American people of Welsh descent Essays

  • JP Morgan

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    continued to excel in his studies and majored in mathematics. He began to become interested in business affairs as he started and investing club amongst his friends and... ... middle of paper ... ...l Company, the National Tube Company and the American Bridge Company. One of Morgan's most famous business deals was the formation of the United States Steel Corporation in 1901. Morgan collaborated with Elbert Gary and John Gates to consolidate different steel companies to form a "supercombination

  • History of Horror Films

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    Works Cited http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/the-10-best-zombie-movies-20121012/28-days-later-2002-19691231#ixzz2uMsOKxC2 http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/276152/28-Days-Later/overview http://www.biography.com/people/danny-boyle-412160 http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/descent/ http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_reviews_1407.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2005/07/01/the_descent_2005_review.shtml http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/aug/23/human-centipede-most-horrific-film http://www

  • Apartheid and Afrikaner Nationalism

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    and opinions. While some events have obvious causes, other events must be analyzed to find their true impetus. One complicated era from history that has a debatable cause is Apartheid. While some historians cite complex causes for Apartheid, most people in the general public simply believe racism was the root of the institution. While racism did factor into later practices of Apartheid, racism was merely a byproduct of the social and cultural effects of the institution. When evidence is examined

  • History of Folk Music in America

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    frontier concerns, of the North American wilderness. It is important to remember that all of the colonies were British, from Maine to Georgia. The exact ethnic origins of the south are difficult to determine and not well documented. The rural south did not attract large numbers of European immigrants in the great period of immigration (1850-1920); however, it is certain that by 1920 there had been considerable intermingling of a few ethnic groups (English, Welsh, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, German

  • Barack Obama Informative Speech

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    Barack Hussein Obama II (US Listeni/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ bə-RAHK hoo-SAYN oh-BAH-mə;[1][2] born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president. He previously served in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008, and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. Barack Obama Obama standing with his arms folded and smiling 44th President of the United

  • Paper

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    Jean Rhys explored the origins of Bertha Antoinetta Rochester, the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Reimagined by Rhys as Antoinette Cosway Mason, Sargasso Sea documents Antoinette’s troubled adolescence and her eventual descent into apparent insanity. Rhys’ choice to investigate the life of a character who was already doomed to a tragic end focuses the informed reader on the development of Antoinette’s madness, and a potential explanation for her inevitable fate. In this

  • Drug and Alcohol Use on College Campuses

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    money. Colleges and universities want to impress politicians, alumni, media, community members, parents, and most importantly incoming freshman, so they would want to... ... middle of paper ... ...about all the popular types of drugs among young people. Then, it compares drugs to alcohol in terms of their effects and why parents are scared of their children trying them. It also discusses ways of preventing youth from starting drugs and ways to detect early signs that could lead them to taking

  • British Poetry

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    Knowledge of contemporary British poetry is of great importance when it comes to understanding the reigning trends of England. The 1970s saw a fair amount of polemic concerning the discontinuities of the national "traditions," most of it concerned with poetry, all of it vulnerable to a blunt totalizing which demonstrated the triumphant ability of "nation" to organize literary study and judgment--as it does still, perhaps more than ever. It remains the case twenty years later that there is a strong