Devin Hall Ms. Westhafer Writing Seminar: Summary 07 February 2013 Summary of “The Myth of Violence in the Old West” In his article‚ “The Myth of Violence in the Old West‚” Roger D. McGrath attempts to rebut the common myth of the old west being plagued by high crime rate. Although McGrath agreed that the old west was violent‚ he maintained how the violence at that time was dissimilar from todays. To help illustrate his point‚ he compared today’s crime rate for burglary‚ robbery‚ and murder
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Have you ever wished that you planned better for something? Maybe you could’ve prevented future problems by having a plan? Mark Zimmerman has been living with this regret for a good part of his adult life. This is his story of how he got out of debt. Mr. Zimmerman said that when he got out of high school‚ his parents gave him a credit card. Not knowing how to use one‚ he accepted it. They told him that it was for emergencies only. Mark went on to college. Taking out student loans and having
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In the book Doing School‚ Denise Pope‚ the author and a Stanford Graduate with a PHD in curriculum and teaching‚ claims that students are no longer learning anything about the subjects they take‚ or learning the core values/behaviors that the school is supposed to teach. They are in fact‚ learning the values/behaviors that schools despise and are not retaining any of the information taught to them. The reason they are not learning the correct values/behaviors‚ or retaining any information in school
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During the WW1 US stays neutral. Woodrow Wilson (1916) - “He kept us out of war.” January (1917) - British cryptographers decipher a telegram from Arthur Zimmermann (German Foreign Minister) to von Eckhardt (German Minister in Mexico). In the telegram Zimmermann reveals Germany’s plan to restart unrestricted submarine warfare the US territory is offered to Mexico in return for joining the German Cause. February 24 - the British present the telegram to Woodrow Wilson March 1 - the American press
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The West Amanda Miranda America was beginning to boom! With the war over and immigrants coming to the land of “freedom” from all over the world‚ people began to adventure to the West. There was a new‚ unsettled land presenting opportunities beyond what anyone could imagine. The west offered natural resources such as gold‚ oil‚ and lumber‚ also it gave hope to freedom and landownership all the while guarding it with dangerous obstacle such as natives‚ disease‚ and drought. The forge west brought
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The question that is being asked here is what is the West? The west can be defined as many different things‚ but According to Levack‚ B.‚ Muir‚ E.‚ & Veldman‚ M. (2011) the west is a “place” (p. 2). The west is thought of to be traditionally compromised of certain regions like Europe‚ the Americas‚ Australia‚ and New Zealand. There are in fact many ideas that are evolving around western civilization such as form of governments‚ methods of scientific inquiry‚ religions‚ and languages just to name
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In this essay I discuss that "doing gender means creating differences between girls and boys and women and men...." (West & Zimmerman 2002:13) I am concentrating on the female perspective‚ how societyputs forth expectations of what is ’natural’ or biological even though‚ in some cases‚ it can be quite demeaning and degrading. I am using some examples from the local media and also a few childhoodexperiences that have helped me to now strongly suspect that the quote from Simone Beauvoir (1972) "One
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that this would ultimately pull America into the fray‚ chose to reach out to Mexico making the promise that if Mexico were to ally with Germany they would return the land that was lost during the Mexican-American War. That message‚ now known as the Zimmerman Telegram‚ was intercepted by British intelligence and shared with United States. When this made news headlines‚ the American people were outraged as Germany started to
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and period‚ and composed of several subparts more specified. In the introduction‚ Cohen starts by dressing a general timeline and capture of the world. He raises thought provoking questions that he will try to answer. In his first part‚ called “Why West ?”‚ Cohen tries to bring an answer to such a controversial question. Firstly‚ he reminds the genesis of the economy : the birth of agriculture‚ the regroupment of humans into cities‚ and the “tyranny of productivity” (search for better technology)
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Wessay The United Staes were trying to push people to settle in the west brought a lot of trouble. Since‚ Settlers and Native Americans thought very differently there were many conflicts between them. They both thought in different ways about the land usage‚ settlement‚ and ownership. Native Americans thought different about land usage than the Settlers did. The Native Americans thought that land should not be purchased or sold to anyone. They looked at land as a gift of the Great
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