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    North Country

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    North Country stars Charlize Theron as a female worker at an iron mining company in Northern Minnesota who is sexually harassed and leads a class-action lawsuit against her employer for failing to protect her and other female employees. "What Josey Aimes wants is a decent job so she can put food on the table and take care of her kids. What she gets is threatened‚ insulted‚ ogled‚ fondled‚ belittled‚ attacked and called filthy names. "Take it like a man‚" her callous male boss says. Instead‚ she takes

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    The civil war was fought for many reasons‚ After Abraham lincoln was elected in 1860 the South feared that he would abolish slavery so the South seceded from the Union.( Civil War Trust 1). The union wanted to stay in tact‚ (Civil War Trust 1). So the North did not see a legitimate reason for secession. (Civil War Trust 1). The two sides had also been drifting apart because of their cultural and economic differences. ( Guelzo 1 ). The North was advancing industrially and the South was growing agriculturally

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    North Korea Conflict with the United States and South Korea On March 30‚ 2012 the new charismatic leader of North Korea‚ Kim Jung-un announced that he had plans to attack the mainland of the United States. He made claims that his military had the capability of launching a nuclear war head which was mounted on a long-range missile. Since the end of the Korean War‚ 60 years ago‚ there has been a constant air of tension on the Korean peninsula. Korea was unified until it was invaded

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    North Country

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    North Country” Josey was a woman who was looking for a new start when she and her 2 kids left her abusive husband. Unfortunately the abuse did not stop for Josey. The abuse continued when Josey went to work at the Mining company to get some extra money so she could take care of her two kids and move out of her parents house. Josey worked at a salon before moving to the mining company. At the salon she was not making enough money to make ends meet. This was an example of rights theory not being

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    Why the North Won

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    Union and Confederate Advantages The Union certainly had considerable advantages. There were 22 million people in the North compared with only 9 million in the South (of whom only 5.5 million were whites). The North had a much greater industrial capacity. In 1860 Northern states produced 97 per cent of the USA’s firearms and 94 per cent of its pig iron. Even in agriculture the North enjoyed an edge. The Confederacy hoped to make good its lack of materials by trading with Europe‚ but the Union used

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    As slavery ended in North America and South America‚ differences in how they lived free of authority differed. Even though both of the institutions were formed to the needs of African American agriculture‚ their rights and privileges varied. Down in the South‚ blacks free of slavery were commonly treated with disrespect. Scorned under the black codes of slavery‚ some free blacks owned their own set of slaves. For those who were of the black and or white culture who tried to help any slaves avoid

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    S. and continues to do so. The South had a very difficult struggle with its social structure and resulted in a shortage of help and in turn resulted in the buying and trading of slaves who were forced to work on their large plantations. The result of the lack of agriculture in the Northern region gave the Southern some advantages and caused an increased need for trade. They sustained trade with Africa and Indians which is known as “The Triangular Trade”. The South had more of a one-crop-economy

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    North Carolina Paper

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    The Civil War and the South The Civil War‚ still called the war for southern independence by many people‚ was a defining moment in this great nation’s history. The “United States” did not become a common term until after the civil war. The war created a coast to coast nation that would forever be united. The Civil War changed this nation forever‚ but through that process many great people were able prosper. For example‚ Abraham Galloway started his life as a slave‚ but became politicians to fight

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    beloved country broke out in a bloody massacre of the North states against the South‚ they called it the Civil War. hen it was over and the North won‚ the bonds weren’t as strong as before and the war had hit the USA harder than expected. President Lincoln made a plan to save our country called REconstruction‚ he wanted 10% of white southern men to take an oath of loyalty and they were off the hook for almost destroying the country. North or South: Who killed Reconstruction? The definition of reconstruction

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    Sam North

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    referring to a continuous mark‚ made on a surface‚ by a moving point” I wish to investigate how mark making and the use of the line has changed over the course of time from the renaissance era of Leonardo Da Vinci to artist Cy Twombly from the modern movement of Abstract Expressionism. I wish to explore the question of what has changed in our understanding of the line and mark making. I will look at the earlier historical work of Leonardo Da Vinci and compare and contrast them with Cy Twomblys

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