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...is youth in Indiana, his adult life in Illinois and his years in the White House. She also provides a good background on the causes and course of the American Civil War. Hamilton is not always historically precise. For example, she erroneously names Jefferson Davis as the Southern Democratic candidate for president running against Lincoln and Douglas in 1860 rather than Jo...

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...Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Rufus King, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from West point in 1866 and served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. He w...

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...Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take t...

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... agazine T HE CLOUD which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has p... ... over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been... ...s, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong... ... the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would ... ...ve been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagatio... ... a conspiracy of slave own ers, who have broken their connection with the American Federation on the sole ground, ostentatiously proclaimed, that the... ...el ings which have been manifested since the beginning of the 5 J S Mill American contest—the judgments which have been put forth, and the wishes wh... ... for God. Now, when the mind of England, and it may almost be said, of the civilized part of mankind, has been relieved from the incubus which had wei... ... terms of communion without their consent. But the parties in a protracted civil war almost invariably end by taking more extreme, not to say higher g...

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...PTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS...

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........................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON – CIVIL ENGINEER ...................................................... 58 CH... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...use, and his dogs my quest- ing dragoons. Little by little we dropped into civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ... all our veins there run some minims of his old, wild, tree-top blood; our civilised nerves still tingle with his rude terrors and plea- sures; and to... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ...

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...Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today for his memoir Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show , often heralded as one of the best primary sources about the common soldier's Civil War experience....Sam’s writing style is...

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...The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death ravage the city,...

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...ing receipts did not contain abbreviations and were laborious to use. They were, however, rich in error! Later in her career, due to circumstances of war and the resulting social stress and poverty, many of her knitting books were printed for ladies' charitable societies, which used her knitting receipts to clothe the poor mill workers who were out of work due to the Ameri...

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... Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and – in addition to publishing his poetry – was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching o...

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... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...I. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little... ...III. Russia Straddles the Divide IV. Russia’s Stealth Diplomacy V. Losing the Iraq War VI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies VII. The Disunited Nation... ... Iraq’s Debts XIII. Kosovo’s Iraqi Lessons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam V... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...the former. The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti- Milosevic pet, provoked a civil war in Macedonia tin 2001. Osama bin-Laden, another CIA go... ...e rough, immutable kernel of American narcissism. The United States was (until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s) and still is, in some import... ...a deeply disturbed polity emerges. Also Read: The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God We Trust...

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...Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at first the conflict seemed far away, it would eventually be brought home to her in very personal terms. Her family's loyalties were divided. Sarah's father, though he disapproved of sec...

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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 3...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ..., com- fort, and despatch. Also, there was not a single American vessel of war in the harbor. This may sound bloodthirsty; but remember, I had come wi... ...ightened and made aware that they also were the heirs of all the ages, and civilized after all. There appeared before me an affable stranger of prepos... ...r, more spinous, and even more azure than any Indian variety. Tales of the war I heard told by an ex-officer of the South over his evening drink to a ... ...across the snowy table-cloths dragged the corpse of every man slain in the Civil War, and hurled defiance at “our natural enemy” (England, so please y... ... the snowy table-cloths dragged the corpse of every man slain in the Civil War, and hurled defiance at “our natural enemy” (England, so please you), “... ...the character of the factory. Inside, on a floor ninety by forty, the most civilized and murderous of machinery. Outside, three footsteps, the thick-g...

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...After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected ...

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...more fully soon. Will say now that all your despatches to the Secretary of War have been promptly shown to me. Have done and shall do all I could and ... ...coln: V ol Six By order of the President: EDWIN M. STANTON, Secre- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, b... ...he Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six TELEGRAM TO GENERAL RUFUS SAXTON. WAR DEPARTMENT, May, 24 1862. 2 P.M. GENERAL SAXTON: Geary reports Jackson ... ... the 12th day of April, 1861, the insurgents committed the flagrant act of civil war by the bombardment and the capture of Fort Sumter, Which cut off ... ...xists in several of the Southern States, thus practically restoring to the civilized world our great and good government. All believe that the decisiv... ...be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnec- essary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory con- clusion. An order fixing the qu... ...r- thy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it, but t... ...r newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have be... ... so radically changed, for the mo- ment, the occupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed the social condition, and affect...

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...aty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility t...

