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- 7111: Native American Experiences During King Philip's War
- ... person to have her account published. It is also interesting to remember some of her own words regarding the Indians and their harsh treatments, Mary says, Not one of them ever offended me the least abuse or unchasity to me, in word or in action. Mary expected the Indians to be barbaric and inhumane to her, while thanking God for sparring her. Marys life retained was not the direct result ...
- 7112: Reasons, Causes And Details Of Plantation Slavery
- ... on overseers and tattle on other slaves. Most house slaves lived in the same house as the master. The majority of house servants were women. Because of that they were open and vulnerable to sexual abuse. They were unsafe from masters and overseers, even their fellow slave men. Sometimes a willing relationship between a master and a slave evolved. Field hands met a much harsher fate. They were in charge of ...
- 7113: The Indians of The Pacific Northwest
- ... Northwest. Especially that the Skagit tribe that lived in Penn Cove on Whidbey Island. Penn Cove is less than five minutes away from my mother's house. I remember riding my bike there as a child. This paper has brought new insight about the way I think not only about people of Indian descent, but about reservations and Indian rights. I cannot begin to describe the number of encounters I have ...
- 7114: To The People Of Texas And All Americans In The World: The Alamo
- ... line in the dirt and said whomever wants to fight to the death should step over, everybody did. To the death they fought. Massacred by the Mexican army only four survivors remained. Mrs. Dickenson, her child and two male slaves. Nobody else was spared. From that point on the Texans used the battle cry " Remember the Alamo!"( Downey 57 ). A brief description was given by the mayor of Bejar Antonio Ruiz ...
- 7115: The Fall of South Vietnam Controversy
- ... Vietnam and Russia and China, thus risking a dangerous expansion of the conflict, and it could lead to the enactment of wartime curbs on free speech and press. Only years later did charges of an abuse of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution arise (Warner 141). Even though this resolution, considered by most legal authorities a functional equivalent of a declaration of war, was repealed by Congress in January 1971 (Lens 21 ...
- 7116: Dynamic Change In The U.S.
- ... issues in a freight car which served as his laboratory as well. Edison took a big step forward when he was taught telegraphy as a reward for saving the life of a station officials child. While working as a telegraph operator, he made his first important invention, a telegraphic repeating instrument that enabled messages to be transmitted automatically over a second line without the presence of an operator. His next ...
- 7117: Education System After The Revolution
- ... expended upon the latter may be effectual, which would make no impression on the former."(Spring p.101) He also states that the key to a good society is in this idea;" Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart form it.".(Spring p.102) Mann wanted to put order into society by teaching a common education to children based ...
- 7118: The Clinton Scandal
- ... and you have been accused of having improper sexual conduct with a White House intern, quite possibly in or around the Oval Office! In the real world, people like you and I would call this abuse of power to influence sexual favor from an employee nothing less than sexual harassment, but in your world its called a "private matter?" Well, Mr. Clinton, it is not a private matter! Your Presidency ...
- 7119: The Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II
- ... homes. Over the course of the next forty years, these two bombings, and the nuclear arms race that followed them, would come to have a direct or indirect effect on almost every man, woman and child on this Earth, including people in the United States. The atomic bomb would penetrate every fabric of American existence. From our politics to our educational system. Our industry and our art. Historians have gone so ...
- 7120: The History of General Motors Corp.
- ... bread and butter of the V-6 engines available. General Motors has also been busy coming out with new safety products that will make their cars even safer. One of the new products is their child seat anchor which involve built-in tethers that hold the baby seat in the correct position in an accident. Another product is the invention of their Hybrid III crash test dummy which is made to ...
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