Later in his life this was his inspiration to write the poem called "Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry" where he wrote the experiences of his childhood there. ... In 1838, he interrupted his teaching and started his own newspaper called The Long Islander, he had the help from his brother George. ... There Whitman published a version of his New Orleans poem called "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous city". ... The book appeared on the fourth of July, as a kind of literary independence day. Nevertheless, the book had very poor sales. ...

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This form of modern day slavery is called human trafficking. ... Chaga and the Chocolate Factory is a children's book by Bob Hartman based on the true life of a young boy in Mali, that illustrates how that happens. The book is about a young boy named Chaga whose parents sell him to a man to go work at a cocoa plantation (or the "chocolate factory") This book touches base on certain circumstances of human trafficking that people often don't realize. ... There are several ways the traffickers manipulate their prey, and individuals, conditions, and places vary from case to cas...

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Directions to events and places are not always going to be clear and concise. ... We did not discuss genre painting and American art in a classroom using a book to look at the artwork. ... Instead of having discussion from the book on what some other person had experienced, and instead of discussing someone else's opinions, we were introduced to a man who was actually a refugee. ... None of us had ever had to be evicted from our homes, leave our lives behind in the blink of an eye, and, hopefully, start anew somewhere else. ...

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He started a militant, all black group called the Black Panthers. ... Her book attacked the use of chemical pesticides. ... It began by the publishing of a book. The book was The Feminie Mystique, by Betty Friedans. ... A movement was needed because of the unfairness and discrimination by sex in the work place. ...

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" (4) May Stacy commented in her book 'The United Fruit Company in Latin America. Yet, today, less than a century later, banana is a popular fruit that's selling everywhere and appears in almost any home. ... United Fruit also owned a gigantic fleet of steamships; they called it "The Great White Fleet". ... Peter Chapman in his book 'Banana, How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World' said: "It started with a few bananas grow at the side of a railway line and become a global power with its own fleet". ...

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While searching the American Psychological Associations (APA) website I found a great article that showed that there are several variables of sexual orientation that affect the classroom experience and academic achievement of K-12 students. Population being studied in this case is jr' high and high ...

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They were terrific farmers and made homes from saplings and bark. ... "For most respondents, the trek home was memorable primarily in that the war was over and they were, as William M. Harrad wrote, "free to return home once more as a citizen of this our America country" " (Noe and Wilson 19). ... (The Book of James chapter 4:1). ... Written by Emma Bell Miles, this book is a portrait of religious life in the mountains. ...

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Our country has been experiencing one of the worst recessions ever for quite a few years now. Many people are just making enough money to live on. The working class has been struggling the most because they don't have the best jobs out there and if you don't have a good job you are probably making m...

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King's and Abernathy's homes were both bombed, along with his Hutchinson Street Baptist Church. ... If arrested, a new group would take their place immediately. ... As each group was arrested a new one would take its place. ... It was called the "Sacrifice for Dignity." The students in attendance then formed an independent organization called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to lead in the effort. ...

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There are many, so called "facts" that gun control supporters use as a basis for their argument for more gun control. ... However, there are roughly 300 other major federal and state laws created in the so called name of "gun control.... Another example can be illustrated by what is taking place in Walnut Creek, California where at least for now it is still legal to carry an unloaded gun on your hip almost anywhere you go. ...

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There are two dominant themes that play an important role in the book. ... Population of the so-called "Spanish Harlem" is mostly Hispanic, specifically Puerto Ricans who have emigrated from Puerto Rico throughout the 1900s. ... The conditions of El Barrio are unpleasant compared to other places in New York City. ... In this crackhouse massive amount of drug dealing took place. ... Thus, an individual that knows his way around in a familiar place will have a difficult time adjusting to a different place and environment. ...

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An early study by the Illinois State Police noted that a gang called the Forty Thieves was founded in New York about 1820 and this gang was believed to be the first youth gang in the United States (Sheldon, 1997). ... In the book, Gangs: An International Approach, Wade lists others such as status, power, structure, shelter, food, clothing, nurturing, discipline, unconditional love, activities, economic support and respect. ... Despite the poor homes that these youths come from, there are other convincing reasons to join a gain. ... In his book, Dangerous Society, Taylor points out several ...

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In 2013 China submitted a claim called the ten-dashed line map. ... At that time the claim to territories was called the nine-dotted line. ... China desires these islands, because it is at the corner of its so called 10-dashed dot line. ... In the book The Chinese Navy Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles, it is written by Saunders "According to one source, roughly half, or 1.5 million square kilometers, of the approximately 3 million square kilometers of maritime territory under China's legal jurisdiction is in dispute or already controlled by other regional nations " (Saunders). ...

