Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27‚ 1822‚ in Point Pleasant‚ Ohio. He was entrusted with command of all U.S. armies in 1864‚ and relentlessly pursued the enemy during the Civil War. In 1869‚ at age 46‚ Grant became the youngest president theretofore. Though Grant was highly scrupulous‚ his administration was tainted with scandal. After leaving the presidency‚ he commissioned Mark Twain to publish his best-selling memoirs. President Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant
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Name: Alex Smith Date: 9/5/2013 EN34 Unit 3 Cause/Effect Essay Writing “Working While in High School” Grade: _____/100 Directions: Write a multi-paragraph essay in which you discuss the causes and effects of working while in high school. Begin typing your essay below: High school can be pretty costly to some students due to having cars and paying for insurance and yearbooks and all kinds of items that are sold throughout the school year. Most students believe they can balance
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Big City Small World – Meet the Cast – Fadi http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/big-city-small-world/meet-fadi Meet Fadi Introduction This support pack accompanies: Meet the Cast – Fadi This support pack contains the following materials: • • • • Before you listen: Vocabulary match up Audio script Comprehension Task: True or false Fadi’s Season 1 – Can you remember what happened to Fadi? Before you listen We suggest you do the vocabulary activity below before you listen. Then listen
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1920’s DBQ Question: The 1920’s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested? Analyze these documents in pairs. You can use their textbooks and/or the power point we used in class to help build their understanding of the material. You should write a thesis statement‚ intro paragraph and outline a proposed answer. The outline
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Odysseus didn’t show mercy to the men who betrayed him in his absence. Over the course of ten years‚ suitors tried to win his wife Penelope’s hand in marriage. Those suitors were quite unruly and difficult to deal with‚ causing much strife in the life of his wife and son‚ Telemachus. When Odysseus returned‚ he made short work of setting things right. “You took my house to plunder‚ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared bid for my wife while I
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Fashion in the 60’s The 60’s were a time of change and challenge. They brought hippies‚ space age‚ folk music‚ and the Beatles. Women’s skirts got shorter‚ men’s hair got longer‚ and everyone talked about love. The 60’s was characterized by the feeling that a break with the past had been achieved. Clothes‚ furniture‚ and products all looked newer‚ brighter‚ and more fun. The swinging 60’s were at their height. Women’s hemlines were very short. Fashion in the 60’s tended to encourage
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the 20’s were almost fit for a celebration. The fast paced beat and quick movements gave people the sense that there was joy in the room. This fast paced dance style was called Ragtime. Older dances such as the Foxtrot and Waltz were still popular‚ but Ragtime was the more popular dance style for the younger dancers. Many young Americans saw these moves in television and film and wanted to emulate them on the dance floor at the various nightclubs that the 1920’s offered. In the early 1900’s the Waltz
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The fashion and consumer world in the 1930’s was booming. Many items were made and invented‚ as well as improved. In the 1930’s some of the best lines of clothing were produces‚ and some of the appliances that we still use today were invented. The 1930’s was an age to remember and cherish‚ for most of the things we have today would not be in place if it was not for the inventions of the 1930’s. Many things were invented in the 1930’s‚ for example; scotch tape was invented by Richard G. Drew (Bellis)
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The 1960’s movement that consisted of presidential reform agendas and Supreme Court rulings is known as liberalism (Keene‚ 812). President Kennedy and Johnson were responsible for the creation of the Liberal Movement. They had views that were similar to Roosevelt’s and believed themselves to be heirs of the New Deal (Keene‚ 812). These two presidents focused on “desegregating the American military and securing federal funds for urban housing‚ education‚ and public works projects” (Keene‚ 812). Kennedy
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Tension of The 1920’s Following the First World War‚ the United States went in search of a‚ “return to normalcy‚” which many agreed was exactly what it needed. However‚ to the dismay of many‚ all the United States could find was a significant amount of tension that had developed between‚ “Old America‚” and‚ “New America.” All in all‚ this tension that arose between old and new traditions and ideas did so in the form of religion‚ conflicts within society‚ and cultural values. Religion was
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