Alexandria Bay, New York Essays

  • George Washington

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    Fort-Le Boeuf. When he arrived, he discovered that the French would fight for their land. The party nearly escaped from the French. Washington was next appointed lieutenant colonel to an expedition to the Ohio Valley. In April, 1754, he set out from Alexandria with 160 men to reinforce a fort in southwestern Pennsylvania, only to find that the French took control of the fort and renamed it Fort-Duquesne. Washington then cautiously set up his own post within 40 miles of the French position. He attacked

  • Counseling Ethics

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    uk/welfare/counselling/ethics.htm code of ethics 2010 http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/sls/counselling/code_of_ethics.html.2010 http://www.crccertification.com/ code of ethics. 2010 http://www.theaca.net.au/ code of conduct. 2009 http://www.biblegateway.com/ Online Bible New International Version. 2010 http://www.esward.net Free Multisession Electronic Bible: Rick Meyers 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://online.ectaco.co.uk/ Bilingual English-Greek Online Dictionary

  • A Look into Cleopatra’s Early Life Influences

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    Cleopatra was known for. She exhibited high militant leadership skills equal to that of her male counterparts to keep Egypt a prosperous country. Despite Egypt’s provincial annexation to Rome after her death, Cleopatra managed to keep the Romans at bay for nearly twenty-two years. Unfortunately, much of her achievements have been disparaged and attributed to the utilization of her sexuality. To add, her image as a competent female ruler has been further distorted by the media and literature alike

  • George Washington

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    ones that met the needs of his own generation. As later historians have examined closely the ideas of the Founding Fathers and the nature of warfare in the Revolution, they have come to the conclusion that Washington's specific contributions to the new nation were, if anything, somewhat underestimated by earlier scholarship.

  • George Washington Biography

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    Washington. New York City. Random House Trade, 2005. Morgan, Edmund S., A The Genius of George Washington. New York City. W. W. Norton & Company, 1981. Phelps, Glenn A. George Washington and American Constitution, Kansas. University Press of Kansas, 1994. Randall, Willard Sterne. George Washington: A Life. Holt Paperbacks 1998 Washington's Inaugural Address of 1789 N.p (Milestone Documents in the National Archives) 1967 William Safire, ed. Lend me your ears: great speeches in history. New York

  • French and Indian War

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    extending from seas to sea. The French, however, had a difference of opinion of the land in northern America, including the Ohi... ... middle of paper ... ...ost (accessed December 11, 2013). Schwartz, Seymour. The French and Indian War 1754-1763. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. (accessed December 11, 2013). Cowley, Robert. "French and Indian War." The Reader's Companion to Military History (1996), french-and-indian-war (accessed December 11, 2013). Starbuck, David. 2007. "COMMERCE OF WAR." Archaeology

  • System Approaches to Solving Problems

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    The increasing complexity of problems has necessitated new approaches to problem solving. As such, industries that have been using traditional problem-solving structures such as those in the engineering, building, and construction have had no choice but to review their working practices. Elliman and Orange (2000, p.345-360) suggested that systems methodology is the viable approach to facilitation of effective changes and improvement of work practices given that soft systems methodology can be used

  • THE BURNING OF WASHINGTON DC: THE HIGH PRICE OF RETRUBATORY JUSTICE

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    Independence with the British, the United States scrambled to establish defenses to protect important military installations in Northern Virginia and Maryland, then under threat of the intimidating British invasion force ominously lurking in Chesapeake Bay. President Madison and his administration had difficulty determining the over-all British military and political objectives and were slow to realize Washington, D.C.'s symbolic importance to the British. Consequently they made little preparation to

  • The Battle of Second Manassas

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    middle of paper ... ...sh into retrograde a force larger and better equipped than his. Works Cited Debelius, Maggie. Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War. Edited by Henry Woodhead. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1998. Freeman, Douglas Southall. R. E. Lee: A Biography. New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hennessey, John J. Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Hennessy, John. The Miscreant

  • The Trauma of Killing

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    The United States military continues to engage in one of the longest periods of combat operations in our nation’s history. One of the results is an increase in the amount of persons suffering Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) (2000), a precursor to PTSD is the experience of an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others. Grossman (2009) argues that an additional factor, the emotional and

  • Ana Montes Thesis

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    She put American combat troops in harm's way, betrayed her own people and handed over so many secrets that experts say the U.S. may never know the full extent of the damage. Ana Montes was the Queen of Cuba, an American who from 1985 to the September 11, 2001 attacks handed over U.S. military secrets to Havana while working as a top analyst for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. But despite her crimes, Montes remains largely unknown. The threat increases, when Havana goes on to sell those