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    Writers Guild of America Operations Administrator Emal Nessary An experienced Los Angels-area theater manager, Emal Nessary managed The Bridge Cinema De Lux for National Amusements, Inc., from 2001 to 2005. During this time, he studied business administration with an emphasis in business information systems at DeVry University at Long Beach and earned his bachelor of science in that field with magna cum laude distinctions. Emal Nessary has served as an operations administrator with Writers…

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    Land Bridge Theory

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    Before Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492, discoveries have recently found proof of inhabitants as early as 12,021 B.C.. However, the most widely accepted theory regarding early immigration to the Americas involves the Bering land bridge, a piece of land that once connected Alaska and Siberia. However, the land bridge theory, or Clovis theory, dates back to only 10, 984 B.C., almost 1,000 years after humans have been known to occupy North America. Two alternate theories are called…

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    of nuclear weapons is urgent for humankind. Any use of nuclear weapons in the modern day would have catastrophic consequences because of the advances in nuclear technology. According to the article, “Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century,” America has made nuclear missiles that are able to hit the intended target with precision accuracy, and travel thousands of meters per second.…

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    appeared that Africa and South America seemed to fit together like a puzzle (Hughes, 1994). Once captivated, Mr. Wegener gathered all the information that he could, including maps, samples taken from his Greenland expedition, to other fossil samples, gathered by other scientist, from areas he thought were once attached. Wegener sought information on the theory of the land bridge which also held fossil information showing the same species in Africa and South America (Hughes, 1994). However,…

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    distaste, the town of Taos shunts the practice by “[pouring] poison pellets near the big hotels and houses because they wanted no blood thirsty Savages around when [were] in abundance, or because they wanted to control everything” (Mirabal, Skeleton of a Bridge 59). As Whitt says, the tourists must believe in the flat, tame, docile Native stereotype reminiscent of an outdated and romanticized Southwest as “the nostalgia is integral to the cultivation of self deception” (145). When this deception…

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    The depression hit both America and Australia very hard. To recover from the depression American president, Franklin Roosevelt, developed the New deal policy. Australia, in regards to recovering from the depression, did not have an effective policy in place until 1932, by which time Australia had already felt the effects of the depression more so than other countries. Unemployment in Australia peaked at 30 %, however, unemployment in American peaked at 25%. In America, there was a wave of…

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    This essay is about how Ruby Bridges and Rosa Parks are alike and how they are different. Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges were both standing up for black people, because they knew that the way that they were treated was wrong. They knew that they could be separate, but they would never be equal. Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges were both a very important part of American history. They were supported by multiple people who agreed with what they believed in. Rosa Parks was a 40+ year old woman who was…

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    escorted them. Wallace chose to step down rather than incite violence. Ruby Bridges and her mother had to escorted by four federal marshals every single day. She started getting scared when one woman had a black baby doll in a coffin. People threatened to poison her, she would not eat anything besides sealed packages of food and cans of soda. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court said, separate but equal was unconstitutional. When Bridges graduated from the white…

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    Walt Whitman's Poems

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    The 19th century poet,Walt Whitman, is an important figure in American Literature.Walt Whitman wrote poems that represented events and important social issues going on in the United States of America during the late 1800’s. In his poems, “Song of Myself” and “Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry”, he talks to the future generations about society's problems, as if Whitman wanted the audience in today’s generation to learn from his own generation. Also, in his poems, Whitman uses transcendental thoughts…

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    we live today. There were many people moving west. Meanwhile, in the east, many factories were booming. A big industrial revolution for America. There were many new inventions during this time period. A lot of them, we still used today. America altered economically because of the railroad business, the steel industry, and the many immigrants that came to America. The railroad business was crucial for many things. As the railroad business boomed, there were more tracks to cities. This…

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