Graft is how the members in a political machine would manage the way things work to how they wanted it. Once they got their canidate into office, even if they had to use fake names to cast more votes, they would have somebody do a job in the city and
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Today we continued our debate.We got to the topics of Health Care, Taxes, Military Spending, and Death Penalty. For the topic of Health Care the Demorcrats believe that every american has their rights to health care and believe that even the poor sho
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Posted by 3Madison on September 29, 2009 at 4:49pm
Today in Mr. Bruns class we continued our debate. The Democrats don’t believe in the death penalty, because they think they are stooping down to the criminal’s level. The Republicans think you should be able to kill them, because once you have done s
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Posted by 2courtneyb on September 29, 2009 at 4:18pm
Today in CWI we continued our debate. The first topic we talked about today was immigration. I learned that Republicans are against imigration because they believe we need to have more regulations and stricter laws. Democrats are for it and also agai
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Today in history we worked on our projects again.Immigrants came on a steamship. The trip that immigrants took who came across the Atlantic took about a week, while across the Pacific took about three weeks. Many got diseases from being close to many
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Posted by 8Jessica on September 29, 2009 at 2:38pm
Today Mr. Bruns finally finished the testing.In my section I'm learning about the Americanization movement which was designed to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominate culture. This was sponsored by the government and concerned
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Today in Cwi we did the debate again. I shared four times. Its hard for me to write alot about what i learned, since were debating, and i kniow all of it. But anyways, i shared on the War in Afghanistan, fuel economy, and other topics.Today in Histor
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Posted by 8Jessica on September 29, 2009 at 2:20pm
Today was a work day.While researching my section (Chapter 7 section 2) I learned about Urban Opportunities.Urbanization is the growth of cities mostly in the regions of the Northeast and Midwest. I also learned that most immigrants settled in the ci
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Yesterday in Cwi i learned about the topics we talked about. The war in Iraq was interesting. I think the debate is going well, but defending your side is hard. Most of the time people just repeat what others said, and it gets old after awhile. Overa
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Posted by 3Michyla on September 29, 2009 at 1:50pm
Today in U.S. History I actually started my powerpoint. I learned that there was an Indian tribe called Iowa. There tribe was mostly settled down by the lower part of the Mississippi River. The tribe Osage was also located down there. They had hunted
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Today we worked on our projects and did testing. I had to take my test today which I missed 8. I thought that i did pretty good. I might have been able to do better. Erin helped me study with her blogs that were really long.
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Today is still a continuation of our oral testing. Because I took my test on Friday, I was free to do my project about my assigned section, and to write this blog. There really isn't a whole lot for me to say, so I suppose I can just talk a little bi
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Finally, Friday! Today in class we began taking tests and working on our Chapter 5 through 8 assigned blogs. My topic is Chapter 5, section 2. I began reading my section using the E-Edition of the U.S History Book.The Homestead Act was passed by Cong
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We debated again today. Today was over -health care -taxes -military spending -death penalty(Republican views)Health Care- Gov't funded health care means that everyone gets the same poor health care. And who funds it? The rich people. The rich buy he
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Today in CWI, we continued our debate. Topics debated were -environmental laws -affirmative action laws -immigration -minimum wage (I'm discussing the republican views)Environmental laws- Well both parties want to save the environment. No one is tota
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Today, in class, we did our Republican and Democratic debates again. My side, still Republican, is tearing the place down with our knowledge beyond any other. We went over the issues of...Affirmative action laws, Environmental Laws, something, and Mi
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