Fremont, who hired him to be his guide. Kit guided Fremont to Oregon and California, and through much of the Rocky Mountains. Guiding Fremont around the West gave Kit a good reputation. ... Thoreau also wrote Walden, a book in which he wrote in the woods by himself from July 4, 1845 to Sept. 6, 1847. He insisted that the book was written to celebrate people living in harmony with nature, not about a withdrawal from society. ...

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By taking away the right for a child to read a book is outrageous. ... The complete banning of the book is not an answer to the problem, parents need to guide their children through these choices, so they can become mature enough to make their own choices as adults. Reading a book is a choice. ... On a personal level, one can ban a book from there agenda, no one can make some person read a book, and no one can read the book for you. ... Therefore, book banning should not be a form of censorship. ...

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Without particulars of geography, and with only the North Star to guide them, slaves found their own routes across swamps, rivers, and mountains toward the North and freedom. ... The book does have a small anti-slavery message, but there is still a negative view of slavery in her book. ... The book does not talk about the horrors of slavery. "Oroonoko" tries to explain how slavery works on page 5 of the book by making ordering slaves seem as simple as mail-ordering shirts from a factory. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are solid arguments for both sides of all arguments that can guide your views, whatever they may be. ... The men and women that came over from Europe help to influence and guide this country into what it is today. ... This is made evident in Holmes book Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies, in chapter three; he gives a vivid account of the farm work, and also the medical and social issues that are accompanied with the farmers. ...

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Godwin published a book called, Political Justice, in 1793 which first introduced his ideas about anarchism. ... His book, What is Property?... This is why they think it is the perfect ideological guide for destroying poverty, racism, and sexism. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Most songs gave slaves direction to the land of freedom (Canada), helped to guide them through the routes that were safe and warn them of any impending dangers. ... In Frederick Douglas book, My Bondage and My Freedom tells of spirituals, like Tubmans that implied coded messages to help the slaves escape. Douglas, in his book states that Negro spirituals was a favorite air, and had a double meaning. ...

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The expectations and rules for proper conduct that guides the behavior of religious group members are norms. ... Christianity is lead by a book and Taoism is lead by the force of life. These two religions cannot see the same view if one is following a book and the other is focused on the force of life. ...

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was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. ... Purpose of the research: I have chosen this book The jungle by Upton Sinclair because I think that working class people of the 1990's..still live in a capitalistic jungle. Although this book was written at the turn of the century, it still reflects the times in which we live. ... I have learnt from the book The Jungle that business is a dog eat dog world. ... brutality, the strike was settled, and a book resulted King Coal, (1917). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sustainability can be defined as keeping something going through time. Sustainability first appeared in an ecological context in the 1970s alongside the emerging environmental movement (Litke, 2006). There are three E's that define sustainability and they are the environment, economics, and equity....

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"A Girl's Guide to Porn" appears in the Fall 2002 issue giving such tips as the best classic porn movies to the "bend-over boyfriend" series. ... Another staple section is the book, movies and film reviews. ... The book section covers all new releases in the field of feminist theory. ...

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Part III: Overall Critique Guided by the displaced Huron warrior Magua, four people--Major Duncan Heyward, Psalmodist David Gamut, and Alice and Cora Munro--strike through the wilderness forest for Fort William Henry, which is tormented by the French near Lake George. ... Although the terminology was sometimes hard to understand, I enjoyed the book very much. ...

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The strategic roles of marketing provide clarity, consistency, and maximum relay to the overall communications impact including: à general advertising à direct response à sales promotion à public relations Dalrymple, Cron, & DeCarlo describe an Integrated Marketing Communications plan as "directing the activities and focus of a company's entire marketing strategy, acting as a guide for all levels of marketing and detailing everything from market research to promotional planning and execution,"" (2001). ...

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Abstract: The traditional way of teaching reading affects the students' reading ability. This paper analyses its disadvantages and gives some suggestions and measures from different aspects. They are vocabulary, reading habits, reading skills, outside reading and also the psychology of the current s...

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• Grade Level: High School

Not to mention that, according to Patrick Basham, who's book From Extreme to Mainstream was covered in the report by Joanne Byfield, home-schooled children score significantly higher than other students in every subject and at every grade level. ...

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Sociology Essay How useful is the concept of elite' for understanding the distribution of power in either Britain or the United States? Introduction In America perhaps only race is a more sensitive subject than the way we sort ourselves out in the struggle for success. The eminent sociologist Robert Merton calls it the structure of opportunity'. In the understanding of the usefulness of the term elite', there are some common historical variables, which must be looked at in order to appreciate the power organisms at work even in American society, and how from the days of Tho...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks to Slavery 1. What is Race . . . .3 2. Race and The Bible . . .6 3. Slavery . . . . 10 Part II. From Christianity to Black Religion 4. Influence of Christianity . 14 Concludi...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Irish Immigration to America " the reversal breaks with previous decades of Irish immigration to the United States, one of the oldest, largest, most sustained and most culturally influential migration flows of American history -- reaching nearly a million in the 1850's after the Irish potato...

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We have always dreamed about reaching the heavens. From ancient civilizations to the modern day world, our obsession of going into space has grown from studying the stars to actual exploration of space. We have come a long way since primitive charts of constellations. From telescopes to satellites, we as a population have progressed greatly in the world of technology. In a mere forty years, we have had more technological advances than the Industrial Revolution. ...

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Commercials and advertisement make or break the product, depending on many things, such as to whom it is marketed, and who it affects or who it has an influence on. One can simply switch channels whenever there's a commercial break, but there are those ads that simply catch your attention, or are s...

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According to Jason Ingram, in his book Hegemony and Globalism, dominant ideologies establish "blinders" that make us view certain behaviors as acceptable and others as incompatible with who we are. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government of the United States of America. Others feel- that this heightened media coverage is a direct result of the consequences of drugs and drug abuse. For whatever reasons that the media was there, the participants in this pro and con ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School