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    The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is a Federal law passed in 1990 and provides a process for museums and Federal agencies to return specific Native American items. These items can be cultural items‚ human remains‚ funerary objects‚ sacred objects‚ or objects of cultural patrimony‚ and returned to lineal descendants‚ or culturally affiliated Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. NAGPRA also provides help for unclaimed and culturally unidentifiable Native

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    efforts were credited as the act was revoked by British ruling. In order to maintain their power over the colonists and show that they were still dominant‚ they issued the Declaratory Act. With the Declaratory Act‚ the British reassured their power and influence on the laws that could be applied to the colonists; with this act they could see to it that any law they wished was to be enforced ( history.com staff). With the success of their protests against the stamp act‚ the colonists gain a sense of

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    The first word that comes to most people’s mind when they hear the word revolution is war‚ but that’s not all that true when it comes to the American Revolution. The Stamp Act of 1765 provoked colonists to rebel against Great Britain‚ which resulted in the American Revolution. The revolution was fought between the years of 1775-1883. The people of the American colonies wanted independence from the ruling monarchies. However‚ there were two sides to this‚ those who stayed loyal to the crown‚ “Loyalists”

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    The American Revolution began over the Navigation Act which was supposed to regulate the colonial trade. The purpose of was to encourage British shipping and allow Great Britain to retrieve monopoly of the Britain colonial trade and to benefit the British merchants. The cause of the American Revolution is the Navigation Act. The Navigation Act is a series of laws that did not allow foreign ships to trade between Britain and its colonies. This started in 1651 and lasted over 200 years. They

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    Today‚ more than 60 million people in the United States‚ approximately one in five‚ have some type of disability (The Equal Rights Center. n.d.). The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity. In general‚ a physical or mental impairment includes hearing‚ mobility and visual impairments‚ chronic alcoholism‚ chronic mental illness‚ AIDS‚ AIDS Related Complex‚

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    Older Adult Assessment

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    NRSE 210 Older adult assessment: Part I Subjective Data a. Biographic data Name: M. C. Address: 1257 Sunrise Lane Cheshire‚ CT 06410 Phone Number: (203) 898 – 7643 Age: 60 Birth date: February 27‚ 1953 Birthplace: Fuchou‚ China Gender: Male Marital status: Married Race: Asian Ethnicity: Occupation: chef at a Chinese restaurant (China Dragon) Primary Language: Chinese Source of history: the patient himself‚ seems reliable and his 31 year old son D.C. who also seems reliable

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    Working with Older Adults.

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    Area of practice 1 Working with adults. This essay is based upon the case study three‚ to which I will identify the needs of the service user in this case study. It will also indicate any gaps in this scenario and what further information I might need and how I collected such information. Once all available information has been collated it will be necessary to analyse and make sense of that information in order for it to be of use in making an assessment of the service users needs. Working

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    total spending in the economy and its effects on output and inflation. It was developed by a British economist called John Maynard Keynes in the 1930’s in an attempt to understand the Great Depression. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or ARRA‚ also nicknamed the Recovery Act‚ was a stimulus package put in place by the 111th U.S. Congress and was signed into law by the President Barack Obama in February 2009. Work on the bills had started way before President Obama officially took

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    Republican Response to “The American Jobs Act” Obama is being taken as a joke! Republicans are not taking him seriously‚ nor are they supporting him or respecting him as the President of the United States of America. On an article titled “President Obama’s Job Speech Recap: If You Wish Upon a Star!” written by Kent Mccarty‚ the author starts off by criticizing President Obama for being 10 minutes late and comparing it to his schools’ policy where if you are late your average drops down a letter

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    Older folklore of Sweden

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    Katedralskolan‚ Uppsala Swedish folklores How can we see them in the modern Swedish society? Ottilia Friberg Tutor: Joan Lindberg Contents - Introduction - The most common Swedish folklores: Näcken Skogsrået-The Wood Nymph Trolls Witches Tomtar- Gnomes - Analysis – what traces of the folklores can we see in the modern Swedish society? - Conclusion - Abstract - Bibliography - Source criticism: Introduction For hundreds of years‚ the Swedish people have told stories about supernatural creatures

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