Timothy Egan's The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America examines the relationship between Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, the beginning of United States Forest Service, and "The Big Burn," possibly the worst wildfire in American history. ... He mentions each man's personal life and how this affected the relationship itself and what it grew in to. ... The structure is a little disordered and untidy but Egan really reconciles this with his use of details. ... As Egan mentions Pinchot his purpose is a little less obvious. ... Yes he is a great man, bu...

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Before giving the whole story about the Communists, one must understand how the country was born so here's a little bit of a background history: Spain had conquered Cuba in 1511 under Diego Velasquez. ... Grarado Machado and it was at that time that Batista became the most powerful man in Cuba. ... This is also a strong resemblance to Big Brother's image hanging everywhere saying that he's "watching you". ... First of all, his appeal to Cuban patriotism, his traditional appeal to the Cuban poor and stance against the rich, he's a strong man and a boss. ... Much like Big Bro...

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James Weldon Johnson's first-person narrator in his fictional interpretation, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," a skeptical, point-of-view about skin color. The narrator, decides to pass for white after numerous variations between assuming his status as a black man who wants to stand for the rights of black people and adopting the identity of a white man. ... Here, it is interesting to notice that, in the United States, ancestry plays a bigger role than appearance when it comes to define one's race, because if it were for his appearance only, the narrator probably live h...

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His greatest accomplishment I believe is the Compromise of 1850, where he helped prevent the Civil War from happening for a little bit longer. ... Over the following decade the country's citizens became further divided over the issue of slavery and made the rift between the states bigger, causing the Civil War. ... What is most important is that he was an extremely smart man and one of the most important political figures of all time. ...

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A reality check on reality TV Wednesday 18 July 2001 For how long will the young men and women from the reality TV series Big Brother be household names? ... But the series has now ended, with a 21-year-old Sydney man - the only inhabitant of the mock household not to have been evicted by viewers - taking the $250,000 prize. Almost certainly, fame for the Big Brother alumni will prove to be fleeting. ... The application of the Big Brother concept in various countries has produced an intriguing range of national responses. ... Australia, with a more easygoing spirit, has been titillated an...

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For my entire life, I have heard the old adage "May the best man win." ... The reason for the best man not always winning any more is affirmative action. ... Part of our American tradition is that with hard work and a little sweat we can prevail. ... Not only did she work twenty to thirty hours per week, she did much for community service in the Big Brothers and Big Sisters charity. ...

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America fought because we had big money in Cuba. ... This man was a little forgetful. ... This man was the leader of the roughriders and became one of are presidents, this man is Teddy Roosevelt. ... Another big victory was won by are navy. ... This means to see future and to become bigger for power. ...

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You could technically consider thinking of Panama as the "Little Country that could". ... Through all of Panama's history, the little country that could has held its own very well. ... Now that Panama has a canal through it, this little country will be known to everyone, everywhere as the little country with the big canal. ... A man by the name of Ferdinand de Lesseps was the former creator of the Suez Canal in Egypt (History and Building of the Panama Canal). ... "No man has had a happier life than I have led; a happier life in every way" (Theodore Roosevelt). ...

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The life on this earth is quite enough for any reasonable man. ... It does a little good to the mental advancement of back benchers and average students. ... I may even go to Africa and do a bit of big hunting. ... I will ask somebody to kill them for me and then get myself photographed while sitting on a big lion! I know the reader would be laughing at my cowardice, but this is how we big business executives do lion hunting. ...

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She knew very little English, but ultimately that did not matter to the American people. ... Eventually big business turned to Hollywood for Carmen; she began to perform in movies. ... She had married an American man that beat her; she became seriously depressed and needed medication to keep her going and to sleep. Her body, especially the beautiful face that everyone longed to see on the big screen began to appear weathered. ...

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At the beginning, the Native Americans had very little ownership of anything. ... If there was a little description saying what the Native Americans were doing, there would be less confusion on what took place during that time period. ... The burial mounds are a big part in history for the Woodland Period. ... There were bigger towns and villages you could see in the back ground of the painting, and the bigger towns and villages were exactly what started to happen in the beginning of the Woodland Period. ... The technology for the Native Americans begins to grow with the help of the white man....

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Physically, medically, and educationally women could be a big help if drafted. A woman, in my opinion, can do anything a man can do. ... In The New York Times it states that approximately a little over 60% of the United States army are males and not females. ... Not to watch the man fight the war. ... Do you really feel equal to a man? ...

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From the beginning of time man has often tried to protect himself in one way or another. ... Guns are a not a big deal in our society today. ... If you are in a big city you have to be a little more cautious then if you were in a small city like Cincnnati. Carrying a gun is more common in big cities. ...

