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The song Cooler Than Me, is a debut single by an American singer and songwriter named Mike Posner. Cooler Than Me is a dance-pop type of music. Mike Posner was born February 12, 1988 in Southfield MIchigan. Since it was released it peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Top 100. It also reached number one on Billboard Hot Dance Airplay. Mike Posner has another version named “Gigamesh Remix” that was released on Mike Posner’s October 2009 mixtape, One Foot out of Door. Mike posner is known for…

The Native Americans are the original Americans. At one time many tribes lived as hunter gatherers and farmers made of different tribes spread though North America for numerous years. However, through the settlements of the New World by Europeans, unfair treatment from state and federal government, slavery, and suffering (diseases like smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, and scarlet fever. All imported by the Europeans, to which they have no…

Using a minimum of 150 words, address the following: Discuss the different approaches of the federal government toward the Plains Indians. The Federal government had many different approaches towards the Plain Indians. The government used treaties, relentless attacks using the Army, and forced surrender of Indians from their lands. The government enacted policies which were met to confine Indians to reservations and even transported some to reservation like the one in the Washington Territory.…

The Fabulous Life of Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter Beyoncé was born on September 4, 1981, in Houston, Texas. She performed in numerous dancing and singing competitions and talent shows as a child. Beyoncé rose to fame and first captured the public’s eye in the late 1990s as lead singer of the R&B girl-group Destiny’s Child. Mathew Knowles was Beyoncé father and manager of the group which became one of the world’s best-selling girl groups in history. Beyoncé is an American songwriter, singer,…

I have read the murder mystery novel And Then There Were None, that is written by English writer Agatha Christie, publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, year of the first publication: 1939 (as Ten Little Niggers), number of pages: 252. This novel is known as her masterpiece and said to be the most difficult and popular of her books. In this excellent book by narrative techniques she describes the Soldier Island’s landscape, the weather that sometimes seems gloomy and threatening, each of the…

Find X The world is ripe with enigmas—bold unanswered questions. Extraterrestrial life, time travel, the meaning of life, and cultural relativism are just some of these sweeping topics. There are also countless smaller mysteries, less earth shattering questions that manifest in short-lived daydreams and musings. The smaller enigmas I ponder span from how the first camera prototype was conceptualized to what the X-Factor truly is. It is a popular show, most people know that it’s a televised music…

word “tradition.” Throughout the plot of “The Lottery,” Jackson implies the dangers affiliated with ignorantly giving in to peer pressure. The story begins mid-morning of a day in late June when seemingly ordinary villagers start gathering in the town’s square. Children are collecting and pocketing smooth, round stones while the adults are having exceptionally small small-talk, smiling when it is appropriate as opposed to laughing (Jackson 221). The lottery revolves around a ritualistic day…

To understand the mix bag of the Indian Reorganization Act you must first look at the loss before the implementation of it. Over a century the Native American tribes had been pushed back, pinned in, slaughtered over their customs, and, more specifically, their land/resources. The greatest assault on their lands was the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. This act was a way to take more land away from the Native Americans under yet another guise of “for their own good”. The hope was to force the members…

Do Stalker Ads Creep You Out? A few months ago I decided to leave home and rent out some office space. I splurged and bought a new office equipment, furniture and general supplies. I’m an avid online shopper and Amazon.com is one of my best friends. Sometimes Amazon can get a little creepy when it decides to stalk me. Over the next month as I settled into the new office, I kept seeing ads for trash cans, binder clips and desk chairs. Amazon went above and beyond in making sure that I had a place…

The Bloody Truth Behind It All “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” (Albert Einstein) Albert Einstein’s quote reveals the hidden realities of blind belief. In order to truly understand, humans must search beyond the surface, beyond what appears to be. In Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, the villagers gather in the town square on June 27th, and Tessie Hutchinson, Bill Hutchinson’s wife, arrives late. After the first round of the lottery, Bill gets the winning…