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Columbine Whose Fault Is It
Number of words: 1115 - Number of pages: 5.... violent videogames, including Doom II. Both had previous criminal records for breaking into a van and stealing electrical equipment.
Many things can be attributed to this massacre. This nation has many aspects contributing to the early loss of children's innocence, which in turn cause adolescents to develop earlier and which, in this case, can have grave consequences. This paper will explore how peers, the media, and access to guns, may have played a huge role in this tragedy.
Klebold's and Harris's peers played two very important and different roles in their lives. Peer rejection .....
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The Rebellion Against Victoria
Number of words: 908 - Number of pages: 4.... of "professional women". They were classified
in two categories, both an attack on the social institution of
marriage. The first of these new women were out only for fun. The
second was the concept of an asexual being who did not need a man.
These women owned their own flats and had various jobs usually
secretarial in nature.. The book expressed an uncomfortable period of
transformation. Working women were not completely accepted by English
society at this time. The book portrayed different lives and how they
coped with their situations.1
The male character .....
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David Cronenberg
Number of words: 784 - Number of pages: 3.... and at he 1970 Cannes Film
Festival. Little did the public know, David Cronenberg was not finished there. The ideas he had
stored in his uncanny mind of his were peculiar, odd and extraordinary. With his continuing
success artistically, the public began to find his work vulgar and disturbing. In 1983, David
Cronenberg produced and directed the highly sucessful "The Fly." From that film on his work was
very controversial. The artists found his work deep, and meaningful, while the ordinary person
though it to be the work of a madman.
He had 5 more films .....
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William Clark's Slave York
Number of words: 621 - Number of pages: 3.... Yet
there are no coins or stamps with his image. There is one known statue of
York, standing on a bluff at the University of Portland, where he overlooks
the long Columbia River valley that stretches to the Pacific.
Holmberg says York was a valuable member of the expedition, helping smooth
relations with Indian tribes, hunting and sharing the burdens of travel
with men who otherwise may not have shared so much as a drink of water with
York because of his color.
Holmberg is the editor of a collection of letters that Clark wrote his
elder brother, Jonathan. The cache, found in 1988 in the at .....
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American History Immigration And Discrimination In The 1920's
Number of words: 536 - Number of pages: 2.... Palmer exasperated this fear in Americans and then presented himself as the country's savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer raids thousands of aliens were deported and even more were arrested on little or no evidence. Their civil liberties were violated, they were not told the reasons for their arrests, denied counsel, and not given fair trials. What followed was an investigation of Palmer led by Louis Post which overturned many of Palmer's actions. Palmer's cretability was shattered after in a .....
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Langston Hughes Voice Of A Tim
Number of words: 1516 - Number of pages: 6.... from the equality that they so longed for. The struggle had just begun.
The turn of the century brought many changes for African-Americans. They had slowly built up communities in America’s urban areas or rural land. Although a very few number of African-Americans could actually be considered successful at this point in time, most had cut all ties from their family’s slave master and had made a life for themselves and the generations to come. Despite the advances made, African-Americans were still treated horribly by whites. They were segregated from society, placed on the outside .....
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The Fall Of Rome
Number of words: 617 - Number of pages: 3.... felt the tax issue needed to be addressed. They decided to make the hereditary class of tax collectors pay the difference. In other words, if a poor person could not pay their full share, the tax collector paid the rest. This concept wiped out a whole class of moderately wealthy people.
Later, slavery split communities. Rome believed the workers of society should not benefit from slavery. Slaves then had to reason to try hard or improve. Eastern slaves started doing technical work. Thus, all technical work was looked down upon. Labor was cheap and worthless. Upper-class Romans were content .....
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Bacon’s Rebellion
Number of words: 2846 - Number of pages: 11.... where six parts of
seaven at least are poore Endebted Discontented and Armed”.
He states that of all the people in Virginia the majority of people
are poor and has no land that is sufficient. They have no money not to
consider that most of them owe people money, for example in the case of
indentured servants that are poor and owe work to there masters and freed
indentured servants who have not gotten their land they were promised. This
is enough to discontent and frustrate, these people driving the to take
violent action. However it also suggests that one part of this group had
enough land .....
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The Civil War And Its Ending Of Slavery
Number of words: 1582 - Number of pages: 6.... extended westward to the Pacific. The Compromise Measures of 1850 provided
for the admission of California as a free state and the organization of two new
territories—Utah and New Mexico—from the balance of the land acquired in the
Mexican War. The principle of popular sovereignty would be applied there,
permitting the territorial legislatures to decide the status of slavery when
they applied for statehood.
Despite the Compromise of 1850, conflict persisted. The South had become a
minority section, and its leaders viewed the actions of the U.S. Congress, over
which they .....
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Latin America And Slavery
Number of words: 1931 - Number of pages: 8.... It was first discovered by Europeans while trying to find more efficient trade routes to India and China. These Europeans noticed the vast resources present in Latin America and smelled money. Europeans are very greedy and would do anything for their country if it meant higher social status when they returned. Soon the monarchs of their respective countries were sponsoring conquests and colonization of the Latin American lands in turn for profits and goods from the lands they took. Due to the tropical climate that encompasses most of Latin America, colonization meant growing sugar on .....
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