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Randolph B. Campbells book An Empire for Slavery The Peculiar Institution shows how slavery affected antebellum Texas and its future. It shows that without slavery in antebellum Texas, it is likely that Texas would not have flourished the way that it did. It also tells of how the slaves were....

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In the early days of the United States, loyalty to ones state often took precedence over loyalty to ones country. The Union was considered a voluntary compact entered into by independent, sovereign states for as long as it served their purpose to be so joined (Encarta). Neither the North nor....

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Americans have shown their courage, adaptability, and compassion throughout the terrorist attack in 2001, the Tsunami in East Asia, and the Hurricanes, Katrina and Rita. On September 11, 2001 a terrorist attack altered things in the United States forever. Thousands of people were killed on that h....

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Foreign affairs reflect the manner which one nation deals with other countries politically, economically, and socially. At the end of the 19th century, the US emerged as an imperialistic power because of its foreign policies stemming from a gender analysis. Rotter states, Gender, like discourse....

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The impact of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita will go far beyond the life of the tropical storms. In late August, we saw the most devastating Hurricane to reach the Gulf of Mexico in years. Hurricane Katrinas immediate impact caused massive flooding, destroyed buildings, and loss of powe....

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Compare and Contrast Louisiana is best known for The Big Easy and its natural disasters Hurricane Betsy and Hurricane Katrina. Some hurricanes, worse than others, go down in history and are never forgotten because of the tremendous impact they leave on its victims. Two well known hurricanes ar....

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Several great American Statesmen were pivotal in shaping and molding the government of the United States. History has since forgotten some of these founding fathers. The ones remembered throughout history are those we hold up for their accomplishments. Thomas Jefferson is one of the American Statesm....

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Louisiana Purchase President Thomas Jefferson wrote this prediction in an April 1802 letter to Pierre Samuel du Pont amid reports that Spain would retrocede to France the vast territory of Louisiana. As the United States had expanded westward, navigation of the Mississippi River and access to the ....

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The idea of Manifest Destiny was a heavy influence in America in the 1800's. This idea was the reason for the more rapid expansion of people from the East of the United States to the Western frontier. Manifest Destiny itself was not an official act but it inspired the passing of other acts like the ....

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* *August 15 is the feast of the Assumption, and Letizia Buonaparte, a devoted Catholic insisted that she was allowed to attend Mass. She had faithfully attended Mass everyday, and was willing to attend even though she was pregnant. Her wish was granted, but when Mass began, she felt the first sign....

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What do we do to obtain oil to meet the needs of Americans without having to sell out to Middle Eastern countries, not only with money but with foreign policy? Last month, President made a major move in this direction by lifting the eighteen year old White House ban on offshore drilling. He is n....

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Over the past decade the prison population has soared to enormous numbers. According to Champion (2005), the number of state and federal prisoners in the United States quadrupled during the 1980s and 1990s, increasing from about 319,000 in 1980 to 773,000 in 1990 and 1,302,000 in 1999. Another ....

The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
He Got to Heaven Four Days Earlier Some say that the title of my analysis has nothing to do with my story, The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence. I will go ahead and tell that the outcome of the story, the boy died because of his obsession with gambling. If he wouldnt have gambled l....

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, was one of the most brilliant men in history. His accomplishments were great and many so where does one begin to explain? He was a philosopher, educator, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, musician, and writer, to name few.....

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson wished to be remembered for three achievements in his public life. He had served as governor of Virginia, as U.S. minister to France, as secretary of state under George Washington, as vice-president in the administration of John Adams, and as president of the United States from 1801....

To what extent was slavery the main reason for the outbreak of the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln claimed that slavery was somehow, the cause of the war and few would disagree-without slavery the Civil War would never have happened. However slavery was not the only cause of the war; without the contribution of other factors, such as the continued western expansion of the Unit....

TOMS Organization - Shoes for everyone
TOMS was founded by a young gentleman named Blake Mycoskie. While visiting children in Argentina, he realized that the children did not own a pair of shoes. It was at that moment when he decided something had to been done. Therefore, in 2006 Mycoskie developed an organization called T....

U.S. Expansionism DBQ
United States expansionism in the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century is both a continuation and a departure of past United States expansionism. Expansionism in the United States has occurred for many reasons. Power (from land), religion, economics, and the ideas of imperialism and m....

uncle earl
George Rodrigues Uncle Earl Art comes in many shapes, forms, and styles but one artist that stands alone is George Rodrigue. His many works of art are on display in the Blue Dog exhibit at the Dixon Museum. After visiting the exhibit I concluded that Mr. Rodrigue is a very talented artist.....

Views of Jefferson and Madison
Views of Jefferson and Madison From the time the Constitution of the United States emerged, two political parties were established by Thomas Jefferson James Madison. The Federalists who were founded by Madison and the Anti-Federalists by Jefferson argued over the core principles of the United Stat....

Vodou Religion
Melville Herskovit's, famous for his much debated theory, The Myth of the Negro Past which is about African cultural influences on American blacks. He tried to destroy this myth which was that blacks were primitive and they made no contribution to the history of the world when they were taken fro....

What will be the short-term and long-term consequences of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ?
The world-wide environmental and economic disaster of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is starting to take effect. On Tuesday April 20, this marked the day of the uncontrolled explosion which caused the sinking of an oil rig off the coast of New Orleans. As a consequence of this, an estimated 800....

Wifes Story
This is a story that had many different themes and narrators throughout the book. It has racial prejudice and joining as a community. The story takes place on a plantation in Louisiana. One of the plantation workers , Beau Baton, has been murdered. Candy Marshall is the owner of the planta....

William Tecumseh Sherman and His March to the Sea
William Tecumseh Sherman was born on May 8, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was educated at the U.S. Military Academy and later went on to become a Union General in the U.S. civil war. Sherman resigned from the army in 1853 and became a partner in a banking firm in San Francisco. He....

World that made New Orleans
In this work of history by Ned Sublette, we are introduced to many groups of people which in turn explain why New Orleans became so diverse. He primarily focused on 3 main groups with the greatest influence: the French, the Spanish, and the Africans-freed and the slaved. Even though they were many o....

Youth Gangs
Contemporary Paper on Youth Gangs Introduction Gangs have been heard of long before the days of Stanley Tookie Williams, who was one of the most heard of notorious gangsters and also the organizer/founder of one of the first gangs, The Crips originating in the South Central Los Angeles ....

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