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Charles Canady
<view this essay>.... justice, he served as Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Criminal Justice from 1988 to 1989 and as a member of the Crime Prevention and Law Enforcement Study Commission from 1987 to 1988. He was also the Majority Whip from 1986 to 1988.
In 1989 Canady got smart and switched his political party from Democrat to Republican. In 1992 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He promised during his campaign in 1992 to serve no more than four consecutive terms in the House.
was first elected to represent the people of Florida's 12th District in the U.S. House of Representatives on November 3, 1992; this district includes most of Polk c .....
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American Indian Stories
<view this essay>.... In fact, the first year the trip fell on the Fourth of July and as we drove in, our vehicles were bombarded with fireworks. I could never really grasp why we were so despised. After all, our intentions were commendable. The matter became clearer after I read Zitkala-sa’s “”. Within this text, a Native American expresses her beliefs that actions similar to ours serve merely in altering culture.
The main character’s civilization had religious beliefs long before the white man presented his ideas. Essentially, the Sioux religion was based on nature. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact beliefs of the group because of the defi .....
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Amelia Earhart
<view this essay>.... Amelia decided to train as a nurses aid in Toronto and served as a Voluntary Aid
Detachment nurse at a military hospital until the Armistice in November 1918. In
the fall of 1919 Amelia enrolled as a pre-med student at Columbia University. In
1920 she decided to join her mother and father in California. They had recently
reunited and were encouraging the sisters to join them. Several months after her
arrival in California Amelia and her father went to an "aerial meet" at Daugherty
Field in Long Beach. She had become very interested in flying. The next day, given a
helmet and goggles, she boarded the open-cockpit biplane for a 10 minute flight over .....
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Hinduism
<view this essay>.... world, and the religion is still practiced by those whose families have migrated from India to other parts of the world, such as East Africa, South Africa, Southeast Asia, the East Indies, and England.
A few usage's are observed by almost all Hindus: reverence for Brahmans (priests), and cows; no eating meat specially beef; the wide variety of beliefs and practices; and marriage between the caste.
Most Indus worship Shiva, Vishnu, or Devi, but they also worship hundreds of additional minor gods, such as Sarsuati and Ganesha depending on a particular place or to a particular family.
The ultimate authority for all Hindus are the Vedas. The oldest of the four Ved .....
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90s
<view this essay>.... became the name of an internet
fan club and chat group. It didn't stop there, in 1995, a magazine of
the same name went into publication, and "No Depression" soon became
the leading title for a progressive alternative country movement. Other
names include "insurgent country" "Americana," or simply "alt.country,"
the latter is a reminder of the role the internet has played in the
growth and publicity of this movement. For the most part, No
Depression or alt.country bands aren't much of a threat to the sales
figures of mainstream Nashville country artists. But the speed with
which this music has caught on has shown that a substantial number of
people .....
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The Hero Of Con Air
<view this essay>.... rapist, attacks a woman guard in attempt to change his name to Johnny 24, Poe stands up and refuses to let the rape occur. Poe also displays his courage by refusing to give up or get off the plane until he successfully saves the innocent lives on board. Poe is not the only hero. Vince Larkin, an officer of the law also displays many acts of courage. He refuses to shoot the plane down because of the innocent victims on board. Another prisoner, Garland Green, a brutal serial killer, displays more courage. When he comes across a young girl playing alone outside her house, he has a chance to turn her into a victim. But, remarkably, he does her no harm. .....
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Impact Of The Spanish American War
<view this essay>.... at its neighboring countries for new costumes. Sadly, most of these countries were under Spanish control. One of them was Cuba. Soon the US politicians realized that the only way of getting control of its neighbors was by taking it in the most common, human way, which is through war.
However, because the memory of the words of some great US presidents was still strong in the nation's mind, the US government could not just start a war for territorial control. By doing so the US risked being labeled as a hypocrite nation, for the US itself used to be a colony. But the politicians, and the business owners did not give up their domination dreams and silently .....
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Titanic
<view this essay>.... - builders figured that the
Titanic would take from one to three days to sink, time for nearby ships to help,
because there was only 16 lifeboats. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that
way.
On April 14th, 1912 at about 7:30, at the first ominous hint of disaster
has came. Into the earphones of the wireless operator on duty came amessage from
the steamer California: Three large bergs five miles southward from us. But the
Titanic continued to rush through the deepening darkness. The temperature was
one degree above freezing. When lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee had
come on duty at 10 P.M., the sky was cloudless and the air clear. At aro .....
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