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    What motivated Americans to move west and what was their motive? Different Americans were motivated by different reasons to move west. Ranchers would move to more land in the west to raise cattle‚ particularly Texas and Kansas. These cattle ranchers would then ship their cattle back to the Eastern states to sell. They sold for much higher prices back east. The expansion of the railroad made it possible to easily transport the cattle east. Farmers were motivated because they could get free land

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    The Dodgers Move West

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    Chris Naylor U.S. Expansion and The Dodgers Move West Baseball in Brooklyn has been in existence since the 1800s with the Brooklyn Grays‚ but the name that most people remember when they talk about Brooklyn is the Dodgers. Most people remember the Dodgers for their great play and also for a man by the name of Walter O’Malley on moving the Dodgers to Los Angeles. This move was made possible by the political maneuverings of New York City and Los Angeles‚ families moving away from big cities to the

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    The journey towards the West was the path for American emigrants to search or move to new land. The trail that was used to move west became known as the Oregon Trail. The trail was over 2‚000 miles long. The trail was more used during 1840-1860.Over 500‚000 emigrants used the Oregon Trail. It took 4-6 months to travel the trail. Fur trapper would travel on horses or by foot.. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were one of the first settlers. They decided to make the path accessible for everyone. Years later

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    Settler Colonialism is a distinct type of colonialism that functions through the replacement of indigenous populations with an invasive settler society that‚ over time‚ develops a distinctive identity and sovereignty. It happens when people from one country move to a new place‚ set up permanent homes‚ and take control of the land and resources there. They often push out or dominate the native people who were already living there. Unlike other types of colonialism‚ where the main goal is to take resources

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    "What is Motivated Reasoning‚ and What Are Its implication for Managing People?" Motivated reasoning is a stubborn and highly subjective means of defending ones judgment. I would say this behaviour could potentially produce both positive and negative results in managing people‚ depending on the situation. For instance‚ in the Billy Bonzai case that we’ve recently tackled‚ this is a perfect example of how motivated reasoning could result to both positive and negative outcome. Apparently‚ Billy knows

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    What Is Ignis's Hardship?

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    Ignis life‚ he only knew suffering at the hands of this human. Since he was born‚ Ignis has faced hardship and a constant reminder of his place in this world. His father was a hard-working Faunus who tried to provide and do right for his family. He struggles to keep a job in a city that outcast Faunus and shutdown Faunus own business. Ignis saw his father be broken down by the weight of the world hardship until he had nothing left to lose. Resorting to robbing and stealing just to put food on the table

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    Racism derives from prejudice and ignorance‚ both of which are common in human nature. The article Seeing Danger in a Face informs about the targeting of an individual based on generalizations of their race. Alex Bastian‚ a Christian Armenian-American‚ had been detained at an airport under suspicion that he had relations with terrorist groups and countries such as Turkey or Syria. The second half of the article goes into depth of reasons why he could have been detained since the officials there had

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    Marshall in 1947 was motivated mainly by the altruistic desire to help the economic recovery of Europe. The European Recovery Programme‚ more commonly known as the Marshall Plan‚ was the American foreign policy masterminded by US Secretary of State George C. Marshall. Its aim was to provide financial support to war-torn Europe‚ following the conclusion of World War II in 1945. The interpretations that I will be analysing argue whether the Marshall Plan was mainly motivated by the altruistic desire

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    Andrew Jackson was a tough and strong willed man who went through many hardships. Most of his hardships were personal but he still had to go through many government and political problems including war and treason. 3 of his most remembered but not always most liked hardships he had to deal with while in office‚ South Carolina‚ The National Bank‚ and the Indian Removal act. In December‚ 1830s Andrew Jackson was dealing with another state‚ South Carolina. South Carolina did not agree with Andrew Jackson

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    Why did people want to go west. Many settlers and pioneers wanted to move west. Because they thought that moving west would “fresh start. They Also wanted to buy and own land. Some pioneers wanted to try new thing such as farming and gold mining.”But all this started because of the louisiana purchase in 1803. “France and Spain were both negotiating for ownership of the Louisiana territory.” Everyone wanted the louisiana territory. Because there was lots of land and lots of things that people could

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