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  • The American Civil War

    The American Civil War

    The American Civil War This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. In this document, I will speak mainly around those involved on the battlefield in the closing days of the conflict. Also, reference will be made to the leading men behind the Union and Confederate forces. The war was beginning

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    Essay Length: 2,516 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Reconstruction - the Civil War, During Reconstruction, and During the Civil Rights Movements

    Reconstruction - the Civil War, During Reconstruction, and During the Civil Rights Movements

    RECONSTRUCTION The American Revolution was a glorious war fought to free the American colonies from the British rule. Although we won that war, there were still many people who were not free from our rule. One people in general were the black slaves. The black people had many struggles to freedom, which helped shape, our American culture today. Three different periods characterized their struggles: the slaves Before the Civil War, during Reconstruction, and during the

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    Essay Length: 849 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Medicine During the Civil War 1861-1865

    Medicine During the Civil War 1861-1865

    Medicine During the Civil War 1861-1865 When Walt Whitman wrote that he believed the "real war" would never get into the books, this is the side he was talking about (Belferman 1996). Yet, it is important that we remember and recall the medical side of the conflict too, as horrible and terrifying as it was (Adams 1952). Long before doctors and people knew anything about bacteria and what caused disease was the time of Civil

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    Essay Length: 1,784 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • American War for Independence

    American War for Independence

    Perhaps the most famous of all progressive historians is Frederick Jackson Turner. His most famous argument is not devoted strictly to the American Revolution, but instead to the effects of the American frontier. In a sentence, his argument is that the frontier was the chief determinant in American history. This is not to say that Turner did not write about the war; he did. Even in his seminal work, The Frontier in American History, there

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    Essay Length: 2,373 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • War in Iraq

    War in Iraq

    The war in Iraq brings up a lot of questions, about the future decisions of President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush. After the terrorist attack on the United States, which shook the whole world, US went to war with Iraq. I believe that this is a war on terrorism, and not an "Oil War", how other like to refer to it. United States want to liberate people in Iraq and

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    Essay Length: 533 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: David
  • Trapped in a Fake World

    Trapped in a Fake World

    To understand what it truly means to be a brain in a vat one must understand the meaning of these words. The proper definition of "Vat" is a large vessel, tube, cistern, or barrel used to hold or store liquids. So essentially what it means to be a brain in a vat is to be a brain in a vessel with sustaining liquid and neural connections. Neural connections mean electronic or organic connections from your

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    Essay Length: 526 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Analytical Look at "traffic" and the U.S. War on Drugs

    Analytical Look at "traffic" and the U.S. War on Drugs

    How effective is the United States war on drugs? This a question that Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, cracks wide open. Traffic follows three story lines and depicts the powerful force that is drugs. Robert Wakefield is the recently appointed drug czar who finds out his daughter Caroline is a drug addict. Javier Rodriguez is a cop in Mexico who is attempting his own war on drugs in the corrupt world of Mexican drug enforcement.

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    Essay Length: 633 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Do You Agree That International Organizations Are the Ideal Solution-Providers for the Problems of a Globalizing World? Use Case Studies of Environmental Issues, Refugee Plight and Poverty Where Appropriate.

    Do You Agree That International Organizations Are the Ideal Solution-Providers for the Problems of a Globalizing World? Use Case Studies of Environmental Issues, Refugee Plight and Poverty Where Appropriate.

    Essay Question: Do you agree that International Organizations are the ideal solution-providers for the problems of a globalizing world? Use case studies of environmental issues, refugee plight and poverty where appropriate. It is inevitable that states have to put aside their national boundaries and come together to “cooperate, adjust, accommodate and compromise” to solve global problems and resolve conflicts which by definition of globalisation (the interconnectedness of states) would have spill-over effects on political, economic

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    Essay Length: 2,523 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Kashmir - Causes and Effects of Wars

    Kashmir - Causes and Effects of Wars

    Our group topic: "Causes and Effects of Wars" provoked me to write about the threatening dispute of "Jammu and Kashmir" which has become more threatening after the nuclear capabilities of India and Pakistan. My main claim revolves around the theme that the burning dispute of Kashmir, between India and Pakistan can play a vital role in the emergence of third world war and can act as battle-field for a nuclear war. Due to geographical and

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    Essay Length: 273 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Mad World

    The Mad World

    is better to be mad with the rest of the world than to be wise alone (against) Or should i ask u “Is it better to be mad with the rest of the world than to be wise alone?”. The world is full of sound and fury. There is frenzy, there is fever but i shall keep my composure, my serenity, my sagacity. In this topsy turvy world I shall kindle the light of faith,

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    Essay Length: 701 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Yan
  • Civil War Reconstruction

    Civil War Reconstruction

    Southern plantation owners rebuild their devastated lands and attempt to negotiate new labor arrangements with their former slaves. When black men are given the right to vote, they elect hundreds of black legislators to state and national offices, even though the elections are preceded by threats and violence while some northerners travel South to enforce post-Civil War order and protect former slaves. White Southerners view the new arrivals as "carpetbaggers" -- opportunists and exploiters bent

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    Essay Length: 261 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Steve
  • World Religions Report

    World Religions Report

    World Religions Report This report will be an in-depth and inside look at the Pentecostal Christian denomination. Pentecostalism is a newer branch to Christianity, and actually had roots in Methodism. Pentecostal is one form of conservative Christianity and developed from the Holiness Movement around the early 1800’s (Christian Meta Groups, 2007). The Articles of Faith are Christian dotrines that the Pentecostals follow such as the Bible being inspired by the word of God, the creation

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    Essay Length: 2,112 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Bred
  • Acid Rain - a Contemporary World Problem

