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    candidates to make a smart decision. The electoral college system allows each state to have one electoral vote for each of their US senators and representatives. Each state has a slate of electors for each presidential candidate, so when a citizen goes and votes, they aren't really voting for president, they are voting for the slate of electors. Whichever candidate wins the most votes in the state, wins all of the electoral votes for the entire state, which is a method called the “winners take…

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    Bringing a child into the world should be one of the most exciting and joyful moments in a woman’s life. Sadly, for some this is not the case. There are those whose circumstances, past or present, that have affected their own sense of self which can, unfortunately, lead to a viscous cycle with their new baby. The bond between a mother and child is one that is most would say is the strongest bond there ever will be. This bond, however can be a positive one that will promote well-being and a…

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    How did the ideas of mercantilism, The Enlightenment, and The Great Awakening contribute to the found of the United States? The United States government was created because the people of the Thirteen colonies had freed themselves from Great Britain and needed a new way of governing. They had split off from Britain because of the ideas of The Enlightenment and The Great Awakening. Each of these were movements that prompted people to throw out their old unjust government and built up a new one.…

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    Dreams During REM Sleep

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    content can help dreamers rid themselves of inner conflicts” (Breecher). The subconscious performs to rid the mind of day to day activities and unpleasant events. In this manner, the mind does itself a favor. Not only do dreams work to clear our mind’s slate, they also expose subdued…

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    What I Ve Done Analysis

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    What role do we play in protecting or destroying our environment? How do we treat others who are not like us? How often do we think about those who are starving every day? Is it only on Thanksgiving, when we are extremely full, or do we think about world hunger and how we can make an impact on solving this problem? With images of social injustice and environmental degradation, the video for “What I’ve done” brings all of these questions to mind. The song by Linkin Park, “What I’ve done,” makes a…

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    voters for the Electoral College are granted on a Winner take-all premise. Voters don 't vote straightforwardly for voters, yet rather vote in favor of the presidential and bad habit presidential applicant group for which the voters are swore. The slate of balloters vowed to the group with the most votes are altogether chosen together. Each state except for Maine and Nebraska utilize this framework, however many states right now utilizing the victor take-all voter framework have additionally…

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    Throughout the semester we have learned about indigenous people and we have also looked at women’s roles in different religions. In some of my other classes, we have been talking a lot about women and their place in the world along with gender roles that have been created. This got me very curious about women’s roles in other religions. I decided to look into Native Americans and Ojibwe women. The article “Yes, I’m Brave”, talks about the women in Native American culture that are considered…

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    back to the old ways. Mr. Thomas is old and does things by the book, unlike the gang who decide to bypass tradition and make their own choices as children. The boys' actions are similar to the younger generation of post-war England wanting a clean slate, keeping in mind “destruction after all is a form of creation” (93). They wanted to show the older generation how change was needed in England and to stray away from…

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    emphasize the character’s true self’s and their facial emotions. Jack does not respond very good to their conversation because his mind is set on that bomb and chancing the past, his mind is block. He wants so desperate a clean slate that he does not realized that he has a clean slate if he would really want to because he is already back on the island. Why does he have to go and try to find new problems to fix? When he should just settle…

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    veins were mined down to 500 feet (Western Mining History). The New Almaden quicksilver mine goes down to six-hundred feet and is one hundred-fifteen degrees. (Chest of Books) Graniteville is underlain by Slate Schist, and Phyllite. “Phyllite is a type of foliated metamorphic rock created from slate that is further metamorphosed so that very fine grained white mica achieves a preferred orientation” (WikiPedia). There are also several glacial moraines, a glacial moraine is a accumulations of dirt…

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