The authors writing style was very easy to read and follow, this book is divided into seven chapters, Origins, American Resistance, Revolution, Constitution-making and War, Republicanism, Republican Society, The Federal Constitution. In every chapter the author gives very good facts about each segment covered in the chapter, the book doesn't keep on talking about certain events for too long it just gives you the most important facts. The book is more like a bibliography of the American Revolution, this period is very complicated and important and this book answers some questions not cov...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee I learned things that cannot and will not tell you in the history books. ... Chapter two tells us about the Navahos. ... Chapter six brings upon Red Cloud and his peace treaties. ... Chapter 8 is about Donehogawa. ... In chapter 18 we find out that ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I told practicly everyone that i know, well everyone that i know that read books and instead of waiting for the movie based on it, to pick up a copy today or at least borrow mine. ... I'm not saying that I dislike Clinton as much as I dislike Bush, if I had one bullet i'd defintlay shoot Bush instead of Clinton, heck if i had to i'd problaby shoot Bush again just to make sure, but the view that Moore gave the reader with that chapter was nice, it gave the readers a chance to weigh matters more by themselves. ... On a personal note I particularly liked that chapter, I've bee...

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"Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress- by Howard Zinn The chapter "Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress- tells history from the point of view of history's victims. ... In the middle of the first chapter, Zinn uses the historical treatment of Columbus to explain his own view on teaching history. ... When we read history books given to the children in the United States, it all starts with heroic adventure -- there is no bloodshed -- and Columbus Day is a celebration- (7). ...

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Nothing but the truth should be taught in books and classrooms. ... History books always try to avoid talking about the horrors of slavery as well as discrimination. ... Loewen also indicates that in some history books, historians describe slaves as not wanting to be free. ... Loewen moves on to talk about America chooses not to talk about War so much, Specifically that Vietnam War in chapter 9, "See No Evil " of his book. ... History books also leave out the fact that Wilson had a bit of a race issue during his Presidency. ...

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Now the next few chapters were very well written due to the fact that as stated before knowing the exact consequences to war are impossible, the writer tells of mass hysteria, destruction, panic, and the launch of missiles by every major country including the China, but the book does have one flaw in its attempt to stay as close to possible realistic outcome, when Pat Frank was writing this novel talk of the star wars project was being passed around American fiction novels and he incorporates this into his book as the United Nations only recourse to try and prevent war. ... This two chapter sy...

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The book is also written in a way that it could be split in half and both halves would be perfectly satisfactory books. ... In chapter six, Egan easily could have said a few small fires near Wallace occurred but rather says, "a string of fires not far from Wallace, a row of nasty flames, small but intense, whipped up by the big electrical storm of July 26.... The chapters that follow the flames contain such detail and emotion it is extremely evident how much Egan knows about his subject, and he sincerely wants this story to be told. ...

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Ellis pulls the reader into the middle of the action by including the debate on the controversial subject of slavery in the chapter. ... If the government was to end slavery, they would face the problem from one of Jefferson's books that "both races could not live together on equal terms because of deep rooted prejudices entertained by white," and since both races couldn't live in equal terms they must be removed to some other location (Ellis 99). ... Ellis ends the chapter by explaining that since slavery was off the Congress' agenda for the next 20 years, it would no...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Below Title III, the next tier of privacy protection covers some of those matters, which the Supreme Court has described as beyond the reach of the Fourth Amendment protection - telephone records, e-mail held in third party storage, and the like, 18 U.S.C. 2701-2709 (Chapter 121). ... Least demanding and perhaps least intrusive of all is the procedure that governs court orders approving the government's use of trap and trace devices and pen registers, a kind of secret "caller id", which identify the source and destination of calls made to and from a particular telephone, 18 U.S.C. 3...

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• Grade Level: High School

The books he has written, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have helped to influence presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. ... The book is filled with intriguing chapters on history and a bold analysis of present-day America. ...

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Joyce Riley, an American Legion chapter leader once said "I was visiting the Desert Strormers at the VA Hospital and after two weeks I had the same illness they did just from visiting them at the VA." ... Multiple books and cases of illness have been published and denied. ...

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American History Module Two Chapter 2 Assessment and Activities Reviewing Key Terms - On a sheet of paper, use each of these terms in a sentence. 1. ... Las Casas also published several books describing the destruction of the Native Americans. His books were read throughout Europe, creating pressure on the Spanish to change their policies. ...

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Theory links up the research and the problem, which is examined in the research. Theory allows the researchers a streamline of action. It is a set of logical, coherent, interrelated concepts, which attempt to explain some observable phenomena or group of facts. Review of the literature provides awareness of the facts and researcher gets a guideline for the inquiry of the problem. Theory is a systematic explanation for the observed facts and laws that are related to particular aspects of life. ...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of their success and affluence. Aesthetics is the key word Marling uses to describe the consumer culture of the 1950s, with a growing emphasis on the new, bright, fresh and colorful. As Seen on TV centers not on the study of television, but on the transformation of visual culture coinciding with the eme...

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Engs, Editor Back to table of contents | Copyright Page Home Page | Article List | Questionnaires | Books | Search this site | Health Hints | Resume Introduction As a researcher and educator who has investigated drinking patterns for almost twenty years, I have become deeply concerned over increased polarization between different factions in the field during the past decade in the United States and to a minor extent in Canada. ...

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Chapter 1 - Introduction The topic of this thesis focuses on participation in sports by a company. ... Chapter 2 - Literature Review Brand Loyalty "The term "marketing" usually conjures images of consumer packaged goods and advertising campaigns " (Olivia, 2007) but in reality this is only a very small part of marketing. ...

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