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    Mini Lab Report M&M Lab Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to find‚ record‚ and compare the amount of each color of M&M’s in a bag. Hypothesis: I predict that the M&M color that will have the largest amount will be the yellow M&M’s. After yellow I predicted the next highest color would be brown. Then following brown would be blue‚ green‚ red‚ and orange. Materials: * Plate/Paper Towel * Bag of M&M’s * Calculator * Pencil and Table to Record

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    History 2112 Study Guide Test 1 Chapters 15-17 Chapter 15 1. Dawes Severalty Act – goals; Indian boarding schools (reasons for‚ children reaction to) 2. barbed wire – impact on ranchers 3. mining towns – victims of violence 4. Grangers – reasons for laws; members 5. Long drive – purpose 6. Mark Twain – themes in novels 7. Native Americans – Wounded Knee; Sand Creek Massacre; George Custer; Fort Laramie Treaty; reasons for U.S. violating treaties; impact of horses

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    My great great great grandfather migrated to Hawaii during the colonial period (1900’s) due to cheap labor. He was recruited as a sugar cane farmer. He believed that the island offered better opportunities‚ a paradise of happiness and prosperity. At first‚ all he had ever wanted was to save money‚ buy a home‚ a farm‚ lands‚ and eventually‚ return back home and live comfortably. However‚ that did not materialize because our relatives and other family members ultimately Hawaii migrants too. Until

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    Running head: LIFE AS AN Life as an African American in New York City in the 1900’s Serena Hamilton Colorado Technical University Online HIS120-1001A-04 Professor John Ragan January 8‚ 2009 Life as an African American in New York City in the 1900’s Imagine an environment where people are trying to have a better life. I work for a rich family in Manhattan. I am blessed to be born with a natural musical ability; though I cannot read or write I can sit down at a piano and play as

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    The lives of African Americans in the South during 1865 to 1905 changed immensely due to the mindset of the South in the political‚ economic‚ and social spheres of life. To begin‚ in politics‚ the policies regarding the African American citizens who always changing. Immediately after the conclusion of the Civil War‚ President Johnson passed a series of laws called the Black Codes that restricted the rights of the newly freed citizens. The African Americans had very similar conditions to those prior

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    Xavier Johnson AMH 2010 03C Professor Amy Rieger 4/24/14 Florida History Project Henry M. Flagler’s name may have gotten less acknowledgement than the man of the Standard Oil business‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ but even with the lack of recognition Flagler’s power was just as strong in the oil industry in the 1870s and 1880s‚. Though Flagler was born in Hopewell‚ New York‚ in 1830 he left a lasting mark on the state of Florida and his influence easily reached the 20th century. Flagler’s greatest

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    The History of Policing Your Name Here CJA/214 October 04‚ 2013 Instructor Name The History of Policing The American system of policing today is distinctive and remains as one of the most advanced on earth. Sir Robert Peel is the “father” of modern policing. Peel formed the London Metropolitan Police also known as the Bobbies. His genius ideas formed the core elements involving strategy‚ mission‚ and organizational structure of the police. Their mission was crime prevention that suggested the practical

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    to increase. The farmers believed that deflation was the cause of the food prices dropping. According to the "United Sates government data‚" the farmer’s had a very valid point. Between 1865 and 1895 the population of the United States almost doubled‚ while the money in circulation in 1880 was even less than in 1865. The farmers solution to the deflation was an increase in cheap money‚ which is also known as silver coinage. However‚ the Republican party had conservative ideas and wanted to keep the

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    Between 1865 and 1900American industry workers experienced both good and hard times. Labor Unions were forming‚ and these new creations often produced better lives for the workers. However‚ waves of immigrants were also coming into America‚ which resulted in the threat of job stability. Labor Unions and Immigration both had momentous effects upon the industry worker‚ for better or for worse. After the Civil War‚ which killed much of the working population‚ people began to appreciate their skills

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    undervalued technologies have become hugely important throughout their existence in places like the Third World and have become overshadowed by novelty inventions like the V-2 rocket or the Concorde jet. In The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 written by David Edgerton‚ a well-known and leading British historian that has challenged conventional analyses of technology for over twenty years‚ offers an alternative way of understanding technology‚ technological change‚ and the role of

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