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  • To Each His Own

    To Each His Own

    Style is expression, presenting oneself to others. Certain characteristics of a piece of art can become associated with a specific artist or style. Edward Degas, a world-renowned artist, has a style all his own. In “What Makes a Degas a Degas,” Richard Muhlberger discusses the various aspects of Degas’ works and what make his art stand out from other pieces. Spontaneity and contrast were two aspects exemplified in some of Degas’ works of art. One

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    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Andrew
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    As readers, we saw Scout mature and grow as our narrator and as a person. She learned many things, but also lost many things. As she grew up and changed, she began to see how things really were, and gained the knowledge of the pure hate that one man can show another. Scout lost her innocence when she found this out. She began to see how cruel the world could be to someone who is

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    Submitted: March 23, 2009 By: Top
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    As readers, we saw Scout mature and grow as our narrator and as a person. She learned many things, but also lost many things. As she grew up and changed, she began to see how things really were, and gained the knowledge of the pure hate that one man can show another. Scout lost her innocence when she found this out. She began to see how cruel the world could be to someone who is

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Monika
  • To the People of the State of New York

    To the People of the State of New York

    To the People of the State of New York: WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it, will be evident. Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Kevin
  • To What Extent Did the Executive Actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt Set a Precedent for the Treatment of Persons of Japanese Descent in the Americas?

    To What Extent Did the Executive Actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt Set a Precedent for the Treatment of Persons of Japanese Descent in the Americas?

    To what extent did the executive actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt set a precedent for the treatment of persons of Japanese descent in the Americas? Eric Stadtfeld (HL) IB History of the Americas May 11th, 2017 Word Count: 2151 ________________ Table of Contents Identification/Evaluation of Sources …………………………………………………………… 2 Investigation ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Reflection ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12 Endnotes …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 14 Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 15 ________________ Section A. Identification and Evaluation of Sources This investigation seeks to answer the question:

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    Submitted: May 14, 2017 By: Eric Stadtfeld
  • To What Extent Had the Colonists Developed a Sense of Their Identity and Unity as Americans by the Eve of the Revolution? Use Documents and Your Knowledge of the Period 1750 to 1776 to Answer the Question.

    To What Extent Had the Colonists Developed a Sense of Their Identity and Unity as Americans by the Eve of the Revolution? Use Documents and Your Knowledge of the Period 1750 to 1776 to Answer the Question.

    By the eve of the revolution, predominately between 1750 to 1776, the colonists struggled to develop a sense of identity and unity. Parliament began making laws that the colonists did not agree with. In order for the colonists to live how they wanted, they had to make changes; they had to break away from their “Mother Country.” Seen in the illustration in Document A, propagandists predicted the outcome of the revolution about 20 years before

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    Submitted: May 22, 2010 By: Artur
  • To What Extent Should Slaves' Independent Economic Activities Be Understood as a Form of Control That Served the Interests of the Slaveholding Class?

    To What Extent Should Slaves' Independent Economic Activities Be Understood as a Form of Control That Served the Interests of the Slaveholding Class?

    To what extent should slaves’ independent economic activities be understood as a form of control that served the interests of the slaveholding class? The extent to which the slave holding class used the economic activities of the slaves to control them will ultimately be judged by the individual on the evidence recorded throughout the period but the ultimate goal though of the slave holders at the time was arguably pure financial gain. To achieve maximum

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    Submitted: April 8, 2010 By: Artur
  • To What Extent Was Jacksonian Democracy Democratic?

    To What Extent Was Jacksonian Democracy Democratic?

    To What Extent Was Jacksonian Democracy Democratic? During the administration of Andrew Jackson, the United States was a nation of change both politically and socially. American society was a society of opportunity. Americans felt that, given a chance, they could make a better life for themselves. This was the era of the common people, the era of democracy. Andrew Jackson appealed to the American people because he stood for values many regarded with favor.

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Fonta
  • To What Extent Was Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century United States Expansionism a Continuation of Past United States Expansionism and to What Extent Was It a Departure?

    To What Extent Was Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century United States Expansionism a Continuation of Past United States Expansionism and to What Extent Was It a Departure?