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Little do they know that there were five extremely influential liberators that had nothing to do with either of those things. ... Out of these five, however, I believe that Simon Bolivar was the most influential for the following reasons: He assisted more countries than the others, he had a bigger following than any of the other five, and thirdly, his ideas of liberating slaves was radical for the time. ... The opinion that Simon Bolivar was the most influential is amplified by my second reason, which is that he had a bigger following than the others. ... All in all, Simon Bolivar was an extre...

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As an American leader he left a big impact on Americas history especially as a worthy leader and the first president of United States. ... His role in French Indian war started of little importance but later on evolved into a bigger one. ... Although he saved his army by retreating from Manhattan into Westchester County and through New Jersey into Pennsylvania he still lost the New York City to the British. (1) His recent loss of New York City and being low on supplies and troops had a big impact on Washington and he started to despair. ... A man of unquestioned honor, he began by accepting th...

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Scott Fitzgerald, the man known as Jay Gatsby is seen to some as a "great" man. ... Gatsby, he is a man of so much wealth and status but he carry's one flaw, dishonesty. ... That's one of his little stunts. ... He changes his name to Jay Gatsby and moves to the East where he wants to live the grand life with a large bank account, big house and everything he ever dreamed of. ... Gatsby's many flaws are reasons why he is not the great man as describe in the title. ...

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Piquette has been around for two years, and they have a little chat, without actually having anything to talk about. ... They probably have a different and bigger respect for it, and are not so materialistic as the Europeans seem to be. ... When she becomes older, she moves to the big city. ... She finds herself an English man to marry. This is because she wants to fit in, and by marrying an English man, she hope she will become more accepted and gain some respect. ...

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Now bush has supporters and constitutes that would argue that more jobs were created but when you take the number of jobs created and then subtract the number of jobs that were cut by big business you will see that the actual number of jobs will correspond to what I stated earlier. ... Now mind you a lot of the pharmaceutical products that we buy are manufactured in Canada or Mexico yet instead the government or bush just made it impossible to cut out the middle man. ... Now isn't ironic that we fought the British over the fact that they wanted to be the middle ...

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A great man once said, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself". Before I can even begin to explain what this man meant I must ask, is it really that bad to graduate from junior high? ... Although we are all moving on to bigger and better things I know there are the few of us who believe that High school is horrific, for those few may they remember what they felt like before entering Jr. ... Terrified not knowing, innocent little seventh graders we all at one point were on the same level, the same thoughts were running through our heads the day we learned that we were going to be dissecting...

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However, he also says, "What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate." ... "What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate," (Thoreau). ... Jay Gatsby is a man who has gone through the cycle of karma continuously. ... Gatsby says, "lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe...collected jewels, hunting big game, painting a little...and trying to forget something very sad that had happened"(Fitzgerald 70). ... Thoreau once said, "What a man thinks determines what determines, or rather indicates his fate." ...

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There are laws that protect the environment and people from big companies from Fracking but bigger companies that have smaller firms are exempt from the laws because they work in smaller and more numerous numbers. ... "When the white man said, 'This will be your reservation,' little did they know those Badlands would now have oil and gas," (Tex "Red Tipped Arrow" Hall). ...

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The implementation of his business sense in a society that had not seen anything of the sort is the reason that he today is considered one of the founding fathers of "Big Business." ... Today we would consider this a crime; however, we look at Astor as an innovator for the time, and basically the architect of the first big corporation. When we consider big business, we don't usually look at it from a diplomatic perspective. ... When Astor died in 1848, he was said to have left a total of $40 million, a sum several times larger than any other American fortune of the day, and something to...

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Yet the people of Louisiana loved him because he attacked the big oil companies, increased state spending on public works, and improved public schools. ... Long championed the "little man" against the rich and privileged (Williams). ... His radio program, "The Golden Hour of the Shrine of the Little Flower" had a weekly audience of 16 million. ... He believed that the Jewish and Communists, in league with bankers and capitalists, were out to get the little man. ... Coughlin retired from the Shrine of the Little Flower Church in 1966. ...

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"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth" (http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary, President John F. ... The new era promised much, but expected little. ... Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. ... It seemed like a small eternity before I heard Neil say, "That's one small step for man . . . one giant leap for mankind." ... Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. ...

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Throughout the 1970's, 1980's and the 1990's organized labored struggled mightily to be effective and almost lost all of its power to big businesses. ... Without any government regulation these companies can move to these new areas paying drastically lower wages, giving little or no health benefits, and having poor safety conditions. ... He"ll take a man "who's had a job for ten of fifteen years, get rid of him and blackball him so he can't get a job again", says shop Steward Ronald Dengal. ... Worker's and labor Union's need the federal government to become ...

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