In the essay "Culture Etiquette: A guide", by Amoja Three Rivers indicates that, "[It is] ethnocentric to refer to us as minorities"(502). ... I don't think it is appropriate to label us as minorities just because, when we are placed side by side to the white people, we are automatically inferior to them. ... We should all be able to control what we say about others before we speak. ... Amoja Three Rivers tells us, "sometimes we need some time and space apart from the dominant group"(503). ... Ultimately, I have a habit of repeating myself a few times, until we both understand each other....

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This book forces us to face the dark side of our American history and how far the colonials went to fulfill their Christian manifest destiny. ... Since there are two sides to every story, Brown clearly shows us one we rarely see. ... He spends all of his time making alliances with the other tribes and in 1675 attacks 52 settlements, destroying 12 of them, but being destroyed in the process. ... In 1865 the settlers tried to invade Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, in the Powder River Invasion. ... Along with these attacks there were other villages attacked the same way. ...

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Both the Union and Confederates had their methods of fighting this war, only one side wins. ... Not only was the Union forces had supplies, but also better army training.6 The South on the other hand, had fewer advantages. ... The Union wanted to invade the Confederacy and dismiss it's resistance, obtain loyalty from other bordering states, have a naval blockade on their side, and prevent Europe from helping the Confederates by providing supply or troops.11 Besides having troops and goals for the war, there is a definite need for a plan and execution. ... The plan consisted of a large-...

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Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would predict, many whites would have no jobs and many things would be up-side-down. ... After the Battle of Bull Run, each side began to train its troops and to plan strategy for the war. There were differences between both side's strategies. ... He crossed the Rappahannock River to attack General Lee's forces. ... Before the real business, both of them were talking about other things rather than the Civil War and they seemed like good friends. ...

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The United States claimed that the Texas border with Mexico was the Rio Grande, but the Mexicans said that it was the Nueces River, so the land in between was disputed and claimed by both the United States and Mexico. ... The Mexicans had heavy casualties and were forced to abandon their artillery and other supplies. Fort Brown caused more fatalities when the Mexicans were crossing the river of Rio Grande. ... Kearny later proceeded with 300 cavalrymen along the Gila River valley. ... Other factors included, the way they were trained to shoot (Americans shot from their shoulders, while the ...

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Causing restlessness on both sides. ... The states began to choose sides. ... However, legislation had other ideas; on May 16, 1861 they proclaim neutrality. ... More so than the other Border States the reason for this was more geographical reasons than political reasons. ... Access from the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers helped to determine the geographical divide for the South, as the Ohio River helped to determine the boundary for the north. ...

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They attended this mission not knowing what to expect, travel to new places, and face war with other tribes and other nations, traveling in the west. ... " ( Barth, 67) On June 29, 1805 Clark and his party were traveling across the Great Falls of the Missouri River when all of a sudden there was a down pour that made the river very strong and powerful. ... "The swiftness of the current wheeled the boat, broke out toe rope and was nearly over setting the boat, all hands jumped out on the upper side and bore on that side until the sand washed from under the boat." ( Barth, 86) . ... In addit...

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U.N troops crossed the 38th parallel on October 7 19501 and proceeded north until they reached the Yalu River on the Boarder of China and North Korea. ... American Troops positioned along the river were going to push further north and eliminate all remaining North Korean resistance, two days later on November 261 the Chinese began a surprise counter-offensive by surging across the river and overwhelming allied troops. ... Replaced by General Ridgeway the stalemate lasted two more years7, offensives were executed by both sides mostly to no avail, the lines barely shifted in two years of combat....

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In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... On the other hand, it was called Clinton's big ditch, but it will change New York forever. ... If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. ... Brown had his five sons fighting by his side. ... On the other hand, the North was one hundred percent behind Lincoln to get rid of slavery. ...

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It was a river. ... All of a sudden I was thrown in the river. ... When I arrived at the other edge, I heard my mother tell the man that was leading us, the coyote, to take my shoes. This man did take my shoes just like my mother had asked him and then thru them back into the river. ... We stood by each other's side and we managed to repeat the process one more time the following night. ...

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Most of the reserves are situated to the west of the Mississippi River (Brookeman, 2005). ... After Columbus, other Europeans came to the New World. ... It also fought on British side in the war against France, which lasted from 1754 to 1763. ... The tribes of the League made their own decisions; some were on the side of the British, others supported the colonists, others remained neutral. As a result, the Iroquois fought on all sides. ...

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River Bend generating station located outside of Baton Rouge in St. ... The second reason is that nuclei are positively charged, and thus have difficulty in approaching each other because of the repulsive Coulomb force. ... One side note, most of the worlds Uranium comes from Australia. ... If the right side of the equation is larger than the left side, the number of neutrons will increase, which is called the supercritical state. If the right side of the equation is smaller than the left side, the number of neutrons will decrease, which is called the subcritical state. ...

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Most people think of the American Dream in terms of the positive side and it does indeed have a positive side. ... Andrew worked hard and acted on his ambitions as he built his first powerhouse steel plant on the shores of the Monongahela River outside of Pittsburg to construct his dream into reality. ... (Werbel) In contrast, the he also lives out the shadowy side of the American Dream. ... Is the American Dream worth trampling on others? ... It is also based upon many glorious rewards that are underlined with dark sides that are hidden from the naked eye. ...

