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    The American Civil War Today‚ we think about America in one simple way‚ free. What most people don’t think about is‚ the hard-working‚ sweat-wiping soldiers that went through many obstacles making America free. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars that went on in America and it lasted for four years from‚ 1861 to 1865. “The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the” Union and the Confederate States of America. “ When Abraham Lincoln won” the presidency in 1860

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    yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly‚” declared the father of narrator and author of A River Runs Through It‚ Norman Maclean (Norman Maclean‚ A River Runs Through It‚ A River Runs Through It and Other Stories‚ NY: Pocket Books-Simon & Schuster‚ 1992-1976‚ 1-113‚ 89. Print. All subsequent quotations are documented by page number only.). Norman’s attempt at helping people throughout the book is obvious as he is contrasted with a brilliant man who fly-fishes at a tremendous

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    the bargaining unit are union members‚ the balance have no union affiliation. The company‚ however‚ has a well-established practice of extending whatever wage increase it agrees with the union to all employees in the bargaining unit. The current wage agreement expired at the end of March 2006‚ and the parties are in dispute over wages for 2006/7. The dispute has been referred to the CCMA. The company seeks your advice on the circumstances in which the union can call a strike in support of its wage

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    Civil War Casualties: The Numbers The American Civil War‚ also known as the War Between the States‚ was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America after seven Southern slave states declared their separation from the North and formed the Confederate States of America. The ACW is widley refered to Americnas bloodiest conflict and more Americans both Union and Confederate‚ ended up as causalities than in any other war in U.S. history.Casualties were those soldiers who were

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    caused the civil war and the outcome of it. Most of the time we only get bits and pieces of information instead of the whole base of the subject. I will be explaining all of the causes of the civil war. I will give a brief description of the causes including‚ political‚ economical‚ and social causes.One reason why political problems caused the war was because‚South wanted each state to be more sovereign than the federation. Another reason is that the south didn’t want their rights to have slaves gone

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    The United States as a whole was divided before the Civil War‚ over the dispute of whether slavery should be allowed or not after the Mexican American war ended in 1848. After the Mexican American war citizens of the North and the South began to dispute the issue of slavery and tensions started to rise. There were many things proposed that were proposed to help the dispute over slavery such as the Wilmot Provisio which would close off California‚ Utah and New Mexico off from slavery. However it

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    Industry: Rags-Riches: The idea that anyone can come to America to follow the American Dream. They can be a person that has nothing at one point in their life to become a person that is super rich. Get money‚ get paid. Example would be Carnegie being inexperienced and then owning Carnegie hall and like everything. Captains of Industry: During the days of the American Industrial evolution‚ names such as Carnegie‚ Morgan and Rockefeller regularly appeared in leading newspapers around the country

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    The television show Doctor Who‚ (2005-present)‚ can be seen as modern day noir to some extent. Doctor Who can be seen as modern day noir because it has multiple elements that are used to characterize the genre of noir. Some characteristics of noir that are portrayed in Doctor Who are a morally ambiguous protagonist‚ a fatalistic viewpoint of the protagonist‚ the femmes fatales. The Doctor is a morally ambiguous character that struggles with making the correct choices at times even though he is basically

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    The American Civil War (1861–1865)‚ also known as the War Between the States (among other names)‚ was a civil war in the United States of America. There are many reasons for causing this war but the 2 most of those were‚ Sectionalism refers to the different economies‚ social structure‚ customs and political values of the North and South. It increased steadily between 1800 and 1860 as the North‚ which phased slavery out of existence‚ industrialized‚ urbanized and built prosperous farms‚ while the

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    Causes of the Civil War

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    Causes Of The Civil War The Civil Warwhich lasted from 1861 to 1877‚ was mainly caused by the diverging society between the North and the South. The North and the South had different goals. There were many factors that led to the war and the chief ones were political decisions‚ morality of slavery‚ and economic differences between the North and the South. A cause of the Civil War was that the economy was splitting. As said in document 2‚ the slaves were needed to work on plantations

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