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Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
Number of words: 3415 - Number of pages: 13.... that he needed some extra leeway in such activities as sports. However, Justin saw his handicap as a motivator, a reason to work harder and excel in all aspects of camp life. Camp Wayne was very competitive; the summer culminated with four days of intense sports competition called Color War. It was during Color War that my view of Justin changed.
During Color War the whole camp is divided into two teams. The teams play each other in various competitions and sports for 4 days and at the end of the fourth day the points are tallied up to see who won. It was the last day of Color War, .....
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Colonial Impact On The Indian
Number of words: 2690 - Number of pages: 10.... economic unit and its business contacts with the outside world were limited to payment of land revenue (generally in kind) and the purchase of a few necessary things from the town nearby. The farmer raised only those crops, which he needed for his own use and shared the same with the village artisan who supplied him with simple manufactures that he needed for his domestic consumption. Means of communication were of a primitive type. Therefore, trade in agricultural produce, was somewhat limited. The farmer usually raised enough produce to feed himself and the non-agricultural memb .....
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Harlem Slums As A Result Of Th
Number of words: 1841 - Number of pages: 7.... as Harlem, were formed. With the slums came discrimination for the Negro migrants. The white people, who had occupied industrial cities first, saw Negroes as lesser beings. They believed that it was okay for them to be treated unfairly due to the color of their skin. This was the belief that parents of white children wanted them to have. It was documented that children who intermingled with Negroes at some public schools saw them to be okay and decent, but the parents of these children discouraged this kind of thinking and told their children that they had had the wrong attitude toward .....
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How The Great Wall Of China Ef
Number of words: 2245 - Number of pages: 9.... vow that was to be remembered as the ‘Tennis court oath.’ This vow was to never rest until they ‘provided France with a constitution,’ a basses that the Assembly could remodel France around. However, constitutions were new to this time in history and the constitutional writers needed time to discover the art of preparing such a document considering the lack of knowledge they had in the field. They may have been aided by information from the recent events in America and the benefits from studying their new American Constitution, but the Assembly still needed time to insure success, .....
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The History Of The Black Panther Party
Number of words: 342 - Number of pages: 2.... who grew up in Oakland.
After the 1966 assassination of black leader Malcolm X, Newton gathered some longtime friends, including Bobby Seale and David Hilliard, and drew an outline for the organization. At first, it was named the “Black Panther Party For Self-Defense”, but it was shortened to the “Black Panther Party”.
The founders created a list of 10 wants and beliefs of the Black Panther Party known as “The Ten Point Platform and Program”, including a want for freedom of all African Americans and a want of police brutalities to stop. This list formed the basis of the entire p .....
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The Aztec Nation
Number of words: 5742 - Number of pages: 21.... what an early explorer in Mexico might have seen between 1400 and 1500 AD. is one of the largest and most advanced Indian nations to ever exist on earth. Just about every part of the Aztec life was advance to such a state that at that time of the world the people were living better than many European nations. is unique in its history, economy, environment, and way of life then any other nation at that time.
Perhaps three to four thousand years ago, small bands of hunting-gathering peoples made their way across the land bridge that was the frozen Bering Strait, migrated southward throug .....
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Civil War 3
Number of words: 2403 - Number of pages: 9.... the
happenings and events between the winter of 1864-65 and the surrender of
The Confederate States of America. All of this will most certainly illustrate
that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy.
CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH
In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army
cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so
briefly. It was from there that General Sherman and his army began its
famous "march to the sea". The march covered a distance of 400 miles and
was 60 miles wide on the way. For 32 days no news of him r .....
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Salem Witch Trials
Number of words: 584 - Number of pages: 3.... under the influence of the witchery, "admitted to see the forms of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted and the accused became so numerous thatno one was safe from suspicion and its consequences. Even those who were active in the prosecutions became objects of suspicion.
Revenge often impelled persons to accuse others who were innocent and when some statement of the accused would move the court and audience in favor of the prisoner. "I saw Goody Osborn with the devil" (Miller .....
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Digital Cameras
Number of words: 758 - Number of pages: 3.... to cost and image quality, he later purchased a higherquality product in January 1993.
With the aid of a laser or forensic light source, the camera allows a fluorescing fingerprint image to be made. Prints can then be sent to CAL ID - a statewide criminal fingerprint database - in an hour, rather than the eight hours required using conventional means. "You get a better quality fingerprint image and get it into the system quickly to catch suspects faster, cutting crime and making citizens happy," Reis says. Reis primarily uses his camera to take pictures of fingerprints collected by traditio .....
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The New Land Of New Ideas
Number of words: 445 - Number of pages: 2.... for
entrepreneurship. This led to a increase in the self-interest principle and a
decrease in the principles of religion. In Old England, it was believed that
the few that had the wealth were blessed. Even the King was viewed as the
Lord's represantive on Earth. In the new land one had to work to gain faith.
Wealth that the individual created was viewed as being faithful to the Lord. The
new America gives birth to a true entrepreneurship among the races, if they are
going to have anything at all they are going to have to work for it.
DeCrevecouer explains this:
Men are like plan .....
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