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    In 1997, Duke Power made its first big merger that would set the future of Duke Energy. Duke Power purchased PanEnergy Corp for $7.4 billion in order to help the utility company branch out nationally. After this buyout Duke Power changed its name to Duke Energy Corporation in order to set a new platform for expansion and growth. At the time Duke Energy had net assets of $13.5 billion while PanEnergy had $7.6 billion. The merger was a necessity for both companies because the gas and electricity…

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    Twentieth century was a time period of joy and prosperity. Americans began to indulge new style and rejected many moral standards. This era was indeed full of new changes and formed the new “normality”. In fact, the one and only thing that truly did mark this era as “The Roaring Twenties” was the women. For this very reason, when it comes up to learning about the twentieth century, women is the topic that interests me the most. Women are honestly the “main element” that gives this specific…

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    Generation Like Analysis

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    When I clicked on Generation Like (citation), I thought the video would be about conformity or how everyone is like each other. Instead it was referencing likes as in Facebook likes. The video talked about more than just social media though. It asked the question "What are companies doing to our kids through technology and how can they and we be more aware?" (Citation). This video is a good start in helping people become more aware of how the different platforms of social media are used to…

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    Levi Asher characterized the Beat Generation as one of extremes, from their childhood environment, their rejection of society and its norms, to the style in which they lived. Asher begins with an article that appeared in The New York Times Magazine by John Clellon Holmes, where he attempted to provide some explanation of why this generation was behaving the way it was, he said, “Ever since they were old enough to imagine a future, it has been in jeopardy”. Growing up between two world wars and…

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    Dr. Louis Pasteur did not believe in “spontaneous generation” which is to say he did not believe that life could just appear, but he needed evidence to support his claim. Spontaneous Generation was a hot controversy among scientists in the 1860s. Dr. Pasteur believed diseases traveled through these microbes. He was looking for a way to stop people from getting sick. Pasteur asked many questions. Among were (paraphrased): ‘can animalcules [now known as microbes or pathogens] appear out of…

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    The Road to Clean Energy is Paved with Nuclear Debris Since the dawn of nuclear power, mankind has been enjoying a relatively cheap and clean energy source that can be relied on as a steady alternative fuel source. Its benefits, though, can easily be outweighed by its detriments. No energy source compares in its potential life-threatening risks to that of nuclear energy. Such disasters may be overlooked due to their rarity and need in a rapidly-evolving society. However, at what point does…

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    women starting to choose to start a family later in life. In America’s societies past women relied on the male head of house for financial decisions, and income, and “for women the central task usually involved the day-to-day rearing of the next generation” (493). These days one of the most drastic changes brought by pre-adulthood is the common acceptance of whether a person would like to have a family or not. Either sex is able to choose when they would like to start a marriage and procreate,…

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    Speech On Baby Boomers

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    Or, you may know of them as the “entitled” generation. There are many terms that can describe the generation I make up. But, to other Millennials, they don’t agree with everything that’s said about them. “I don’t think we are the entitled generation,” said Corey King a 22-year-old college student at Lock Haven University. “Every generation before us was not approved by the previous generations. My grandfather didn’t approve of my father’s generation. I’m sure its been like that for a very…

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    Baby Boomer generation, parents had more of a distant relationship with their children. Generation X was a different story; these kids had to grow up fast and fend for themselves. As the Millennial generation evolved, their parents, the Gen X’ers, wanted to give their children everything, which created a hyper-parenting style. This in turn created the hovering style that the Millennial parents practiced. The social and emotional factors that a generation’s parenting…

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    Stolen Generations, 2015). The report further detailed instances of abuse post-removal. Many boys were referred to as “inmates” or by their identification numbers in their new homes. Children attempted to run away and many were placed in solitary confinement for acting out, not following rules, or attempting to run away. After a certain age children were…

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