In the middle of April in 1803, shortly before Monroe's arrival, the French asked Livingston if the United States was interested in purchasing all of Louisiana Territory. ... On April 30, 1812, exactly nine years after the Louisiana Purchase agreement was made, the first state to be carved from the Louisiana Territory was admitted into the Union as the 18th U.S. state. ... The Lawn and the Rotunda have served as models of inspiration for similar designs of "centralized green areas" at universities across the United States. ... Jefferson took great pains to recruit the most highly qualifi...

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Television Violence Myth Twelve teenagers and one teacher were shot to death and eighteen others were wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. ... News of the Columbine massacre flashed across newspapers and television stations across the world. ... Recent studies have shown that the average American child spends approximately four to five hours a day hypnotized in television programs full of violent content (Hepburn 244). ... The study found seventy-five percent of the programs monitored shows no punishment of the perpetrators for example, the famous cartoo...

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With close to two million people behind bars across the nation, there is quite a bit of money to be made from the U.S. prison industry. ... The cheapest labor is not to be found in the United States; it is found south of the border in Mexico or across the Pacific in countries like Indonesia. ...

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This use of force was made possible due to section five of the Fourteenth Amendment that allowed Congress to "have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of the Amendment. ... Formed in April of eighteen seventy-one, the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States was formed by congress to "to investigate the current condition of 'the late insurrectionary states', which included Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. ...

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Background Medical facilities across the United States are concerned with critical date sensitive medical devices and products availability as January 1, 2000 approaches. ... Healthcare organizations across the country are exploring options to eliminate the computer bug. ...

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In April 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) started to put forward a series of changes on the rules of shell companies in response to the above two issues. ... (Cosnita-Langlais & Jean-Philippe 2013, p. 36) The length of the seasoning period varies across different stock exchanges. ...

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