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    distance are four local off-sale beer retailers. Whiteclay is known for the huge amount of sale of alcohol. In 2009 between the four liquor stores they have sold approximately 191‚649 cases of beer according to the Nebraska Liquor Commission (Nebraska). Frank LaMere (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) has been advocating stopping the sale of alcohol in the town of approximately fourteen to twenty-two permanent residents (Battle). In the documentary‚ The battle for Whiteclay‚ brings a powerful message regarding

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    warranty act‚ when tied with the ‘lemon law‚ ’ helps a person of the purchased new car‚ ensure that they will have the rights to have a properly functioning car. The following will explain what exactly this law is and how it is applied to the state of Nebraska. What exactly is the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act? Cartalk explained that the act can be defined as the following. For any product that has a written warranty‚ if the product or any part thereof contains a defect after reasonable number of attempts

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    Realism focuses on the truthful treatment of the common‚ average‚ everyday life. During the late 1900 century‚ female realist writers such as Kate Chopin and Willa Cather portrays the roles and duties that women play in society. Women are expected to make unconditional sacrifices and fulfill the happiness of their family. The only responsibilities they have are cooking‚ cleaning‚ and caring for their loved ones. The short story “Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather and “A pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate

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    The 1850’s can be described as a “prelude to the Civil War.” Three occurrences during that time that would support that conclusion are the Westward Movement‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and the most significant prelude to the Civil War - the Kansas/Nebraska Act. After President Thomas Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Purchase in 1803‚ the United States doubled in size giving the United States control of vast lands west of the Mississippi. As Americans pushed west‚ the issue of slavery came to the forefront

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    Civil War So many major events from the time between 1848 and 1861‚ lead up to the civil war between the Union and the Confederacy. “Historians have identified at least four main causes of the conflict between the North and the South: (1) slavery‚ as a growing moral issue in the North‚ versus its defense and expansion in the South; (2) constitutional disputes over the nature of the federal Union and states’ rights; (3) economic differences between the industrializing North and the agricultural South

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    continuity by maintaining a political strategy of compromise in order to preserve peace and the union as seen in the Kansas Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise. But the political actions taken in these two compromises fostered a significant amount of change rather than continuity. Although the Missouri Compromise seemed to settle the big issue by the time of the Kansas Nebraska Act came along the conflict had escalated beyond what Missouri could handle. These arguments and actions eventually resulted

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    How Nebraska Came to Be One warm afternoon‚ a farmer named Ralph was going to get all of his cattle into one place because their was a rare cow disease called Anthrax‚ which is caused by Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax can be transmitted from animals to humans‚ and vis-versa. The cows were already infected with the disease‚ so the farmer wanted to make sure none of his visitors got the dreadful disease as well. “ I know it’s a matter of time until i die “ he said feeling depressed. He was barefoot

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    state of Illinois‚ a certain northern Democrat who was finally undone by the disastrous after math of the law he had master minded. Americans today continued to debate whether the civil war was inevitable‚ but there is no doubt that the Kansas-Nebraska Act made the ghastly conflict much more likely. And for that reason‚ it should be remembered as one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in American

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    the defunct Whig Party and joined the new Republican Party in 1856. This new national party was comprised of many former Whigs who opposed slavery The Republicans took a firm stand against slavery. They were dedicated to the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the prevention of the further extension of slavery westward. The new party also demanded the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union as a free state‚ which condemmed the Ostend Manifesto‚ which called for the annexation of Cuba (where

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    1820-1861. During the period of 1820-1861 the north and south debated on issues that dealt with slavery and unbalance power‚ in order to reduce sectional tension between these two states‚ the Missouri Compromise‚ Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were proposed. The North and South both had opposite opinions about slavery‚ The South favored slavery because of there agricultural based economy which they needed slaves to attend to their harvests and crops‚ the North was against slavery

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