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Personal Writing: Memories

I remember winning my first soccer tournament. It was a momentous occasion for me and my team was happy we could win. It was our team’s first soccer tournament and we won it. I was only about nine or ten and our tournament was in Ridgefield, Ct. We traveled up to a hotel on Friday, and the ...

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Lies My Teacher Told Me - Book Report

James Loewen wrote the book "Lies My Teacher Told ME" to help the students of the United States become aware of their true history. This book attempts to show how and why American history has been taught the way it has without regard for the truth. Mr. Loewen had compared twelve ...

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Won't Libertarian Socialism Destroy Individuality?

? No. Libertarian socialism only suppresses individuality for those who are so shallow that they can't separate their identity from what they own. However, be that as it may, this is an important objection to any form of socialism and, given the example of "socialist" Russia, needs to be discussed ...

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The Odyssey 4

A Comparison of Kings-Odysseus vs. Dusyanta Even though Homer's The Odyssey (eighth century B.C.) and Kalidasa's Sakuntala (fourth century A.D.) were written more than twelve centuries a part, many similarities can be found in the roles that the rulers in each play. The stories not only ...

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Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X grew up in different environments. King was raised in a comfortable middle-class family where education was stressed. On the other hand, Malcolm X came from and underprivileged home. He was a self-taught man who received little schooling and rose to greatness ...

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Environmental Justice: Black Mesa Indigenous People

Environmental Justice: Black Mesa Indigenous People April 2011 Environmental Justice issues are steadily increasing as battles for nutrient rich lands and land seen as “ideal” for governmental and corporate industry uses diminish. Looking back to the very foundation of our government it is ...

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The Great Wall of China

"The Great Wall OF China" By: Kiara Avila The Great Wall of China was built over 2,000 years ago, by Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China during the Qin (Ch'in) Dynasty (221 B.C - 206 B.C.). The Great Wall of China is one of the greatest wonders of the world. The mystery of the ...

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America’s Foreign Policy

Francis Scott Key penned a spirited poem during the War of 1812, a poem that in 1931 would become the official national anthem of the United States. "The Star Spangled Banner" is a shortened version of Key's original poem, all four stanzas of which end with the striking and famous words: "the land ...

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What Makes A Beautiful Mind

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lkEEk__mk2Z8pyDjFGRBvSTm6diTtexhrfinN2_0shg/edit#slide=id.p (this is the presentation to my essay) CAB Mr. Stewart SWP--Final Draft 10.14.16 What makes a Beautiful Mind??? You may have heard the story. I must tell you of this story. It ...

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The Works Of Clive Staples Lewis

Many people for different reasons know Clive Staples Lewis, from Christianity to his Chronicles of Narnia. Not only was Lewis a writer, but he was also a professor in England and a World War I veteran. Today he is known as C. S. Lewis because many of his works were always published under this ...

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Suicide In Las Vega

Hell is expensive. This is my first thought as my plane lands in Las Vegas. The Luxor hotel's glass pyramid seems dangerously close to the runway's edge, as do its chocolate-and-gold sphinx and rows of shaved palms. I wonder if these rooms tremble when jets land. Behind the Luxor are mountains ...

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The Life Of A Jamestown Colonist

Anne Williams was born in 1570. She traveled to Jamestown, Virginia with the first group of settlers to go there. She, her mother, and her two sisters were the first women and among one of the only peasant families to go on that first voyage to Jamestown. Here is her story as she remembers it. ...

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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr

One’s life is a personal venture. From the day of birth, people set goals and expectations for themselves. Life is essentially one’s self-dictionary; lessons are learned, morals are acquired, and conformity to a standard of right is attained. In the novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by ...

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Polygamy

1835 August 17, Article on Marriage. "According to the custom of all civilized nations, marriage is regulated by laws and ceremonies; therefore we believe that all marriages in this Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints should be solemnized in a public meeting or feast prepared for that purpose, ...

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The Republic

BOOK 1 It is established with a view to some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than ...

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Indian Boarding School

Compressed emotions," that is the explanation a teacher once gave to the ongoing question, "What is poetry?" He said it was someone's deepest emotions, as if you were reading them right out of that person's mind, which in that case would not consist of any words at all. If someone tells you a ...

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Native Americans

People have been living in the Americas for thousands of years. Only fairly recently, the past few hundred years, have foreigners begun to arrive and drastically disrupt the way of life of the aboriginal population. The situation has become so severe that a population that was one believed to be ...

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The Hurricane

On July 17, 1966, in Paterson, NJ, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was contending for the heavyweight boxing title, when, one night, he was pulled over and suspected of a murder. There was no evidence or witnesses to prove guilty, but the cops needed somebody to blame; so they fixed the trial, and ...

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Ethical Issues In U.S. Immigra

The sun seems unrelenting as it beats down on the two families huddled together in a rickety makeshift boat. The rafters have been floating in the open sea for what seems to them like years. Their food and water supplies have run out and the littlest ones cry out of hunger. But the keep going. ...

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Women's Roles In The Revolution

I. A. Family Enterprises 1. Women took over 2. Succeeded Despite a. inflation b. British Occupancy c. absence of important supplies 3. gave women self-confidence 4. proved that women could make a living by themselves B. Army Camps 1. Women came to be with soldiers a. were ...

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