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    many job positions for unemployed people during that time, most of them were forced and temporary. It seems to solve the problems in short term, but nothing in long term. Many programs were discontinued, they were more like charity. I think the best way to save the poor people is not just give them food, money, clothes directly, but teach them how to plant, learn skills. Teach them the methods to solve the problems are much better simply give them answers. Therefore, the new deal just solve the…

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    most knowledgeable and successful of the mountain men. Provost had bad times, but was very skillful. There are no photos of Provost, but in a painting he appears short, fat, and round. Provost does not have a wide recognition. He helped guide John James Audubon. On two of his expeditions, he was imprisoned by the Spanish. One time he was held captive for forty-eight days and his equipment and supplies were confiscated. One time Provost ran into the chief of Shoshone, “Bad Gocha.” He told them…

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    bodies under his home or dumped some of the bodies in a nearby river. James Haakenson was the most recent victim identified from the John Wayne Gacy killings. James was only 16 years old when he was murdered. He was born in Chicago, however, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota with his family. James was unemployed, did not have many friends, however, most of the time, he behaved himself as he did not have a criminal record. James was known…

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    detailed account of the journey medicine has evolved over time. She gives talks of Dr. William Worrall Mayo who was apparently the founding father of Mayo clinic and Mayo Foundation; the analysis takes place from 1864 to 1944. Mayo’s two sons, William James and Charles Horace, pursued medicine as a factor that made them also contribute significantly to the development of the clinic. These brothers underwent training in the broad field of medicine, and therefore helped the clinic grow and expand…

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    men found peace with the Indians and marries Indian women. The learned the native languages and customs. The fur traded starts in the early 1800 to supply the demand for fur hats and clothes overseas. William Ashley and Andrew Henry placed an ad in a St. Louis paper to find recruits for an expedition that turned into a company later called the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. They employed some of the most famous mountain men of all time. People like Jim Bridger, Hugh Glass, and Jedidiah Smith were…

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    difficult to understand. The renaissance period was when people began going against religion to seek answers to the information the church was giving them, because at that time the church used to rule the people and tell them what to do. One of the ways the church kept the people faithful is by commissioning artists to paint religious paintings like the ones discussed in this essay. The Last Judgment done by Bosch was during the Northern renaissance, while the Last…

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    that we don't know for a fact. One of the mystery is whether or not saint James the greatest traveled from Jerusalem to Iberian, Peninsula. Even though we don't know some things we still have a bit of information of it and how it has in the past. The town is located northwest of Spain were one of the most well know cathedrals. Santiago de Compostela is the capital of Galicia. The town is named after the Apostle Saint James or Santiago. It was founded around 400, it was around the time of the…

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    that followed a fire in St. James, Jamaica in 1831; specifically the Baptist War. Slaves feel that the message by missionaries in Jamaica, that God saw both black and white men as equal, seemed contradictory as they are being used as slaves to cultivate sugar and coffee for the profit of whites. Missionaries see how slaves are treated, and to them the slaves seem broken with the work they have to do every day. Like other slave societies, slaves are also flogged, as a way to prevent them from…

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    Essay Many works of literature today have persuasive strategies incorporated in them to grab the reader’s attention. Most of the time, writers also use strategies such as humor to send a crucial message to the audience. While this is one effective way of sending a message, other writers utilize formal writing to express the seriousness of a problem. Both methods are effective in getting a message across; however, writing without humor is stronger than those with humor because it is…

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    Cinderella Man is a movie that tells the story of James Braddock, a boxer living in the time of the great depression. Throughout the movie James Braddock goes through many trials and tribulations because of his financial situation which is greatly affected by the great depression. The film “Cinderella Man” is an accurate representation of the great depression because they properly represent the economic instability, Hoovervilles, and relief offices that existed in that time period. The great…

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