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    Quitman County Diversity

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    Quitman County is located in the northwestern portion of the Mississippi Delta. The county’s main town, Marks, MS served as a flag stop station for Amtrak passenger trains. Nationally, the county is well known for producing high quantity of crushed soybeans. HISTORY While a woodsman named Moore initially settled Quitman County another settler is more frequently referenced in historical factors about the county. Since Moore did not have a legal title to the land he settled, Thomas B. Hill…

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    In this debate, Clinton lost by simply not winning. The trends aren't currently in her favor, and Sanders is gaining in Iowa, where he's starting to be treated like a serious candidate by the press. Her attempts to attack Sanders's support for single-payer health care were widely perceived as backfiring, especially among liberal primary voters who could possibly be tempted to support Clinton out of practicality. She needed a debate in which she could show that Sanders was out of his depth, not…

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    forgotten about for many decades. As previously mentioned, America had 408,773 km of Class I rail in 1916. One-hundred years later in 2016 the American railroad network consist of 225,000 km of Class I railroad (Federal Rail Administration, n.d.). Amtrak is Americas only passenger train and owns only 34,279 km of railroad. An example of the dilapidated American railroad is the…

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    Unit 6 Persuasive Speech

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    Although released from the hospital a week ago, Freddie has not eaten for two days and needs to find a place for continued existence. Depressed and hungry, he searches for a rare telephone booth, that he hopes will be in working order. After a search that has taken him the majority of the day, he spies one on the corner of a Seven Eleven. Walking to the booth Freddie drops in his very last seventy-five cents and dials the digits beginning on the advertisement he had circled in the paper…

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    Experience the historic past of Chicago by visiting gangster hangouts, cemeteries and more. Chicago was once the site of the world's most infamous gangsters like John Dillinger and Al Capone. While some of the original sites are gone, many gangster destinations still remain within Chicago. Top off your tour with a stop at one of the many speakeasy-themed bars that remain from the Prohibition Era. Biograph Theater Placed at 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, the Biograph Theater is where the FBI once…

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    Recently, I watched an episode of Manhunt: Unabomber on Discovery channel. His work, Industrial Society and its Future, was mentioned several times throughout the episode and it sparked my interest. Ted Kaczynski’s theory is that technology has become such a big part of our lives that it would be near impossible to function without it. This was something that grabbed my attention because despite the fact that technology is a helpful tool, it also has the power to destroy our society. The…

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    PROBLEM DEFINITION On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States. Ranked as the 3rd strongest hurricane to land in the United States, it affected many lives; 1,836 deaths and millions of people were left homeless [1]. It has been reported that there is a 65% chance in the next 50 years a hurricane with the capacity of Hurricane Katrina will hit the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This hurricane may cause destruction due to flooding, which more than 300,000…

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    The bus took off in the bitter chill of the autumn wind that frosted the noise on the busy New Yorkers, as the bus made my way to Philadelphia. I took the window seat to glare out as the dimly lit sidewalks grew barren of people; the only ones left were those displaying their affections as we past the park, and the lone travelers who tread the crooked pavements with haste; avoiding that park. After a few seconds, there was nothing to glare out at as we drove through the tunnel, but faded…

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    Subsequently, Muslim immigrants from Middle East countries become a national security concern because of their ties with terrorism, their refusal to assimilate in western society, their religion intent to spread jihad globally, and most importantly their practice of sharia law that enslaves women to men out of their country of origin. Muslims preach that Islam is a peaceful religion, but yet it is suspicious to accept that Islam is peaceful, although not every Muslim is a terrorist, however,…

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    Forms Of Digital Crime

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    1. Describe some of the most common forms of digital crime. The four most common forms of digital crime are Tax-refund Fraud, Identity Theft, Theft of Sensitive and Theft of Intellectual Property. I have been the victim of two of these and maybe all four because two of them can happen and connection with the other. For example, back in 2013, around tax time, I received a letter from the IRS office out of Georgia, stating that I owe states for 2012 taxes year. The problem is that I’ve never…

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