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Native Culture Prior To Contact With Europeans
1009 Words - 4 Pages.... are divided into three subgroups: Indians, Inuit, and Métis. There are four major groups of Indians in Canada. Each group contains many different tribes. The regions the Indians lived in distinguished the different groups and the ways of life they had to adopt to meet their surroundings. There were the Indians of the Pacific coast and mountains, the Plains Indians, those of the St. Lawrence Valley, and finally a large group known as the Indians of the Northeast Woodlands.
The Northern tribes of the Woodland Indians, west of the Hudson Bay, spoke Athabaskan tongue. However the main group is termed Algonquins of the Ottawa -- St. Lawrence region, Micmac of the Mariti ....
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Does Video Game Violence Affect Children?
603 Words - 3 Pages.... used a Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, Sony
Playstation, and PC CD-ROM. The games I used were Mortal Kombat Trilogy (on
Nintendo 64), Mortal Kombat II (on Super Nintendo), Mortal Kombat (on Sega
Genesis), Killer Instinct Gold (on Nintendo 64), Power Rangers (on Sega Genesis),
Tomb Raider (on PC CD-ROM), and Bishouju Senshi Sayla Moon SuperS (on Japanese
Playstation).
The first step I used was gathering a group of children ages 8-10 years old (5
girls, and 5 boys), got their parents permission, and made sure they had no idea
there was an experiment taking place. The second step I took was observing the
children play together before being exposed to violent video ....
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"I Do" Or "Please Don't": Hawaii's Same Sex Marriages
1352 Words - 5 Pages.... Isn't it the union of two people who love each
other to prove their commitments to one another for the future? Yes, but there
is more. Webster's Dictionary defines marriage as:
"a) the state of being joined together as husband and wife, b)
the state of joining a man to a woman as her husband or a woman to a man as
his wife." Legally, however, marriage is more than just a statement of love.
Marriage comes with economic and legal benefits that one cannot receive alone.
For example, joint parental custody, insurance and health benefits, the ability
to file joint tax returns, alimony and child support, and inheritance of
property and visitation of a partner or a child in t ....
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Freedom In The United States
2583 Words - 10 Pages.... It also prevents the government from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Since the early history of our country, the protection of basic freedoms has been of the utmost importance to Americans.
In Langston Hughes' poem, "Freedom," he emphasizes the struggle to enjoy the freedoms that he knows are rightfully his. He reflects the American desire for freedom now when he says, "I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread." He recognizes the need for freedom in its entirety without compromise or fear.
I think ....
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Leaders Are Being Influenced Dominantly By Either Confidence Or Competence
374 Words - 2 Pages.... to accept some leadership themselves.
Once the followers are ready for some leadership of their own, the next
problem at hand becomes how to go about empowering them with the leadership
responsibilities. Needless to say, the leader cannot simply step away and allow
the responsibility to dump onto the followers; surely if that happened, they
would quickly lose confidence and possibly competence too. Instead, the
leadership and responsibility of the followers should be increased gradually as
they are steadily empowered, and at a rate that depends on how well the newly
gained leadership is handled.
At all times though, the leader must be prepared to guide or even
realign the ....
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Homeless In America
774 Words - 3 Pages.... with mental illnesses
also become homeless quite often. These people are incapable of handling
the stress of living on their own. These people get kicked out of their
homes and are to ashamed to go to their families because of their illness,
so we see them on the streets struggling to stay warm. Teenage mothers
are also forced to live on the streets because their families will not
help them. The fathers are not there and that forces them to live on the
streets. So they must resort to prostitution to pay for the food that
their young ones need to stay alive. There are many other people that
become homeless for many different reasons. Some of these people can not
help bec ....
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Domestic Violence
1605 Words - 6 Pages.... child.
Domestic violence is a cycle in which the development of a child
determines if the cycle continues or not. They are placed into the factors
of which keep the cycle going or ending not only by choice but by
subconscious inputs from their surroundings. My views of this may differ
from others, but this is my knowledge and understanding from first hand
experience.
Growing up as a child, I experienced this first hand. It didn't
have as dramatic an effect as it may have on other children. There are
three general ways in which a child may be affected, but are a wide variety
of situations. I can't predict the future so I cannot tell which one I will
fall into, but I am ....
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Violence In Televeision
494 Words - 2 Pages.... control group was sat in front of a television where they watched Sesame street and Mr. Rogers ; the second group of second graders were sat in front of a television where they watched the Power Rangers and G.I. Joe.
ii. After each program was over they sent the children out to play. The control group did not to seem to act out as much as the children who had watched the Power Rangers and G.I. Joe. The control group seemed to get along well with each other and played more with the toys. Where as the group of fourth graders who had watched the Power Rangers and G.I. Joe continued to act out the programs they had just watched with all the fighting,(kicking,punching,ect. ....
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