United States History Essays and Term Papers
George Washington(Born February 22 [February 11, Old Style], 1732, Westmoreland county, Virginia [U.S.]—died December 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.) American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83) and subsequently first president of the United States ...
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Justice is EqualityThomas Jefferson said, “All men are created equal”. Then why for centuries were people of color fighting for their right for equality? Some may say what the word men meant to Jefferson was white men with land, if so it is understandable colored people were not included. There are two greatly known ...
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Criminal Offenses1. A civil offense is a dispute against you and another person. Usually just a fine towards the person. Criminal offenses are thought of in an entirely different way. These are offenses not just against another individual but also against society. The state initiates the punishment-and the ...
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What is PhilosophyThe standard, or textbook, definition for philosophy would look something like this: There are five branches or categories to philosophy. Those categories are as follows: Epistemology: the study of knowledge. Metaphysics: the study or discussion of the existence of God, the soul, and the ...
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ANWRTo start things off, ANWR stands for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This land is a 8.9 million acre piece land that houses some of the worlds most preserved produce, OIL! This piece of land is nothing but a frozen tundra with animas that can only survive off of little amounts of food. Drilling ...
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Human RightsHuman rights are "rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Proponents of the concept usually assert that everyone is endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being human.[1] Human rights are thus conceived in a universalist and egalitarian fashion. Such entitlements can ...
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The HolocaustThe Holocaust
The Holocaust, meaning a great destruction of people or animals by fire, was a time of extreme warfare throughout several countries, bloodshed of millions, and manipulation of people beyond belief. According to World Book Encyclopedia, Germany conquered France, Belgium, Denmark, ...
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Mao’s Last DancerMao’s Last Dancer
Li had no way out of his tough times. He was born into a large broke family. Li lived in the Li Commune, a poor village near the city of Qingdao in the Shandon province. When Chinese officials visit his village in search of potential ballet dancers to attend the Beijing Dance ...
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The Black PlagueThe Black Plague is a type of bubonic plague that traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, killing millions. The Black Plague (or Black Death) is a bacterial infection that causes swelling on numerous parts of the body. It causes odd black sores in which the human flesh is eaten ...
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Barack ObamaThe candidate that I am profiling is Barack Obama. The political party Barack Obama represents is the Democratic Party. Another political office Barack Obama has had in his career was that he was a senator. Barack Obama’s political and leadership experiences that he has are that he was the sate of ...
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The Battle Of New OrleansThe Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8th, 1815 and was the final major battle of the War 1812. American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States has acquired with the ...
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Essay on ImmigrationESSAY ON IMMIGRATION: PARADOXICAL IDENTITIES
Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama [1885-1951] sailed to San Francisco at the age of nineteen, where there was a growing community of Japanese immigrants. It was a period of intense discrimination and agitation against Asian, and particularly Japanese ...
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Samuel AdamsSamuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was ...
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire[TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE]
Our nation has grown to what it is today because we have continued to learn from past mistakes in an effort to grow and be better than ever. Disasters are no exception. In 1911, a disastrous fire in New York City took the lives of 146 people, and could have been prevented ...
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GulagThe term "GULAG" is an acronym for the Soviet bureaucratic institution, Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps) that operated the Soviet system of forced labor camps in the Stalin era. Since the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The ...
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Unique LearningMartin Miah
12-4-11
Essay
Personal Belief
Being able to do things your own way is more accomplishing than any other way. Every person is unique in the way he or she learns and does things. There are examples I have taken from the invention of the rocket and its impact on science, the ...
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Juvenile DelinquencyJuvenile Delinquency, A Holistic Perspective: an annotated bibliography.
Academic Journal
Matthew Ploeger. (1997). Youth employment and delinquency: Reconsidering a problematic relationship. Criminology, 35(4), 659-675. Retrieved February 25, 2009, from Platinum Full Text Periodicals ...
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Violence and Video GamesViolence and Video Games: Are Games Safe for Our Kids?
Derek Sorrell
English 111
Papia Bawa
April 8, 2012
Kassi sits, crouched down behind an abandoned shipping container. Seconds later the ground opens up and wave after wave of mutant beasts chase towards her. She checks to make sure ...
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Nothing But FreedomSkye Fischer
Gioielli
History 111
Foner Paper
Politics and Freedmen in The United States
The Emancipation Proclamation brought about many social, economic, and political changes to The United States. Most notably, the role of political rights shaped the new freedmen's world as they ...
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Maqbool Fida HusainMaqbool Fida Husain
Gouri R.
'To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults,' says Somerset Maugham in The Moon and Sixpence.
What do you think of the artist who completes an elaborate ...
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