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    All car enthusiasts would know that Dodge is not just a car, it’s a philosophy. It is an attitude and a trendsetter at that. It has quite a few impressive credentials too, for a car company. It has starred in movies, it has invented a word and has helped in the fight of two foreign armies. They were driving Dodges too. In this space, we have eight more impressive things you did not know about Dodge. Number Eight: The Creators Were Bicycle Makers In The Past The Dodge Brothers’ first project was

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    The Beat Generation was a time of influential writers living in 1940s and beyond. The time of the Beat members was a turning point in America as for the second world war had just ended when they first emerged into existence. The significant members of the Beat Generation made their impact on the history of literature through the arts and simple iconic symbols to people all around. The Beats did this through their simple ways of life and contributions to the world of art and literature. Even though

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    The factors, issues, and occurrences that are found in a company 's industry and competitive environment should be considered the strongest of the external threats."However, the factors and forces in a company 's macro-environment having the biggest strategy-shaping impact typically pertain to the company 's immediate industry and competitive environment-the actions of rivals firms, buyer behavior, supplier-related conditions, and

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    The Plains Indians ensued two principal varieties of life: farming and hunting. The farmers lived in perpetual villages. These tribes were the Arikaras, Pawnees, and Wichitas (who spoke languages of the Caddoan family) and additionally the Mandans, Hidatsas, Omahas, Otos, and Osages (who spoke Siouan languages). Their residences within the northern plains were generally fabricated from logs coated with dirt. Within the southern plains, their residences were coated in grass. Women farmed, prepared

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    institutions of democratic government, to suppress, edit, or censor events which transpire in proceedings before it.” Justice William O. Douglas, 19471 “Picture taking in the courtroom is more than disconcerting. It does not comport with the traditional notions of a fair trial. A man on trial for his life or liberty needs protection from the mob. Mobs are not interested in

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    In the late 1800’s the Americans viciously forced many Native Americans off their lands all because the federal government wanted the U.S. to expand and obtain Manifest Destiny. The main Native American and tribe that stood against the federal government was Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux and entire Lakota nation. He led a large amount of Sioux warriors in many battles against the American government that were fought over the rights and lands of the Lakota nation. He was against the American

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    Idealism in the Knight's Tale      Despite its glorified accounts of the chivalrous lives of gentlemen, the Knight¹s Tale proves to be more than a tragically romantic saga with a happy ending. For beneath this guise lies an exploration into the trifling world of the day¹s aristocratic class. Here, where physical substance is superseded by appearance, reality gives way to disillusioned canon and emotion is sacrificed for honor. Naïve idealism emerges as the dominant characteristic of the

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    A) Introduction/Thesis The Pig war of 1859 was a conflict that began when American settler Lyman Cutlar shot and killed a trespassing pig owned by the British backed Hudson's Bay Company. British authorities threatened Mr. Cutlar, which caused American citizens to draw up a petition requesting U.S. military protection. Britain responded with their own militia. Both sides were basically given the same order, defend yourselves. In 1871 Great Britain and the United States compromised by signing the

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    Causes of the War of 1812 The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain from June 1812 to the spring of 1815 (Findling, 15). When the war began, it was being fought by the Americans to address their grievances toward the British, though toward the end, the issues eventually were unjustified and reasons manipulated. There is no single cause for the War of 1812 but instead, several related causes, such the influence of the War Hawks, the impressments as well as the Embargo

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    expeditions to take the land by force. In 1811, friction arose between America and the northwest First Nations. This caused the Battle of Tippecanoe, in which two Shawnee brothers, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led a native movement to resist the invasions of William Henry Harrison, the Governor of the Indiana

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