Cited: Huckshorn‚ Robert J. "The American Presidency Ronald Reagan Biography" Encyclopedia Americana. http://gi.grolier.com/president/ea/bios/40preag.html "Ronald Reagan Actor/U.S. President" Who2Profile‚ http://www.who2.com/ronaldreagan.html "Ronald Reagan 40th President (1981-1989) The "Prime-Time" President" http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/RR/RR_Life_After_the_Presidency
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and Medicine Database." Erdrich‚ Louise : Love Medicine. HarperCollins: Harper Perennial‚ 01 Dec. 2006. Web. 15 Mar. 2014. Balogh‚ Andrea P. "The Im/possibility of Native American Identity in Louise Erdrich ’s Love Medicine." Americanaejournal. Americana‚ 2 Nov. 2008. Web. 15 Mar. 2014. Erdrich‚ Louise. "Love Medicine." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 11th ed. New York: Holt‚ Rinehart‚ and Winston‚ 1984. 411-27. Print. Hompskins‚ John. "Louise Erdrich." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation
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Have you ever wondered who were the first people to create some pieces of technology‚ like the cell phone or the mouse‚ maybe your videogames that you play? Well I am going to tell you who created what and how technology has changed our lives. Technology is a broad concept that deals with a person’s usage and knowledge of tools and crafts‚ and how it affects a person’s ability to control and adapt to its environment. In American society‚ it is a consequence of science and engineering‚ although several
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thriving extremism‚ and the Cold War caused the town to become a dismal place with about a 20% unemployment rate. A McDonald’s was constructed there just several months after the end of the Cold War. It brought hope for a new future. It represented Americana and hopes that they too would be as industrious as the United States. It was also the first building to be constructed in Plauen since the end of the war. A clean and new building amidst the old‚ ramshackle‚ graffiti-covered ones gave the people
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Breaking all the rules Sunday‚ March 26‚ 2006 By LAWRENCE AARON PHOTOGRAPHER Gordon Parks once explained the complications of his birth this way: "I was born dead." Gordon was his mother’s 15th child. His survival as a newborn was miraculous. The doctor gave him up for dead‚ but an assistant asked if he could try his hand at getting the child to breathe. The family collected all the ice they could find and surrounded the newborn with an ice bath. Voila! Instant life. Every
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Wole Soyinka’s A Shuttle in the Crypt contemplates a critical period in Nigerian history between 1966 and early 1971. Soyinka’s efforts to curtail the Nigerian Civil War in 1967 resulted in his arrest and imprisonment without trial by the federal military government. Soyinka’s work remains inseparable from his activities as a political dissident. His commitment to promoting human rights in Nigeria and other nations reflects his new approach to literature as a serious agent of social change. A Shuttle
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Cited: Donald Cox (1962). The Space Race. Chilton Company Publishers‚ Philadelphia & New York Louis Rotundo (1994). Into The Unknown. Smithsonian Institution Press‚ Washington & London The Encyclopedia Americana International Edition‚ Vol 25‚ (1998)‚ Grolier Incorporated‚ Connecticut
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Maya Angelou A poet‚ an author‚ a play-write‚ an actress‚ a mother‚ a civil-rights activists‚ historian and most important a survivor. Perhaps Maya Angelou‚ award winning author of many books is one of the most influential African Americans in American history. I believe that she rates at the top of the list of American authors‚ with Hemingway‚ Hawthorne‚ and Voight. I believe through my research and reading of Maya Angelou that she should be among the members of The American Authors Hall of Fame
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1950s America Speech The 1950s were a remarkable time in the history of the United States of America. Many of the events that occurred during this time inspired and molded the future of an entire generation. The economy was booming‚ bringing millions of Americans into the middle class. Government‚ Business‚ and Unions worked together to keep the economy going‚ but I believed the biggest force in the economy in the 1950s decade is the consumers. “Consumer Culture” is a culture where consuming
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Medieval Morality Plays Throughout time‚ there have been many books‚ plays‚ songs‚ pamphlets‚ sermons‚ lectures‚ etc. written. These writings were all written with some kind of purpose to either inform‚ persuade‚ entertain‚ or teach their audience. One such form of literature not too widely known about is that of the medieval morality plays. These plays were not aimed to entertain‚ but to teach morals and religion to the uneducated lower classes of people in medieval Europe. The morality plays
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