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... Uni­ versity. He was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracte... ...est. He of­ ten felt dumb in her presence when she started talking about Native American history. But right now all he could feel was how much he mi... ...m of a necklace draped smoothly just above her breast. A row of square, silver American Indian amulets diagonally circled her waist from the top of... ... and traded the land of our ancestors for a reservation. 1 did it to buy time. War would have destroyed the best of our people. But more importantl... ...rth ... you believe are all serious. You give media attention to animal rights, civil rights, and human rights ... But what of the earth? .. What of... ...is in desperate need. Her life support systems are being choked by our concrete civilization. She has given up her resources unselfishly to us, she ... ...ng up in Yugoslavia flashed before him in a spiteful collage. There was always war. It was the Germans then, but his coun­ try had had hundreds of y... ...ays war. It was the Germans then, but his coun­ try had had hundreds of years of war. He was sick ofthe fear that filled the air. Death and betrayal ... ...be working together. I know it's highly unusual," The Director said, "to have a civilian involved. But as I said, we've got a situation." And then m...

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... the Constitution for changing federal power, but merely somehow. Mark Adamson noted that the Tenth Amendment very clearly established the ‘rule’ of American government, that with ratification of the Constitution, government power became divided into federal and State jurisdictions. Mark Adamson likened this 10th Amendment principle to a pie, with the small sliver of fed...

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...lines: natural gas, 180 km Ports: 3 minor river ports (Shir Khan is largest) Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft Airfields: 42 total, 34 usable; 12 ... ...terways 29.2 million metric tons/km (1983) Ports: 1 major (Durre's), 3 minor Civil air: none Airfields: 10 total; 6 with runways 2,500 m or longer Tel... ...oducts, 298 km; natural gas, 2,948 km Ports: 6 major, 6 secondary, 1 1 minor Civil air: 40 major transport aircraft Airfields: 154 total, 146 usable; ... ...lantains, bananas, and other local foodstuffs; disrup- tions caused by civil war require food imports Fishing: catch 112,000 metric tons (1982) Major ... ...ces Member of: FAO, G-77, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IDE Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTER... ... Europe, DAC, ECE, EFTA, EMA, ESRO (ob- server), FAO, GATT, IAEA, IDE Inter- American Development Bank, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, In... ...ICOM, CDB, Common- wealth, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IBRD, ICAO, IDE Inter-American De- velopment Bank, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAS, PAHO... ...plagues of locusts have caused widespread food shortages, and years of civil war have devastated the economy. GDP: $405.7 million, $90 per capita (198... ...wth rate 3.32%; figures do not take into account the impact of the Iran-Iraq war Nationality: noun Iranian(s); adjective Iranian Ethnic divisions: 63%...

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...Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his defense of atheism. This book is the first of two volumes collecting Ingersoll's speeches....

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...Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor. His book's hero leads the democratic western U.S. in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes the dictator of America. Dru as dictator impose...

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...lection of articles written by Frank A. Gardner, M. D., giving the organization and history of all the Massachusetts Regiments which took part in the war of the Revolution. They were published quarterly in The Massachusetts Magazine from 1908-1918. ...

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...im colonel — this action preceding by 24 days his election as General Officer by the Provincial Congress. Gen. Ward was early prominent in the civil life of his community. He became a Justice of the Peace at the age of 23 and held at various times many town offices — town and church “moderator,” selectman, town clerk, assessor and treasurer. In 1757 he was elected r...

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...Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course...

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...eteors With Antecedents A BROADWAY PAGEANT SEA-DRIFT Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life Tears To the Man-Of-War-Bird Aboard at a Ship's Helm On the Beach at Night The World below the Brine On the Beach at Night Alone Song For All Seas, All Ships Patroling Barnegat After the Sea-Ship BY THE ROADSIDE A Boston Ballad Europe ...

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.........145 CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS MAPPING WARFARE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY................................................161 REGIONAL IMPACTS OF CIVIL WARS..........176 THREATS FROM THIRD WORLD REGIONAL HEGEMONS..................................186 INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.................198 THE TRANSMILLENNIAL WORLD FROM AN AMERICAN PER...

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...roughout his career, he was active in politics and government service. He was elected to numerous terms in the legislature and served as an educator, civil servant and judge....

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...eturn Home. 23 -- Birth of Kamehameha I. 25 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Becomes an Instructor. 28 -- Battle of Kalaeokailio, Kaupo. 30 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Again Takes War to Maui. 33 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Disregards his Kahuna. 35 -- Kekuhaupi‘o’s Adventure with Kamehameha on Maui. 38 -- Disaster at Kakanilua, Maui. 41 -- Slaughter on Maui. 44 -- Kiwala‘o Sent to Sue for Peace. 47 -- On Board Ca...

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...roughout his career, he was active in politics and government service. He was elected to numerous terms in the legislature and served as an educator, civil servant and judge....