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Whitney had one sister and two other brothers, who all lived in one house. ... But instead it would have side effect that no one foresaw that would lead the United States to be torn into two parts. ... But this method would only work if the plantation was by a river or stream. ... The most obvious and important side affect was that slavery would increase and that the end of slavery would be delayed. ... Another side effect that would eventually happen later in history was the Civil War. ...

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Here in the United States more babies are born in the summer than any other time of year. ... At the beginning when Julia Robert's character first meets Richard Gere's character she is a prostitute on the side of the road. ... By the end the couple has gained admiration for each other and we finally see the big kiss. ... Essay A: Four Mythoi In the previous diagram I have placed "The Man from Snowy River" as a rite of passage story, "A River Runs Through It" as a romance story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" as an ironic story, and "Educating Rita" as an ironic comedy. ... The ...

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The athletes on the water are more completely team members than any other athletes. ... The Yale-Harvard race on the Charles River marked the beginning of competitive rowing in the United States in 1852. ... On the other hand, a more poised better-disciplined crew wings by to victory. ... Neither is effective without the other. ... What is the use of working like hell on the drive and then thoughtlessly losing what has been gained by clumsy side work? ...

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In "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" Whitman writes "Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink, / Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person, a picture" (Whitman Lines 3-4). ... Whitman uses the "silvery river" in the place of a mirror, the horses that are splashing indicate the freedom that the United States was founded on, and Whitman makes sure to point out that the men on the horses have brown faces indicating his feelings that all "colors" are equal to one another. ... Hughes himself was mulatto, as his father was a product of an interracial backgroun...

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Henry Hudson- Henry Hudson was an English navigator and explorer who discovered the Hudson River on an expedition for the East India Company. ... Hernan Cortes learned that the Aztec had conquered many people in the region and were at war with others, including the powerful Tlaxcalan people. ... King George granted Oglethorpe and 19 other trustees permission in 1732 to settle a region between the Savannah and Altamaha Rivers. ... The French individuals, on the other hand, treated the Native Americans quite well. ... It was a very difficult situation for the colonies in North America becau...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. ... Both Soviet and Chinese troops would conduct patrols on many of the small islands (the majority of these islands were disputed territory between the two sides) and small skirmishes would occur. ... " He explained the reasoning behind the scissors strategy in his memoirs entitled New Lies for Old: Each blade of the communist pair of scissors makes the other more effe...

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In the years to follow other settlements were also formed. ... These germs caused many epidemics that nearly wiped out whole tribes and severely depleted others. ... (Brinkley, p. 43) However, as the English and others settled America conflicts continued to arise. ... Nearly all of the North American tribes sided and fought with the French against the English. ... In the War of 1812, the Native Americans took sides with the British again. ...

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The Muslims declared the struggle a jihad, and Muslim mountaineers inflicted a crushing defeat on Czarist forces at the Sunzha River in 1785 and were briefly able to unite much of what are modern Daghestan and Chechnya under their rule. ... The first is economic: both Chechnya and Tatarstan (a region held by the other large group of "internal Muslims" called Tartars) possess substantial oil reserves, with Tatarstan alone producing 25% of the Russian yield. ... While neither side can afford this conflict the Russian have the most to lose. ... However with both sides not trusting the other ...

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Protecting marine mammals and other marine life is solely dependence on human efforts and conservation. ... For more liquid stuff like oil, gas and chemicals, fish and other marine creature can infected through biomagnification. ... When there is rain, pollutants get washed to the rivers then straight to the waterfalls or more locally go in to runoffs on the sides of the street in to drains that push them right out to the oceans, polluting marine life that kills corals, aquatic mammals, fishes, sea birds (that eat fish), sea snakes, crustaceans, amphibians, and reptiles (that eats fish and ot...

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Residues of synthetic pesticides have been recovered in many major river systems, soil, fish, reptiles, birds, and humans as well. ... DDT was initially thought to be harmless to humans" because of its use on soldiers to kill lice; little to no side effects was detected. ... DDT, although considered to be very detrimental to the environment and mammals, because of its longevity has taken the spotlight away from many other more dangerous chemicals. ... Organic pesticides are far more dangerous and toxic than DDT and the other chlorinated hydrocarbons are still being used to this day...

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Wetlands contribute to the social, economic and environmental health of our nation in many ways: By filtering pollutants, nutrients, and sediments, wetlands help protect water quality in our lakes, rivers, streams and wells. ... By providing essential habitat for fish, waterfowl and a variety of other animals, wetlands provide for recreational opportunities for state residents and visitors. ... This is a very hot topic in the debates of the politicians within the state of Wisconsin, with the end in site but the outcome unclear, everyone is still doing all they can to sway the other to ...

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On February 6, General Grant attacked Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River and on February 16, the fort surrendered and General Grant took in prisoners. ... Lincoln feared that if he did so, the Border States would switch sides. ... Other assassins failed to accomplish their targets. ... Herold and seven other conspirators were later tried and convicted. ...

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