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    the 1500s and was given to the United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American in 1848. Because gold was discovered in Colorado‚ it attracted new settlers that caused conflicts with the Indians. This caused the Plains Indian Wars. Colorado mostly votes for Republicans but sometimes it shifts to Democrats. From 1976 to 1988‚ all the votes are Republican but it shifted in 1992 when they voted for a democrat. Then again‚ from 1996 to 2004‚ they went back to the Republican

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    ASSIGNMENT B.Com General – 3rd Semester Subject Name: Language – General English Subject code: BCC 301 Spring Drive 2013 4 credits (60 marks) (BKID: 1495) Answer the following questions. Each question carries 10 marks. 1. Our world is full of miseries at every turn. What is Swami Vivekananda’s cure for all human ailments? Discuss in detail. 10 marks Ans- In a life-span of only 39 years‚ Swami Vivekananda‚ who spread the message of India’s spiritual heritage across the world

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    Causes of the Dust Bowl

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    really caused these dust bowls? Well it was a combination of things: destruction of grass‚ heavy use of machines‚ and lack of rain. The first cause of the Dust Bowl was all of the destruction of grass. With so many farmers in the Southern Great Plains‚ a lot of grass was ripped up and used for farming. As the Texas Sheepherder once noted‚ “Grass is what counts. It’s what saves us all – far as we get saved…. Grass is what holds the earth together”. That quote pretty much summed up why destruction

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    The Homestead Act

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    Homestead Act was to defeat land monopoly. Many farmers‚ however‚ lacked the economic means to move west and manage a farm. . By this‚ fewer still understood the new type of agriculture‚ in which technology was used to farm the land that the Great Plains required. Instead‚ speculators and corporate interests were able to reap in profits‚ and fraud and corruption‚ and often marked the process farmland for transportation (the railroads). The Homestead Act ’s biggest weakness however‚ was not taking

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    “The Murderous Blizzard” In the article‚ Death on the Prairies: The Murderous Blizzard of 1888 by David Laskin‚ which analyze the severe and tragic event that happened over the Northeast continent of American. In January 12‚ 1888‚ began as inconvenient warm morning across Nebraska‚ Kansas‚ Iowa‚ territory of Dakotas‚ and Minnesota. Prairie snowstorm of blizzard killed hundreds of recently immigrant that comes to west in search prosperous new life. The account of the blizzard of 1888 are amazed

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    To those back home‚ I send greetings‚ to momma‚ hoping that she gets better‚ shake papas hand for me and thank him for supporting my stand against slavery. It has been two years since this Civil War ended and it has been extremely hard to find a job. I traveled north to the factories‚ but they paid you awfully low wages‚ and I could not support myself on those wages. I then tried my hand at farming but farming it proved to be hard both physically and economically since buying land is so very expensive

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    BSBPMG522A Undertake Project Work Andra Ounaid TCWA1853 2015 Assessment2 Portfolio of Activities Group Activity For this activity form a group of three or four people. Work on this assessment as a group and address points 1-4. Your group is planning to drive across the Nullarbor next winter. You will be using a reliable 4WD vehicle. 1. Prepare a detailed plan for the preparations you will need to make for your trip. 2. Draw up a Gantt chart for the preparations for your trip across

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    Using ArrayList<ITSystem>‚ Reading and writing Data to/from Files Note: slight changes were made on 11/14 (1 day after this was put up).  Specifically‚ the source files are slightly different from the solution to p2.  When comparing two ITSystems we are now only concerned with ID.  Highlighted text reflects changes made to the assignment. For this assignment‚ we will continue to work with the SysInventory program we developed in the last programming project‚ with a few minor changes/additions. See

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    head. Men’s Traditional Dance: They danced with exaggerated movement above the waist to simulate hunting‚ tracking‚ or fighting‚ but heavy grounded‚ flat footed loser body. This dance originated with members of warrior societies on the Great Plains. Costumes includes an eagle feather bustle and hair roach made of porcupine quills. Women’s Traditional Dance: This dance is extremely reversed in nature‚ simply a single or double

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    These recent times have been tough for the tribe. Since the appearance of the Europeans upon our lands there has been a great plague upon our society. They brought with them unknown diseases that have infected much of the tribe and killed many others‚ the Europeans go to our hunting grounds killing hundreds of buffalo’s for pleasure and we have been restricted to a certain piece of land. The Europeans have set up a village at the top of a nearby hillside and although we keep in relative peace

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