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    causes were the Northwest Ordinance and Missouri Compromise‚ John Brown’s raid‚ The 1850 Compromise‚ The Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and the constant conflict between the North and South. The Northwest Ordinance said the there could be no slavery in states north of the Ohio River‚ however slave holders moved west to new states. This then led to the Missouri Compromise which said no slave states passed the 36 30 degree. John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal was considered by many to be the cause of the civil

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    Ibn Fadlan and the Vikings

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    Ibn Fadlan has become known as one of the world most important historians although he did not start out that way. In 921 he was chosen by the Caliph of Baghdad‚ to be part of the embassy to the King of the Bulgars. He chronicled the journey and all that he observed during his time there. He must have felt very important and very proud to have been chosen for such an important mission for his country. No one really remembers him for his mission. It is his journal that has kept him alive for history

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    The Home Front In WWI

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    Scarborough 119 people were killed. January 19th – First air raids by German Zeppelin airships‚ dropping bombs on East Anglian Towns. May – It was recognised that the war needed much more careful organisation of all aspects of British life‚ so a coalition government with politicians from all parties was formed to handle the growing crisis in Britain. May 31st – The first Zeppelin air raids on London. Air Raids by Zeppelins and later by aircraft were a regular feature of the rest of

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    “Mirrors” by Eduardo Galeano‚ Galeano says that‚”99% of portugal was illiterate”. The portuguese initiated what gradually became the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade mainly through slave raids along the coasts of Africa.(Omowale) “The first of these raids came in 1444 and was led by Lancarate de Freites”.(Omowale) The practice of Slave Raids deemed to be a “extremely dangerous “ way to obtain slaves. (Omowale) So they decided that purchasing them would be the better course of action. For it did not require a lot

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    Works Cited Larson‚ Kate Clifford. Harriet Tubman. Bound for the Promised Land. 2005. Net‚ New York History. The Life of Harriet Tubman. 1996. www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm (accessed November 26‚ 2011). Amy Davenport David Kiracofe “Harriet Tubman” Harriet Tubman was born into slavery on a plantation in Dorchester‚ Maryland. Tubman is one of the most well-known and bravest African-American women in history. She gained international acclaim as an Underground Railroad operator

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    innocent lands for the wealth. After many of the Cid’s raids he had some of his men deliver some of the loot and horses to king Alfonso even though King Alfonso was the one who exiled him from Castille at the beginning of the poem. After one of the Cid’s many raids‚ he had Minaya bring thirty horses with their saddles‚ and fully equipped to King Alfonso. This is the first mention of his true objective during his campaigns. At first the raids seem like his mission is to regain a name for himself after

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    increased public safety and monetary savings; a dollar spent on drug treatment in prison yields nearly $6 in savings.(Rethinking‚ 50) Building communities with anti-drug programs‚ anti-gang programs can save money and keep raid related injuries/deaths down. Stopping SWAT raids can also improve the public opinion of police officers and rebuild relationships between the community and its protection. With highly special exceptions SWAT teams‚ and military grade weapons should not be utilized in the

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    Virtualization 17 6.5.3. Application Virtualization 18 6.5.4. Management Virtualization 19 6.5.5. Network Virtualization 19 6.5.6. Hardware Virtualization 21 6.5.7. Storage Virtualization 23 RAID 0 24 RAID 1 24 RAID 2 25 RAID 3 25 RAID 4 26 RAID 5 26 RAID 6 27 RAID 10 27 6.5.8. Service Virtualization 28 6.5.9. Thin provisioning 28 6.6. Virtualization Risks 30 6.7. Key Business Outcomes of

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    found out what was going on. They would get killed‚ arrested or sent to a concentration camp for hiding the refugees. The Vichy government eventually found out what was going on‚ so many raids took place. The first successful raid was in June of 1943. Many innocent citizens were killed or arrested. In one of the raids‚ Trocmé got caught and then was arrested. He said a very famous quote in the process. “These people come here for help and shelter I am their Shepard. A Shepard does not forsake his flock…

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    front. It becomes obvious as the play goes on that the relationship between Raleigh and Stanhope is tense‚ especially with Stanhope’s hostile attitude towards Raleigh. The young men’s relationship takes an unexpected turn when Raleigh is sent on the raid and Stanhope becomes very protective and brotherly towards him‚ like when they were younger. Before the war‚ Raleigh and Stanhope were very close. They ‘‘were at school together’’ (act 1 scene 1 page 11) when Osborne suggests to

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