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  • Ancient Egypt - It's Rise and Fall

    Ancient Egypt - It's Rise and Fall

    1. The rise of the Egyptian empire During 12,000 B.C. early hunter-gatherers had appered to have moved into the Nile River Valley. Through time, these groups turned to farming and formed settlements along the river. This was the begining of the Ancient Egyptian empire. Throughout this empire many scientific advancements were made in mathematics and scienc alike. Many monuments were built in Giza and Luxor that still stand as monuments in the eternal desert sands

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    Submitted: December 6, 2008 By: Jack
  • Celilo Falls

    Celilo Falls

    Celilo Falls Celilo Falls named after the "Si-le-lah" tribe, was located about one hundred and two miles from Portland Oregon. Today Celilo falls no longer exists because the Dalles Dam was built March 10 1957; it was covered up by what is now Lake Celilo. Celilo Falls was a very important place for Native Americans nearby. Many tribes used the falls for fishing. Fishing platforms were built next to the water and men would spend

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    Submitted: February 17, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Road from Seneca Falls

    The Road from Seneca Falls

    Title: The road from SENECA FALLS. (cover story) Source: New Republic, 08/10/98, Vol. 219 Issue 6, p26, 12p, 3bw Author(s): Stansell, Christine Abstract: Reviews several books related to women's suffrage and feminism. В‘The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady STANTON and Susan B. Anthony, Volume One: In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840-1866,' edited by Ann D. Gordon; В‘Harriet STANTON Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage,' by Ellen Carol DuBois; В‘Woman Suffrage and the Origins of

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    Submitted: February 17, 2009 By: Steve
  • Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power

    Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power

    Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn't always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a teacher and a socialist correspondent. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. Benito Mussolini founded the Fasci di Combattimento on March of 1919. "This was a nationalistic, anti liberal,

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Rise and Fall of Nazism

    The Rise and Fall of Nazism

    - Hitler was fully responsible for the order for the mass executions in Poland in 1939 and 1940. He was also actively engaged in setting up plans for a Jewish reservation in Poland and he backed the Madagascar plan. He was continually preoccupied with further deportations and deportation plans. - In 1941 Hitler ordered the extermination of every potential enemy in the occupied Eastern territories. He was fully aware of mass executions of Jewish civilians

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    Submitted: March 2, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power

    Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power

    Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn't always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. Benito Mussolini founded the Fasci di Combattimento on March of 1919. "This was a nationalistic, anti liberal, and anti socialist movement. This movement

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    Submitted: March 16, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Fall of the Bastille

    Fall of the Bastille

    Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution! "Your Majesty! They have stormed the Bastille!" exclaimed King Louis XVI's aide. "Is this a revolt?" asked the king. "No, sire, it's a revolution." On July 14, 1789, a huge, angry mob marched to the Bastille, a high security prison that symbolized royal tyranny, searching for gun powder and prisoners that had been taken by the unpopular and detested King, Louis XVI (Time Life 1999). The flying

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    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Short Review on Snow Falling on Cedars

    Short Review on Snow Falling on Cedars

    Evocative and extremely well written, this book lets the mind soar throughout all different types of drama. The fictional world the write has created is so realistic that the atmosphere is unmistakably recognized. Including history and romance, this incredibly written book satisfies the reader in ways no book can. The primary pleasure of the book is David Guterson's interpretation of the diverse characters and the beautiful places. Set on an island in the straits north

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    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. New York, New York Copyright 1959 Author Biography Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, or Chinua Achebe, was born November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, Nigeria. His parents were Janet N. Achebe, and Isaiah Okafo, a teacher in a missionary school. Mr. Achebe was educated at the University College of Ibadan, but also attended Government College in 1944. He wrote his first novel, Things Fall Apart, in

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    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • An Analysis of the Meanings of Seneca Falls

    An Analysis of the Meanings of Seneca Falls

    While being born in the modern times, no woman knows what it was like to have a status less than a man's. It is hard to envision what struggles many women had to go through in order to get the rights to be considered equal. In the essay The Meanings of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998, Gerda Lerner recalls the events surrounding the great women's movement. Among the several women that stand out in the movement, Elizabeth

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    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: Vika
  • Childhood Obesity

    Childhood Obesity

    Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity has become an epidemic over the past ten years in the United States. It is also becoming a national problem. Children all over America are not getting in enough physical activity and aren’t eating healthy for a number of reasons. There are roughly 22 million under the age of 5 years who are overweight around the world. There are many ways to prevent and or help children with obesity and also

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    How Things Fall Apart There was a man who dreamed as a child of being well known and respected throughout his village and neighboring villages. This man, Okonko, worked hard at his goal, and he achieved it. Okonko, a man with great strength and personality, had achieved his goal to become rich and famous, a privilege that was unseen before in his family. Although Okonko reached his goal at an early age, his life began

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Max
  • The Fall of one of the Largest Species

    The Fall of one of the Largest Species

    Animal endangerment is bad. We know that by now. It means animals are going extinct by either themselves, humans, or the environmental causes. That's bad for us humans and the environment, which is eventually bad for us. We depend on this, yet we are doing so many things that hurt the animals and the biosphere. For one, the oil dumping into the oceans. This hurts are oceans and the animals and plants that live in

