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    What It Means to Be an Ameican

    has become a major influence to other countries. It is rising to be one of the most developed, wealthy, and most advanced in the world. Another quality that unites all Americans is its unforgettable and monumental past. Monuments, like the Lincoln Memorial, federal holidays such as the 4th of July, and historical landmarks, like war battlefields, are just some locations of a time or place that all Americans can share. These places and memories remind Americans of the struggle our country endured

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    Habeus Corpus

    Habeas Corpus: Then and Now. Chasing Freedom Down the Rabbit Hole Robert W. Echols AIU Online ENGL106-1201B-226 English Composition Abstract Habeas Corpus is one of the fundamental protections guaranteed to Americans by the Constitution of the United States of America. This essay will describe the original intent of the writ, the transformations the writ has undergone, and the modern-day implementation of The Great Writ of Habeas Corpus. The essay will also explore how dangerous the practice

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    Love Me

    “The Pinkerton National Detective Agency.” The agency captured principals in a 700,000 Adams Express Company theft in the year 1866. The business had much success. He also knew about the countering of an assassination plot towards President Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, in the year 1861. He never would undertake investigations of morals of a woman, except in connection with some other crime. It was during the time when he was working for the Union while the Civil War was going on. A little

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    Allan Pinkerton 1819

    appointment as the first city detective on the Chicago police force. He established in the same year a private detective agency, which had considerable success in solving train- and express-company robberies. In 1861 he foiled a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, and in the Civil War Pinkerton organized and directed an espionage system behind the Confederate lines. (The Columbia Encyclopedia) In 1850 Pinkerton resigned from Chicago’s new police force in order to organize a private detective agency that

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    Women and Slavery

    Women were involved in the antislavery movement from its beginning. They participated as organizers and members of separate female antislavery societies, beginning in Philadelphia spreading to other cities. By the late 1830s there were female societies in many different cities. These local societies met, prayed, and raised funds for state and national activities, and circulated publications and information. The women who became active supporters of antislavery tended to come from reasonably prosperous

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    Lincoln Electric Case

    The Lincoln Electric Company is the world’s largest manufacturer of arc welding products and a leading producer of industrial electric motors. Their key competency is achieving higher worker productivity. Every year the company has seen high profits and bonuses. Employee morale and productivity remains very good and employees are very loyal to the company. The company also puts customers goals as top priority. This is a very organic organization. They do not have a formal organization chart

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    To Be American

    “To be American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.” In the context of this quote attributed to Leslie Fiedler, being American means subscribing to a socially constructed national identity--to the collective American Dream. This observation expresses a core truth about Americans, and about an American greatness that is in fact

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    Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass - The man On an unknown date in 1817, on a slave plantation in Tuckahoe Maryland, Frederick August Washington Bailey was born. Frederick was raised in a house on the plantation with all the other slave children. At the age of seven, like many other slaves, Frederick was put to work in the fields. As a young child he would wonder why he was a slave, and why everyone can't be equal. His thoughts frequently came back to him, leaving him with a great hatred for slavery. In 1836

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    Modern Challenges of Immigration

    immigration requirements and policies, and it should not be held back from any group who’s economic, profession or oppression of any people. If the United States did do this then it would not be considered a free nation of rights and as President Abraham Lincoln stated that we are united as Free Men and considered equal regardless of religion, race or creed. Question No. 3 Should applications from certain countries be given priority? Answer: There should be no priority given to anyone that seeks to immigrate

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    Culture of America

    During America’s early development, slavery was the central issue fueling the conflict between state and federal rights, which caused the Civil War. The institution of slavery in the United States resulted in profound effects upon our nation socially, economically, and politically. These changes have had a lasting impact that can still be seen in American society today. The article Origins of the Southern Labor System describes that the American form of slavery was not molded after European concepts

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