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    Fort Clatsop

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    Louis. Now the site is known as the Fort Clatsop National Memorial. The Historical Site Upon the Corps of Discovery departure in March 1806‚ the fort rapidly decayed in the wet coastal forest of the western Oregon region‚ but was reconstructed in 1955 from sketches in the journals of William Clark. The National Park Service maintains a replica fort within the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park that is believed to sit on‚ or near the site of the original fort. The original fort‚ however‚ has

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    used in the United States since 2000; OPV is still used throughout much of the world. Albert Sabin invented the oral polio vaccine in 1961. It is a weakened‚ live virus‚ which can be taken orally. Dr. Jonas Salk developed inactivated polio vaccine in 1955. It consists of inactivated (killed) poliovirus strains of all three poliovirus types. These vaccines produce antibodies in the blood to fight the

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    Non-Alignment movement

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    preservation of world peace and security. Non- aligned movement is an important world organization of the third world countries. A meeting of those countries of the world who had no alignment with any super was held in Bandung (Indonesia) on April 24‚ 1955. The term "Non-Alignment" was coined by V K Menon in his speech at UN in 1953 which was later used by Indian Prime Minister‚ Jawaharlal Nehru during his speech in 1954 in Colombo‚ Sri Lanka. In this speech‚ Nehru described the five pillars to be

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    two of Bryant’s white family members. Race relations is different in different places‚ just like how it was more hostile in Mississippi than in Chicago during the time of the Emmett Till case in 1955. It seems like it became much more hostile between 1930’s with the Scottsboro boys court case and in 1955 with Emmett Till being beaten to death. By 1961‚ race relations changed even more between blacks and whites but began to get better than in the year prior. Take into account John Howard Griffin’s

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    Book Review The Bureaucracy in the Philippines Dr. Onofre D. Corpuz ------------------------------------------------- Institute of Public Administration: University of the Philippines‚ 1957. 268 pp. This book is about the administrative history of the bureaucracy in the Philippines. It spans from the 1560’s when Spain undertook to administer the affairs of the natives of the archipelago to the 1950’s when the Filipinos assumed the responsibility of self-government. The author presented the significant

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    Conceptual Skills

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    Conceptual skill Modern management has been trend globalization and improve constantly. A manager’s job is complex and a range of skills are used by different level management. Although some management theorists propose a long list of skills‚ the necessary skills for managing a department or an organization can be summarised in just three categories: conceptual ‚human and technical (Katz‚1974) .The application of three skills changes as managers move up in the organization. Although the degree

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    the Board of Education of Topeka‚ Kansas. In 1955 Little Rock adopted a plan that they were going to let limited integration into Central High School‚ but it won’t actually happen until September 1957. During that year of 1955‚ teachers sent around sign up sheets for student who wanted to go to the all-white Central High School. Surprisingly many children signed up‚ but only seventeen

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    Alaska

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    introduced the first bill that proposed Alaska’s Statehood to Congress. Like many past attempts‚ the bill gathered virtually no support. In 1955‚ the territorial legislature passed legislation permitting a constitutional convention. Alaskan voters elected fifty-five delegates from across the territory. They met at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks in November 1955 to write a constitution for the proposed state. Alaskans voted approval of the constitution in April 1956. The new constitution was set

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    fighting against the oppression of African Americans‚ while in the United States‚ and West Indians‚ while in United Kingdom. She was also an advocate against women’s oppression and‚ of equality‚ which led to her imprisonment‚ and subsequent deportation in 1955. Jones was also a prominent member of the Young Communist League (YCL) and‚ strongly supported the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). Life in New York‚ during the 1920s-1930s‚ allowed Jones to experience oppression and exploitation

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    Americans. Blacks often had to give up their seats to white passengers who boarded the bus after black passengers did‚ but their requests went unnoticed. Not until Rosa Parks‚ an NAACP activist refused to give up her seat to a white man on December 1‚ 1955. Rosa Park was arrested and this led to a bus boycott that involved mostly all of the black community. Many leaders of the Montgomery Improvement Association were arrested and violence erupted towards blacks once again. After about a year‚ the Supreme

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