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    Government bailout of private business/industry There are many reason why the government bailout industry and Wall Street. I will show why they didn’t bailout every one. There are many reasons for that because we would have gone bankruptcy the United States. Reason one is the government bailout Wall Street are the economic would have fall out and would be for American. The depression of 1929 was bad but the depression 2008 would have been worst. The unemployed was high in 2008 but

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    Travels with Charlie

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    Traveling Through The Country with Charley In the novel “Travels with Charley”‚ by John Steinbeck‚ Steinbeck travels to many different regions in the United States. He is traveling across the U.S‚ to see if his opinions and what he is writing about are still true. He is a writer and since he was writing about The U.S from past experiences‚ he travels to see how much has changed or if its still the same and if the people still have the same kind of personalities. Along the way he meets many different

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    Jobless‚ homeless‚ and unable to support themselves‚ many farmers during the 1930’s moved west in search of better life. In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men‚ readers observe how dreams keep people motivated; especially through tough times. Steinbeck’s characters George Milton and Lennie Small‚ search for work in the struggling agricultural market of California. Although there are many hardships that the men face‚ both George and Lennie have a dream that they are determined to accomplish.

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    The bubonic plague and “the little ice age” drastically changed medieval European society . It also affected family life and the role women played in society. The plague was an outcome of Mongol occupations. They had an empire that extended from Russia to China. There were many trade roads in the Mongol Empire‚ and their rule kept Eurasian trade avenues in check. Society flourished due to the increased amount of trade‚ but rats with fleas reached Europe along the trade routes. These rats lead

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    Picture this: A drought had been going on for months. The only way to get fresh water is from the tiny water tower in Michigan Avenue. People are struggling to get food and water everyday and it’s ridiculously hot. Could it get any worse? The answer is yes as the whole city of Chicago burned down October 8th—October 9th in 1871. Millions of Chicagoans left homeless and only because of one cause — Natural Causes. (History.com) The Great Chicago Fire started because of natural causes. There was

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    What if you were to wake up‚ your mouth is dry and you’re lost in the middle of an arid desert. Would you continue the endless journey through the endless nothingness and be a survivor or give up on all your ambitions of a brighter future. Well if you give up that’s ok today because Salva didn’t because he was a survivor. In the book A Long Walk To Water written by Linda Sue Park which is based on a true story. Salva is in school when some Sudan rebels open fire and Salva is told one thing and that

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    Budgies are a type of bird that is tiny and slender. Three words that describe a Budgie greatly are‚ brave‚ strong‚ and smart. These birds can actually have up to three thousand feathers throughout their whole body! Budgies live in a place where the temperature almost always stays the same. The country-side of Australia called the outback is where they live and where they thrive. Australian weather is hot and dry‚ but these smart‚ brave Budgies find ways to deal with it and are so used to it. In

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    John D. Rockefeller was the owner of Standard Oil Company. John was born into a very poor family and had to work very hard to start Standard Oil. He also had many problems later in his career. One of the problems he had during his career was the antitrust laws which made him disband his trust into many of the different companies that made up the trust. After Rockefeller stopped working at Standard Oil day to day he became a philanthropist and donated a lot of his money to help different causes.

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    The ancient Maya civilization once occupied a vast geographic area in Central America. Their civilization extended to parts of what is now Mexico‚ Honduras‚ and El Salvador‚ and most of Guatemala and Belize. There are many studies and predictions to the collapse of the Mayan civilization. The Maya were a highly developed civilization spanning from almost 2000 B.C.E to 1200 A.D. The decline of their civilization provides important insight into the importance of sustainable development. The importance

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    Cry‚ The Beloved Country‚ by Alan Paton‚ contains numerous comparisons between two different yet similar locations in South Africa. Each comparison further shows the deviation between the thoughts and traditions of old and new. The main conflicts in the novel revolve around the differences of two locations‚ Ndotsheni and Johannesburg‚ which represent the thoughts of the old and traditional ways‚ with the contradicting lifestyle and thoughts of the modern and progressive age. These thoughts are what

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