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    fell onto the shoulders of colored regiments including the 54th Massachusetts. Indeed‚ there is overwhelming symbolism in a black Union soldier fighting against his pro-slavery counterparts. So how could the memory of the 54th Massachusetts charge on Fort Wagner develop into the memory of a single white officer? More specifically‚ why is the life of a single white officer more significant than the massive show of courage exhibited by the black soldiers? Was the memory of black soldiers repressed by

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    would open his life to a grand adventure. That adventure changed his life. While at St. Albans‚ Henning met his future wife‚ Dawn Jacobs‚ how also played soccer there. She graduated a year ahead of him and went to Fort Collins‚ Colorado‚ where she played on the semiprofessional Fort Collins Force women’s soccer team. When Henning finished college‚ he followed Jacobs to northern Colorado. Jacobs was captain of the Force and worked for the sports marketing company that owned the team. Henning

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    Ordeal By Hunger Summary

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    Ordeal by Hunger In Ordeal by Hunger‚ there are many heroes in the disastrous Donner Party story‚ but one of the most colorful and heroic members was McCutchen‚ William. McCutchen had a wife and child who were from Missouri. McCutchen himself was six feet six and was powerful in proportion. I think that McCutchen is a hero because at the Little Sandy River McCutchen and two other men agreed to go forward to Weber canyon‚ where they will meet Hastings and guide him back to the Donner

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    During the late 1600s and the to the mid-1700s‚ countries fought for land and power in order to have global domination. While several countries fought for the same cause‚ resolving their diffrerences was nearly impossible‚ and this often led to more wars and conflicts. One of the many conflicts concerned the domination of North America. While many European powers competed for control of North America‚ Britain gained the most territory through the four French and Indian wars‚ King William’s War‚

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    sustenance‚ and the ravaging of Cañon de Chelly finally broke their spirit. By February 1864 nearly 3000 Navajos had surrendered. They were incarcerated at Forts Canby and Wingate where in little over one week 126 of them died from dysentery and exposure‚ while over 2000 began the infamous forced march known as the “Long Walk” across New Mexico to Fort Sumner‚ in which many more perished. In April another 2400 Navajo men‚ women and children began their forced march to Bosque Redondo in the midst of heavy

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    Mascots Persuasive Essay

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    The school was built in the city of Fort Wayne‚ so the name of the school would be called‚ Fort Wayne High School. The mascot is a falcon because falcons are popular birds that live in Fort Wayne. Mascots are very important and fun to have for the students. Mascots show school spirit. A student could volunteer to wear the falcon mascot costume at the school’s sporting events like football‚ basketball‚ soccer‚ volleyball games‚ and track meets to pump up the crowds. The Falcon mascot is important

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    treaties which they agreed to uphold. Usually‚ they established the same treaties they betrayed‚ such as the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851); which eventually led to the tragic massacre of the Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek.[1] “The Treaty set forth traditional territorial claims of the tribes as between themselves.” [2] Greedy and eager to completely disregard the Treaty of Fort Laramie and head west due to the discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado‚ the Pikes Peak Gold Rush resulted

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    of the story‚ Lieutenant Dunbar‚ a soldier who is posted to the frontier. The time is during the American Civil War. Dunbar is at Fort Hays‚ but talks to Major Fambrough about being posted on the prairie. Major Fambrough‚ who appears as a little insane‚ agrees and sends him to Fort Sedgewick. He goes there with a peasant called Timmons. In the meantime‚ the same fort is being abandoned by Captain Cargill‚ who is waiting for a wagon with his eighteen out of an original fifty-eight man‚ while the others

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    Bipedal Locomotion

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    The capacity for bipedal locomotion has always been considered a defining characteristic of the human species‚ and it is one of the most important features that paleoanthropologists look for when trying to determine whether an ancient species was part of the human lineage. Recent paleoanthropological work has demonstrated that bipedalism might have occurred much earlier than previously thought‚ with the recovery of fossil evidence‚ dated up to 7 Ma‚ that suggests potential bipedal locomotion in various

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    England but the Huron and the Ohawa tribes decided to fight with the French because the French had always been better to the Native Americans then the English had been. The locations and their names were accurate in the film. The three forts were Fort William Henry‚ Fort Edward and Alburney. They were all placed inside the fought over land between the French and English settlement. In the film there were three Military Leaders. These were General Webb (British)‚ Colonel Munro (British) and General Montcalm

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