commercially successful. The plot of The Great Train Robbery was actually inspired from a real event. On August 29‚ 1900‚ four members from the famous outlaw George Leroy “Butch Cassidy” Parker’s “Hole in the Wall” gang stopped a train in Table Rock‚ Wyoming and stole $5‚000. This movie was ripped from the headlines and captured the public’s imagination. The film opens with an operator working in a railroad telegraph office being held at gunpoint by bandits. He is ordered to transmit a message to the
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added more than a million square miles to the existing land of the United States. He got all of this land through treaties and war. The territories of Arizona‚ Utah‚ Nevada‚ California‚ and Oregon‚ Idaho‚ Washington‚ much of New Mexico‚ Parts of Wyoming‚ Montana‚ and Colorado were all acquired by the United States during his presidency. This is mostly because Polk strongly supported Manifest Destiny. Polk obtained most of the United States
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A Persuasive speech on sexual discrimination Good evening‚ my name is Evan Morrison. I am here today to talk to you about sexual discrimination. Sexual discrimination means that a person gets treated in a less favorable manner because of their sex‚ and I imagine young people go through tough times at school just because they like the same gender or when a boy wants to be a girl. In this speech‚ I will try to change your views on discrimination and hopefully make a change and put a stop to all of
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The nature of warfare changed as a result of the Civil War due to various factors such as‚ industrialization‚ development of new technologies‚ and economic impact of the North and South. Some of these factors had short-term and long-term consequences on the North and the South affecting their land‚ people‚ and economy. Short-term consequences consisted of the country being in hazard‚ no one knew where to live‚ and blacks were escaping to the north and lost connections with their families. A long-term
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Rajpal Kaur Dadoa Mr. McFarland 15 June 2013 English 1A White Privilege “ I look to the day when people will not be judged by the color of the skin‚ but by the content of their character ” - Martin Luther King Jr. This is a phrase heard by more than two million Americans on August 28‚1963‚ in the speech ‘ I have a dream’ and since‚ then it has travelled through millions of heads and thoughts in the world. Dr. king Jr. dreamed of America‚ a place where the colors of black
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community at the time of Matthew’s death. The play has many themes about prejudice‚ hate crimes‚ and conflicting issues. The most significant aspect of the play was centered on the opinions and the responses of the people from the small town of Laramie‚ Wyoming. The different viewpoints of the death of Matthew from this small town has affected their community and how they dealt with the occurrence. Some people believed this would not happen to Matthew because he was gay. While others considered that he did
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Not only is violence more than just the easy to realize physical harm‚ it is also a major culprit in shaping and influencing identity and self-perception. In the “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom‚” the author‚ Leslie Bell‚ interviews several women asking about their sexual identities. In one instance Jayanthi‚ one of the women interviewed by Bell‚ discusses an act of violence that changed how she would sexually identify herself. In addition‚ in
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Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain is a tragic story of forbidden love. It chronicles the romance between Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist‚ two cowboys who fall head over heels for each other in the spring of 1963. Their relationship endures for twenty years‚ never fully resolved‚ never fully let go of‚ and always surrounded by fear‚ confusion‚ and above all‚ by love. Brokeback Mountain depicted a story that was both accurate in its portrayal of queerness in the setting of its story‚ and in making it
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Old Faithful is a geyser located in Yellowstone National Park‚ Wyoming‚ United States. It is one of 300 geysers in Yellowstone National Park. Old Faithful has a groundwater supply that is heated by a volcano. Old Faithful received its name by being predictable with its eruptions. It received its name by members of the 1870 Washburn Expedition. Old Faith had an average of 91 minutes between eruptions. Old Faithful is thought to be so reliable since it not connected to any other thermal feature
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Manifest Destiny is what imperialism is now; it was a set of beliefs that had various ideas about race‚ religion‚ culture‚ and economic necessity. During the 1840s‚ many Americans had [ this ideology ] carved into their minds. They insisted that their nation had a Manifest Destiny to dominate the continent and felt that it was their mission to extend the “boundaries of freedom” to others by passing on their idealism and belief in democratic institutions to those who were capable of self-government
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