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Hundred Thousand Federal Laws
461 wordsMissing children in the United States are a major problem, but it can be prevented. The majority of abductions of children in the United States are by their parents. Within every hour, more than 200 children, including teenagers, are reported missing, and most of the children will most likely be teenage runaways who will eventually be found. Teenage runaways are usually rejected by their parents and friends. Even though most children are runaways, those who are abducted by strangers range from t...
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Fugitive Slave Law Harriet Tubman
1,275 wordsThe Underground Railroad was a secret pathway organized by abolitionists -- many of them free blacks and Quakers. Its purpose was to help runaway slaves escape to freedom in the North or in Canada. Often, the passage to freedom followed natural boundaries, such as a river. Usually, slaves relied on secret helpers in towns scattered along the route to freedom. These "conductors" would help a slave move from one safe house to another, usually under cover of darkness. One daring conductor, Harriet ...
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Pauper Apprentices Children Work
493 wordsEven though many of you parents out there are in fact opposed to sending your children to work in these textile factories, there are, in fact, many parents who do feel differently. However, there arent enough of these kinds of parents to satisfy factory owners, so they went as far as to purchase innocent children from orphanages and workhouses. These poor children are now called pauper apprentices. They are forced into signing contracts that pronounced them the property of the factory. Because t...
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Point Of View Louise Erdrich
1,634 wordsCompressed 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 story, it is usually like a shell. Rarely are all of the deepest and most personal emotions revealed effectively. A poem of that story would be like the inside of the shell. It personifies situations, and ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Middle And Upper Class
1,817 wordsDelinquent behavior, whether in children, adolescents, or adults, is childish and anti-social behavior and usually not in the long-term best interests of its perpetrators. Most adolescent delinquents are extremely dependent upon their peer groups, primarily because they have no functioning families, effective parenting, nurturing, or positive adult role models to rely on. These young people come from all ethnic backgrounds and live in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods as well as in ghettos. ...
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Underground Railroad Ohio River
1,294 words... Maryland in order to save slaves. She never lost one slave. There were many other influential women that played a role in the Underground Railroad and the fight for equality among blacks. Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were fighting the twin fight for women's suffrage and Negro emancipation. Jane Lewis from New Lebanon, Ohio found her way to the river and rowed runaways from the far side of the Ohio River to the Ohio freedom. Calvin Fairbanks was one of the first of...
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Underground Railroad Native American
726 wordsThe conductors often left a number of signs for the slaves to follow so they didn't go to houses that belonged to allies of the slave owners. A quilt on the clothesline showing the picture of a house with smoke coming out of the chimney was a sign of a safe station. A white ring of bricks around the top of a house's chimney was another sign of a good hiding spot. Shops that were safe often had a figure of a running man or woman on its sign. Other signs were used to guide the slaves, too. The sla...
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
900 wordsBrave New World by Aldous Huxley is a novel that takes place in Utopia. Yet in this ideal place everyone is conditioned to be happy, it is a place where various things such as the arts are restricted so all people will be synchronized in thinking. Love and commitment does not exist but rather everyone belongs to everyone else. This place is also a place where soma holidays help people escape from their realities and never have its society feel any kind of distress or illness. This place was not ...
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Pauper Apprentices Children Work
500 wordsEven though many of you parents out there are in fact opposed to sending your children to work in these textile factories, there are, in fact, many parents who do feel differently. However, there aren? t enough of these kinds of parents to satisfy factory owners, so they went as far as to purchase innocent children from orphanages and workhouses. These poor children are now called pauper apprentices. They are forced into signing contracts that pronounced them the property of the factory. Because...
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Police Officials Criminal Record
1,079 wordsparents voluntarily Fingerprinting Kids Should parents voluntarily create detailed identification records (including fingerprints) on their children in anticipation of possible runaway problems or abductions? (1) Yes. You can never tell when terrible things will happen to a child, so its best to be prepared. (2) No. Thevast majority of missing children are not abducted. Whether abducted orbit, fingerprinting will do no good. It wastes time and money and pushes us that much closer to the creation...
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Harriet Tubman Fugitive Slaves
1,080 wordsHarriet Tubman was an African American who fled slavery and then guided runaway slaves to freedom in the North for more than a decade before the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). During the war she served as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. In later years she continued to work for the rights of blacks and women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She was one of 11 children born to slaves. She later adopted her mothers first name. Harriet was put to work at the ...
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Walks Of Life Homeless People
537 wordsHave you ever realized how lucky you really are when you are driving under a bridge or in poor part of town and you see a homeless person begging for work or food, or do you just drive by and act as though you never saw the horrible site and go on about your buisness? Just like in the book " Les Miserables" Fantine becomes homeless to take care of her daughter, who she gae to the Thenardiers, for what she thought was a better life. Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is alway...
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Huck And Jim Duke And Dauphin
1,420 wordsThis story started out sometime in the mid- 1800 s in the small town of Hannibal, Missouri. A few months earlier Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn discovered a chest full of gold. The two adventurous boys split the twelve-thousand dollars, and Judge Thatcher was keeping their money safe in a trust. In the meantime, Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, realizing Huck's unsophisticated ways, took him into their home to try to sivilize him. Huck learned to read and write and even acquired some ...
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Plantation Owners Current Situation
1,061 wordsKenneth Stammp writes of A Troublesome Property, that is bondsman in a peculiar institution. Stammp makes all the right assertions as to why the plantation owners and overseers were not wise to the tricks that slaves would use to get out of work, or to even escape. Most slaves would use yes man tactics in order to fool their masters into believing they were content in their current situation. Most masters believed they understood their slaves, and most slaves apparently made no attempt to discou...
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