    Acid Rain - a Contemporary World Problem

    ACID RAIN - A CONTEMPORARY WORLD PROBLEM Abstract This paper explores how acid rain is produced, what its impact is on the environment, what has been done by government agencies to help the problem, how effective these measures have been, what individuals can do to help reduce this problem, what are the current technologies for reducing emissions and how these technologies can be used to reduce acid rain in the future. It demonstrates that current

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    Essay Length: 2,253 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War begin in 14 and end in 1763. The resulted in France's loss of all its possession in North America and The British claims Canada and North American for themselves. Before the war, the most people were ignored the Navigation Act, and they don't pay their tax. Need the money for war, British's government started to forces people pay their tax. In 1764, The Sugar Act is passed by the English

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: regina
  • Civil War Events

    Civil War Events

    The Civil War was the bloodiest, most violent war in all of America's history. It pitted brother against brother and father against son and caused more deaths than all of America's wars before or since combined. The cause for the Civil War was not any single event or action, but a combonation of many events and actions. It was a sort of snowball effect, but this snowball had a rock in the center - slavery.

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Problem Solution: Usa World Bank

    Problem Solution: Usa World Bank

    Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: USA WORLD BANK Problem Solution: USA World Bank University of Phoenix MBA 510 – Managerial Decision Making Problem Solution: USA World Bank For USA World Bank, a major player in the banking industry, future profitability hinges on fulfilling the needs of an industry, which for years has struggled to survive because of the increase competition. In an effort to revitalize the company, USA World Bank’s Board of Directors decided the company

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Monika
  • Issues of the Civil War

    Issues of the Civil War

    Beginning with the Revolutionary War, and followed by the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, the United States carried a mentality for warfare into the time of the Civil War. The pursuit of happiness and liberty, along with the right to bear arms boosted the environment of a civil war. In conjunction with political motives there were also economic and cultural reasons to begin war. The Southern states wanted their own governing

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    Essay Length: 741 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Roles African American in Civil War

    The Roles African American in Civil War

    In the history of the United States, African Americans have always been discriminated against. When Africans first came to America, they were taken against their will and forced to work as laborers. They became slaves to the rich, greedy, lazy Americans. They were given no pay and often badly whipped and beaten. African Americans fought for their freedom, and up until the Civil War it was never given to them. When the Civil War began,

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    Essay Length: 699 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The World Bank on Sustainable Development

    The World Bank on Sustainable Development

    MacDonald 1 As a core fundamental and central organization, it is essential to recognize the World Bank’s unwavering commitment and contribution to international environmental and developmental programs. As the top funding agency to international organizations, NGO’s, independent countries, and other societal groups the World Bank plays a marquee role in international funding in an increasingly industrializing world and changing market economy. It might be presumptuous to label the World Bank as an elitist organization

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    Essay Length: 1,578 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Max
  • The Social and Political Attitudes of Brave New World

    The Social and Political Attitudes of Brave New World

    What if there was a place where you did not have to, or rather, you could not think for yourself? A place where one’s happiness was controlled and rationed? How would you adapt with no freedom of thought, speech, or happiness in general? In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, there are many different attitudes portrayed with the purpose to make the reader think of the possible changes in our society and

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    Essay Length: 700 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Janna
  • Religion in World Lit

    Religion in World Lit

    Religion plays a huge part in Stephen Dedalus’s as well as many other peoples lives around the world. To fully understand how much religion effected Stephen, one must have a concept of the setting of the novel. Stephen grew up in Ireland when the country was going through religious turmoil, political hardships and suffering financial. The two major religions in Ireland are Catholic and Protestant. Though out Ireland’s history the two have been basically at

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    Essay Length: 978 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Anna
  • Material World: Real or Illusion. Judaism and Buddhism

    Material World: Real or Illusion. Judaism and Buddhism

    Material World: Real or illusion? Buddhism and Judaism Buddhism Just like in a competition, society has been forced to change and evolve drastically according to every human need. Although it is obvious that it must have certain adjustments every now and then to work along with individuals, transformations are now more frequently. This shows the loss of power and lack of control of society over the population. It can be showed especially with failure attempts

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    Essay Length: 559 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Media Complicity and the Iraq War

    Media Complicity and the Iraq War

    May 18, 2004 Mahdi Nawaf had not slept much the previous night. It was not the sound of gunshots, nor was it the resounding boom of cluster bombs exploding in the darkness, that had hindered his rest. No; by now, he had become accustomed to this soundtrack of war, that played day and night right outside his front door. Today was his wedding day. Mahdi, a simple Iraqi carpenter, had met a woman named Samira.

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: regina
  • Terrence Malick’s "the Thin Red Line" and Hollywood’s Traditional Depictions of War

    Terrence Malick’s "the Thin Red Line" and Hollywood’s Traditional Depictions of War

    THEThin Red Line is a three-hour epic about the World War II, directed by Terrence Malick, who made his comeback to the film industry after 20 years with a subject that had been neglected for almost as long.(1) The film is based on James Jones’ novel, published in 1962, which was first adapted for the big screen by Andrew Marton in 1964 rather unsuccessfully. For many years, the book seemed to defy cinematic adaptation due

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    Essay Length: 3,878 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • Kobe Bryant: Hero or Ballhog in the World of "infor-Tainment"

    Kobe Bryant: Hero or Ballhog in the World of "infor-Tainment"

    Kobe Bryant: Hero or Ballhog in the world of "Infor-tainment" By Farid Khan May 7, 2007 Kobe Bryant is a second generation basketball player and is the son of former NBA player Joe "Jellybean" Bryant. Kobe is more talented and more famous than his father who played in the late 70's and early 80's. Kobe was born in 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents named him after the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they

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    Essay Length: 347 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike

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