for the city to function were made within its borders. ...
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Creative Writing: When I Was A KidWhen I was a kid we left the dirty streets of Brooklyn, New York for the
quieter suburban streets of Connecticut. We moved into a large house in Norwalk,
Connecticut. Norwalk is the sort of town that dreams of being a big city but
will always be just another small port on the Connecticut ...
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The Bluest Eye 2The major characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Claudia MacTeer, and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the "bluest" eyes so that others will view her as ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright“ The greatest artist this country has ever produced seems to at last be coming into his own. America’s other great artists—our painters, sculptors, composers—don’t really rank with the tops of all time. They’re not Rembrandt or Michelangelo or Beethoven. Wright ...
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