Native cultures are flourishing throughout North America--in California, on the Bay Area peninsula with the original Muwekma Ohlone and other tribes, and among the thousand Native American alumni and students of Stanford University. ... Archaeology was a particular interest of Leland Stanford Jr. and antiquities from Mediterranean cultures were among the earliest acquisitions his parents made for the museum they established in his memory. ... Subsequent to Jane Stanford's death in 1905, this portion of the collection was augmented only rarely - usually by gift and infrequently by purchase...

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This obviously applied in the sports aspect of colleges, universities and high schools. ... Title IX has been used by women athletes at Brown University as well. ... Brown University may appeal the case to the U.S. ... Title IX has indirectly affected athletic decision-making at schools such as the University of Iowa, Harvard, and Stanford University. ... At least sixteen other colleges and universities have also taken such action to comply with Title IX. ...

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Other supporters included large portions of the faculty at Harvard and Yale as well as Stanford University, Cornell, and Brown. In fact, there were three hundred seventy six different colleges and universities which offered courses in eugenics, and these classes enrolled more than twenty thousand students (Eugenics Archive & Soft on Fascism). Another advocate of eugenics was Lewis Telman, who was a professor at Stanford University. ...

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At the University of Texas Law School a minority admissions program is set aside for blacks and Mexican-Americans. ... Stanford University sponsored a program to reward its departments for hiring more minority faculty. ... In another case James Robb states," The use of foreign citizens to fill minority slots may be most prevalent in university faculties and in hi-tech fields. ...

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Knut Fladmark of Simon Fraser University over 30 years ago, it has been tested by Ruth Gruhn and Alan Bryan of the University of Alberta and has accumulated many supporters in recent years. ... LINGUISTIC AND DNA EVIDENCE Specialists in the field of linguistics have come up with independent conclusions that support he idea that the First Americans came over surprisingly early (Boyle: 2000). 4 Professor Johanna Nichols from University of California at Berkley, concluded that it would take at least 30,000 years for the wide variety of a 140 different Languages in north Am...

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"The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out," was written by Clayton M. ... The book highlights two universities that are very successful, but don't want to imitate Harvard. ... Crow says "I don't know if it's necessarily good for every private university in the United States to think that its mission is to emulate and ultimately topple Harvard as the number one university.... The president of Ohio State, Gordon Gee, takes pride in the commitment of the university. ... In College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What it ...

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This paper is going to support my position of affirmative action. I was not sure about my opinion of affirmative action until I researched the topic in depth. My evidence will support my idea that affirmative action is necessary because it follows the evolution of civil right s in the United State...

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Electronic Vote What Is good For? 2000 presidential voting in United States was a remarkable voting ever in the United States history. Who was going to our next president was all based on one state. The state was Florida. Both democratic and republican parties were too close t...

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Richard Rodriguez is one of America's most celebrated essayist and journalist. For the last two decades, Rodriguez has been examining the meaning of class, ethnicity and race in America and in his life. He has written various books and essays such as "Days of Obligation" which is regarding on what...

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One study, at the University of Florida was conducted in which eight to ten year old children, some of them home schooled, were taped on video while playing. ... The researcher, Gary J Knowles of the University of Michigan, states that he has "found no evidence that these adults were even moderately disadvantaged.. ...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2. INTRODUCTION 4 3. SOCIAL STRUCTURE 4 3.1. Population 4 3.2. American classes 5 3.2.1. Upper class 5 3.2.2. The upper middle-class 5 3.2.3. The lower middle class 5 3.2.4. The working class 6 3.2.5. The lower class 6 4. LANGUAGE 6 5. RELIGION 6 6. ECONOMIC ...

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For the first time the cloning of a whole human being seems really possible. It is absolutely necessary to consider the harm that can be done and move to curb abuses. Also, it is important to understand some of the theory underlying the desire to build a better human. The Ethical Downside of Cloning...

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