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were sold for five dollars each to work in the fish canneries in Alaska, by a Visayan from the island of Leyre to an Ilocano from ...

attribute to a good education. The youngsters of a first-generation family often bear the incredible burden of making something o...

to assure prosperity was to have an informed society (Tyack, 1967). Mann was expressing his dismay at the treatment of children wh...

The best intentions often brought about an entirely different outcome; while explorers made sure to draw up at least an idea of wh...

her husbands death, Mama assumed her role as head of the family, dedicated to her fervent dream that one day, she will own a nice ...

be expected to become even more top-heavy in the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the econo...

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

wealthy people who give no thought to dropping thousands of dollars at a charity dinner or going on vacations month after month. I...

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

sue and be sued, as well as testify in court only in cases involving other black people (Anonymous, 1865). These provisions were ...

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

number one, they can, and number two that the children are easier to control that adults. There are no unions, and the children an...

the League of Nations, dubbed as "Wilsons folly," cast a long shadow, and with a strong and unified party in place, thanks to the ...

slaves, it would have been impossible to maintain the plantations, which were heavily labour-intensive. Apart from the fact that t...

our place in that world. In many ways it could be said that we are being lulled into a sense of complacency by the glowing light ...

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

cost to health" (Dalleck and Kravitz, 2002, PG). Due to the industrial revolution people were moving from rural areas to more u...

enough leftover for a few luxuries. What they received instead could hardly be construed as luxurious, as one steelworker lamente...

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

nearly 13.2 million offenses, a decline of 2 percent from the 1996 level and 7 percent from the 1993 figures" (FBI National Press ...

been ineffectual at best, but, afterwards, the actions of Congress were actually hampering the viability of the new republic. One ...

wealth and property should be distributed equally, or alternatively that the state would hold the property collectively and then w...

sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...

it honorably. This is, as mentioned, a very common perspective from generations of Americans who lived the war. But, there are al...

p. 12). As we can note, right from the beginning Graham was not a man who approved of strict guidelines and rules when it came to ...

it would be: an educated guess. Economic trends have an unfortunate history of never continuing long enough to base a true predic...

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

the impact which this had upon Chinese immigrants, in terms of both race and gender, it is useful to look briefly at the history o...

way, no fast food restaurants and no local Wal-Mart supplying Coleman stoves sleeping bags. Those first adventuresome souls to tr...

to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles" (Anonymous Cusack and Spader show their True Colors, 2002; 5937&Se...