There were enough sea mammals, shellfish, and canoes for them to eat and use so that they could get their main food source and did not need to rely on agriculture. ... Sea animals were probably most important to the Subarctic and Arctic culture. ... How can one man say it belongs to only him?... Although the white men saw Native Americans a lot differently than themselves, this also happened later on during the Colonial Era with the white man's relationship to their slaves. ... Sea-island cotton made slavery much more pervasive and slaveholdings were much larger in the lower country tha...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. The ideologies based upon the Eurocentric and Protestant groups proceed to be key figures of oppression and racism. The mannerisms i...

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The dismissal of this great man, wrote Voltaire, crushes me. . . . ... On July 14, a Parisian mob attacked the old fortress known as the Bastille, liberating, as one pundit put it, two fools, four forgers and a debaucher." ... On October 5, the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, a good document all right, but only if it were followed. ... The only thing that ended the carnage, inside France, at least, was a man on horseback, Napoleon Bonaparte. ... One Patriot even returned the next day to replace a lock on a sea chest that had been accidentally broken. ...

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Most of these immigrants were young men, between 16 and 35 years old (Daniels 33). Many of them were married; however, they did not bring their wives across the sea with them. ... One day a drunken white man came out of a bar and motioned to me saying, 'Come here, slave!' I said I was no slave man. ... To which the man replied, "Yes, we drink our mother's milk also, but we do not eat her! ...

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If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even consider them? Shouldn't man seek out the sunshine, instead? ... Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? ... This novel does not deal so much with witches as it does with the Black Man, which "is a traditional American name for the Devil."44 In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne commits a...

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• Grade Level: High School

The main causes of wetland devastation are all linked to man. ... They also have the ability to preserve things, one such incident in 1987 where a 2,800-year-old corpse was pulled from the swampy waters in near perfect condition ((March 1987)"Mysteries of the Bog" National Geographic). This man had been killed during the Iron Age, in a ritualized thief's execution, which involved the torture and eventual slitting of the throat. ...

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Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. ... About two million men were sent away over seas in the American Expeditionary Force. ...

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Fixing America's broken immigration system requires a more thoughtful approach; mainly with more than one man's thoughts. ... Also if a man in power doesn't have the citizen's support he isn't doing a superior job as a politician and won't be able to accomplish much while he is in office. ...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater ...

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If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. Truman as a major factor. Truman is ranked seventh among forty one presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton . Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the da...

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"2 His words were a far cry from a "Lincolnian" rhetoric depicting America as "the last best hope of man on earth.... Interestingly the first scholarly mention of the term American exceptionalism actually comes from a man called Max Lerner in his book titled "America as a Civilization".13 He mentions that one of the main institutions that is singled out as the root of American exceptionalism, is the constitution. ... In George Washington's farewell address he said that the Constitution "has a just claim to [our] confidence and respect," because it is "the o...

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Not only did the colonists hate the unfair taxes, they hated being ruled by a tyrant far across the sea, where they could not be represented and effectively protest his unjustness. The whole system of ruling them was flawed because one man made the decisions. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School