Americans have consumed alcohol as a means of recreation since our country's birth. ... Mariposa is a classic example of a town where unsafe drinking occurs. Mariposa is a small mountain town about twenty minutes south of Yosemite national Park. The town consists of about 2,000 people, and everyone knows everyone. ... Europe's legal driving age is eighteen; I think America needs to get some advice from our ancestors to make our nation better. ...

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Mellencamp sang in the song "Small Town" (released in 1985), "No I cannot forget where it is I come from.... Did Gatsby really achieve the American Dream or does his small town background keep him from it? ... Eyes are a clever symbol of realism because as people grow old, their eyes never change, always displaying our true selves. ... The song mentioned earlier, "Small Town" was featured on John Cougar Mellencamp's album, American Fool. ... The small town "provides little opportunity," yet Mellencamp became a rock star. ...

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And despite the fact that their town contained a small population of nearly one to two hundred people, the unity amongst the town was physically powerful in marching to freedom as a whole. ... First, she describes her homeland as a peaceful and quiet environment even though the lifestyle of the town was not wealthy. The small town practiced their traditional customs frequently such as farming, hunting, fishing, harvesting, and even hunting wild life as a means of obtaining food sources for survival. Secondly, Mei's view of the world changed due to the march to freedom when she realized ...

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Jefferson did not like having the French occupy the vast territory to the West, and in fact he proclaimed that whoever occupied New Orleans was "our natural and habitual enemy". ... Citizens from the town of Norfolk, the town the Chesapeake had sailed from, were angry and vengeful. ... The citizens held a mass town meeting at which it was unanimously agreed that they would stop relations with any British men in the area (Tucker 1). ... Even though no country has ever made as many mistakes as the United States has and lived to tell about them, diversity in opinions was a major factor in shap...

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The patriotism in our country is greater than I can ever remember. ... An attack could never occur in our own country, but it did. ... They are a symbol of the love and pride of our own country. ... The great number of flags being displayed around the towns magnify the expression of the unbounded pride of America. ...

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Despite growing up in a small town in Minnesota, being simply one out of billions of Americans, Sinclair Lewis had a large impact on the history of the United States of America. ... Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in the small town of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the youngest of three sons of Edwin J. ... Unfortunately though, Our Mr. ... Main Street intelligently ridicules intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and smugness that Lewis perceived below the surface of small-town, middle-class American life. ...

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An excerpt from the Boston News-Letter on September 1, 1774, "Letters from Philadelphia say that City only has raised 4000 pounds in currency for the support of the Town of Boston in its present difficulties " shows that the towns around Boston, Massachusetts do not like the fact that the British control the regulating of trade in the Americas, and defy Britain by raising money to support the town of Boston under its trade ban. ... In a speech, Patrick Henry also stated that the colonists had tried all possible solutions available to them, which was also supported by the Declaration of Causes ...

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I am very grateful for our country, and all of the privileges I have growing up here. ... We don't only have one ruler who makes all our rules and laws, but instead the people in America are ruled by the people. ... We aren't just represented by our president. We are also represented by our town councils, our mayors, our governors, senators, and everyone else that makes up a part of our government. So there are always places open in our society that we can fill to make our own changes. ...

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He continues by saying that the people came to our nations capitol to claim whats rightfully theres. "We have come to our nations capitol to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir." ... He goes on to tell how they as a people will never be satisfied while there is police brutality going on towards black people, and blacks are living in ghettos they cant get out of and residing in towns that post signs "whites only". .....

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The development of the railroad was a major turning point in the Nineteenth century and in our American history. ... The railroads strongly influenced where people would settle, laying down track and then establishing towns along the route. ...

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The Europeans came here and built their towns and their cities without any concern for the preservation of the wilderness. ... The author is telling this story in order to warn others of the dangers of using up all of our resources. ...

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On the other hand, a study was performed in Notel, Canada which pertained to a small rural town that did not have television until 1973. Before the town received its first taste of television a psychologist at the University of British Columbia by the name of Tannis MacBeth Williams went to perform a study. ... "Other people have sometimes reported our findings by saying that the level of verbal aggression and the level of physical aggression more than doubled." ... More often than not individuals would rather hear about who Jennifer Lopez is marrying next, than the fact that our national d...

