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Benjamin Franklin English Language
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... udon in order to remain anonymous. Hence,
Richard Saunders Philomath is created by Franklin
and predestined to write his almanac. Benjamin
Franklins almanac was a tremendous success; no
other book in the colonies sold more copies,
except the Bible (Doren 148). With success comes
recognition and Franklin was most certainly
recognized within the colonies. Year after year,
Franklin packed the almanac with his sayings and
rearranged proverbs. Franklins Biographer Milton
Meltzer says, Franklin wa...
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Marian Anderson Metropolitan Opera Philadelphia
563 words
Marian Anderson During The Harlem Renaissance The
Century's Contralto Marian Anderson, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A variety of sources
suggested February 17, 1902 as her birth date,
however Andersons birth certificate showed
differently. On her birth certificate the date
listed was February 27, 1897. She was born into a
working class family in South Philadelphia. Her
family had a few obstacles to overcome, but
managed. Her father John worked selling ice and
coal at the Reading Termi...
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2 Live Crew Rage Against The Machine
1,466 words
Censorship in music has been a major problem
plaguing America since the early nineteen forties.
It came to a head during the nineteen sixties with
the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During
the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal
and hard rock were getting the brunt of the
censorship heat. Now in the nineteen nineties the
major focus of censorship is rap; primarily
gangster rap. Some of the main factors of music in
general that cause legal ramifications are sexual
content, suggestiv...
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Commander In Chief House Of Burgesses
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Washington, George (1732 - 99), commander in chief
of the Continental army during the American
Revolution, and later the first president of the
United States. He symbolized qualities of
discipline, aristocratic duty, military orthodoxy,
and persistence in adversity that his
contemporaries particularly valued as marks of
mature political leadership. Washington was born
on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County,
Virginia, the eldest son of Augustine Washington,
a Virginia planter, and Mary Ball...
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Parke Custis George Washington
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In 1633, the Reverend Rowland Jones came from
England to the colony of Virginia. He had
graduated from Oxford University and in
Williamsburg had served as minister for fourteen
years. Two generations later Martha Dandridge, his
great-granddaughter, was born on June 2, 1731 on a
plantation near Williamsburg. She grew up in the
Dandridge home, Chestnut Grove. She enjoyed riding
horses, gardening, sewing, playing the spinet and
dancing. Her father made sure that she got a fair
education in basic ma...
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Whiskey Rebellion Shays Rebellion
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The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 helped bring about
the demise of the aristocratic Federalist
Government in favor of the democratic Republican
Government, concerned with the needs of all of its
citizens. The new country of the United States of
America suffered many growing pains in trying to
balance its commitment to liberty with the need
for order. How much control is enough and what
will be too much? After the Revolutionary War, the
country purposely did not have a strong central
government (that...
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Self Esteem Maintenance Theory
818 words
It was recently announced that Chris Webber was
going to be traded to the Philadelphia 76 ers this
week. He has since started his career there with
Alan Iverson on his side as well as the entire
city. My roommate, our next door neighbor and I
were watching Sports Center when they broke the
news that the trade was official and had taken
place. My roommate a native of Philadelphia was,
needless to say, pleased with the trade. I was
relatively unaffected as a Wizards fan, although
Webber was, at on...
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W B Saunders Amniotic Fluid
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... eceleration pattern is indicative of a uterine
and / or placental blood flow problem. In the case
of PIH, the late deceleration types will most
likely be the pattern seen due to the compromised
utero placental blood flow. Another risk
associated with preeclampsia points to the
propensity for decreased maternal renal blood flow
due to vasoconstriction. Vasospasm, with the
resulting decrease in blood flow, leads to a
decrease in glomerular filtration rate (GFR),
decreased clearance of uric aci...
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Hudson River West Point
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After defeating British troops in Saratoga,
Congress made Benedict Arnold a major general in
the Continental Army. Washington wrote a
commendation saying that Arnold was a brave
officer. Despite the promotion, Arnold remained at
the bottom of the list. There were four other
major generals superior to him. Arnold was soon
off once again to help the northern army.
Ticonderoga had fallen back into enemy hands.
British General John Burgoyne and his troops were
moving rapidly down from Canada toward ...
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Established The First Franklin Established Benjamin
920 words
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston,
Massachusetts on January 17, 1706. He was one of
the seventeen children of Josiah Franklin, a soap
maker. Josiah's second wife, Asian Folger mothered
young Benjamin. As a child, Benjamin loved to read
and at twelve years of age was apprenticed to his
older brother, James, who was a printmaker. The
family decided this would be best for young
Benjamin after his father could only afford one
year of studies in clergy for his son. James soon
after started The New...