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Second Republic and Its Fall

    The Second Republic and Its Fall

    The Second Republic and Its Fall One of many hurdles that Nigeria had to overcome in the attempt to return to civilian rule, and then to have such a new system entrenched, was the fact that competitive politics encouraged recourse to sectional identification. On the one hand, there is need for a understanding of the nature of the dynamics of Nigerian society, especially with regard to the phenomenon of ethnicity. On the other hand,

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Niagara Falls

    Niagara Falls

    Niagara Falls holds mystery and intrigue for people around the world. We think of the Falls as one entity, when in fact three separate waterfalls make up the popular tourist spot. When standing on the Canadian side of the US/Canada border and looking toward the Falls, you see the American Falls to the left. A smaller waterfall toward the center is the "Bridal Veil Falls." To the right is the "Horseshoe" or Canadian Falls. The

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Artur
  • Things Fall Apart Chapter Summary

    Things Fall Apart Chapter Summary

    Chapter 20 Plot: · Okonkwo returns to his clan in Umuofia. · Okonkwo faces the changes in the clan due to the white missionaries. Themes Power Umuofia is a strong and powerful clan. It is for this reason that Okonkwo wants to regain his authority within the clan. He wants to “show his wealth”. This can be achieved by having one of the wealthiest suitor for one of his daughters. Umuofia used to be powerful

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Victor
  • Obesity - Socioeconomic Status

    Obesity - Socioeconomic Status

    A hundred years ago in the United States, obesity was a mark of wealth and leisure. People who could afford to eat what they wanted and manage to pay others to work for them were the ones that put on the extra pounds. The economics of obesity have changed significantly since then, with the burden of weight and obesity falling disproportionately on the poor. There is a powerful inverse relation between obesity and socioeconomic status

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: July
  • Our Obeses Environment

    Our Obeses Environment

    Our Obese Environment Recently over the past few years, much has been reported about childhood and youth obesity. Contemporary articles in the American Medical Association reported that 15% of 5-19 year olds, which is estimated at 9,000,000 in the United States, are overweight, and the amount of childhood obesity has raised attention regarding both the psychological and physical health of our nation’s youth. How did this happen? The National Institute of Diabetes, & Digestive &

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Monika
  • Masculinity..Falling?

    Masculinity..Falling?

    'Masculinity' is a concept that is made up of more rigid stereotypes than femininity. Representations of men across all media tend to focus on the following: Strength - physical and intellectual Power Sexual attractiveness (which may be based on the above) Physique Independence (of thought, action) Male characters are often represented as isolated, as not needing to rely on others (the lone hero). If they capitulate to being part of a family, it is often

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • Obesity

    Obesity

    Today, approximately 25 percent of children and teenagers are obese and the number is on the rise. Since the1960's childhood obesity has increased by 54 percent in children ages six to eleven. In children twelve to seventeen it has increased by 39 percent. (Silberstein, 1) Childhood obesity is so prevalent among these age groups that it has reached epidemic proportions. One cause of childhood obesity is genetics. Children who have parents or siblings who are

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Exercise and Obesity

    Exercise and Obesity

    Introduction There is a growing understanding of how certain levels of physical activity may positively affect cardiovascular, musculosketetal, respiratory and endocrine function, as well as mental health (Kravitz, 2007). The Surgeon General's report (1996) on physical activity and health emphasizes that regular participation in moderate physical activity is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle. Several studies (Haapanen et al, 1996, Lee et al, 1994) have shown that physical activity enhances health and reduces the

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • What Is Obesity?

    What Is Obesity?

    What is Obesity? We all have and need fat tissue in our bodies. When there is too much body fat, the result is obesity. Obesity is not a sign of a person being out of control. It is a serious medical disease that affects over a quarter of adults in the United States, and about 14% of children and adolescents. It is the second leading cause of preventable death after smoking. Think about these questions:

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Astrology After the Fall of Rome

    Astrology After the Fall of Rome

    Constantine's acceptance of Christianity in 312 CE (Whitfield 77) was to be a symbol of monumental significance concerning the direction that the astrological tradition would take in the Early Middle Ages. As the Roman Empire continued to fall apart due to invasions from all sides and moral and economic instabilities from within, Christianity (along with its general hostility to many forms of classical knowledge, especially astrology) rose to power and dominated the spiritual and intellectual

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: regina
  • Obesity

    Obesity

    With smoking at the top of the ranks at number one for the cause of unnecessary deaths, obesity is not far behind holding at the number two spot. Each year in the United States, obesity causes approximately three hundred thousand deaths. In a sense, obesity is similar to the AIDS virus in that the disease does not kill individuals itself, but the illnesses that come along with obesity do kill. For instance, being obese increases

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Victor
  • Obesity in Children

    Obesity in Children

    Obesity in Children What is Obesity? Obesity is when there is excessive amount of fat in the body. For a child to be overweight their body mass index (BMI) that is 25 of more . This is a problem in the United States because the number of children who are becoming overweight is growing. This common chronic disease will be an even greater health problem when those children turn to adults. Problems at school and

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mike

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