This socially elite group which included George Washington our nations first President, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin contributed to help create what is one of the most respected and well known written documents ever produced, the Constitution of the United States of America. ... There are no Constitutional or Federal Laws, which require electors to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote for that elector's particular state. ... The instances of electors not following the popular vote of the people are indeed very rare. ... Rather than have two or three candidates with v...

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Introduction The Victorian Age gives the impression it was an age for proper formal behavior, and that behavior is upheld by modern popular culture through movies and television. ... Most of the letters remaining from the Victorian Age are from women to women friends. ... Hairwork Jewelry as Sentimental and Mourning Art Hairwork jewelry was not an invention of the Victorian Age because the art form started being popular in the 1600s but it gained extreme popularity in the 1800s. ... Eighteenth-century sentiment was replaced by nineteenth-century sentimentality, as evoked in the following po...

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The blunt has become popular in the society of weed smokers. ... Smoking weed out of a pipe is a privilege to most. ... The bong is the biggest and one of the most effective methods to getting high. ... The most popular and universal medium used are cigarette papers. The most popular brand in the united states are Zig Zag 1.5's, every smoker has smoked out of these at some point in there life because it is tradition. ...

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Although at times they waged wars that would temporarily halt the European colonization, for the most part their voice in North America was forever muzzled. ... One of the most surprising facts about hygiene in the colonial society was the lack of oral care. ... Hunting was a very popular pastime in colonial America. ... One of the most important traditions that settlers brought from their native countries was courtship and marriage. ... Most of the time, they didn't. ...

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Most refugees did not realize their eventual destination would be the United States because their only intention was to escape the political oppression and reforms instituted by the authoritarian communist government of North Vietnam. ... They concentrate in one place and continuously work hard to adjust to the new world, to make the most out the opportunities given to them, and to educate their children and have a better life themselves. ... Preserving the culture not only consolidates their ethnic identity, but also integrates the Vietnamese Diaspora into the U.S popular culture, bridging th...

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You may legally get married at the age of 16 when living in the UK but most wait until their twenties (Anonymous, 2002, p.39). ... Most of the middle class families own their own houses in the suburbs close to the city (Ember, 2001, p.2337-2338). ... However, relaxing in the home is more popular. ... Movies and videos are also popular (Culture Grams World Edition, p. 39)."" ... Before the 1950's the church was a lot more popular than it is today. ...

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Most notably heard in the American colonies was Patrick Henry's cries of "No taxation without representation,"" citing grievances with the economic info structure Britain enforced. ... As a result, he, the able orator, was able to gain the popular support, maintaining the home front war effort. ... He then went on, and with the popular support, was named president of the United States, where he set precedence still existent today, economically, politically, and socially. ... Without question, the most overblown out of proportion event leading to the war, was that of the Boston Massacre...

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Technological progression in audio and video recordings, record-breaking pop acts, and high profiles for heavy metal and new age music highlighted 1987. Business boomed as sales of compact disk (CD) players rose rapidly and record companies issued many new albums and reissued old albums on CD. New ...

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Basic aspects of the brain's visual capacity have been shown to be innate, such as a newborn baby's ability to recognize the structure of a face, but most are learned during the visual stimulation received during early development" (Haughton 230). ... "Gay men's revenge" is predicated upon a popular mode of double seduction: the selling of male bodies to both heterosexual women and gay men. ... There was a time in America when skin bleaching was so popular that it had its meaning to it. ...

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The relationship between a manufacturer and the motor sport it functions in is based on four pillars: - Popularity of the sport - Changing profile of the car manufacturer - Changing profile of the car - Entry barriers Firstly, the popularity of the sport, car racing has been popular since the creation of cars. Automobiles have been raced to see which one was the fastest or the most reliable. ... Although the preference of the audience might not always be the same all around the world, one or more forms of racing are always popular. In Europe, for example, Formula 1 and Rallying is pop...

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Politics will continue to play the most significant role in how this shift takes place. ... According to Faith Popcorn, a popular trends analyst, "food, family, love, and vanity will drive Baby Boomer consumer behavior in 2003, and some of the most basic human needs and emotions will have the biggest impact on the domestic consumer marketplace; a year of primal passions,"" (2003). ...

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Those three presidents being so closely involved with the new government helped choose the Congress members, so there was very little difference of opinion between the two branches, other than two amendments most of the government policy remained static. ... Presidential politics became national and very popular, and as a result it gave way to changes in the nomination process that gave more local control to the average voter by having national nominating conventions, and replacing the caucus system of the previous era. ...

