It is necessary for the reader to understand what prohibition was intended to do and how it came about in order to determine if it failed. ... Dry leaders, had been in such a rush to make the prohibition a law, that they had failed to think about what enforcing it would actually mean. ... In 1926, Senator James Reed of Missouri asked Lee Post, a student at Yale University, whether or not the prohibition law had had any influence on the campus (Ohio State 1). Lee responded, "the greater the attempts at enforcement the stronger the sentiment against it." ... Then Senator James Reed asked if in o...

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• Grade Level: High School

From the anti-slavery perspective, the issue was primarily about whether the system of slavery was an anachronistic evil that was incompatible with Republicanism in the United States. ... Previous regional independence movements such as the Greek revolt in the Ottoman Empire, division, and division in the Latin American political map, and the British-French Crimean triumph leading to an interest in redrawing Europe along cultural differences, all conspired to make for a time of upheaval and uncertainty about the basis of the nation-state. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another situation was the raid at Harpers Ferry. ... Lee. ... Virginia had long been undecided about which side to join. ... When the Civil War began, about 22 million people lived in the North. ... The South had only about 1 million white men from 15 through 40. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1831, Turner and from 60 to 70 other slaves killed about 60 whites in Virginia. ... In addition, angry whites killed about 100 innocent slaves. ... Brown, with only eighteen men, five of whom were Negroes, attacked and captured the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W. ... Lee. ... Although her career was short, it set the stage for the African American women speakers who followed: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman, among others. ...

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A parallel can be drawn from Harper Lee's life. ... This reflects Harper Lee because her father was a lawyer and she studied law at university. ... She also feels worthless, and thinks about running away or if this is not possible to never "eating or drinking more" (P.10). ... She at first thinks about where the light could be coming from. ... He then recounts what he was told about Jane from her benefactress. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald, 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell and 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee, in an attempt to bring us closer to answering that seemingly unanswerable question - what really is love? ... The results of a US study published in the Journal of Family Psychology states, "It is rather remarkable that so many people would think that there is no possibility that their marriage will end in divorce when half or more of all marriages are terminated in divorce...positive illusions about marriage appear to be more powerful than illusions about other aspects o...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

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• Has Bibliography
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Yet, he returned to Harvard the following year, and it was during this time that he met Alice Lee. ... Roosevelt was also very adamant about building a canal that would link the Pacific to the Atlantic. ...

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Yet, he returned to Harvard the following year, and it was during this time that he met Alice Lee. ... Roosevelt was also very adamant about building a canal that would link the Pacific to the Atlantic. ...

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• Grade Level: High School