The Pullman Strike, as one author puts it; " was especially important in American perceptions of "the labor problem" of the time." The author tells us how the Pullman Strike is important because it was one of the first strikes to gain what it's objective had been and brought awareness to the people all over. ... Working conditions are continually improving as meetings between a chosen spokesperson and business owners can be negotiated about workers" rights and whatever else the workers and employers feel needs to be voiced. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The families chosen to film "My American Wife!... It also pushes forth the American import of meats to Japan, and author Ruth Ozeki did a wonderful job intertwining the facts behind the meat industry with her work of fiction....

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Jefferson and Burr tied during the election and Jefferson was chosen over Burr by the House of Representatives. ... On his tombstone were these simple words: Here was Buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of Independence of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and Father of the University of Virginia Many people think of Thomas Jefferson just as a political leader, but in fact he was much more than that. ...

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Nickel And Dimed Nickel and Dimed The United States of America is the richest nation in the world. Very poor countries look to us for help. We give them clothes, food, and housing. I understand as a rich nation we should help out some of the less fortunate people in the world, but what a...

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They believed that they had been chosen by God to rest in the canopies of heaven with Him. ... According to John Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey, the authors of a surprising new book entitled "Time for Life," Americans have more leisure time as many of them are retiring younger and having fewer time-devouring children than they did in the 1960s. ... Americans have always considered themselves individualists chosen by God. ...

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Power to Persuade by Robert O'Hara cites an author as saying, "It is the choice of just the right adjective or verb to sum up a situation that evokes from the receiver the response the communicator feels should be adopted toward a story. " He goes on to explain that the words used to describe a situation become related in the mind of the receiver, so that the use of the word causes that person to recall the situation. ... By using carefully chosen phrases, the Defense Department made their war efforts seem less harmful to the people in the United States. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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There, he first met Richard Wright (an African-American author whose strong protests against racial prejudice made him one of his generation's most important spokespersons) and began his first novel, In My Father's House. ... His best selling essay collection, Nobody Knows My Name, was chosen as one of the most outstanding books of the year. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Introduction Many events of the 18th century impacted the abolition of Slavery. In the 1800's there were radical changes to the slave trade and North American slave holdings. In the U.S. movements were forming to stop the holding and trade of slaves. It first started in the United States when Ch...

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When a country is at war, the general population's main sources for breaking news are the government and the media, which are sometimes one in the same. In conflicts since the Vietnam War, the amount of first-hand reporting has diminished. As a consequence, the government became the source for much of the war-related information. However this has changed during Operation Iraqi Freedom with the "embedding- of journalists and also with the increased number of independent reporters. Some questions we must ask then are: "How do reporters go about reporting the details of the war respons...

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• Grade Level: High School