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    Essay on Abraham Lincoln

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    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President ofthe United States of America, serving from 1860 to 1865 (Wilson, 1). From humble upbringings to becoming the most powerful man in America, "Honest Abe" is known today as a great and influential person whose message echoes in American politics as well as American ethics. Lincoln is almost always voted the best or near-best President among historians (Wilson, 1). He helped mend the rift between the Union and the Confederacy, reuniting and reconstructing America

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    Milestone Two: Caring for Population: Vulnerable Population Assessment Community nursing is a very challenging, yet vital and important aspect of nursing for the community in the borough of Brooklyn, NY. It is located on the southwestern end of Long Island, southeastern of New York and it is connected to Manhattan by three bridges (Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge and Verrazano Bridge). Brooklyn is separated from Manhattan by the East River (Britannica, 2017) and it is considered the largest of

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    order to get people to realize how unfair African Americans are being treated and how deconstructive the Vietnam war truly is. In the passage King states, “ We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in Southwestern Georgia and East Harlem. And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and

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    Ohio Tsunami Earthquake

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    major areas affected by 2004 Tsunami were Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, India, the Somalia, Maldives, Seychelles, Myanmar, Malaysia and others. The countries majorly affected by the 2011 Tsunami mainly include Japan, Indonesia and some areas of United States. The reason behind the 2004 Tsunami was an earthquake of 9.0 magnitudes in the ocean bed (Keys, Masterman‐Smith & Cottle, 2006). The major cause of 2011 Tsunami was an enormous fault slip (Fujii et al., 2011). The plates involved in this slip were

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    The American Revolution was a battle that was fought between countries across the globe. Many countries were involved in this fight. Spain, France, Mysore, Holland, and the United States fought against Great Britain. There were multiple factors that lead to this Revolution. Beginning with the United States in 1764 the American Sugar Act and Stamp Act was having restrictions placed on it from England’s Congress. Then, in 1774 Parliament was passing laws and placing taxes upon the colonists which they

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    Was it the United States Job to Step into Foreign Wars? Less than 5 decades after the end of the civil, neither the government nor the public had any appetitive for putting it’s young men and resources at risk to get involved with other nation’s squabbles. In 1912, the United States elected Woodrow Wilson president. He was an anti-war democrat, and a fervent christian, who thought that his election to office was a calling from God (Shi, p. 817). The US public still remembered the pain of losing

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    than the United States of America, who has gone through countless changes in its long living history. Since winning its independence from Great Britain to current day, America has transformed intensely and continues to change over time. The term "Manifest Destiny” first created in the 1840s, has assisted the American drive into the next century and has made the country what it is currently. The ideas behind Manifest Destiny played a significant part in the development of the United States by permitting

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    19th Century America Dbq

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    eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century the United States of America experienced some difficult times throughout the country. It first had to watch it’s own nation split apart during the Civil War, also the U.S. had just fought for it’s own independence from Great Britain not even a hundred years ago. Then shortly after the war and the reconstruction area began, later moving to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the United States witnessed the Great Depression. Another dark period in

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    Why Is Texas A Big State

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    Texas, also known as the Lone Star State, is a big state. It’s not just big in size, but in population, economic contributions to the United States, as well as in the famous people who were born in the great state of Texas. Texas gets its name from the Indian word “tejas”, meaning friends and its motto is “Friendship”. Texas is such a large state that in the west it is very dry and in the east it is very humid. People experience natural disasters like floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, and

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    In 2011 the Pew Research Center produced a survey which claimed that approximately 37.6 million people living in the United States spoke Spanish in their homes(Gonzalez-Barrera and Lopez). While that may not seem like much keep in my mind the fact that, this number reflects around 10% of the total American population; and the number of Spanish speakers coming to this country is ever-increasing. All of this being said some people, in the government or elsewhere, would see the Spanish language marginalized

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