Many cultures and religions state that a woman must bear a son and many women will bear children until they bear a son. ... When soldiers come home from war, many women begin bearing children. ... This action can reduce unwanted children and contribute to depleting the fertility rate. As the population continues to grow there are a lot of pressure on cultivated natural resources, water (rivers), and land to offer an adequate food supply; in the same time preserving our ecosystem. ... This contributes to not bringing many unwanted children into the world. ...

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The Canadian traders became so influential in the Canadian inland fur trade that the HBC "upland" territory and the rivers which led to the forts "was cut off from its usual channel.... In 1774, the HBC appointed Samuel Hearne and financed a project which established Fort Cumberland along the Saskatchewan River, five hundred yards of a Montreal trading post near Sturgeon Lake. ... Between 1789 and 1805, 325 new posts were built on the North Saskatchewan River and elsewhere in the interior. ... North of the Saskatchewan River was good fur country; beaver and otter were so common ...

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She is trying to contend with the loss of her husband to the work force overseas, the loss of her children as they become adults, the rental of her house to another family, and the exile from her youth as she lies on the brink of menopause. ... Her children had grown up and moved on. It is normal and acceptable for children to leave the house as soon as they are old enough to support themselves, for at this time it is their turn to raise a family of their own. ...

• Word Count: 2771
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Abstract Ernest Hemingway's prose has left a lasting impression on the way American literature is written and taught. His name is legendary. Hemingway's style was influenced by his years as a newspaper reporter, both before and after World War I. Based on his experiences, this paper examines the roots and influences of Hemingway's unique writing style. I will draw information from the large body of Hemingway literary criticism, his fiction, and the authors own comments on the craft of writing. ...

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Along with the support of homosexual marriage is the request of children. ... Homosexual adopted children are not disadvantaged in most significant aspects compared to heterosexual adopted children. ... According to Williams Institute and the Urban Institute, around 8 percent same-sex couples lived with adopted children in America from 2000 to 2002. ... More importantly, over 50 percent of the children adopted by homosexual couples are special need children, possibly either because homosexuals are discriminated so that children with serious physical, emotional, or behavior problems are more li...

• Word Count: 2698
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2001How Great Britain won the Boer War in South Africa in 1902 On October 11, 1899, the forces of the Boer republics, Orange Free State and South African Republic, responded to Great Britain's dismissal of an ultimatum against the placement and reinforcing of British troops in South Africa by laying...

• Word Count: 3660
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The Social and Educational Reformation in New Lanark New Lanark, the former cotton spinning village in the valley of the River Clyde near the old town of Lanark, is famous internationally because of its pioneering management, and social and educational experiments led by the publicist, Robert Owen. ... No. 3 mill was mainly for water-powered jennies and No. 4 mill served as storage and housing for some children. Approximately two-thirds of the work force were women and children, and most of them were hired from the counties around Glasgow and Lanark. Perhaps the most remarkable benevolen...

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We dispose of human wastes, animal wastes, and chemical substances into the environment at such a rate that even the largest lake and river systems have difficulty cleansing themselves and sustaining life. ... Regulations exist under some federal water- related legislation, for example the Fisheries Act, and the International River Improvements Act. ...

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Nor was it during "Operation Wetback- in the 1950s which primarily focused on Mexicans being deported back to Mexico, along with their American born children, which were technically American citizens (Operation Gatekeeper: -New Resoures-1). ... There was also an increased anti-immigrant sentiment in California demonstrated by the passage of Proposition 187, which denied benefits to illegal aliens, including the deprivation of Mexican children attending public school (American Friends Service Committee). ... The winter after the introduction of Phase II, 16 migrants, including children, froze...

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As O'Reilly lies dying with the village children around him, he asks them "What is my name-, to which they reply "Bernardo, Bernardo- (his true Mexican name), his reply to this being "Your damn Right-. ... He has affirmed his Mexican heritage and now brings pride to the Mexican peasants, whom were previously deemed as cowards by their children, through his dying observation that they are defending themselves, and that they are brave. ... It is only when Chico is using the skills that he has acquired as a farmer that he bares any impression on the rest of the seven, namely when he catche...

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In cooler northern Italy, bordered by France, Switzerland and Austria, are the Alps and Apennines mountains and the verdant Poe River basin. ... The American-born translators were the children of working-class immigrants. It was lucky for the FBI that they existed, the children of university-educated professionals might never have learned to speak Sicilian at home, and probably would not have understood enough of the language to translate long conversations. ...

