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    Internet Dangers

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    In this time and era‚ internet is the most important device in our lives. It provides us with helpful information‚ keeps us up to date with the latest news‚ and answers every question we could possibly think of. This usually gives us an unrealistic perception that everything on the internet is true‚ even though anyone from any country or city or state can say whatever they please‚ and still make that information sound as if it is straight from a professor. People can do anything imaginable on the

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    The dangers of fracking

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    Dear Representative Elizabeth Werren‚ I am writing to you to express my concerns regarding the hydraulic fracturing. This procedure is used to release earths natural gasses and is harming our environment extensively. Hydraulic fracturing uses substantial amounts of water in combination with sand and toxic chemicals to push natural gas out of the ground. I state my concerns and suggestions below. Citizens of Kansas and Missouri need safe and plentiful water for public use and for farm and ranch

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    Native American and White Settlers Conflict In about the early 1800s‚ white settlers began to move west and they came to the Pacific Northwest‚ or what they called the Oregon Country. Native Americans and the white settlers had a lot of different ways of living. Some of these differences created conflicts between the two groups. I think that education‚ land ownership‚ and disease were the three main causes of their conflicts. Education was one of the problems that the Native Americans had with

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    J Francis Criss Hardships

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    Hardships come and go‚ but the disaster that struck America could never be forgotten. World war 1 was a tragedy that left all Americas speechless. So many lives were taken during this time‚ and there was nothing but negativity surrounding everyone. One person changed the atmosphere during this time and really made people see the positives in everything. His name was J Francis Criss. J Francis Criss‚ born in London‚ England migrated with his family to the United States and lived in Pennsylvania

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    Way of Life in the West

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    1 Way of Life in the West American History 1865 to Present April 2‚ 2014

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    East and West

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    East and West Rabindranath Tagore I It is not always a profound interest in man that carries travellers nowadays to distant lands. More often it is the facility for rapid movement. For lack of time and for the sake of convenience we generalise and crush our human facts into the packages within the steel trunks that hold our travellers’ reports. Our knowledge of our own countrymen and our feelings about them have slowly and unconsciously grown out of innumerable facts which are full of contradictions

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    The Changing West

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    struggling to make ends meet. You decide to try your luck out west‚ where there is plenty of land and plenty of opportunity. Before leaving‚ you must decide what you will do out west—be a miner‚ a cowboy‚ or a farmer. Each presents its own opportunities and difficulties. Write an essay in which you: Tell what you would be—a miner‚ cowboy‚ or farmer. Describe the opportunities you would have. Describe the difficulties you would face. Explain why you chose as you did. Use the rubric on the

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    West India

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    West Indies Yacht Club Resort: When Cultures Collide Jeffrey P. Shay University of Montana In early December 1994‚ Patrick Dowd‚ a 30-year-old management consultant‚ stared out his office window at the snowy Ithaca‚ New York‚ landscape. Dowd reflected on his recent phone conversation with Jim Johnson‚ general manager of the 95-room West Indies Yacht Club Resort (WIYCR)‚ located in the British Virgin Islands. Johnson sounded desperate to pull the resort out of its apparent tailspin and noted

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    C. S. Lewis Hardships

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    C.S. Lewis had a life filled with many hardships‚ but these hardships developed his character. By looking at The Magician’s Nephew‚ one can see that C.S. Lewis included the themes of Christianity and childhood because of his tribulation growing up and his tremendous faith. Clive Staples Lewis‚ also known as C.S. Lewis‚ was born November 29‚ 1898 to Albert and Florence Lewis. He has an older brother named Warren. Lewis enjoyed reading the Beatrix Potter stories‚ so he also called “Jack” (“A Biography

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    Taliesin West

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    “Human houses should not be like boxes‚ blazing in the sun‚ nor should we outrage the Machine by trying to make dwelling places too complementary to Machinery. Any building for humane purposes should be an elemental‚ sympathetic feature of the ground‚ complementary to its nature-environment‚ belonging by kinship to the terrain.” - Frank Lloyd Wright Brilliant‚ inspirational‚ influential‚ innovative; these are a just a few adjectives that illustrate a very significant man with many traits. A pioneer

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