girl named Scout who shares her childhood with the audience‚ many of the events that occur and emotions she feels being somethings readers can relate to‚ even if it is in different ways. According to Tom Geoghegan‚ writer of the article “Why is To Kill a Mockingbird so popular?”‚ Harper Lee’s novel is “a huge critical and commercial success” and has gained its popularity through the hundreds of ways it pulls the heart-strings of its readers (1). Geoghegan quotes many writers‚ professors‚ and lecturers
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Background The island of Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean West Indies and was acquired by the United States after the Spanish-American War in 1898. Puerto Rico is considered a commonwealth‚ a nation or state governed by the people; a republic. Puerto Rico is one of the Caribbean countries that make up the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)‚ a regional integration between themselves‚ formed in 1973. The purpose of regional integration is to achieve economic gains through free trade flow
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The Roman Senate The Roman Senate was political institution in ancient Rome. It was one of the most enduring institutions in Roman history‚ being established in the first days of the city. The Roman Senate functioned as an advisory body to Rome’s magistrates and‚ composed as it was of the city’s most experienced public servants and society’s elite‚ its decisions carried great weight‚ even if they were not always converted into laws in practice. The Senate continued to exert influence on government
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Why Was There So Little Opposition to the Nazi Regime? It is very difficult to judge the levels of opposition to the Nazi regime because of the extreme measures that were in place to suppress it. This being the case therefore‚ can we conclude that the fact that there was relatively little political resistance meant that the German population were too scared to speak out‚ as they knew what the consequences would be? Or was it perhaps that the government had taken measures to ensure that the German
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Trenita L. Raney ENC 1102-1007 Composition II Instructor: Terri Miller September 23‚ 2014 Reliability of Forensic Tools What’s reliable and what’s not so scientific when it comes to forensic tools? Forensics is relating to the use of science or technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law. Forensic tools examples are forensic photography‚ forensic ballistics‚ forensic toxicology‚ computer forensics‚ hair analysis‚ DNA analysis
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Slavery is a huge part of American history‚ in fact‚ this whole country was built by the hands of slaves. Slavery started back in 1619 in Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ when the new American Colonists brought slaves from Africa in order to help out in the production of crops‚ mainly tobacco. Ever since then more American Colonists brought in more slaves in order to do their own jobs and the population of slaves grew throughout time. Slaves would be imported from Africa and would usually come in large ships
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Hawaii was important to the United States for its military potential‚ as well as many economic reasons such as its rich agrarian industry. Without Hawaii‚ the United States would have had to negotiate more for navy bases from which it could launch aquatic assaults on the Axis Powers and Japan. This significantly increased our participation in World War II‚ while decreasing our debt to other nations for allowing us to use their ports. The first settlers of the islands were probably Polynesians from
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Most crime was simply committed because no punishments were issued to those who had done it before. Nevertheless we can still find more probable reasons why their crime was higher than ours. One of the biggest reasons was poverty. Homelessness and malnutrition was common on the dirty and crowded streets of Victorian London‚ and gave a desperate motive for crime; stealing mostly. Many young children didn’t go to school and were forced to find money by other means‚ pick-pocketing was a popular choice
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Why is the event still important today? On August 6‚ 1945‚ the United .States . dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb destroyed most of Hiroshima‚ killing an estimated 130‚000 people. Nicknamed Little Boy‚ the bomb had a force equivalent to 20‚000 tons of TNT. On August 9‚ a second bomb called Fat Man was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki killing roughly between 60‚000 - 70‚000 people. On August 15 Japan surrendered. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Gertrude B. Elion: Why Is She Important? It was the day Gertrude Belle Elion would share the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology with George H. Hitchings‚ a medical doctor she assisted. It was their use of innovative methods for developing drugs that people recognized as an important discovery. Elion is an American biochemist and pharmacologist. Elion’s goal was to alleviate‚ meaning to make less severe‚ human suffering from illnesses. Other than the individual drugs she discovered‚ she also developed
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