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    on.      The Tariff of Abominations      The Tariff of Abominations or Tariff of 1828 was one of the more famous acts passed by Congress. Adams had been a strong advocate for a higher tariff. Andrew Jackson’s supporters in Congress modified Adam’s original tariff bill to include much higher taxes on imported raw materials as well. They believed that the northern legislators and Adams supporters would never vote for such legislation since it would

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    During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s America began to industrialize the majority of the country bringing forth industrial giants like Andrew Carnegie and his steel company along with John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Company. Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, referred to these industrial giants as “robber barons.” A “robber baron” could be defined as an American capitalist who would do whatever in order to prosper. Carnegie and Rockefeller were considered “robber

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    Old Money Spoils There are many dangers of leaving great sums of inheritance money to the children of those who accumulated their own fortunes. Andrew Carnegie, a self-made philanthropist millionaire who gave away $350 million and built 2,509 libraries before his death in 1919, sees this as a great problem as well and writes about it in “The Gospel of Wealth;” along with how he believes that the highest obligation of those who have amassed a great fortune is to return their money to the societies

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    Finding Nemo Archetypes

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    hero? Sure, there may be Marvel Heroes, but do they fit the archetype of a The Hero’s Journey? In the movie Finding Nemo directed by Andrew Stanton, a small fearful clownfish goes on a life changing adventure after his son had been taken by a scuba diver. Marlin’s journey has its ups and downs but it fits the pattern of the hero’s journey archetype almost perfectly. Joseph Campbell said, “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a religion of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there

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    a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William H. Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy 's cause. Although Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the American Civil War was not yet finished because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston 's army was still fighting the Union Army. Of the conspirators, only Booth was completely successful

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    Gender Role In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness For the most part people who read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad may feel that the novella is strictly a story of exploration and racial discrimination. But to Johanna Smith who wrote “’Too Beautiful Altogether’: Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness” it is much more than that. Johanna Smith along with Wallace Watson and Rita A. Bergenholtz agree that throughout Heart of Darkness there are tones of gender prejudice, but the way

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    First, the American government used treaties as attempt to remove Indians from their tribal lands but in instances where this failed, the government violated the treaties and even Supreme Court rulings to obtain what they wanted- more land. When Andrew Jackson became president, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was established. The Act involved a process where Jackson would grant land west of the Mississippi River to the Native American tribes that would agree to give up their

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    Following the finish of the American Civil War, the period known as the Gilded Age emerged. During this period, industrialism increased rapidly as well as the amount of cities. However, with a growth of industries and cities, corruption and complications would also follow. Since businesses were booming and the economy was improving, the United States’ Presidents of this time period, such as Hayes, Garfield, and Cleveland, granted businesses large amounts of power in hopes of continuing the success

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    Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is a well known American economist, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on asymmetric information. Even though he is a brilliant man he did not get any expensive or special schooling in his early education. He went through a public school system in his hometown Gary, Indiana. Later he earned his bachelor degree from Amherst College. He initially went to Amherst instead of Harvard because his guidance counselor believed it would be a better fit

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    Who Is Maximilian Kolbe?

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    exactly what Maximilian Kolbe did. Maximilian Kolbe was born on January 8th 1894. His original name was Rajmund Kolbe. He was born in Zduńska Wola which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. He had four brothers Francis, Joseph, Walenty, who died at age one, and Andrew, who died at age four. His father worked in a mill and his mother ran a small store with groceries and household items. In 1907 he and his brother decided to become friars. Eventually he decided to make form a group named the

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