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The Inuit People
Number of words: 568 - Number of pages: 3.... used to construct kayaks and other boats that the Inuit would use to travel and to hunt whales. One advantage of the sterile cold of the arctic was that it kept these people free of disease (until they met the white man.)
Inuit tribes consisted of two to ten loosely joined families. There was no one central leader in the group: all decisions were made by the community as a whole. Nor was there any definite set of laws; the Inuit, though usually cheery and optimistic, were prone to uncontrolled bursts of rage. Murder was common amongst them and it went unpunished unless an individual's murd .....
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Consensus Historians
Number of words: 1731 - Number of pages: 7.... on presidents, but the way that it was presented was very different. Hofstadter made some points in the introduction that points in the direction of consensus history. Hofstadter states that it is "of the need for a reinterpretation of our political traditions which emphasizes the common climate of American opinion," the existences of which had been "much obscured by the tendency to place political conflict in the foreground" (Kraus & Joyce Pg.314)
After The American Political Tradition and the Men who made it, Hofstadter went on to publish a book on Turner, Beard, and Parrington. Hof .....
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Economy Of New Zealand
Number of words: 899 - Number of pages: 4.... $4.8 billion, and was largely concentrated in manufacturing, forestry, telecommunications services, and finance. The two countries have also worked closely together to promote free trade in the World Trade Organization and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
The Labour party had not only changed nuclear policies in 1984, but also introduced a monetarist economic policy in a major effort to reduce the government budget deficit and inflation that resulted largely from an attempt in the 1970s to diversify New Zealand’s production. This new plan was executed through seven major .....
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Atlas
Number of words: 550 - Number of pages: 2.... the Golden Apples. In return for ’s help, Hercules took his burden from him while he retrieved the apples. agreed to Hercules’ proposal. secured the apples and realized how nice it was not to have the strain of keeping heaven and earth apart for eternity. Hercules deceived when he returned with the apples. Hercules told that he needed a cushion for his shoulders and asked to take back the earth momentarily while he can got pads. agreed and Hercules left never to return. Another part played in Greek Mythology was when refused to provide shelter to Perseus. Perseus .....
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Power Of The Few Over The Many
Number of words: 1136 - Number of pages: 5.... and control over these
particular jurisdictions gave them great power, and with that the
ability to manipulate others. "'You ass'... said the
Director,... 'Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo
must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon
heredity'"(Huxley 23). Through a hierarchy of Alaphas and Betas
down to the lower cast Epsilon, everyone was suited for their
job. The Director however, through his position of authority,
was able to "... condition the masses to hate the
country,"(Huxley 30). In doing so, the Director succeeds in
creating an obedient society, which .....
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Jurassic Park
Number of words: 1123 - Number of pages: 5.... voice that questions the durability of the park and the accountability of the science used to re-create the dinosaurs. He challenges the ideas of Dr.Wu and end up being right in the end about the animals. He also states that society will turn into an information society and thought will be banished. By this he is saying that if the world of technology continues on the path it is on now, the future will be run and determined by technology. Humans will leave everything to machines and we will have an era where humans, as I stated above will become obsolete. All humans will fall into a lazy .....
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The War Of 1812
Number of words: 527 - Number of pages: 2.... River Massacre, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., New Orleans.
affected not only the United States, but Canada and Great Britain as well. In Great Britain, the war did not have a strong effect on the country. Although the United States was declared to be the winners of many of the wars which took place during , the Royal Navy was quite successful in maintaining it's blockade of the American Coast as well as practically neutralizing the American Navy. Great Britain never thought of the War as being highly important, in fact it was just seen as a small added burden. To them, they saw the Unite .....
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Crazy Horse
Number of words: 2790 - Number of pages: 11.... into seven tribes: Oglala’s, Brule’, Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle, and the Blackfoot. Of these seven tribes each had different bands. , one of the greatest war chiefs of all times, came from the Hunkpatila. The Hunkpatila was a band of the Oglala’s (Guttmacher 12).
was not given this name, on his birth date in the fall of 1841. He was born of his father, an Oglala holy man, and his mother a sister of a Brule’ warrior, Spotted Tail. As the boy grew older his hair became wavy so his people gave him the nickname of Curly (Guttmacher 23). He was to g .....
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The Whites Versus Native And African Americans
Number of words: 1243 - Number of pages: 5.... between the pioneers and the
Native Americans. The government forced the Native Americans to reside on
reservations in which they could not leave without the permission of the
government agency created to oversee their safety. They had to live, hunt,
and survive living in a fixed boundary. The Medicine Lodge Treaty stated
that the plains tribes were confined on two reservations. The northern
reservation was in the Dakota Territory and southern was in Oklahoma.
Later in 1887, came the Dawes Act in which the government decided that the
Native Americans had to become farmers and land owner .....
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Native American Women
Number of words: 1096 - Number of pages: 4.... p.8) The Cheyenne tirbe also traced their ancestry through the woman's lineage. Moore (1996, p. 154) shows this when he says "Such marriages, where the groomcomes to live in the bride's band, are called 'matrilocal'." Leacock (1971, p. 21) reveals that "...prevailing opinion is that hunting societies would be patrilocal.... Matrilineality, it is assumed, followed the emergence of agriculture...." Leacock (p. 21) then stated that she had found the Montagnais-Naskapi, a hunting society, had been matrilocal until Europeans stepped in. "The Tanoan Pueblos kinship system is bilateral. .....
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