    There were many similarities in the United State’s expansion during the late nineteenth/twentieth century compared to the beginning of the United States early expanding. Among similarities of expansion include the way they did; force (war), purchases, benefits of resources, also the reasoning of God’s will. Differences though were mainly for expanding, as well as where they tried to expand. One of the continuations, was the idea that God had given us this divine right

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Tobacco Culture of the South Cerca 1700

    Tobacco Culture of the South Cerca 1700

    The Colonial Influence Look at a pack of cigarettes, you’ll read on the side label; smoking causes lung cancer, lung disease, emphysema, and may complicate pregnancy, showing the consumer the negative consequences of smoking cigarettes Yet tobacco is still one of the largely used drugs on the market. It has had a lasting impression on today’s society. Researchers have notice that the nicotine, which is found in tobacco, has an impact on the human

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    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Tobacco Smoking

    Tobacco Smoking

    Tobacco smoking first started sometime in the 1400s. It was invented by natives in the Bahamas Islands. Instead of just pulling out a paper rolled cigarette, they had pipes. One end of the pipe was filled with burning tobacco leaves, while the other end of the pipe was where they inhaled the smoke. Many people all over the world today have been taken into this habit. Worldwide, there are approximately one billion smokers. This habit

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    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Today’s Military: Conservative, Right, and Principled

    Today’s Military: Conservative, Right, and Principled

    America’s society today is going through rough times; times where America is looking to its military protect and represent them. This military needs fight for every freedom the American people have, as well as to be its voice across seas to those it interacts with, to be its eyes seeing what the real situation is, to be its ears in hearing all that cannot be heard from the television sets of American homes, and to

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    Submitted: June 14, 2010 By: Anna
  • Tojo Hideki

    Tojo Hideki

    Tojo Hideki lived from 1884-1948 and he was a Japanese political and military leader. The premier who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, he personified Japanese militarism. Tojo Eiku (his name before he became premier) was born in Tokyo on Dec. 30 1884. The son of an army general, he graduated from the Japanese Military Academy in 1905, and 10 years later completed with honors his studies at the army war college.

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Tom Hayden

    Tom Hayden

    Tom Hayden Tom Hayden was born December 11th 1939 he was an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s Hayden was born in Detroit to parents who were Irish and later attended the University of Michigan, there he was editor of a newspaper and one of the founders of the student activist group SDS. The Students for a Democratic Society

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Tom Sawyer and American Progressivism

    Tom Sawyer and American Progressivism

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a novel that expresses many important themes regarding American progressivism. It is a novel based on actual events that tells a story about a young boy named Tom Sawyer living on the Mississippi river dealing with adventures revolving around his society and the people within it. The story has insights as to what life was like on the bridge of the progressive era through indications about

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    Submitted: June 10, 2010 By: Jon
  • Tommy's Day

    Tommy's Day

    U.S., Kuwait ask why bombing went terribly wrong WASHINGTON-- A team of Kuwaiti and U.S. investigators sorted through evidence on Tuesday trying to learn how and why a U.S. Navy jet dropped a 500-pound bomb near observers at a training range, killing six of them. The F/A-18 Hornet was taking part in a twice-yearly training flight on Monday when the accident happened. The training flights have been a regularly scheduled part of the Persian

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    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Tommys Day

    Tommys Day

    U.S., Kuwait ask why bombing went terribly wrong WASHINGTON-- A team of Kuwaiti and U.S. investigators sorted through evidence on Tuesday trying to learn how and why a U.S. Navy jet dropped a 500-pound bomb near observers at a training range, killing six of them. The F/A-18 Hornet was taking part in a twice-yearly training flight on Monday when the accident happened. The training flights have been a regularly scheduled part of the Persian

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Victor
  • Toms Cabin

    Toms Cabin

    Having run up large debts, a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelbyfaces the prospect of losing everything he owns. He decides that the only way to raise money is to sell two of his slaves to Mr. Haley, a coarse slave trader. The slaves are Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a family on the farm, and Harry the young son of Mrs. Shelby’s maid, Eliza Although Mrs. Shelby reassures her that Mr.Shelby will not sell

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Janna
  • Tonkin Gulf/pleiku/ia Drang Valley

    Tonkin Gulf/pleiku/ia Drang Valley

    Tonkin Gulf On August 2, 1964, the USS Maddox was attacked by torpedoes in international waters by North Vietnamese patrol boats miles away from the North Vietnamese coast. The USS Maddox evaded a torpedo attack and chased the ships away. Two days later, on August 4th, there were reports of another attack by the North Vietnamese but the reports were wrong. The responses to these attacks were bombing raids in North Vietnam. Other bombing raids

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Mike
  • Tools of Persuasion in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

    Tools of Persuasion in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

    Abraham Lincoln started out in life as a log-splitter in Springfield, Illinois, blossomed into one of America’s greatest president, and had his life ended too early in the President’s Box of Fords Theatre. His Gettysburg Address demonstrates why we now see him as that great man—he did not antagonize, nor did he show disrespect to the dead, even those who fought for the Confederacy. He treated them all as people of one country, and

