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Democracy -- Good Or Bad
<view this essay>.... actions were appropriate because his life was in danger. However, with pressure from "three dozen chanting protesters . . . demanding a public investigation," Mayor Daley told the superintendent of the police, Terry Hilliard, to investigate. This is an example of Aristotle's feared democracy – selfish rule by the poor and needy. Aristotle promoted instead, government by constitution -- rule by many heading to the needs of the state instead of striving for personal gain. The founding fathers of the United States heeded Aristotle's advice realizing the fallibility of the general population, thus starting our country as a Republic. A republic is similar .....
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The Beginning Of A Journey
<view this essay>.... Jefferson, now president of the United States, read Mackenzie’s account of his journey to the Pacific. Mackenzie’s recommendation that the British government assume control of the Columbia River troubled Jefferson, who feared for the national interest if the British appropriated the West coast and all avenues inland from it for themselves.
Thomas Jefferson won approval from Congress in 1803 for a visionary project that was to become one of American history's greatest adventure stories. Jefferson wanted to know if Americans could journey overland to the Pacific Ocean following two rivers, the Missouri and the Columbia, which flow east and west from the Ro .....
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Men In Black
<view this essay>.... or mechanical voices. They drive vintage luxury cars that are in mint condition. They sometimes have writing on the side, and the license plates are usually untraceable. They are said to have a sort of a glow coming from the inside, but they have no headlights.
If a person were to have an encounter with an extra-terrestrial, as the “myth” goes, they would be visited shortly after by a member of the MIB. They most often appear in-groups of three. As the story goes the officer working for the MIB states that he is with the government and quickly flashes an identity card. After the encounter the members of the MIB do not seem to have any record with the g .....
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Descarte 2
<view this essay>.... or constantly deceived, he could at least be certain that he had thoughts, and therefore existed as a thinking being. If an individual has an idea, then that individual would understand it and assent to its content. If, as Descartes claimed, I am born with the idea of God, who embedded that idea in me at my creation, then my understanding of what God is should conform to that idea. Thus he wrote, the idea must be a "clear and distinct" perception of the mind. Nothing could make him doubt it. Furthermore, in Discourse on the method, Descartes introduced the famous Latin phrase “cogito ergo sum”, which means “I think, therefore I am.” Descartes then argue .....
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Babe Ruth
<view this essay>.... or whether he even intended it captured the
imagination of baseball fans, as did everything about this great
player.
The Babe's achievements loom larger in the record books. The
left-hander held or shared about 60 records, with 28 made in World
Series games. Among them were his record of pitching 29 consecutive
scoreless innings in World Series play and his total of 714 major
league homers not including 15 World Series homers.
George Herman Ruth was born in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 6, 1895.
His father, a saloonkeeper, placed him in St. Mary's Industrial School
when George was 7. There he learned to play baseball. In .....
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Cedar Rapids Community School
<view this essay>.... that most of them are already provided for some other students; that the District did not contend that only a licensed physician could provide the services; and that applicable federal regulations require the District to furnish “school health services,” which are provided by a “qualified school nurse or other qualified person,” but not “medical services,” which are limited to services provided by a physician. The Federal District Court agreed and the Court of Appeals affirmed
Issues: Does this fall under the Americans with disabilities act, and is the Cedar Rapids school district liable for providing a qualified nurse to attend to his needs during the scho .....
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Civil War
<view this essay>.... discussing the war itself, one must understand the Union’s and the Confederate’s arguments and reasons for going to war. Let’s start at the beginning, when the South was first showing animosity for the North, which eventually led to sessionist ideas by the South.
The Compromise of 1850 was drafted in response to the threat of a Southern Convention, because of Zachary Taylors decision to carve out two huge territories in the Far West and to admit them in the union as free states. Henry Clay drafted the compromise, which includes eight parts. "The first pair would admit California as a State and organize the remainder of the Mexican cession without .....
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Oscar Wilde
<view this essay>.... children, Henry, Emily, and Mary. His sister, Isola Emily Francesca died in 1867 at only ten years of age from a sudden fever, greatly affecting Oscar and his family. He kept a lock of her hair in an envelope and later wrote the poem ‘Requiescat’ in her memory.
Oscar and his brother William both attended the Protora Royal School at Enniskillen. He had little in common with the other children. He disliked games and took more interest in flowers and sunsets. He was extremely passionate about anything that had to do with ancient Greece and with Classics.
Wilde during school years
In 1871, he was awarded a Royal School Scholarship to Trinity College in .....
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