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The Indians And Losing Their Homes
Number of Words: 1375 / Number of Pages: 5
... They did not believe in any Bible or other books to tell them what to do, they lived by the theory of a higher power and spirits. they believed the Indian mind to be split into two parts, the spiritual and the physical. The spiritual was concerned with only the essence of things. On the contrary, the physical allowed one to see only things that were evident, avert danger or hunting. Each Indian had these qualities and they were all pure. From birth on, each Indian was a good person, not labeled bad or thought to have an evil mind. The Sioux tribe believed that courage and bravery were weighed ...
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Salem Witch Trials
Number of Words: 584 / Number of Pages: 3
... to see the forms of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted and the accused became so numerous thatno one was safe from suspicion and its consequences. Even those who were active in the prosecutions became objects of suspicion.
Revenge often impelled persons to accuse others who were innocent and when some statement of the accused would move the court and audience in favor of the prisoner. "I saw Goody Osborn with the devil" (Miller 1060). The accuser would declare that they saw the devil st ...
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Arlo Guthrie
Number of Words: 644 / Number of Pages: 3
... exceptin' Alice
You can get anything you want... at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half-a-mile from the railroad track
Oh... You can get anything you want
At Alice's Restaurant.
First of all, there is no restaurant named Alice's Restaurant. Rather, it is about a woman named Alice who lives near a restaurant. Alice and her husband lived in a church that they made into their residence. There was a lot of garbage in the church and it leads to Arlo getting arrested and tried for littering. A couple of years later Arlo registered for the draft because he wanted to be a ...
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Should The USA Have Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Japan?
Number of Words: 476 / Number of Pages: 2
... a swift surrender.
Enough American lives have already been lost and in the long run, the bomb will cost fewer lives. The attack on Iwo Jima alone has cost us 25000 casualties and nearly 7000 deaths, a rather high price to pay for an eight-square-mile island. Okinawa cost us even more, we received 50000 casualties while the Japanese suffered 100000. Too many American lives have already been lost with just the acquirement of two islands, it is not worth it to keep fighting like this any longer. If the bomb is dropped, no American lives will be lost. If America keeps fighting for these ...
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The Musician
Number of Words: 449 / Number of Pages: 2
... it.
Musicians are born just like anyone, but somewhere they notice something happening in their heads, like an inner orchestra that begins to play. It begins with one or more instruments, ringing distinctly and clearly inside their ‘third ears’. With time, this develops into a need to express that what is being played in their heads outside their heads. They become a player. Thus begins the road of learning to express, on a ‘physical device’ all the wonderful sounds and melodies they have invented and have yet to invent still in their heads. The ear begins to develop a different way of listening. It be ...
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Lyrics
Number of Words: 1898 / Number of Pages: 7
... rather than one with perfect vision. In addition many of the musicians use drugs and
stimulants to satisfy their hunger for themselves and for pure fun. The musicians tend to
use drugs massively, to get out of the very real world that they consist so much a part of.
Popularity seems pleasing but when one has the affections and total devotion of a mass of
people, that person can not handle it because that person does not have Jesus' personality
and only He could truly control that much fidelity. One person who truly could not handle
the excitement was Jimi Hendrix(Appendix A). Instead of pe ...
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World War 2 And The American Navy
Number of Words: 292 / Number of Pages: 2
... away supplies such as warships, food, and medicine.
America was extremely supportive of the war as long as they didn’t have to get in the trenches of it. They supported the British forces by fulfilling much needed supplies. America gave the British Parliament 7 billion dollars’ worth of American accouterments in 1942.
Life on board these great sea giants wasn’t so spectacular. Hundreds of sailors had to live in cramped spaces sometimes without air-conditioning or heating. As the war progressed accommodations were made radically better by being given more refrigeration spaces and spacious rooms.
Th ...
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War Of The Roses
Number of Words: 1090 / Number of Pages: 4
... finds out that Mrs. Waters is actually Jenny Jones who is Tom’s mother. He sleeps with Mrs. Waters not knowing this. Fielding does not unveil this secret until the end of the novel.
The major problem in the book is simple. There is a deceitful man named Blifil. He and Tom are going after the same woman, Sophia Western. Blifil is a kaniving person and besmirches the reputation of Tom. He makes up lies that hurt Tom’s chances with Sophia. Tom is also a bastard and Sophia's father does not want her to marry a bastard. But he does want her to marry Blifil because he is in line to inherit a larg ...
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The Beginning Of The Civil War
Number of Words: 1341 / Number of Pages: 5
... from Mexico. Calhoun said that the ban on slavery was unconstitutional. The constitution stated that slaveholders had the right to own property, which included slaves, since slaves weren’t human, according to the South.
There were three candidates in the election of 1848: Lewis Cass Martin Van Buren and Zachary Taylor. Cass was representing the democrats and was a man who believed in Popular Sovernty. Van Buren was nominated by the Free-Soil Party. Taylor was a war hero, a General from the Mexican War. He was chosen to represent the Whig party and, since he owned slaves, was pro-slavery (Stated ...
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The Watergate Scandal
Number of Words: 1494 / Number of Pages: 6
... employees had broken into the Democratic National Committee's
headquarters six times between August 21, 1971 and June 17, 1972. During
their sixth break-in on June 17, they were caught. (Secret Agenda) At
approximately 2:30 in the morning on this date, they were caught by police
in the Watergate Hotel. Police seized a walkie talkie, 40 rolls of
unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras, lock picks, pen-sized tear gas
guns, and bugging devices. (Gold 75). The burglars and two of their
accomplices, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were indicted in September
of 1972. They were charged wit ...
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