Groom's book recounts the thrilling, almost Hollywood-esque adventures and dangers that Kearny and his men encountered while venturing throughout the trail. ... Even many paintings from the time period have Depicted and shown angels guiding the settlers way, Winston Groom used primary documentation, such as journals, letters, and military records, which gives the reader an exciting account capturing our imaginations of the western frontier and helps broaden our understanding of the dangerous and dirty business that shaped our country. Winston Groom's qualifications and thoroughness...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are many people that realize what problems Native Americans deal with that are expressed in the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. This is important because it helps people realize what problems Native Americans go through such as, poor living conditions, the harsh expectations for someone to leave the rez, and the overall health of the Native Americans, all of these problems are important to address because it shows that Naive Americans need help in the sense that they need to be guided to the right path to where the can support themselves without any interference. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The twelfth edition of the book, Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-preventable Diseases, revised in 2012, written by epidemiologist, William Atkinson discusses the mechanics of vaccines in the immune system. ... In the 2011, Oxford Journal article, ' 'Herd Immunity'': A Rough Guide, written by researcher, Paul Fine and colleagues, the theory of herd immunity is discussed and tested. ...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated links between material conditions, ideology and power. It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the con...

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A Scottish economist by the name of Adam Smith released a book called "The Wealth of Nations ". In this book he criticized the idea of government intervention and regulation in economic matters and called for the elimination of such a system. ...

• Word Count: 2010
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition, the industrialisation strategy called for a more activist state to guide the industrialisation process". ... However, with some clever mathematics and book keeping the Chilean government announced from it's calculations it owed nothing to the US holding companies (Anaconda and Kennecott) but did however, payoff the smaller companies. ...

• Word Count: 1754
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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. Roosevelt, fascist Germany under Adolf Hitler, and Italy under Benito Mussolini. Schivelbusch examines the rise of three separate political systems, all with different goals, that have some unexpected yet unde...

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So, what is physician-assisted suicide?  Physician assisted suicide is when a doctor chooses to aid a patient in the process of killing himself or herself. This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases and conditions that are hurting and or slowly killing the patient. This method of death also gives the individual a chance to decide when to end his or her life, by committing suicide in a peaceful manner rather than waiting through prolonged and continuous periods of suffering from the d...

• Word Count: 5515
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The National Elder Abuse Incidence Study Executive Summary Introduction and Background America's burgeoning elder population has affected every segment of the social, political, and economic landscape. Public debate of the issues surrounding the special needs of the approximately 44 million persons in this country age 60 years and over has heightened national awareness and concern. As a result, public policies relating to issues such as retirement security, affordable long-term care, and quality of life are changing to meet the unique needs of the aging population. Yet, as the pu...

• Word Count: 6948
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate