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Louisiana: Topography, 2005.
A topographical examination of the American state of Louisiana.
1,780 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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Louisiana encompasses an area of 51,844 square miles and is the 31st largest state in the United States. This paper examines the topography of the state, examining areas such as geographic regions, lakes and rivers, forestland, plant and animal life and climate.
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"Various types of natural lakes exist. Cut-off or oxbow lakes (for example, False River, Bruin, Larto) form when a stream "cuts off" the neck of a meander (bend) to create a new course. Particularly along the valley of the Red, raft lakes (Caddo, Cross, Bistineau, Black, and others) were formed from waters dammed by the Great Raft, a logjam that clogged the river until it was finally removed. Lakes form along the coast when cheniers (beach ridges) act to slow the flow of rivers while also protecting the resulting lake from encroachment by the Gulf. Lakes Pontchartrain, Maurepas, and Catahoula exist in grabens, depressions in the earth bounded by faults. Other natural lakes are associated with the drainage in the vicinity of rivers, deltas, and salt domes."
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Thomas Fleming's "The Purchase of Louisiana", 2007.
This paper is a book report describing Thomas Fleming's "The Purchase of Louisiana", which details the diplomacy and rivalry surrounding President Thomas Jefferson's success in obtaining the Louisiana territory.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 30.95
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This paper states that Thomas Fleming's strong research in preparation to writing "The Louisiana Purchase" indicated that the United States wanted to gain control over access to the Mississippi River to be able to ship goods through to Spain and to provide safe harbor for American ships servicing the southern states. The author points out that Fleming argues that possibly Napoleon was willing to sell the Louisiana territory because he was more interested in diverting his attention to the unconquered areas of Egypt and India rather than the undeveloped areas of Louisiana. The paper stresses that the Louisiana Purchase was a victory with the rival French, established the U.S. as a world power and gave Americans a vast new and different land in which to acquire new lifestyles.
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"It is obvious from the book that after the "Quasi War" or the undeclared war with France, relations were at a definite strain. These battles fought only at sea and lasted from 1798 to 1800. The tensions manifested themselves with France when they began seizing American ships and goods that were trading with the British. The hostilities between the U.S. and France became a major cause of frictions and physical confrontations primarily due to the greed over land and power that permeated the world at the time."
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Poverty in Louisiana, 2006.
An overview of the poverty problem in the state of Louisiana and possible solutions.
2,340 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper examines how Louisiana's brand of poverty offers some challenges that are almost unique, especially in terms of disease caused by a combination of poverty, national greed and local corruption. It looks at how the problem is endemic and unlikely to be reversed as long as its own state government and leaders continue to misuse executive power to prevent interested parties from helping.
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Louisiana's Poverty Profile
Louisiana Lifestyle Matters
Higher Education for Louisiana's Poor?
The Ultimate Solution to Poverty
Conclusion
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"Environmentalists, sociologists and economists worry about the toxic releases in the Mexican maquilladores, the industrial sites just across the Mexican border that lured U.S. companies, especially environmentally significant companies, after NAFTA. However, Louisiana has had its own 100-mile stretch of unmitigated industrial problems that are blamed for causing an exceptional incidence of cancer. In fact, "Locals call it Cancer Alley" (Koeppel 1999, 16). In a 100-mie stretch between Baton Rouge and south of New Orleans, there are seven oil refineries and between 175 and 350 heavy industrial plants, all of which produce "staggering amounts of waste, much of which they treat on-site or spew into the air, land and water."
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The Louisiana Literacy Test, 2004.
An analysis of the Louisiana literacy test, the white man's last effort to keep the black man from voting.
945 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper discusses the Louisiana literacy test, which was implemented in the late 1800s in Louisiana. The paper explains that the federal government had given blacks the right to vote, but the state implemented an ingenious, yet sinister, literacy test to bar them from ever entering the polls. The paper claims that literacy tests had been used in several states as a means of disenfranchising a specific class of citizens. The Louisiana literacy test was specifically designed to keep blacks from voting and had little to nothing to do with actual literacy. The paper describes and examines the questions on the Louisiana literacy test, contending that they were worded in such a misleading and often ambiguous fashion that it was nearly impossible to answer them all correctly.
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"Imagine being a Louisiana black man in the late 1800s. Freedom had come, but at a price. Suffrage had come to the South, but begrudgingly so. The federal government had given blacks the right to vote, but the state implemented an ingenious, and yet sinister, literacy test to bar them from ever entering the polls. The Louisiana Literacy Test was the white man's last effort to keep the black man from voting. Literacy tests had been used in several states as a means of disenfranchising a specific class of citizens. The first literacy tests, in the United States, were used by Connecticut and Massachusetts, in 1855 and 1857 respectively. These tests were directed at disenfranchising foreign-born citizens. 17 additional states would adopt some type of literacy qualifications before 1924 (Spencer). One of the most infamous was the Louisiana Literacy Test."
