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    Evolution of Warfare and Conflict on the Northwest Coast The impact of Western expansion on the Subarctic‚ with western Europeans advancing from the east and Russians and Americans from the West‚ changed the tempo and nature of indigenous warfare by creating new and intensified opportunities for young males to compete. The developing fur trade changed the demographics‚ trade networks‚ access to the sources of new goods‚ and the competitive structure among all subarctic societies. Western

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    The term Northwest Coast is used in anthropology studies to communicate of the groups of Indigenous people living along the coast of British Columbia. The People of the North West Coast People came to BC over 10 000 years ago. This Aboriginal group consisted of several other nations‚ individually they all had a distinctive culture and political characteristics. On the other hand‚ they were similar in their traditions and practices of their use of salmon and other ocean animals such as clams‚ crabs

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    writers put into these movies. There are a huge number of movies that are like this. One in particular would be North Country starring Charlize Theron. This movie is a fictionalized account of the first major sexual harassment case in the United States—Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines‚ where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit (North Country). The movie is inspired by a brave woman who fought so hard for what she wanted‚ but the movie portrays

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    Victory of the North

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    22 March 2013 Victory of the North There are many causes that led to the victory of the North‚ as well as many effects that follow their victory. Three important causes that led to the victory of the North are economic growth‚ secession‚ and the election of President Abraham Lincoln. Three important effects that followed the victory of the Northern States in the American Civil War are emancipation‚ a new financial system‚ and political freedom. The Civil War of America has been discussed as

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    Many stereotypes of women were depicted in the movie North Country. The first major one that I notice was when the main character was talking to her childhood friend after washing her hair. He friend told her that she worked at the town mine. The main character automatically asked her if she was a secretary there. This is a large stereotype that has affected women for a long time. Many people assume that the job a woman would be working in a male environment such as mining must be as a secretary

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    In “The Northwest London Blues‚” Zadie Smith conveys a strong stance against the closing of libraries. She believes libraries are more important than just the books read and implores the reader to defend their libraries. To bolster her argument‚ Smith deftly employs acknowledgement of counterarguments‚ word choice‚ and rhetorical questions to sway her readers. Smith effectively uses counterarguments to persuade her audience that libraries really do have a purpose. She concedes that she “would even

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    North Country stars Charlize Theron as a female worker at an iron mining company in Northern Minnesota who is sexually harassed and leads a class-action lawsuit against her employer for failing to protect her and other female employees. "What Josey Aimes wants is a decent job so she can put food on the table and take care of her kids. What she gets is threatened‚ insulted‚ ogled‚ fondled‚ belittled‚ attacked and called filthy names. "Take it like a man‚" her callous male boss says. Instead‚ she takes

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    North and South

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    But then the north started to produce more cotton then the south and soon enough the souths production of cotton stopped. But the south sure did love there slaves. The slaves in the South got to work on plantations and the free slaves in the north worked in factory’s. Late into the 1800’s the slaves were put into the war. They were used in the farm’s in the south to. During the 1800’s north american was on its way to making it self better looking and greater then the south. The north had a lot of

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    DeAnna Kvilvang Physical Geography Timothy Fox 12/14/2015 Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest region Introduction According to sources research shows there has been a total of 3‚814 fires within the Pacific Northwest Region just this year. It could be nature due to the different climates that are spread around that area or maybe it could be due to humans. The truth is the fires are due to both nature and humans‚ out of the 3‚814 fires that happened this year 2‚209 were human-caused and 1‚605 were

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    the different social‚ economic and political stances of the North and South cultures. Both Southern and Northern states depicted two different stand points on how things should be as far as political‚ social and economic views of American in that time. The North and South’s view on political‚ economic and social status varied greatly‚ making it difficult to come to any terms‚ leading to much greater conflict. Society varied for the North and South states‚ depending on their status‚ Americans were

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