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Top 10 Things to Know About John Adams

    Top 10 Things to Know About John Adams

    1. Defended British Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trial In 1770, Adams defended British soldiers accused of killing five colonists on Boston Green in what became known as the Boston Massacre. Even though he disagreed with British policies, he wanted to ensure the British soldiers got a fair trial. Sponsored Links 2. John Adams Nominated George Washington View Full-Size Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-7585 DLC John Adams realized the importance of

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Victor
  • Top Five Best Inventions

    Top Five Best Inventions

    Top Five Best Inventions of The 20th century Have you ever wondered how something was invented? Have you ever wondered why they were invented? Well, I have and this is the result of that wondering. During the twentieth century, inventions were needed to keep up with the times and be the best country we can be. Most of these inventions were used to keep up with the war, such as the radio and the airplane.

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    Submitted: May 22, 2010 By: Janna
  • Top Ten Most Progressive American Artists

    Top Ten Most Progressive American Artists

    TOP TEN MOST PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS The artists are not ranked according to influence or fame, they are simply listed chronologically, which I feel is the best way to exhibit the trends that they created. At first, I had intended to explain how each artist influenced the American culture, but upon beginning my research I found that sometimes it is the artist who influences the country, and sometimes it is the country that influences the

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    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Topeka Board of Education

    Topeka Board of Education

    The suit called for the school district to reverse its policy of racial segregation. Separate elementary schools were operated by the Topeka Board of Education under an 1879 Kansas law, which permitted (but did not require) districts to maintain separate elementary school facilities for black and white students in twelve communities with populations over 15,000. The plaintiffs had been recruited by the leadership of the Topeka NAACP. Notable among the Topeka NAACP leaders were the

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Marcus
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Tora! Tora! Tora! Pearl Harbor is probably one of the greatest known battles in history. It was not really a battle because of the one-sidedness by the Japanese. This slaughtering of Americans was uncalled for. The United States Military knew of the notions of the Japanese long before it occurred. The United States Government just sat around making futile attempts to create peace between the United States and the Japan. The United States did not

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Trace the Development of the Anglo-American Conflict. Could the Relationship Have Been Saved?

    Trace the Development of the Anglo-American Conflict. Could the Relationship Have Been Saved?

    Trace the development of the Anglo-American conflict. Could the relationship have been saved? Although American colonists always tried to negotiate the contentious policies which contradicted their principles with the British Parliament, the crown did not leave much room for the discussion fueling the Anglo-American debate with a stubborn constitutional position; with a ridiculous notion as virtual representation; with a large British army that limited the economic development of the country; with the unjust acts that

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Artur
  • Trading Peace for Profits

    Trading Peace for Profits

    As the Bible says "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under Heaven". Woodstock 1969, it was a time for love ... and hate. In a country with race riots and the Vietnam war a single dove perched on a guitar neck changed America for ever and brought a new light to the world in just 72 hours. Dubbed "three days of peace and love" the legacy of Woodstock spawned

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    Submitted: February 17, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Trading Peace for Profits

    Trading Peace for Profits

    As the Bible says “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under Heaven”. Woodstock 1969, it was a time for love ... and hate. In a country with race riots and the Vietnam war a single dove perched on a guitar neck changed America for ever and brought a new light to the world in just 72 hours. Dubbed “three days of peace and love” the legacy of Woodstock spawned

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Traffic and Urban Congestion: 1955-1970

    Traffic and Urban Congestion: 1955-1970

    In 1960, Great Britain still had no urban freeways. But with the ownership of private cars becoming ever more common, the problem of congestion in British cities was unavoidable. Investigating the possibilities of freeways as alleviators of big-city traffic jams, the government-sponsored Buchanan Report was pessimistic: ... the study shows the very formidable potential build-up of traffic as vehicular ownership and usage increase to the maximum. The accommodation of the full potential is almost certainly

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: David
  • Traffic Congestion, Air Pollution

    Traffic Congestion, Air Pollution

    asdfadfasfas adfasdfasdf asdf asdfasdf saf asf asdf asdf asdf asf asf asf asdf adfasdf asdf asdf The way in which artificial things are given form. Also changing this so as to take account of the effects upon customers, users and all who enjoy the benefits, or suffer the ill-effects, of industrial living. Each person who takes part in designing should be able to combine intuition with rationality. And each should be aware of, and able

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    Submitted: May 11, 2011 By: xnitsujxx
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