How Democratic was Andrew Jackson? Old Hickory never backed away from a fight. Even at seventy-five Andrew Jackson was still fighting and leaving a trail of card games‚ busted up taverns‚ liquor bottles‚ and bloody noses in his wake which earned him the nickname Old Hickory. Jackson became a lawyer on the North Carolina Frontier at age twenty-one and later moved west to Tennessee where he settled down with his wife. In 1815‚ Jackson was made an American hero because he and his troops were victorious
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Lesson 13.6 HOW WAS THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO FORMED? In 1912‚ Alfred Wegener proposed the past existence of a supercontinent called Pangaea (or Pangea). According to Wegener‚ Pangaea had split apart into a northern half called “Laurasia” and a southern half called “Gondwanaland”. Surrounded by a global ocean called “Panthalassa” and separated by a big body of water called “Tethys Sea”. The slow drifting of continents has been occurring over the past 250 million years. In the 1960s‚ the theory
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purpose of this lab was to determine the food dyes present in a selected beverage‚ their concentration‚ and then replicate the solution within a 20% margin of error. The beverage we chose was Gatorade Frost Riptide Rush. A spectrometer was used to determine which food dyes were present in the sampled beverage‚ red 40 and blue 1 were determined to be present. The next step was to determine the concentration of the dyes‚ this was done by testing the absorbance of the red 40 and blue 1 dyes at varying concentrations;
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Socrates‚ the father of philosophy‚ and teacher: Is he corrupt? Did this man‚ who still teaches students thousands of years after his life ended‚ earn capital punishment? Was it fair to receive such severe punishment for teaching the youth to ask questions? Was an innocent person murdered? Despite it being the unpopular answer to the question‚ Socrates did deserve his penalty‚ but only through the perspective of the Athenians. The reasons are simple: Socrates really seemed to have committed the crime
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argue if there should be travel sports. Both are great ways to learn‚ but travel sports will bring kids game to the next level. Travel sports bring families closer in ways that recreational sports could never do. Also‚ travel sports expose kids to other cultures and languages. Finally‚ travel sports teach people more than just about that sport which is not provided in recreational sports because of the extremely short seasons. Those are three reasons that there should be travel sports. The first reason
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November 22‚ 2011 How steroids can impact ones life forever In the world today‚ many individuals are so concerned with their appearance that they take it to the extremes to look good. While some people do it right by working out and eating healthy‚ others take the lazy and unsafe road and take steroids. Steroids are drugs that are taken by injection‚ orally or by creams. They interact with the bodys hormones and increase testosterone. While the people eating right and working out are improving
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The Watergate scandal had a profound effect on American history and impact on the American public’s perception of the Presidency. The scandal was the first of its kind that truly grasped the media and public’s attention. In just over 780 days‚ America became gripped by the shocking revelation that behind this scandal was the man they elected to sit in the White House and run their country‚ President Richard Milhous Nixon. The Watergate Scandal led to Nixon becoming the first and to this date only
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spite of their ideals‚ there was one entity stopping them from fulfilling and continuing their beliefs ; Mexico. Although Mexico was precluding their aspirations‚ it didn’t give the United States the right to go to war. Going to war with Mexico was not justifiable for multiple reasons. First‚ and foremost‚ the primary reason war was not justified‚ nor warranted‚ is because the Americans were on Mexican land that they were originally invited to inhabit. Once Mexico was declared free from Spain
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To what extent did global interaction through TRADE change the Early Modern World ? Key words: To what extent – to the degree or scale to which something has changed Change – the act or instance of making or becoming different What was life like before regarding trade? Europeans traded with Asians long before the Early Modern World. The Crusades introduced Europeans to many luxury goods from Asia‚ carried on complex overland routes through the Mongol empire. The trading center of
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Rwanda was colonized by the Germans in 1916. Germany colonized Rwanda for their interest in the anthropological method. The anthropological method was the splitting up of two ethnic groups into masters or leaders and workers. These two ethnic groups were the Tutsi who were the masters and the Hutu who were the workers. Tutsi people had different physical features from the Hutu people. The Tutsi had high foreheads‚ long thin noses‚ and a tall slim bodies‚ whereas the Hutu had flat noses‚ large protruding
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