Typically‚ smuggling consists of drugs being brought into the U.S. and cash headed for Canada. On February 4‚ 2005 two senior patrol agents saw a snowmobile driving up the railroad tracks‚ which later revealed the driver had illegally entered Canada. About 25 minutes after the discovery of the railroad tracks‚ two railroad workers‚ Mr. Madore and Mr. LaPointe‚ reported to the agents that they had found a black duffle bag in some bushes on the north side of the tracks that contained a large amount
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“The Machine is Us/ing Us” is a short video created by Michael Wesch. The video reveals how technology has advanced throughout the years and how it has affected our daily lives. As displayed in the video in the beginning‚ about how he writes in paper and shows how difficult it is to do the things that we can do digitally way more easier and faster. Later in the video‚ it shows how easy it is to change texts digitally and how hypertexts can be linked and shared with the entire world. This is something
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USA Holidays Memorial Day is a legal holiday‚ observed annually on the last Monday in May in most of the United States‚ It honours the nation’s armed services killed in wartime. The holiday‚ originally called Decoration Day‚ is traditionally marked by parades‚ memorial speeches and ceremonies‚ and the decoration of graves with flowers and flags. Memorial Day was first observed on May 30‚ 1868‚ on the order of General John Alexander Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of the American
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At the dawn of the twenty-first century the United States stood as the lone superpower with the ability to reach any corner of the globe. Journalist Robert Kaplan wrote about the American military‚ and how the planet was divided into area commands and there was no corner of the globe that was unaccounted. (Kaplan‚ 4) The U.S. military’s ability to reach any country on the planet is only rivaled by the influence the United States wields on the political scene. In the last century‚ American government
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From 1990 to 1993‚ it was actually 3 years of big disaster specially because of the Gulf War‚ but also because of other many factors‚ like: the general decline in the world economy‚ aircraft fuel price increases‚ wages‚ work rules and work patterns‚ chapter 11 bankruptcy airlines‚ excess capacity‚ a very capital intensive business and too many years as regulated airlines. In fact‚ during the Gulf war and recession in 1990-92‚ it took them four years to return to profit‚ even though traffic recovered
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To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Throughout the history of the United States‚ America had a burning desire to expand its boundaries. The United States acquired most its land during the nineteenth and early twentieth century with a brief hiatus during the Civil War and Reconstruction. However‚ the means by which America grained new lands
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operated by the Long Island Railroad Company that is organized in the state of New York. A large crowd of people was gathered at the station that morning. Approximately five minutes after arriving at the station‚ Ms. Palsgraf was standing near a scale on the platform with her daughter several feet away from where the explosion would occur. Two unidentified males rushed to board the train as it was leaving the station. One of the males successfully boarded the
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CHAPTER 10 AMERICA’S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION Multiple Choice Questions 1. The economic revolution that transformed America between 1820 and 1860 brought all of the following changes except A) the development of a national market economy B) the appearance of a major manufacturing sector C) the creation of a more united country D) the alliance of the Northeast and Northwest E) the participation of farmers in the increasingly international economy Answer: C Page: 259 Difficulty:
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Ayesha Khan AP US History 3/16/13 Presidential Outline # I. Name: Woodrow Wilson DOB: December 28‚ 1856 DOD: February 3‚ 1924 II. Education: Davidson College; Princeton University; University of Virginia; Johns Hopkins University Occupation: Academic; Historian; Political scientist III. Terms of Office: March 4‚ 1913 – March 4‚ 1921 IV. Prominent Issues: In the campaign Wilson promoted the "New Freedom"‚ emphasizing limited federal government and opposition to monopoly powers
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The Reverse Underground Railroad was the pre-American Civil War practice of kidnapping free black men in free states and transporting them to slave states to be sold. It was called the Reverse Underground Railroad because it’s purpose was the opposite of what the Underground Railroad tried to achieve‚ which was a network of abolitionists who smuggled black slaves into free land‚ generally in Canada. The kidnapping of blacks was considered a dirty business. Kidnappers physically abused and psychologically
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