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    How free really were African-Americans in the North? In the North African-Americans were free but treated as if they weren’t. They didn’t have as good a life as whites. Leading up to and during the civil war‚ blacks were either slaves or unequal free men. In the South they were most likely slaves and in the North they were free but they only had certain rights instead of all they should have. While African-Americans in the North were legally free‚ they were not equal because of social‚ political

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    sides argued whether England should have been a constitutional monarchy or an absolute monarchy. Various ideas were present on how the government should be run‚ by divine right‚ secular absolutism‚ or a constitutional state. John Locke thought that the government’s main job was to maintain the natural human right‚ life‚ liberty‚ and property‚ this is the ideology that the English revolutionaries wanted to be governed by. Parliament did not follow his ideas throughout the English Reformation. Parliament

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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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    Jefferson did not say anything to Miss Emma or Grant. Dr. Michael Barry says that “For a time‚ then‚ Grant’s main motive for helping Jefferson is that he is doing a favor for Vivian.” (Barry 3) Although‚ as the visits came and went Grant and Jefferson were finally able to connect. Barry also says‚ “Grant is finally able to connect with Jefferson after a stretch of time in which Jefferson vents his resentment upon him and on Miss Emma. “ (Barry 3) “Grant challenges Jefferson to defy this myth‚ to show

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    The Mexican-American War was a war between the United States and Mexico which lasted from April 1846 to February 1848. It stemmed from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The war was the most devastating event in Mexican history‚ where Mexico lost the modern day areas of California‚ Arizona‚ New Mexico‚ Nevada‚ Colorado and Montana. The Mexican-American spawned out of land lust

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    fraction of what it is back home. The now deceased president Lincoln also made it possible for me to own land for free. All I have to do is find me a good wife‚ farm the land for five years‚ live in it half a year every year‚ and build a house on it. I am not sure weather I want to reach California or just find another mining spot in the Kansas or Colorado territories. They say that there is gold to be found "everywhere you stick your shovel." These are strong incentives for me to move out west like I

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    Updated: 8/5/2008 Tour Guide Script Bus Tours of Historic Filipinotown Filipino American Library (FAL) August 2‚ 2008 If you have any questions‚ comments‚ or suggestions about this script‚ please contact Jonathan Lorenzo‚ the FAL Administrator‚ at filamlibrary@sbcglobal.net or 213-382-0488. GOAL: To answer the question – “What is Filipino about Historic Filipinotown?” Important Notes for Bus Driver: - Maintain 15 mph at all times in both the residential and commercial areas. - It is OK to park

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    The Black Death started in 1347 and raged on for some years‚ wiping most of Europe as it spread. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) wrote of the plague’s symptoms: swellings or tumors in the armpits and groin‚ which led to blackness on different parts of the body. There’s no doubt that the Europeans had their own opinion on the cause of the plague and how to contain it. The Black Death was a plague that very unfamiliar to the victims. As a result‚ they had different beliefs on the cause of the plague;

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    Settlement of the West With the closing of the frontier and the turn of the 20th century‚ the west side of America was becoming heavily populated and settled in. For America this meant many resources were needed in order to accelerate the expansion of the west. The development of the west brought many problems. How would you transport goods‚ to and from the east? Before any settlements were possible‚ a means of easy transportation was essential. In 1862 the Pacific Railway Act was passed‚

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    Derek Brown Professor Janet Smith Employment Law BA370 1 August 2011 BACHELDER V. AMERICAN WEST AIRLINES The legal issue in this case is Penny Bachelder claims her employer‚ America West Airlines‚ violated the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ("FMLA" or "the Act") when it terminated her in 1996 for poor attendance. Bachelder countered that according to the regulations implementing the FMLA‚ she was entitled to have her leave eligibility calculated by the method most favorable to her. Under

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