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New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.
<view this essay>.... pack of cigarettes. Upon pulling the pack of cigarettes out Mr. Choplick discovered cigarette rolling papers, which is closely associated with marijuana. He proceeded to search the purse to find a small amount of marijuana, a pipe, small empty plastic bags, a substantial amount of money all in one dollar bills, and two letters that implies that she is a dealer. Mr. Choplick notified her mother and the police and told her mother to take her to the police headquarters. A New Jersey juvenile court admitted the evidence, saying that the search of the purse was reasonable under the standard of enforcing school policy and maintaining school discipline. The cou .....
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WWII
<view this essay>.... economically impoverished and politically divided. It faced the possibility of social revolution. During the early 1920's Europe experienced an economic depression and the course of European politics was determined largely by the communist revolution, which engulfed many countries. In the late 1920's Europe achieved a measure of economic recovery. However, all hope of political stability in Europe was shattered by the results of the depression that hit the United States in 1929. In the 1930's widespread unemployment and acute distress strained social relationships in Europe. The communist movement soon overwhelmed Europe. The triumph in 1933 of fascism, under .....
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Cuban Revolution
<view this essay>.... 200,000 lives were
lost, until the Treaty of El Zanjun was signed. This agreement promised the government would reform
and abolish slavery and the tyrannical rule it held over the Cubans. The treaty was not honored
however, and resistance was again put up in 1885.
The Spanish king at the time Alfonso XIII, encouraged the use of concentration camps for
revolutionaries caught in battle. The Cuban Revolution became extremely bloody due to the use of
Guerrilla warfare. This military operation, conducted on its home terrain, consisted of inhabitants fed
up with oppressive rule. The men involved operated from bases located deep in the jungle, dense .....
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Women In Art
<view this essay>.... of art.
In “Looking at Women”, by Scott Russell Sanders, he looks into his experiences with women throughout his life and asks many questions about the use of their bodies. Whether it I used as art or not and why? He starts the essay out by telling a story from when he was eleven. It was pretty much his first experience looking at girl in a sexual way. Then he tells a story about how when he was in college his roommate had playmates plastered all over his walls. Sanders asks questions referring to his experiences like why do these women feel it necessary to pose nude for other people? And why do women buy expensive lingerie?
As we look at the past and the pre .....
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General Denis Sassou Nguesso And The Congo-Brazzaville Conflict
<view this essay>.... 1992 election, in ruins. Brazzaville, pounded by indiscriminate shelling, is all but deserted. More than 50 percent of Congo-Brazzaville's population of 2.6 million were urban based. Thousands are now scattered throughout the country and region.
Members of a UN inter-agency humanitarian assessment mission which arrived in the country on Tuesday reported the centre of the capital was "completely destroyed" and resembled a ghost town. They said dead bodies, many rotting, littered the streets. The mission, made up of field representatives from DHA, UNICEF, WFP, WHO and leading NGOs, also reported the cargo and passenger units of the Maya-Maya international airpo .....
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Reform Judaism In The 19th Cen
<view this essay>.... reform congregation in Berlin . At
this point he already disapproved of most liberal Rabbis and came to
be known as the most exemplar of reform Rabbis in all of Europe ( 241)
The question comes to mind as to what exactly triggered this
different belief in Judaism which differed significantly from previous
tenents. It started during the time of the French revolution, a time
when European Jews were (for the first time) recognized as citizens of
the countries in which they lived in. Ghettos were being abolished,
special badges were no longer required and Jews could dress the way
they wanted, settle were they pleased and work the o .....
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Courtly And Uncourtly Views Of
<view this essay>.... and uncourtly. The former of these categories developed from the lyrics of the Provenç-al troubadours. The latter is, in relation, a more modern view of women, one that sees them as irritating and stupid.
Courtly poetry, as I said, developed from the lyrics of the troubadours. Although there are many similarities, such as the woman’s high status, there are also many dissimilarities. One of the most obvious of these is these poets acceptance of the real world. It is difficult to find references to other women in the troubadours’ poetry let alone other relationships as one would find in the Middle English courtly lyric. An example of such a reference can be .....
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Asian Exclusion Laws
<view this essay>.... Exclusion Act, some 300,000 laborers arrived in California, and the act was intended to primarily prevent the entry of more laborers. The passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first attempt by congress to ban a group of immigrants based on race or color.
The only Chinese that legally entered the United States during the six decades the Exclusion Act was in place were those in “exempted classes” such as merchants, students, diplomats, and travelers (Chan). An unknown number illegally entered through the Canadian and Mexican borders and many others entered as “paper sons.” The act did not prevent Chinese immigration per se; it si .....
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