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In his book, "In Defense of the Bush Doctrine,"" Robert Kaufman discusses how the founders of the United States embraced an isolationist strategy in the years 1776-1830. ... In his book, Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black summarizes the thinking of Washington and the United States when he writes, "in the sage beginning of what would become a vastly successful policy for nearly 150 years, the United States would generally abstain from Europe's quarrels, and grow steadily stronger as Europe's penchant for internecine bloodbaths became even more sanguinary " (Black 102). ...

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Birth rates increase dramatically once famine and disease have afflicted a population, and within a generation populations re-bound in total numbers.[1] The only factors that seem to limit our survival as a species are the rate at which we are using up our renewable resources and the stresses we are placing upon our environment. ... A new kind of development needs to be envisioned, one that can relate meaningfully to "learning to live sustainably in place." ... They said the treaty could be fine tuned later on.[5] In his 1992 book "Earth in the Balance," Vice President Al Gore called gl...

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They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather than some of them are violent. ... Crimes with guns and knives wouldn't take place without the students having access to those weapons. ... Sutherland's famous theory is called the theory of differential association. ... In homes where positive behavior is not the norm, exposure to violence through popular culture may have a more profound impact. ... Coordinating privileges and punishments a...

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The artistic community was called into action, producing whole schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. ... The so-called Hudson River School appeared in the mid 1820s. ... In this picture, he may be giving the spectator an idea of his own feelings when he returned home. ...

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In a pharmacy book written by the emperor Shen-Nung about 2657 B.C., he recommends marijuana as a cure for "gout, rheumatism, malaria, beriberi, constipation, and absent mindedness (Stwerka 5)." ... Marijuana was first mentioned in an American book in 1843 where it was recommended as a treatment for gout, tetanus, hysteria, depression, and common insanity. ... Although drugs like Dronabinol, Marinol, and a new anti-emetic ondansetron called Zofran, manufactured by Glaxo Holdings, (all of which are synthetic forms of THC) are available for people to use as a anti-nausea agent, most people claim...

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The Tet offensive was arguably the most controversial incident that took place during the Vietnam War. ... The lack of support from the home front has an effect on the progress of the war. Military victory and success are intangible without the support from the home front. ... "The war on the US home front provoked deepening bitterness and still remains hugely controversial. ... The motivation for the soldiers to fight for peace in Vietnam quickly weakened as a result of the movements disrupting peace on the home front.13 Why would the soldiers want to fight for peace in another nation when ...

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Pirzada Came to Dine of her book Interpreter of Maladies a young girl named Lilia is conflicted and unaccepting of the idea of racism when it first comes a reality in her own life. ... So how does this story become relevant in the first place. ...

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Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity - Jews".2 German Jews were stripped of their citizenship by the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 and had their businesses and stockholdings seized in 1938. ... Jewish schools, hospitals, books, cemeteries and homes were also destroyed3. ... So, before war broke out in September 1939, during that same summer, President Roosevelt called for the deactivation of the IGCR, the now 600,000 refugees in need of aid were nowhere closer...

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During the war efforts at the home front had to be made in order for the war to be a victorious one for America and the Allies. Women had to work in order to keep things running efficiently at home. ... These men were called the "doughboys". ... Woodrow Wilson had proposed treaty of terms called the Fourteen Terms to end the war. ... The treaty called for Germany to be stripped of its armed forces and a lot of its territory; it also forced them to pay high war damages. ...

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There was no place or sanctuary given to these faceless cheap laborers. ... Then in 1862, California governor Leland Stanford used his inaugural message to decry, "the presence among us of a degraded and distinct people call for any constitutional action, having for its object the repression of the immigration of Asiatic races"(Daniels 36). ... On October 24, 1871, the infamous Chinese Massacre took place. ... These jobs required the laborers to move from one place to another. ... When they decided to come to the United States, some planned on going back home to China wealthy. ...

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Current Trends Redefining Sales Management In The Domestic Marketplace Of all the identifiable demographic groups to emerge in America since the turn of the century, none has had such a sustained effect on our social, political and economic institutions as the so-called "Baby Boom" generation (those born between the years of 1946 and 1964). ... "Freed from the responsibilities of their 40s, boomers will create an adventurous life-stage called "mid-youth" that will push traditional ideas of a 'mature market' into oblivion," (American Demographics, 2001). ... In addition, the role ...

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Yet, as the public looks toward improving the lives of the elderly, abuse and neglect of elders living in their own homes have gone largely unidentified and unnoticed. ... Elders living in hospitals, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, or other institutional or group facilities were not included in the study. ... Of the 115,110 substantiated reports in 1996 for which information was available, 61.6 percent (70,942) were reports of incidents in which elders were maltreated by other people (also called "perpetrators"), while the remaining 38.4 percent (44,168) were incidents of self-neg...

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