"Founding Brothers" by Joseph J. ... In "Founding Brothers", the thesis states that post-revolutionary America was fragile, prone to conflict, and overall divided. ... "Founding Brothers" had a structure somewhat like a wheel; each chapter telling stories, the spokes of the wheel, of the problems dealt with by the U.S. government and its founding fathers, which congealed on the center point that early United States history was burdened with conflict. ... "Founding Brothers" is an exquisite work of nonfiction which firmly grasps the historical events that...

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"Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in a group. I had never seen my brothers or sisters; though I had sometimes heard of them" (Douglass p48). Soon after being introduced to his brothers and sisters, his grandmother was forced to discretely leave him. ... "Riding from Boston to Albany, I found myself in a large car, filled with passengers. ...

• Word Count: 1689
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• Grade Level: High School

It is sad to say that in future generations, that hunting stories will be just that-stories, not real life experiences to be shared from grandfather to son, from father to daughter, or from brother to brother. ... The right to bear arms, the four founding fathers knew that eventually someone would try to limit the sale of firearms, and they took a stand. ...

• Word Count: 1393
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Gunpowder was discovered when the mixture of charcoal and saltpeter came into contact with yellow sulfur, which is commonly found in rocks. ... A description of how to make gunpowder into a small, firecracker-like "fire pill- was found in a book that is believed to have been written in 1040 A.D. ... Magnesium, aluminum, and titanium were found to give off white sparkles or a flash (Kennedy 135). ... In 1850, Angelo Lanzetta Grucci founded the pyrotechnic company in Bari, Italy. ... Three brothers, Louis, George, and Joseph Zambelli, operate one of the oldest and largest American busine...

• Word Count: 1438
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• Grade Level: High School

Furthermore, heavily tattooed Betty Brodbent, traveled with Ringling Brothers Circus in the 1930's and was the star attraction (Midre). ... The first proven evidence was found in 1991, showing that tattooing may have began in Italy near Austria, dating back to 4000 BC, where they found a man in permafrost (Flamepoint). ... Shortly after, evidence was found proving tattoos were on the bodies of Egyptian mummies, dating back to 4,000 years ago (Nudity). ... "Ci Pei" meaning "tattoo/exile", was placed on a criminal's face when a court found them guilty of a severe crime. ...

• Word Count: 1884
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Because this country was founded in large part by those who fled various kinds of political and religious persecution, it has become America's historical responsibility to serve as an advocate of liberty, freedom and human rights. ... In fact, the United States is a nation founded on immigrants. ... Entertainers from the Marx Brothers to Desi Arnaz, Elizabeth Taylor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, came from around the world to be part of the entertainment industry in United States. ... The United States was founded o...

• Word Count: 1641
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America was founded on diversity, such as ethnicity and lifestyle, as it was founded by immigrants. ... And the fact that "minority individuals are more likely to live in extended family homes than Whites and in many ways more likely to help out their aging parents, grandparents, adult children, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, and other kin"(Gerstel and Sarkisian 48) contradicts the "Myth of the Model Family," as it shuns these minority family styles and favors nuclear families. ... Hezel, a Jesuit priest, summarizes that "the old formula 'education eq...

• Word Count: 1497
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

About seven years ago, at the age of twelve, she moved to America with her dad, mom, and younger brother. ... I found it humbling that foreigners ! ... Not having a fraction of what we have many people have found happiness. Anca and her brother came home one day after school and her mom and dad awaited them at the door. ... I found this quite interesting. ...

• Word Count: 2421
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• Grade Level: High School

The decade of the 1930s can be defined in two parts: The Great Depression, and the restoration of the American economy. America was shaken by Stock Market Crash of 1929. Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped in with his New Deal in hopes of bringing the US into more prosperous times. He promised to ...

• Word Count: 1986
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• Grade Level: High School

In the history of the United States nothing has brought more shame to the face of America than the cold, calculated method of keeping black people in captivity. People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ...

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Behind them the Mexicans, whose older brothers, he tells me, carry knives, whose catcalls and whizzing rubber bands clash, mid-air, with the teacher's voice, its sharp purple edge. ... It has been a question since Columbus found America. ...

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The founding fathers did not provide a Bill of Rights to the Constitution because it just was not the topic of discussion at the Constitution Convention. ... Mary Beth Tinker, her brother and a friend, wore the armbands to school in December 1965. ...

• Word Count: 1433
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• Grade Level: High School

She has received over 250 responses, yet a positive match has not been found. ... Donor-conceived adults could meet their half-brother or half-sister and fall in love, due to an unexplainable feeling of connection. ...

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"With so many of their brothers, sons and fathers away from war, black women increasingly found work outside the laundry and domestic service which had previously had been their lot."6 Black men and women are not only increased in numbers via employment, but union membership increased as well. ...

• Word Count: 1502
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."" What is prejudice? Often people think that a prejudice is based solely on an individual's skin color, but that is not always true. Prejudice can be found between gender, religion, cultural and geographical background and ra...

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"With so many of their brothers, sons and fathers away from war, black women increasingly found work outside the laundry and domestic service which had previously had been their lot."6 Black men and women are not only increased in numbers via employment, but union membership increased as well. ...

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Racism People see racism everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing. What will the future br...

• Word Count: 1961
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• Grade Level: High School

(Curriculum) This means that from the time capitol punishment has been reinstated for every seven people executed there has been one person found innocent. ... A recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capitol crime contained serious errors. ...

• Word Count: 2030
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The final protection of personal privacy is implied in the First Amendment that calls for the "freedom of association courts have found that this implies the right to keep one's associations private" (Gottfried 10). ... One such Supreme Court ruling found that "the police may legally search, without a warrant, trash or garbage that individuals leave out for collection" ("Privacy of Garbage"). ...

• Word Count: 2150
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Games, Books and Movies: The Violence Accelerator or Misreported Non-issue? When a violent action is reported publicly, there is a move to blame someone or something for what has happened. As people look for someone to hold responsible for the action, blame can be attached to a variety of objects: guns, knives, and other weapons, violent images on television and in movies, violent video games, and violent lyrics in songs. For years the question has been "Does watching violence in the media cause someone to become violent in real life?- Janet Reno, the former US Attorney General said, "With...

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They found comfort in one another and as a family were very close. ... Maureen was somewhere she didn't know, her mom and youngest sister were on a ship back to Ireland, and her dad and brother were already in Ireland. ...

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America is the most well armed nation in the world, with "American citizens owning about 270 million of the world's 875 million firearms" (MacInnis). Indeed, this is more than a quarter of the world's registered firearms. The reason why Americans own so many guns is because of the Second Amendment, ...

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Ignatiev Book Review I found Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish became white, confusing in the way information was presented, it seemed as if it was not interwoven tightly enough with each sub-thesis presented for the individual chapters. ... Many Irish were in support of the blacks gaining freedom in American, they considered them to be their brothers in a fight from oppression. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout history, a great deal of things evolve and revolutionize due to changing factors in our environment. Fashion is just one of the many things that change through time. The many factors, like our current world standing in war or more importantly the current economic situation, shape how im...

• Word Count: 2024
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• Grade Level: High School