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    The Trans-Siberian Railroad Anonymous University of Dubuque Intro to Research Writing Prof. Unknown September 27th‚ 2013 This paper is an all informative paper on the effects the Trans-Siberian Railroad had on Russia and the Soviet Union after it was completed. You will read about how the Trans-Siberian Railroad help Russia grow as a super-power because of the ability of easy transportation of goods and people. Also there were some hardships that Russia went through and some construction

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    Breakaway Movie Analysis

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    Breakaway is classified as a Canadian hockey movie‚ released in September 2011. This movie stars Vinay Virmani as the lead character Rajveer Singh‚ Camilla Belle as Reena‚ Russell Peters as Reena’s fiancé‚ Anupam Kher is Raj’s father Mr. Singh‚ and Rob Lowe as Coach Dan Winters. Robert Lieberman is the director and it is produced by Akshay Kumar and Paul Gross. Breakaway is at first glance a movie about hockey‚ but you quickly learn that hockey is merely one aspect of this movie. There is a lot

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    There is a difference between conservation and preservation. The major difference between the two is conservation is the sensible use of the natural resources by maintaining the sustainability of them for our future generation. In contrast preservation is to maintain nature and our resources in their present state. I actually do not believe that humans can harvest resources in an environmentally friendly way. I feel this way because if our human race were to begin to get resources from our national

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    Rome S. Professor Kindoski Anthro 001 May 18th‚ 2014 Primate Observation Primates are some of the most interesting animals to watch and learn about whether it be in person at a zoo or seeing a film or documentary on wild ones in a natural environment. Part of this reason is due to the incredible amount of similarities found in between primates and humans. After observing two different primate species at a local zoo‚ I found out that by observing their behavior‚ we gain a small insight into

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    The Transcontinental Railroad: A Double Edged Sword David B Jayroe II Hist233 Professor Para November 15‚ 2014 The Transcontinental Railroad: A Double Edged Sword January 24‚ 1948 was the day that drastically changed the history of America. This day‚ James W. Marshal discovered gold in the south fork of the American River‚ while building a saw mill for Captain John Sutter. Despite his attempts to conceal his discovery‚ the news spread quickly across the country‚ setting the California

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    Charlotte Gilman Herland

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    Since the early ages‚ people have been dreaming of creating a perfect place‚ a place where everyone is going to be satisfied. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of the many authors who developed these utopian ideas in their works. In 1915 she wrote a short novel Herland about an utopian maternal community. This novel is quite unique because the society depicted in the book wasn’t simply utopian. It was an ideal state created by women. This very idea was considered radical in the early 1900’s. But no

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    There are many theories that elaborate on how different Indian tribes came to be in America. A problem for historians concerning Indian culture is they didn’t record history in the way that other societies did. Often history was passed on by word of mouth and it wasn’t until the arrival of the English‚ Spanish or French that a more formal account was taken down. It is estimated that up to 50 million people were already living in the Americas for 15 century AD and possibly 10 million in what would

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s monograph‚ Herland: A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel (1979)‚ is presented as a fictional narrative of the journey of three explorers that find a female society that is able to reproduce and thrive without a male presence. Sara Evans’ monograph‚ Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left (1979)‚ discussed the historical relationship between both the civil rights movement and feminism. Evan’s book was a secondary source relying

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    My Own Private Idaho is the final film in Gus Van Sant’s unofficial trilogy. Its proceedings were; Mala Noche (1986) and Drugstore Cowboy (1989)‚ all of which were set in his home terrain or Portland and the Pacific Northwest. The “trilogy” deals with the themes of illicit love and self-destructive impulses‚ weather it’s the pursuit of a doomed romance or the grim chasm of drug addiction and ill-advised sex. Gus went on to film many contracted films like Good Will Hunting (1997) and To Die For (1995)

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