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Our main language in the Philippines is tagalog. ... As of my knowledge about the history of the Philippines, the colonization of Spanish and ruling over the Philippines claiming our beautiful islands, their ancestors and our ancestors were mixed up. ... Our culture and traditions are a little more conservative because we also had freedom that our heroes fought for our ethnic group. ... I hope to be as intelligent as them for they were teachers in our town. ... Our ethnicity is becoming larger because of how hardworking Filipinos are. ...

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Now our leader wants eighty seven billion dollars to continue. ... We hung flags outside our doors, wore yellow ribbons on our cars, we even plastered them on our trees in our towns. The country unified to show our support and strength for those overseas, thus showing our support for the war. ... There are fewer rallies to show our support. ... Although, why are we not fixing our own country first? ...

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And not only that, but we are also wasteful with our money and food as well. ... With fast food restaurants located in every town and city on the map, and our seemingly endless supply of food, it's no wonder we waste so much food. It's all too easy to take our supply of food for granted. ... Who could worry about wasting food when our pockets are full of enough money to buy fast food everyday, and our kitchen cabinets are stocked full? ... And there seems to be nothing yet to change our ways. ...

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Creating a Universal Culture There is a universal culture which unites all human beings in shared emotions, feelings, and instincts. However, worldwide, there exist diverse ethnic, racial, regional, and national sub-cultures which share characteristics with other sub-cultures, but are defined by ...

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This is true, but what he failed to point out is like with Australia, communities are widley spread out and to walk home from town would take hours. Where as to walk home from town in Edinburgh would be no hardship to a lot of us. ... So neither of the countries have a free press by our standards. ...

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For example, Jefferson states in his document, "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislature". ... The freedom he stood for was to not be restricted to certain areas of the town or certain buildings or ends of the bus. ... Blacks had to ride at the rear of the buses; segregation was widely practiced through out schools, restaurants and even the town. ...

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Oldenburg basically believes that suburbs are the reason we as Americans are losing touch with our communities and friends. ... Even though, I grew up in a rural town, each day the town was becoming more suburban as the cities around us grew. ...

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All of us injected our moral feelings into the activity instead of looking at it objectively. ... If a town is allowing business to flourish, usually taxes are less for the consumers living in that town. ...

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This hurts our program in a couple of ways. It divides the money from the people that come to watch our games with the girls. ... For instance the two schools that voted against this in our region were Emery and Delta. ... The freshmen boys and girls don't play in the same building as the rest of the grades and in most towns they are at least five miles away. ... We played a game last week and the referees that were supposed to ref our game were late because they were told that our game was at seven and not five. ...

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Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was a man that was one of the founding fathers of our nation. ... Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell, which is now a small town outside of Albemarle County, Virginia. ... The provision in the 1784 Instructions to the Ministers, in which he proposed that new treaties specify that in wartime unfortified town remain unmolested by enemy armed forces. 3. The Notes on the Establishment of the Money Unit, which led to the adoption of our present decimal system of copper, pennies, silver dimes ,and dollars In 1800 Jefferson became the third Presid...

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This annexation of the Middle East would increase the size of our country by over 30%. ... It is not only our duty to them, but it is our eminent right: we didn't fight a revolutionary war for nothing. ... He created an elaborate, structurally sound wall that stretched for miles around the small Colorado town. In the same way, Iraqi workers would be paid a highly competitive wage to harvest our oil. The annexation of the Middle East is the next logical step for our country. ...

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Vernon John wanted peace and equality between the races in our nation specially between the blacks and whites. ... He moves into the town his family lives in and end up being one of the pastures of the church. ... Vernon wanted the best for his family and wife so he did all he could in a radical way to show that all people deserve anything and that we are all equal no matter what the color of our skin, and they show all this in the movie. ...

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In the early seventies researchers from the University of British Columbia did some experiments to determine the level of aggression in first and second grade students form two different Canadian towns. One of the towns had no access to television due to its location on a mountain. The researchers observed that after the town was able to receive television broadcasting, the fighting, biting and shoving levels among these children increased by 160 percent. ... (http://www.abelard.org/tv/tv.htm#Huesmann) Talking about the effects of violence on children does not give us a clear idea of how ...

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