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    across colleges in the United States, college students, alumni, and diehard fans crowd into sports arenas at least once a week starting in November until February. These crowds are celebrating and cheering for their college men 's basketball teams. For the University of Kansas, this arena is the historic Allen Fieldhouse. It is consistently ranked the most difficult venue to play basketball in the Big 12 Conference, and holds the second-largest crowd of the ten university teams in the Big 12 with the

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    Searching for a college is no facile task, but Washington University in St. Louis may be the panacea. Washington University in St. Louis is one of the best research universities in the world, providing plenty of opportunities, great dorms, and a close location, however the total cost is incredibly

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    of the Antebellum North and South. The invention of the Cotton gin made cotton into one of the most profitable crop, which it reinforced the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. After his invention, he later turned his attention into manufacturing muskets for the newly formed Army of the United States in where this time he made sure to secured contracts with the government. Eli Whitney continued inventing and manufacturing arms until his death in 1825. 2.Robert Fulton is an American

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    Plutonium-239 was fissionable, and could be separated from uranium by chemical techniques ( much easier than physical process of separating the different isotopes of 235 and 238 of the same element). The first successful reactor was made at the University of Chicago under the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. On December 2, 1942 it made a controlled chain reaction. Five large reactors were built at Hanford, Washington, where U-238 was blasted with neutrons to make plutonium. It was then sent to Los

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    was one of the deadliest wars in American history, resulting in 620,000 casualties of soldiers and undetermined number of civilian casualties. Southern slave states declared their withdrawal from United States and formed the Confederate States of America; also know as “The Confederacy.” Northern twenty states free of slavery and five slave states in north came to knows as the Union. Many strategy and tactics were used during the American Civil War. In order to understand the military strategy and tactics

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    As a child, I was always drawn to medical television shows and documentaries, such as Untold Stories of the ER. The patients often came in with bizarre symptoms and, after being examined by several doctors, eventually got diagnosed with a rare infectious disease like Eastern Equine Encephalitis or Viral Hemorrhagic Fever. The diagnosing and treatment of these perplexing diseases fascinated me and I have wanted to dedicate my life to studying and curing these diseases ever since. Although the years

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    “Okay I’ll sign this paper, but this doesn’t mean you’re excused and you can’t make up the participation points you’ll miss.” My first thought, “then why are you signing the paper?” I’m a student athlete here at Tulane University. My sport is Track and Field and I am a hurdler. As a student athlete, one of my responsibilities is to inform professors of when I’ll be out of class due to a meet and to have them sign a form saying it’s okay to miss their class. On quite a few of these occasions I’ve

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    Enron was a publicly traded energy company formed in 1985 by Kenneth Lay when Internorth acquired Houston Natural Gas; the company, based in Houston Texas, Enron (originally entitled “EnterOn”, but was later subjected to abbreviation), worked specifically in power, natural gas, and paper and even ventured into various non-energy-based fields as they expanded, including: Internet bandwidth, risk management, and weather derivatives. Several years after the founding of the company, Enron hired a man

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    Contextual Factors Even though my teaching in this district is limited I have became aware of the high standards they expect of their teachers and students. After investigating my school district and their strategies of obtaining success for themselves as they set high standards for their students. I have grown more appreciative and honored to be an employee at my local high school district. My mentoring teacher excels in implementing technology into her classroom. Her lessons regularly revolve around

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    society, Alabama, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas require that students be aware of a disclaimer and are encouraged to think critically concerning the aspects of evolutionary theory. Additionally, in Mississippi and Louisiana, educators and students are permitted to discuss critical evidence of the evolutionary theory (Reuters). Since the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, the Supreme Court of the United States has had numerous, varying

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