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"The Louisiana Purchase" by Thomas Fleming, 2005.
A review of the book "The Louisiana Purchase" by Thomas Fleming.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This paper provides both a summary and an analysis of Thomas Fleming's book 'The Louisiana Purchase', a book detailing the history of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States. According to this paper, Fleming examines the process that led to the purchase of the Louisiana territory from its inception to the very end.
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"The Louisiana Purchase added over 830,000 square miles of land to the territory possessed by the United States, virtually doubling the country's size. The land that was added would eventually be divided into a number of the current southern, Midwestern, and western states. Such an extensive addition to a country does not happen overnight, nor can it happen without collaboration between many people. The Louisiana Purchase was no exception. Thomas Fleming's book, 'The Louisiana Purchase', looks at many, if not all, of the factors that went into this massive undertaking."
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Slavery in Colonial Louisiana, 2004.
This paper discusses the issue of slavery under the French, Spanish, and American regimes in colonial Louisiana.
1,915 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper relates that most slaves in Louisiana were treated better than in other Southern states. The author points out that slavery began in Louisiana because of agricultural needs; Africans also labored in areas where the French did not want to work, such as the swamps of New Orleans, which the Africans cleared to create the port city. The paper relates that there was a general turning of the head when it came to black and white, male and female relationships during this time; thus, a large population of Creoles and mulattos date back to this time.
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"The Spanish slave code was called "Las Siete Partidas," and this code stayed in effect until many years after the Americans took over in 1803. Basically, the French laws had defined slaves as moveable property, while the Spanish defined them as "immovables" (Morris 74). Thus, the French looked as slaves of little importance and value, while the Spanish saw them as real and quite important property. Defining slaves as "immovables" did not mean they could not be bought, sold, or traded away from their families, however, and this began to occur much more frequently during Spanish rule. While the French might not have placed much monetary value on their slaves, they knew the importance of keeping them happy so their families would grow, prosper, and produce new slaves, and so, they encouraged a content family life, where the Spanish were more concerned with the value and ability to sell and trade their slaves."
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Walt Whitman: "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing", 2000.
Looks at the poem, "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing", from the perspective of new criticism.
1,466 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 1 source, $ 48.95
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This paper uses the principles of New Criticism to unearth new meanings and depth to Walt Whitman's poem "I Was in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing".
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"After studying the principles of New Criticism, we have learned that the author?s meaning is irrelevant. Instead, we look for tensions and ironies that exist in the text. By using New Criticism, the reader can find unities and ambiguities that open up the text and give the reader deeper insight to the possible meanings and connections in the work. By examining the poem ?I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing,? the reader discovers how New Criticism unearths tensions, ambiguities, and meaning."
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Corruption in Modern Louisiana Politics, 2002.
This paper discusses political corruption in Louisiana.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 19 sources, $ 53.95
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Political corruption seems to be a way of life and the politicians' main sport in Louisiana. The state has had a history of elected and appointed officials who have either flown very close to the edges of what is legal and ethical and what is not, or have been shot down in full corrupted flight when caught with their hands once too often in the public till.
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Tax Comparison: Georgia & Louisiana, 2003.
Compares tax liability in Georgia and Louisiana.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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The paper presents a comparison of tax liability in the states of Georgia and Louisiana. The Primary focus is on state income taxes, state and local sales tax and property taxes. The paper discusses the impact of variables on tax liability.
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"The purpose of this research is to compare tax liabilities in two states - Georgia and Louisiana. The primary focus of the comparison is on a state income taxes ..."
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The Louisiana Purchase of 1803, 1990.
This paper examines the Louisiana Purchase of 1803: Napoleon's reasons for selling, political motivations on both the U.S. and French sides and the role of President Jefferson.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, $ 79.95
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"One of the decisive turning points in the history of the American continent took place in 1803, when President Thomas Jefferson, by the Louisiana Purchase, bought the whole central portion of North America--some 466 million acres, or about three quarters of a million square miles, for 15 million dollars. The territory of the United States was doubled at a stroke. At the same time, the prospects for future European colonial expansion in North America were effectively foreclosed. Until 1803, it appeared entirely possible that the independent United States might be confined to the Eastern seaboard, with the vast Mississippi Basin in the hands of either Britain or France. After 1803, the way was open for the United States to expand clear to the Pacific, free of effective opposition from Europe. In the following pages we will examine... "
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Sugar Cane in Louisiana, 1991.
