Lucas Abelar Professor Paul Hunter English 1301 8 October 2012 Several events in Chief Joseph’s term as chief of the Wallowa band show us he was more diplomat than warrior.The Voice of the West The first event happened in 1885 when, Isaac Stevens, governor of the Washington Territory, organized a council to designate separate areas for natives and settlers. Joseph the Elder (“Young Joseph’s” father) and the other Nez Perce chiefs signed a treaty with the United States establishing a Nez
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Many years ago three soldiers, hungry and weary of battle, came upon a small village. The villagers, suffering a meager harvest and the many years of war, quickly hid what little they had to eat and met the three at the village square, wringing their hands and bemoaning the lack of anything to eat. The soldiers spoke quietly among themselves and the first soldier then turned to the village elders. "Your tired fields have left you nothing to share, so we will share what little we have: the secret
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Warren Buffett's Management Secrets: Proven Tools for Personal and Business Success Operations Management Course BOOK REVIEW BY LAYLA ALHOSHAN Warren Buffett's Management Secrets: Proven Tools for Personal and Business Success By: David Clark (Author) and Mary Buffett (Author) David Clark and Mary Buffet examine
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Tragedy at Lumba's Bend Tragedy at Lumba’s Bend By: Delfin Fresnosa Five men were killed early this morning by a prematurely-exploded blast. Words flew fast in the village, and before long there was a crowd gathered near the scene of the accident. However, not one of them could come very near because the rocks and earth on the mountain side still rolled every now and then. We know were working in the mines did not yet know that there had been an accident. We only came to know of it when we
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progressive party back in 1912 was called the political party in the Unites States and it was created by a split with Republican Party. The split was created by Theodore Roosevelt when he lost the Republican nomination to the Office of President William Howard Taft and withdrew his delegation out of the entire conference (Mowry, 1946-1960).After that the party became popular as the Bull Moose party , and later the party symbolized and later Roosevelt showed off that he was Just as strong as a bull moose
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Were Republican ideas the main reason for the fact that there was a Republican president and a Republican majority in congress from 1921-31? From 1921 to 1931, the American political scene was dominated by the Republican Party. This spell of success came after the 8 years of presidency served by the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. The first Republican president of this period was Republican senator of Ohio Warren G. Harding who was elected president in 1920 by a landslide. The second president of this
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Who Made Rizal Our Foremost National Hero, and Why? BY: ESTEBAN A. DE OCAMPO Dr. Jose Rizal Mercado y Alonso, or simply Jose Rizal (1861-1896), is unquestionably the greatest hero & martyr of our nation. The day of his birth & the day of his execution are fittingly commemorated by all classes of our people throughout the length & breadth of this country & even by Filipinos & their friends abroad. His name is a byword in every Filipino home while his picture adorns the postage
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James Howard Kunstler, American author, and social critic gave his thoughts on American urbanism in his TedTalk addressed: How Bad Architecture Wrecked Cities. He stated that there is an “immense ugliness” in our everyday environments and argues that we’re going to have to start innovating and getting back to our roots if we would like to continue civilization in America. He believes that our society’s suburban sprawl is the “greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.” The industrial
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Theodore Roosevelt grew up in a wealthy family in New York. He had asthma as a child. His father suggested that he exercise and stay active in order to improve his health. This worked and Teddy became a strong young man who liked the outdoors and staying active. Theodore went to Harvard University and studied law at Columbia. He soon after went into politics and won a seat on the New York state legislature. However, tragedy struck when his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, and his
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I would like to upgrade my funerary window relief along the Appian Way while I am vacationing away at my villa at Praeneste. The life-size funerary window relief made of stone currently possesses the aspects of Republican portrait style and I would like to upgrade it by giving it a more modern Augustan appearance. The sculptures in their current state possess many of the qualities that were common in the Republican era of portrait art. A major indication that this work of art is of the Republican
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