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Women and children were in auxiliary organizations known as Lioness and Leo Clubs. ... The Sight First program also eliminated about ninety percent of river blindness, a disease that occurs when foreign objects remain embedded in the eye, in Africa (Walker interview; "Lions Club Helps Restore Sight for 1.1 Million Chinese-). ...

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During the late 1700's, two great revolutions occurred, the American Revolution and the French Revolution. These two historical events happened at the same time, but had a great number of differences and very little similarity. When French Revolution occurred, it turned into a very violent and blood...

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In retaliation to Nasser's troop movements, Israel forced Jordanian military groups out of Jerusalem and back over the Jordan river and Syria was defeated on the Golan Heights. After all these actions, Israel turned into the super power of the Middle East, with "its forces sitting on a large expanse of territory extending from the banks of the Suez Canal to the Jordan River and the Golan Heights" . ...

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Despite the facts that some public schools served all students (not students let behind Act), Mexican American children during the first four decades of the twenty-century was limited to elementary grades. ... San Miguel begins tracing the story of Houston's Mexican community and schooling of Mexican children. ... As part of its legal strategy in state courts, LULAC argued that because Mexican school children were legally recognized as white- they could not be constitutionally segregated. ... By 1970 when a federal court ordered to integrate Houston's public schools, school board me...

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The Israeli army managed to win, and when the war ended, Israel was from the Suez Canal to the Jordan River and the Golan Heights. Many Palestinians fled across the Jordan River to Jordan and remain to this day as inhabitants of the desert parts in Jordan. ...

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Once established in the family he became almost an integral part of it; he was the loyal domestic, respected, feared, and consulted by the children. Due to the matriarchal and polygamous regime, we feel him closer to us, because he belongs to our mother, than the slave of the father, who is at an equal distance, socially speaking, from all the children of the same father and different mothers. ...

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Treaty of Verdun For the duration of Ludwig's time in the power, there were many arguments and fights over ownership of lands among his children. ... Among three brothers, as Lothaire was the eldest he kept the name of the Emperor along with Italy and a small part of area in the western side of the river Rhine, from Mediterranean to the North Sea. ...

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America's Revolutionary War is a subject that engenders perpetual curiosity. By any sensible reckoning, Britain should have won the war. England's army was the strongest professional fighting force in the world, supremely confident, and led by experienced, gifted commanders with a long and storied h...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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They are, "used in hundreds of products, such as vinyl flooring, adhesives, detergents, lubricating oils, automotive plastics, plastic clothes (raincoats), and personal-care products (soaps, shampoos, hair sprays, and nail polishes)," Phthalates are used widely in polyvinyl chloride plastics, which are used to make products such as plastic packaging film and sheets, garden hoses, inflatable toys, blood-storage containers, medical tubing, and some children's toys (Cdc.gov, 2015). ... An estuary is a coastal area where fresh water rivers and streams mix with salt water from the ocean in b...

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One of these is the law mandating that the brother in law of a widow with no children have sex so that the dead man's line can continue, which is necessary in a nomadic group with such a small population. ...

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Even though most Native American tribes held prisoners of war captive, there were some circumstances in which growth of a tribe was threatened, resulting in the capturing of mostly women and children as sort of an "adoption" strategy (Davis). ... Benjamin Hawkins, who was the Superintendent of the tribes south of the Ohio River at the time, strongly and forcefully encouraged several southeastern tribes to adopt chattel slavery in order to have enough labor for their plantations and agricultural production, as part of their adaptation of European ways. ...

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Today's economy of the world involves various sectors that are involved in the delivery of facilities that enhance the production of other sectors of society. Many nations across the world have been separated by their individual resources possessed. Some of these resources include minerals such as oil, gas and other fluids that create a basis for production in many economies. The majority of the minerals are located deep within the earth's crust. These resources are mostly natural and require man-made means to extract them for manipulation by various organizations. ...

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He was the second of four children of David Gurney who was a tailor and Florence, a seamstress (Thornton & Walter 10). ... "To His Love," depicts the frustration Gurney began to experience, foreshadowing his fragmented mind that would torment him indefinitely: "Knew it, on Severn River/Under the blue/ Driving our small boat through," emphasizes two conflicting memories of Gurney as he struggles to remember a peaceful setting with a horrific one (Greenblatt 2028). ...

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