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    Joseph Brant

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    Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and his Indian name was Thayendanegea. Thayendanegea meaning he who places two bets. Joseph’s father was a sachem of the Iroquois Confederacy‚ which was to where the Mohawks belonged. Whereas Brant’s mother was not a Mohawk like his father. Brant did become a war chief but never rose to the rank of sachem. His parents were said to live at the Canajoharie castle in New York. Even though his family would have been a consideration and he was the grandson of one of the

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    Network Attached Storage

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    administration‚ and a simpler configuration. NAS contains one or more hard drives often arranged in redundant storage containers or RAID. A typical speed of the network adapter is 1 GB depending on the NAS and if you are building one. A standard capacity for NAS is approximately 2 TB but you can add on more hard drives allowing more storage. If installed properly‚ RAID 50 is tolerable for NAS. NAS contains several features that may be beneficial to a work environment or at home back-up. The following

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    Origin Of The Name Libon

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    Others  thought  that  it  was  derived  from  the  Bicol  term  ribong‚  which  means‚  to  loose one’s  sense  of  direction  or to  be  puzzled‚  to  be  disoriented.  Others  claimed  that  it came  from libon  which  means  to  assault  or  to  raid.  This  last  interpretation  seems  to  offer  a  more  reasoned  explanation.     In   his  Vocabulario  de  la  Lengua  Vicol  composed  in  the  last  years  of  the  sixteenth  century‚  Fray  Marcos  de  Lisboa‚  defined  libong  as  matar  salteando 

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    John Brown DBQ

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    The years directly before the civil war were marked by escalating tensions and sharply declining relations between the North and South as differences between the two territories were made clear. John Brown’s raid in October of 1859 came at that volatile time and provoked an extreme reaction from the South immediately afterward; as the furious public option of the South was that the entire North had personally supported and condoned Brown and his violent actions in the ultimate quest of abolition

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    During the years of 1846 to 1848‚ America and Mexico were in war due to conflicts regarding slavery and territories. Henry Clay (the Secretary of State at that time) tried to end the war by introducing a series of bills called The Compromise of 1850. The Compromise had five laws that were put in place to help the Northern Free States and the Southern Slave States come to a natural balance. In September 9‚ 1850‚ the government passed three of the laws from the Compromise of 1850. The first three

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    freedom Fighter. My belief is that he was a freedom fighter ‚and not a terrorist. He was not because none of his actions were meant to cause fear to anybody. His raid on Harpers Ferry was not a terrorist attack. His attack was not meant to cause fear. He just wanted the guns in the armory. He did not want anybody to die in the raid. That is what happened at Harpers Ferry and next is Pottawatomie. His killings at Pottawatomie were not terrorist attacks. He gave the people he killed a chance

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    Welch's Fools Crow

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    personal status depended on were the accumulation of wives and horses. Welch underscores the importance of the horse to the Blackfeet early in the novel. Fools Crow participates in a raid on a Crow village in order to strengthen his personal power through stealing horses and increasing his wealth. He earns twenty horses in the raid‚ and although he gives five to the medicine man‚ Mik-api‚ he feels "that his change for fortune was complete. Mik-api’s prayers in the sweat lodge for him had been answered. The

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    means of attacking Japan was via aerial attacks. Originally‚ these aerial raids were meant to be strategic in nature – targeting only the military factories. Unfortunately‚ this proved to be ineffective due to the unstable weather surrounding Japan. This forced the military to move onto another tactic – fire bombing. According to Thomas R. Searle‚ “The United States Army Air Forces devoted the bulk of its effort to ‘area raids’ that used incendiary bombs to burn down Japanese cities and to kill hundreds

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    blankets‚ and food to keep each other comfortable and safe during German air raids. (BBC 1)Civilians play a key role in keeping morale high during war times in developed nations. In addition‚ War makes civilians stronger through developing close ties with each other and ensuring the safety of others during dangerous conditions. Mangiafico 2 As a result of increasingly dangerous living conditions and air raids from the German Luftwaffe‚ British civilians rose to the occasion and unified

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    Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience advocates the need to prioritize one’s conscience over the dictates of laws. It criticizes American social institutions and policies‚ most prominently slavery and the Mexican American War. In Civil Disobedience‚ Thoreau introduces the idea of civil disobedience that was used later by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. In fact‚ many consider Thoreau as the greatest exponent of passive resistance of the 19th century. The

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