There are invaluable lessons learned through experience that simply cannot be replicated in the classroom. ... This is just the beginning of basic knowledge students need to know before going out on their own. ... It is amazing to note the amount of self-confidence that is gained from knowing how to get around in a city. ... He held a high position with the Somali government before the civil war. ...

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• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: High School

In 1895 Secretary of State Olney wrote a note to the British Prime Minister in which he reasserted the Monroe Doctrine and claimed that no European power had the right to interfere in "American" affairs. ... Over the next twenty years, between 16,000 and 22,000 workers died from malaria, yellow fever, typhoid, snake bites, and accidents. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted to Congress." the National Banking Act and the authorization of Unite...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School