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    mining” (Aquila Resources). The Flambeau mine in Ladysmith, Wisconsin is often cited as a sulfide mine success story in which no environmental incidents occurred and serves to support the argument for the Back Forty Mine (Gedicks 12). However, 14 years following the close of this copper-gold mine, water samples actually reveal high levels of pollutants (Gedicks 13). Thus, Al Gedicks of the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse argues that if the Flambeau Mine, one of the world’s

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    1. Introduction In the world of Economics, the important word come to mind of people is Trade. Trading has been done from the time when human begin start to use tools that is circa 150,000 years ago(Watson 2005). Since then we have come a large leap from trading small stone tools to sophisticated machineries and advance software today. This report revolves about the specific topic of Trade Compliance which is relatively new to the pitch compared to the age of trade. The term Trade Compliance means

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    The Ho Chunk

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    name though is quite fascinating. It can either mean “big voice” or “big fish”. In this sense the word “big” means ancestral or primordial. Although we know where they originated in Wisconsin, we do not know their place of origin before entering Wisconsin as well as their archeological antecedents in Wisconsin. When the French were first introduced to the Ho-Chunks, they were known as the Winnebago. This was the name by which they were known to their neighbors who spoke Algonkian. This was

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    Treacherous Waves There they were having the times of their life driving around the island swimming at any possible beach they passed by. At the time, there were two vans driving to Waimea coming from the mermaid caves. The boys had a van of their own as well as the girls. The sound of their laughter could fill up the streets of New York City. Everyone enjoyed themselves as they rode around the roads of North Shore feeling the pulse of the music in their bodies as they sang to the top of their lungs

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    University of Wisconsin- La Crosse, it was there that I not only discovered my passion for microbiology; but it was where I became aware of my career goal, to be an educator at the university level. While as a teaching assistant for a Fundamentals of Microbiology laboratory, I established that I wanted to become a professor. I want to become and educator because, I look back at how much of an impact my professors at the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse and the Medical College of Wisconsin had not only

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    Culture In Wisconsin

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    I chose Wisconsin as my state to talk about. There are many cultural influences in this state. There is an Indo-European and Native American cultures. I will break some of these down throughout this paper. I will start talking about how some towns are named after landscapes and then move on to towns named after people. We will also take about the Native American tribal influences, and occupational towns. As we take a look at Wisconsin, we find many cities and towns with names of physical features

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    The topic I’ve chosen is hydroelectricity. Hydroelectricity is obtaining the power of falling water to create electricity. Hydroelectricity has been around for as long as 2000 years. The Greeks used a wheel powered by water to grind wheat into flour. Later on in the mid 1700’s the evolution of the modern hydropower turbine began when a French hydraulic and military engineer, Bernard Forest de Belidor wrote Architecture Hydraulique. II. How Hydroelectricity works So how does hydroelectricity

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    The Great Northwoods Essay

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    provide the reader with a general history of events that led to the formation of the Nicolet National Forest of northern Wisconsin. In order to do so, I found it necessary to begin with the early explorations of such notables as James Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and Jean Nicolet. These French explorers blazed a path that enabled the settling of the territories now know as Wisconsin. Men like them embodied the new era of exploration that was gripping the European nations with the quest for empire

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    Partisanship has always existed in the United States. Though, there have been periods of decline and resurgence. But since the 1970s America has seen an increase in “party unity” votes in Congress. From 2009 to 2012 party unity votes was around 70%, a clear indication of polarization in Washington. The ideological differences that exist within Congress is also indicative of the attitude of the general public. A majority of people are willing to call themselves Democrats or Republicans. “Party identification

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    Steven Avery, a family man, a victim of injustice and an accused murderer. One may have reasoned that his murder conviction was a crime of passion, due to the injustice Steven suffered from his 1985 false conviction of rape and assault, but that may have been before his story caught national attention. A documentary, “Making a Murderer”, directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, arose from his story’s infamy. With this documentary came numerous questions as to Avery’s possible innocence, but

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