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    consists of six main sections. About 5% of Americans lived West while about 30 years later, 25% lived West. Transportation with movement to the West was only benefiting the elite. Jefferson sent two men, Lewis and Clark, to map the land, find the northwest passage, and make connections with people. During their expedition, they came across the Mandans. That is where they met Sacajawea, a 15 year old Shashone whose knowledge helped out Lewis and Clark. The continued war between England and France…

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    The movement of the Pacific and North American plates cause the old sea floor to be replaced by the now wider North American plate. Also with the movement the continental plate was stretched as the Pacific plate pulled the continental plate to the northwest which again stretched it out. This movement of the plates against each other also created the San Andreas fault which will come up later. What caused the San Andreas fault to be created twenty million years ago was the Pacific plate and the…

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    The Sub-Saharan Africa

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    The sub-Saharan is located in Africa that lies south of the Sahara desert. The sub-regions of sub-Saharan consist of Somalia, Dijibouti, Comoros, and Mauritania. The offical federal republic of somila is a country located in the horn of Africa. Ethopia is to the west, Dijibouti to the north east, the gulf of aden to the north, the indian ocean to the east, and kenya to the southeast. Somila's population consist of 10.8 million people, and most of those people are muslims. The offical republic…

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    of the Federal Capital to a more southern location. The Compromise of 1790 created stability between the north and south and in the federal government for the time being. Another large issue that faced Washington was Tecumseh and the Northwest Indian War, the Northwest Indian…

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    The most effective law that involves the Northern Spotted Owl is the Northwest Forest Plan for the reason that a recovery plan was not applied yet. It took seventeen years for the government to come up with a recovery plan and it ended up integrally defective. Most people who viewed the recovery plan would hurry to blame the logging businesses and the so-called “Timber Wars” both of which having materialistic politicians backing them up. The delay of the plan also echoes from environmental…

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    many community directors from organizing alternative breaks for undergraduate students with the BeyondBama program in the Center for Service and Leadership. While planning for my first alternative break trip in Guin, AL, I worked closely with the Northwest Alabama Habitat for Humanity director, Teressa Clark, who everyone soon called Mama T. Mama T welcomed everyone on the trip with open arms and provided a sense of warmth and comfort into the community of Guin. In addition to cutting, cleaning,…

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    Anacortes is a small town, on Fidalgo Island, in the northwest corner of Washington. This town is where I have lived my entire life. Anacortes consists of approximately 16,000 residents and Anacortes High School currently has 790 students enrolled. Growing up, events put on by the high school such as plays concerts athletics and parades were my favorite thing. Today I am a three sport athlete, with varsity letters in tennis, basketball and football. I have participated in high school…

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    the films that fall within the purview of my thesis include: Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), The Wrong Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963). For the sake of comparison and to support my arguments I have made references to other prominent films of Hitchcock. My study also proposes to analyze how Alfred Hitchcock positions the culture of…

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    What Is The Tlingit Tribe

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    Mile’s CEPA Project (Tlingit Tribe) My project was a totem pole from the tribes of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States; specifically the Tlingit. It took me 2-3 hours to make it. (I also got some help from my mom too). All of the materials came from my mom, too. There are three animals on my totem pole. They are a bear, wolf, and eagle. The bear represents strength and courage, as these were two things needed to live the hard life of a Native American. The wolf represents…

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    Many people in today’s society tend to treat global warming and the effect it has on all of our lives, as a joke. James R. Lee does a fabulous job, in his article titled “Global Warming is Just the Tip of the Iceberg”, talking about the effects of Global Warming and how it can lead to warfare and many conflicts of the 21st century. The article gives three different reasons for believing global warming could lead to warfare, the first being a conflict that could arise from a shortage of products.…

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