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Abortion became a popular topic in 1973 when the Supreme Court decided that abortion was a Constitutional right during the first trimester of pregnancy in Roe vs. ... There are many arguments against abortion, such as, "Maybe the woman should have avoided intercourse if a child was not the goal," "The fetus has rights, too and the mother cannot take those away," and most popular, "Abortion is murder.... Secondly, most abortions occur within the first trimester when the fetus cannot exist without its mother. ... As the pro-life movement is becoming more popular in the...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehum...

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American Foreign Policy / POLS 4690 A paper submitted to Dr. Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to Europ...

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Teen pregnancy is one of the most difficult experiences a young person might ever face when it interrupts school or other plans. ... For the most part, when one sees teenagers raising children, we often think that the teen has been raped or is too mature for their age. ... Most people who are put into foster homes do not come from parents of strong guidance, because indeed they lost their children. ... Most of these pregnancies are unintended. ... Richard Smith, a Washtenaw Community College student, states, "The American popular culture glorifies sex and ignores responsibility. ...

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When most authors were social theories that most consider to be social Darwinism they did not include the actual term "social Darwinism.... This notion of "survival of the fittest" was most likely not a popular idea amongst his contemporaries. ... The essay would have enraged the working masses as it gave millionaire business owners an air of omnipotence assigned with the task of "naturally selecting" the most "fit" workers. ...

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She lived most of her adult life in Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco, writing articles and short stories using the Chinese pseudonym Sui Sin Far. ... She took the Chinese name of a flower popular among the Chinese (Sui Sin Far means narcissus) and courageously asserted her Chinese heritage, even though this background was not evident in her face. ... The popular conception of the Chinese woman, whose numbers were few in nineteenth-century America, was that of a singsong girl, a prostitute or an inmate of an opium den. ...

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As it is apparent, The economic ambitions and Manifest Destiny mentality of the United States played the most significant role in creating a conflict between Mexico and the United States and starting the Mexican-American War. ... America has always been involved with morally wrong actions such as slavery, corrupt politics and Indian killings, most of these to gain more land. ... The most famous one being the battle of the Alamo. ... America has been part of the most crimson and bloody battles because of their insatiable hunger to expand, after it annexes a piece of land it reposes for a short...

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Most of the arguments against plastic surgery focus on the cosmetic aspects of this field and thus overlook some of the real world positive applications. ... In America, it would be best if the more popular, cosmetic and unneeded medical procedures were limited so that funds, time, energy, and research could be better utilized by being applied to cases of plastic surgery which help people rebuild their lives after tragedy. ... Bordo's thesis is that the celebrity iconography of the popular culture dictates the self-perception of the population. ... Tumor removals are the most commo...

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Revolted by several changes he witnessed, he declared in 1841: "I know, full well, that the forests must be felled for fuel and tillage, and that roads and canals must be constructed, but I contend that BEAUTY should be of some value among us; that where it is not NECESSARY to destroy a tree or a grove, the hand of the woodman should be checked, and even the consideration, which, alas, weighs too heavily with us, of a few paltry dollars, should be held as nought in comparison with the pure and lasting pleasure that we enjoy, or ought to enjoy, in the objects which are among the most beautiful ...

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When a non-Hispanic goes to an event like this it shows them the perks of being a latina as well as showing them one of the most popular tradition of their culture. ... The cotillion or debut is now becoming a popular celebration amongst Filipino Americans and is qu...

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Most accounts centre largely on change in the social scene across Western Europe during the 16th century with intense focus on colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade as the central feature to its inception some stating "slaves were the capital that made capitalism"2. ... Firstly ships would leave Western Europe for Africa filled with goods for which sailors would exchange for slaves the most popular and important commodities were weapons and gun powder followed by textiles, pearls and other manufactured goods. ... "12 Nicknamed the "Pearl of the Antilles" due to it b...

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This conduct to which government official's are to maintain become the utmost important as it shall eliminate most of the corruption within the United States of Americas government as well as create a better society for the American public to flourish in. ... The society today is most scared to the first form of corruption which was mentioned is power misconduct. ... This is typically what the media enjoys the most on reporting. Looking at the Clinton case, most of America knows this famous scandal involving Monica Lewinsky. ... It's a sweeping proposal that would reshape the rules ...

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Most of these immigrants were young men, between 16 and 35 years old (Daniels 33). ... And although most of them had been farmers of farm laborers in the Punjab region of India, in America they often had to turn to other kinds of work (Dayes 22). ... Most of the hotel owners are from Gujarat, a state on the west coast of India (48). ... Some of them were Hindus and some were Muslims, followers of the Islamic faith, but most were Sikhs. ...

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