This paper discusses the development of the sugar cane industry in Louisianan during the 19th Century: Innovations, reasons for growth and economics.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 79.95
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"Since the early nineteenth century, sugar manufacturing has been one of the most profitable industries in the state of Louisiana. Although the rapid growth of Louisiana's sugar cane industry began in the early 1800s, sugar cane itself was introduced to the area about a century before. In the year 1700, the French explorer Pierre Le Moyne Sieur d'Iberville obtained some cane from the island of Santo Domingo in the West Indies and brought it with him on an expedition up the Mississippi River. A bit north of present-day New Orleans, d'Iberville planted the sugar cane. At that time, it was already realized that the best type of soil for growing sugar cane was "a mixture of sand, silt, clay, and some organic material" D'Iberville and his men noticed that this was precisely the type of soil to be found in the Mississippi delta region that they ... "
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Louisiana State Testing: An Analysis, 2007.
This paper presents a student performance plan to improve testing scores on standardized tests.
1,340 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper discusses the importance of formulating a plan for improving student achievement on standardized tests. The paper notes that differences in average achievement levels across the state are mainly traceable to differing family characteristics, such as race and economic status. The paper explains, however, how research has shown that the physical education class is an essential class in the elementary schools that can actually assist a student with improving his/her standardized test scores. When a student is physically fit and healthy, they have a better chance of scoring higher on standardized tests. The paper also discusses the research that shows there are many activities that a student can do in a physical education class that can contribute to higher test scores.
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Introduction
Student Performance Profile
Effective Instruction
Student Performance Improvement Plan
Improvement Plan Evaluation
Conclusion
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"The third and fifth grade students at Central Elementary School, in Ouachita Parish took the IOWA Test of Basic Skills. On this test, a student can score within one of five categories: 1.) Advanced, 2.) Mastery, 3.) Basic, 4.) Approaching Basic, 5.) Unsatisfactory. The state requires the students to achieve at least a Basic level in reading and mathematics in order to be considered as progressing at grade level. According to the State of Louisiana Board of Education website, the students took the IOWA Test of Basic Skills in the spring of 2005. The third grade students achieved a composite score of 71 and the fifth grade students achieved a composite score of 78. These scores are higher than the spring 2004 scores."
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The Saudi Arabia Oil Pipeline System, 1991.
In context of its topography, history and development.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 55.95
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"Saudi Arabia, which occupies approximately four-fifths of the Arabian peninsula, is estimated to have more than one-fifth of all proven free-world oil reserves (U.S. Department of State [USDS] 5). The country is largely dependent on the exploration, transportation and exporting of oil and oil products, and has assumed a key role in political and economic affairs of the region. At the heart of the Saudi Arabian oil industry is a network of pipelines which transverse the country. This research examines those pipelines, in light of the country's history and recent events in the region, and in light of potential investment opportunities.
Saudi Arabia's topography is mainly desert, including the Rub Al-Khali (Empty Quarter), which is a vast, uninhabited expanse of sand in the southern part of the country. It is..."
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Ocean Floor, 2000.
An examination of tectonics, trenches, ridges, seawater composition, topography and continental shelves.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 55.95
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"The Sea Floor
The birth and death of oceans is a continuous process. As an example, one ocean may be growing by sea-floor spreading from a mid-ocean ridge while another ocean is closing because of the continents forcing the ocean floor down at the trenches. Some oceans, thus, are young and growing, while other oceans have reached maturity, and still others may be disappearing with the joining of the continental masses [1:1-7].
The theory of plate tectonics envisages the crust of the earth together with the upper part of the mantle, which form the lithosphere, as consisting of rigid slabs, or plates, that are continuously moving their position in relation to one another. Below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere, which is thought to be plastic [2:1-11].
The plates are..."
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Transverse Ranges, 1999.
A geological analysis of this Californinan mountain grouping from Santa Monica to the eastern desert. Discusses age, development, earthquakes, topography and climate.
4,500 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 11 sources, $ 135.95
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"I General Background
A Delimitation of the Region
The Transverse Ranges constitute one of California's 11 geomorphic provinces. Unlike nearly every other mountain range in North America the Transverse Ranges lie on an east-west axis. The Transverse Ranges Province runs for 325 miles "directly across the structural grain of California" (Oakeshott 279). The province extends from Point Arguello and San Miguel Island eastward to the Pinto and Eagle Mountains which end in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts respectively. The province ranges in width from 10 to 50 miles. The narrowest points are at the western extreme in the Santa Ynez Mountains and at the Cajon Pass which separates the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains. The province's broadest point is the distance from the Santa Monica ..."
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