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Langston Hughes

was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. His parents were divorced when he was a small child and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was twelve, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband. It was during his high school years that ...

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Dwight D Eisenhower

was our thirty-fourth president, serving from 1953 to 1961. He was born in Texas in 1890, and brought up in Abilene, Kansas. He was very good in sports in High school and recieved an appointment to West Point. He was stationed in Texas as second lieutenant where he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he ...

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Teddy Bear

Theodore Roosevelt American History Chickasha High School Mr. Solomon April 16, 1998 Second period Robert White Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United states Was the youngest President in the nations history. he took office at the age of 42. Roosevelt had been vice President for only six ...

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Native American Genocide

The dominant image of Indians in the media used to be of savages, of John Wayne leading the U.S. Cavalry against the Indians. Today the stereotype has shifted to noble savage, which portrays Indians as part of a once-great but now-dying culture; a culture that could talk to the trees and the ...

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Lou Gehrig

was born and raised in New York City, the son of German immigrant parents. His full name was Henry Louis Gehrig. After graduating from high school, he attended Columbia University where he became a football and baseball star. Lou's father directed him to becoming a pro baseball player. He became ...

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"Hoops" Vs. "He Got Game"

"Hoops" is a story about a group of teenagers that play street basketball. They do not have many opportunities until one day when a man named "Cal" offers to coach them in a tournament that will give all the players exposure to "scouts". "He Got Game," on the other hand, is about a player who has ...

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People And Machines

The problem is not with the machine: it is with the man who allows himself to become mechanical. People work on machines all day long. Many of these people have worked on a single machine for some years. The longer the people have worked on a single machine, the more they become adept in the ...

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The Hartford Whalers Are Going Going ...

The Hartford Whalers are in a very tough situation at this time. When Peter Karmanos bought the team in May of 1994, he inherited the worst lease agreement at the smallest arena in the NHL. The Hartford Civic Center lease agreement creates profit for private companies; however, the lease ...

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Andrew Jackson

was born in Waxhaw Settlement, South Carolina on March 15, 1767. His parents (father) and Elizabeth Hutchington (mother) had three children together. They were Hugh Jackson, , and another name that is unknown (Gale Research, 1997) In Jackson's childhood, he had a bad reputation because he had a ...

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Andrew Jackson 3

Andrew Jackson was born in Waxhaw Settlement, South Carolina on March 15, 1767. His parents Andrew Jackson (father) and Elizabeth Hutchington (mother) had three children together. They were Hugh Jackson, Andrew Jackson, and another name that is unknown (Gale Research, 1997) In Jackson's childhood, ...

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Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday

The war in Vietnam was escalating and protests were being staged everywhere. This was a war that the U.S. people felt we didn't belong in. The truth is we weren't really wanted there either. More people would die in this conflict than in the previous Korean conflict. All we as a people wanted ...

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Carpe Diem: The Golden Chance

Carpe Diem, is the expression that means seize the day, means that one should take advantage of every minute of this life. Many people do not succeed because they are scared about life. It is very difficult to accomplish anything in this life if they do not risk themselves or do not do anything ...

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Dreams

A high school athlete can dream of advancing their career to college, or even professionally. A filthy rich man can dream he is poor and living in the slums. Author Naomi Epel believes that "Your unconscious knows things your conscious doesn't. It can be an alley with new insights" (Von ...

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A Thousand Acres: The Monopoly Game

Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, encompasses the farm life and hardships of a wealthy retiring Iowa farmer, Larry Cook and his family. For his daughters Ginny and Rose, the farm and life on the farm was all they ever knew. The youngest daughter, Caroline, broke away from life on the farm and ...

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Gender Roles In Men And Women

Last May ,I went to visit my aunt Martha and her five-years-old daughter, Anna. That day, my cousin Anna was playing with two of her boy friends in the backyard of the house. After a while, she took her T-shirt off because of the bad weather. Then, she was followed by her friends, and they went on ...

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Being A Virologist

It was very difficult coming up with a health career that I would be interested in. The truth is, I am not interested in any health career. What I really want to be is become a screenwriter, and that is actually, how I figured out, if any, what health career I would choose. My health career is ...

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Fraud

What is a ? A is when one party deceives or takes unfair advantage of another. A includes any act, omission, or concealment, involving a breach of legal or equitable duty or trust, which results in disadvantage or injury to another. In a court of law it is necessary to prove that a false ...

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Of Mice And Men: The Great Depression - The Uncommon Struggle Of All Men

"I've been doin' some hard travelin', I thought you'd knowd. I've been doin' some hard ramblin', way down the road. . .I've been layin' in a hard rock jail. . .I've been laid out ninety days, way down the road. The darned old judge, he said to me, it's ninety days for vagrancy, and I've been ...

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Battle Royal

In Ralph Ellison’s essay “” he describes a Negro boy, timid and compliant, comes to a white smoker in a Southern town: he is to be awarded a scholarship. Together with several other Negroes he is rushed to the front of the ballroom, where a sumptuous blonde tantalized and frightens them by ...

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African - American Civil Rights

Returning from the second world war, black Americans, just as those three decades prior, expected to find America a land of equality for all people and specifically a land endowed with increased black civil rights. Although the late 1940's and 1950's are not generally considered a period ...

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