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    Americans’ experience with the West and the western settlements impacted the development of the nation in the years from 1800-1860 is many ways. The most significant topics that impacted the nation’s development the most were the perception of nature and the environment and our views of different social groups. While the Americans expanded west‚ they took everything they could‚ conquering and claiming everything in their path. They took advantage of people other than the “ideal” pioneer and they

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    Natural Environment

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    ESSAY (Question n°4) For decades‚ humans use natural resources for their development. Today‚ we pay for this exploitation. Human lifestyle are responsible of many effects on environment: global warming‚ climate change‚ depletion of Ozone layer‚ deforestation‚ pollution‚ extinction of species… With depleting resources of nature‚ certain ways to save the environment have to be formulated. But who can do something to save the planet: people or governments? This essay

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    The natural environmental problem is the one of the most important problem to impact our world. Some problems are very famous like “global warming” and “Marine pollution”. We usually the government determine to spend millions or billions dollars to curb environmental pollution from news. In fact‚ we can save the money because we always curb environmental pollution after we did it. The natural environmental problem was already permeated our life. We almost can find it everywhere. For example‚ in

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    English colonists settled in Jamestown‚ and continuing until the last of the thirteen colonies was established; geography was a substantial factor in the development of colonial America. The crops that essentially saved the colonists lives‚ such as tobacco‚ rice‚ and indigo‚ wouldn’t have grown without a certain type and amount of soil to grow properly. Also‚ the Appalachian Mountains and the dense forests provided a barrier for the colonists‚ preventing them from going too far west right away‚ and

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    von Donnersmarck’s film The Lives of Other’s (2005) is set in East Berlin during the socialist reign from November 1984‚ up until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. The political context plays a significance role not only in the film’s subject matter but also in its cinematography‚ which exploits the voyeuristic tendencies of the audience‚ reflecting the surveillance of the Stasi Secret Police officers. The film follows a loyal socialist and playwright‚ Georg Dreyman who becomes subject (along with

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    The Economy of the Trans-Mississippi West‚ 1850-1900 During the mid-19th century and early 20th century‚ the promoters and government officials viewed the West as a land of opportunity and prosperity. However‚ people with economic and political power took advantages of westerners for their own benefits. As a result‚ the rich got richer and westerner suffered economy downfall. A few was benefited from railroads and federal land grants‚ while others faced several conflicts. In the end

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    Nowadays we live in a global consumer society. People around the whole world buy‚ use‚ and dispose of a big variety of products which make our lives easier and more comfortable. However‚ the result of this is massive damage to our environment and protection becomes harder. This essay will show how people and authorities need to protect properly our planet. Firstly‚ recycling is a very basic but important action that everyone should adopt now. If we do not recycle‚ factories will have to process

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    An Analysis of How The Other Half Lives The massive overcrowding in New York was epitomized by the tenements‚ which by 1880 housed over 600‚000 people within 24‚000. This awful statistic was one of many declared by Jacob Riis in his How The Other Half Lives. His work‚ influenced by other tenement reform advocates‚ synthesized the cause for reform together into this journal to convince those who were blind to the problem to want to also help. This essay will evaluate the methods and effectiveness

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    The reality that people experience can be shaped by those with power. From governments‚ to police force and even including fiction writers and the media‚ they have the ability to influence the reality experienced by different people in society. This power manipulation extends to those with different ethnic backgrounds‚ socio-economic status‚ and religion. Chloe Hooper‚ in writing‚ The Tall Man‚ had the power over the reader by selecting what to include in her story. In the book Chloe also shows

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    success. In order to understand what personality is let first define personality. According to the dictionary the definition of personality is the stable difference between people in the social‚ emotional and motivational characteristics. We use the word personality when describing others and ourselves. Personality can limit or expand option and choices of lives. It has also been said that personality is shape through environmental‚ learning‚ parental and developmental factors. People developed different

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