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The Decline Of The Plains Indians
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 435.... for three years until Black Kettle, Cheyenne chief, was trapped at Sand Creek in eastern Colorado. The militia ignored Black Kettle’s repeated attempts to surrender and killed men, women and children. This was the start of the many wars between Indians and the United States.
Although Plains Indians fought hundreds of battles from 1860 to 18890, their cause was doomed because they were dependent on the buffalo for food, clothing, fuel, and shelter. When the herds were wiped out, resistance became impossible. In spite of some victories and heroic deeds, such as the 1,500 .....
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Jazz 2
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 496.... Mcferrin.. In this piece I would say that the texture stayed the same most of the time. It starts out with a very slow tempo. It is like walking in a desert without water. The tempo keeps on dragging you to a faster and more dynamic sound. When that happens it is like taking the first taste of water after a long walk in the desert. The violin plays as the main instrument when it comes to the faster tempo and dynamic part. The clarinet on the other hand takes the slower mood in the piece. The volume would get louder as the tempo picks up. What I liked about this particular piece .....
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Archetypes In Raising Arizona
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 586.... Some say even part hound dog.” “When some dink breaks out of the joint or skips bail I’m the one
they call.” This evil bad guy is willing to turn good for a small price of fifty-thousand dollars. If Nathan Arizona wont pay, someone in the black market will. in the end Linard is killed by one of his own grenades. He lead to his own death.
Nathan (Huffhinds) Arizona is a funny character. Even while his son is missing “business is as usual at Unfinished Arizona.” While he is being interviewed in the beginning he isn’t even sure of which of his children where taken. When as .....
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The War Between The US/NATO And Yugoslavia
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 450.... other countries in support of their efforts, the United States is seen as the bad guy. Very few of these people can differentiate between NATO and the United States. They view the air strikes over Kosovo as a horrific act, which has done little if anything to help the Albanian situation. The media in this area has managed to emphasize the killing of innocent civilians by NATO forces, while de-emphasizing the massive campaign of ethnic cleansing. Their leader Milosevic is seen as a great leader, while in America he is viewed as a Hitler-like fascist.
The main question we m .....
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Elizabeth
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1190.... sixteenth century, when a shift in power is about to occur in the British Empire. The daughter of Henry VIII and one of his many headless brides, Elizabeth was not only outcast because of this, but because of her protestant religious beliefs and affiliations. Her half sister Mary, along with her sister’s husband Philip II of Spain, ruled the English Empire at this time. They were both strict to the catholic faith and when they felt the threat of their protestant relative. They had her arrested and brought to the Tower of London for interrogation, and hopefully a confession .....
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Ku Klux Klan
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 461.... local officers took action, Klan members sat on juries and acquitted accused night riders.
By 1871 the violence was so serious that Republicans in Congress gave President Ulysses S. Grant authority to use national troops to restore order in affected districts. Faced with trained soldiers empowered to arrest suspects and hold them without trial, the Klan collapsed with surprising swiftness. Although Southern whites resorted to violence to regain control of their states from 1874 to 1877, the Klan as an organization disappeared by the end of 1872. However, at the turn of the cen .....
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Reconstruction
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 959.... He did this as soon as a group of the state’s citizen totaling 10 percent of the voters in the 1860 presidential election had signed oaths of loyalty to the Union. Under this plan new governments were formed in Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas, but the Congress refused to recognize them. Republicans in Congress did not want a quick restoration, because it would bring Democratic representatives and senators to Washington. In 1864 Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill. This bill would have delayed the process of rejoining the Union until 50 percent of the people took an oat .....
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The Movie Industry Analysis
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2822.... far into the future.
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Film profits are rare and difficult to measure. There are high promotional and marketing costs which include fees paid to exhibitors, distributions fees, overheads, interset and expenses ( paid usually to studios distributors). These combined costs greatly reduce the revenue sream flowing to the producer and net profit participants. In addition, certain management decisions made in the beginning, whether or not to hire "star" talent as opposed to an unknown can be quite costly, although this sort of decision may guarentee b .....
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