Extra Credit: Law of the Land As we are taught all through our lives what we can and can’t do our enforced by someone. As children when we make a mistake the law is our parents for example if we steal our parents will punish us whether it be a spanking, standing in the corner, or some other type of punishment. As we become older and gather more liable for our actions our parents may still enforce some punishment and type of law but so will the state we live in. The state that you live also faces
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The Cocopah Indian Tribe is one of the numerous Native American tribes of Arizona that is continuously active. Its strong sense of culture and participation in its surrounding civilization has helped it thrive as one of the most well known tribes still in existence. The Cocopah’s extensive history as an early Yuman community and its current cultural influence in Arizona make it acknowledged as both an intriguing tribe and major source of the state’s ethnic identity. The Cocopah Indian Tribe of Arizona
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Jack Dempsey was born on June 24, 1895, in the Mormon village of Manassa, Colorado. As a boy, he worked as a farm hand, miner and cowboy and was taught to box by his older brother. Dempsey's early prize fights were in mining towns around Salt Lake City but on July 4, 1919, he beat Jess Willard "The Great White Hope," and became world heavyweight champion. He defended his title five times but lost to Gene Tunney in 1926. Dempsey died in 1983. Born William Harrison Dempsey on June 24, 1895, in Manassa
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Marbury v. Madison John Adams appointed several new justices of the peace before he was to leave office, and the commissions had to be delivered to have effect. Adams gave the task to his Secretary of State, John Marshall, to deliver the commissions, but it was soon recognized it would be impossible to deliver them all in time. It was vital they were delivered before Adams left office, or else they would become null and void. Marshall, when he was appointed Chief Justice, assumed the new Secretary
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James Butler Hickok also known as the famous ‘Wild Bill Hickok.’ Was born on May 27, 1837, in Troy Grove, Illinois. Wild Bill was an only child with a mother, a father, and than soon later, married a girl named Agnes. Hickok joined the Union Army in Sedalia, Missouri, in 1861. Hickok soon became a wagon master at the end of that year, but then by 1862 he was discharged for a disclosed reason. Hickok soon began to be a union spy in confederate territory. Hickok lived as a farmer and a stagecoach
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concepts first used to establish the health insurance policies are still in use today. In 1847, Massachusetts Health Insurance of Boston issued the first individual health insurance policies that covered personal accidents (while travelling by rail or steamboat). Later, during the civil war, other companies entered the market and offered similar health plans. An important factor that helped insurance companies take root in American society was that the medical associations embraced health insurance because
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The purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803 opened the door to westward expansion. Thomas Jefferson purchased this extensive plot of land with the hopes of strengthening and expanding the Republic, unaware that it would have the opposite effect. Jefferson’s fateful decision to expand the United States nearly destroyed the Republic that Americans worked so hard to build. It triggered the rise of divisions amongst Americans. These small cracks continued to grow and tear at the seams of the nation
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He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mickey Mouse along with 6 other of Disney’s creations also have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In total, 7/15 animated characters on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are infact Disney’s. Walt even received the nation’s highest civilian award, The Medal of Freedom, from President Lyndon B. Johnson. Even though many of Disney’s achievements cannot be given in awards, he is also credited with shaping the world of entertainment into what it is today
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sure the word “run” was even in my dictionary. Honestly, the thought of running for longer than 5 minutes made me slightly nervous. Since it was a new year though, I figured I'd give it a shot and sign up for one of the biggest races in Peoria. The steamboat days race. This race will be held in June, just five months from now. Don't get me wrong getting on the computer that day and telling myself I could run that far wasn't easy. I knew it would take everything I had to start every single day by getting
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created by John Logie Baird which was a machine that sent moving images over airwaves. Charles Lindbergh became the first man to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean from N.Y. to Paris, which took 33 hours. Mickey mouse was finally a thing from “Steamboat
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