“Born in El Paso‚ Texas‚ on March 26‚ 1930‚ Sandra Day O’Connor was elected to two terms in the Arizona state senate. In 1981‚ Ronald Reagan nominated her to the U.S. Supreme Court. She received unanimous Senate approval‚ and made history as the first woman justice to serve on the nation’s highest court. O’Connor was a key swing vote in many important cases‚ including the upholding of Roe v. Wade. She retired in 2006 after serving for 24 years”. O’Connor was the first woman United States Supreme
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President Woodrow Wilson and the Sussex Pledge Extended Essay May 2012 Word Count: 3‚622 Woodrow Wilson In 1939 a committee was formed to investigate the reasons for Wilson ’s involvement in World War One. In conclusion it was documented that business and economics were the reason that Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy failed to keep America out of a conflict that was defined as simply a “European Problem”. However‚ Nye‚ the leader of the committee commissioned
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Birthdays are meant to be special for everyone throughout their lifetime. They are celebrated with happiness in which people get a chance to honor themselves around people they love and look forward to another great year. Sandra Cisneros‚ the author of the st ory‚ Eleven‚ portrays herself as Rachel‚ an eleven year old girl who wishes to be one hundred and two years old. Rachel dislikes the red sweater described numerous times within the story. The red sweater creates major conflict between Mrs. Price
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My book is called “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros. The setting is in Chicago the narrator of the book is named Esperanza Cordero‚ she has five other family members. Her mother‚ her father‚ Carlos‚ Kiki‚ and Nenny. This book is Esperanza‚ a girl who lives in a family that is fairly poor. Her family moves around a lot‚ to the point where she remember all the places she has ever lived. She recently moved into a house on Mango Street. Her parents bought the house‚ but Esperanza believed
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Pudd’nhead Wilson” was written by Mark Twain. The plot takes place around 1830 in a small town called Dawson’s Landing in Missouri. This book emphasizes the hard times of reconstruction in the confederate states. The economy was crashing. Slavery was a huge issue because it was banned in parts of the United States. One of the main characters‚ David Pudd’nhead Wilson‚ used his ‘expertise’ to embody reconstruction ideas and especially the ‘Reconstruction Dilemma.’ David Pudd’nhead Wilson got his name
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How important was Woodrow Wilson in determining the terms of the treaty of Versailles? Woodrow Wilson was part of the big 3. The big three was made up of the Wilson (USA)‚ Clemenceau (France)‚ and Lloyd George (Britain¬) and they were who dominated the January 1919 peace conference held in Paris. As Wilson was a very religious man‚ his aim was simply to create peace; he was trying to create a treaty that would be the end of all wars. However he noticed that his allies would have preferred the terms
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“Letter to a Southern Baptist Pastor” Wilson starts writing to a pastor that he feels the two of them are friends and he also tells the pastor that he grew up in the same religion as him. Wilson also notes that they are both Americans‚ more specifically Southerners. Wilson the goes on to mention the key difference between them. The pastor takes the Christian Holy Scripture literally and rejects the conclusion of Science. While Wilson is an atheist who takes a scientific approach and believes
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John Wilson was a one of a kind character. He had sort of a dual personality. One minute he was writing love letter and the next minute he was trying to get rid of her. He was a hard working person at times and often got into his job very deeply. He had lots of problems with his life and that was mostly the reason why he started drinking so heavily especially near the end. John first started a happy life married to Polly Wilson back home in Scotland. He had two lovely children with her but after
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almost 70‚000 people died because of German Submarines. Fourteen Points Wilson scaled a summit of inspiring oratory on January 8‚ 1918‚ when he delivered his famed Fourteen Points Address to an enthusiastic Congress. Wilson’s vision inspired all the drooping Allies to make mightier efforts and demoralized the enemy governments by holding out alluring promises to their dissatisfied minorities. Fourteen Points of Woodrow Wilson were important‚ because Wilson’s appealing points were not everywhere applauded
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The strength and effort of opposition forces as well as the ineptitude and stubbornness of President Wilson led to the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles. The opposing senators wanted to add reservations onto the treaty‚ but Wilson’s would not have it. This caused Wilson to kill his own treaty with some help from opposing senators. Opposing forces killed the Treaty of Versailles in many different ways. They believed the treaty did not satisfy pre-war hopes for peace (Doc B). One political
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