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...n Home.. 23 -- Birth of Kamehameha I.. 25 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Becomes an Instructor.. 28 -- Battle of Kalaeokailio, Kaupo.. 30 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Again Takes War to Maui. 33 -- Kalani‘opu‘u Disregards his Kahuna. 35 -- Kekuhaupi‘o’s Adventure with Kamehameha on Maui. 38 -- Disaster at Kakanilua, Maui. 41 -- Slaughter on Maui. 44 -- Kiwala‘o Sent to Sue for Peace. 47 -- On Board Ca...

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...................................................................................................................... 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS ..............................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...n in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third ... ...ountry knee deep into the mud, wading through snipe grounds, look- ing for civilization where none exists. All these avenues have a slanting direction... ... in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13. It was then finished according to the original plan, with a... ...se instructions, were carefully followed. Indeed, nothing could exceed the civility of the officials within; but so also nothing can exceed the barbar... ...aise at Washington a vast obelisk to the memory of Washington—the first in war and first in peace, as the country is proud to call him. This obelisk i... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...f ambition and ostentation, and that he had the good sense to be guided in civil matters by men who had studied the laws of social life and the theori... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ...

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...OWER............................................3 CHAPTER II OF THE STATE OF NATURE.....................................5 CHAPTER III OF THE STATE OF WAR......................................12 CHAPTER IV OF SLAVERY.......................................................14 CHAPTER V OF PROPERTY......................................................16 CHAPTER VI OF PATERNAL P...

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...ENT SECOND ESSAY : AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT by John Locke Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: ... ...ent, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Govern ment by John Locke, trans. William Popple is a publication o... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay: An Essay Concerning the True Original Exten... ...the unjust vio lence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, de clared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or a tige... ... 2nd Essay – Locke CHAPTER III OF THE S TATE OF W AR 16. The state of war is a state of enmity and destruc tion; and therefore declaring by word... ... but sedate, settled design upon another man’s life puts him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intention, and so has exp... ...annot be a clearer demonstration of any thing than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land and poor in all the comforts of... ... Essay – Locke the first commoners of the world look after—as it doth the Americans now—are generally things of short dura tion, such as if they ar... ...em. They are of no more account by her standard than the Wampompeke of the Americans to an European prince, or the silver money of Europe would have b...

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...WTH RATE 146 REAL WEALTH PER PERSON 147 BORROWING 147 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS 148 CRIMEANDITSCOSTS 150 FOREIGN AID AND GLOBILIZATION 152 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING...

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...S POWER ................................................................................................................................... 41 WAR AN... ...ng conscious choices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterlife and our civil ... ...id backwards while Kino and Singaling have taken over the values which once made us great. This saddens me, but it was to be expected. ―All civili... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...eas here. ―The physiological, safety, love and esteem needs are called ‗basic needs‘ by Maslow. These needs should be easily met in any civili... ...Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countries during and after the World War. ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...mit that violence in films, TV programming and video games, helps to make better soldiers—where killing is an ideal form of behavior. In World War I ...

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...wledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart... ...owledge upset the balance of power and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization.‖ —Brad Bradford Preface Way back in ... ...oved on to evolutions and revolutions that upset the power balance in one civilization after another. • Pioneer leaders of today‘s ongoing informati... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest o... ...use he needed to assemble a council of his leaders to approve his call to war. His decision to cross the Gobi and invade the Jurched territory unl... ...ility of the Mongol Empire he had created. The victor in the family civil war was a grandson able and powerful enough to take that empire to even gre... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1...

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...ivil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, ...

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...AGAINST THE WAR follows the intertwined lives of four friends, rowing team mates, who graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War and struggle to make decisions about the war and the military draft. Two become involved in the ...

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...234. Morris is relocated from Sam Neua to a Lao village From Sam Neua, the group that included prisoner of war James Morris headed southwest, so far as he could determine from occasional glimpses of the sun through the canopy of leaves above the road on which the caravan was traveling. Then the shield of leaves dropped away briefl...

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...PART I: UP AGAINST THE DRAFT 1. Steward brings his 1-A letter to the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Brandt struggles to accommodate to Mary Kass’s cultural inte...

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... was drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 as a list of grievances against the King of England, George III. The Declaration expresses the conviction of Americans in a philosophy of self-evident truths of what individual liberty and freedom should be. The Declaration was the beginning to separation from England and the catalyst for a birth of a nation. The Gettysburg Address:...

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...Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and o...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan...

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...ment 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B... ...adin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghani... ...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...10. WARTIME 325 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home 326 10.2 Planning for War 330 10.3 “Phase Two” and the Question of Iraq 334 11. FORESIGHT—AND... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We learned that ... ...con. We learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this thr... ...nidentified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration (FA...