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Samuel Adams Continental Congress
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1. Mercantilism was the economic theory and
practice common in Europe from the 16 th to the 18
th century that promoted governmental regulation
of a nation's economy for the purpose of
augmenting state power at the expense of enemy
nations. 2. Bounties were payments made to
encourage production of certain goods in the
colonies. 3. The French and Indian War was part of
a great war for empire, a determined and
eventually successful attempt by the British to
attain a dominant position in North Amer...
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Tactics During The Revolutionary War
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Eric Heppen Period 7 AP American History February
1, 2000 The American Tactics of the Revolutionary
War Biography and Footnotes Research Critical
Analysis Historical Interpretation Technical
Content Originality Style of writing Prove thesis
Eric Heppen American History Term Paper December
13, 1999 Period 7 The American Tactics of the
Revolutionary War Most of Europe thought that the
British with their immense amount of capital,
soldiers and supplies would beat the American
resistance in the Amer...
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George Washington British Army
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George Washington battled with the British army
during the American Revolution. He assembled his
army, worked out a plan and ordered them to
attack. Washington was involved in various battles
with the British army who were attacking America.
Washington was at all costs determined to win all
the battles. He lost some due to the shortage of
food for the troops among other factors. Among the
battles in which Washington was involved were: -
Battle of Trenton Battle of Princeton Battle of
Brandy wine...
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Central Nervous System Motor Control
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Sport Skill Sports skill learning has always been
concerned with the acquisition of new skills with
practice. This emphasis has been blended somewhat
with the field of motor control, so that the ideas
about the how skills are learned and particularly
how they are performed differently after practice
were an important emphasis. The concern has been
to understand the principles by which these new
skills were acquired and to develop theories that
would account for them. For example, Swimming is a
c...
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York Harper Collins Peripheral Nervous System
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Analysis of the Anti-psychiatric Approach or
Perspective to Schizophrenia and the Conventional
Approach There are several approaches of studying
and evaluating the concept of schizophrenia that
help scholars get deeper insights of the disease
and find possible better solutions. The nervous
system, as described in Tabers Cyclopedia
Dictionary, is a system of extremely delicate
nerve cells, elaborately interlaced with each
other. More specifically, it functions to regulate
and coordinate body acti...
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Stepping Stone Real Life
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Up Close and Personal The Movie Up Close and
Personal, is a modern-day story about a young
reporter, Tally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer), who
is determined to make a place for herself in the
broadcasting field as a news reporter. At a Miami,
Florida based station, where she is given her
first chance at making it, Atwater meets Warren
Justice (Robert Redford), a well known reporter
who has irritated some important people in his
career. Justice shows Atwater the ropes of
becoming a successful news r...
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Avant Garde Dizzy Gillespie
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Jazz, John Coltrane John Coltrane Jazz, taking its
roots in African American folk music, has evolved,
metamorphosed, and transposed itself over the last
century to become a truly American art form. More
than any other type of music, it places special
emphasis on innovative individual interpretation.
Instead of relying on a written score, the
musician improvises. For each specific period or
style through which jazz has gone through over the
past seventy years, there is almost always a
single pers...
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
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Harriet Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Ross
Tubman was born a slave in Dorchester County
Maryland, in 1820 (or 1821 depending on the
source. ) There were no records kept about the
date of birth of children born into slavery, so
there are many guesses that have been listed. She
was born with the name Arabia Ross, but her mother
s name, Harriet, became her name as she got older.
Before the age of five she was put to work in the
house on a plantation, but when she got older she
was hired out...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
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Cohen 1 Jeffrey Cohen Mrs. Schroeder-Blue American
Authors 26 March 1999 Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne
Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps
the most distinguished author of American
Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens
is arguably the most prominent writer the world
has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found
interest in a serious young lawyer named John
Clemens. With the Lampton family in heavy debt and
Jane only 15 years of age, she soon married John.
The family moved to Ga...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Police Department
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Monologue 2 / 25 / 01 Mumia Abu-Jamal Edward
Vassallo Monologue 2 / 25 / 01 I dont know if you
heard but last week Ramona Africa spoke at Penn
State University. She discussed the freedom of
Mumia Abu-Jamal, a so-called political prisoner.
If youre from Philadelphia youre probably familiar
with these individuals. Africa was a member of the
MOVE organization in Philadelphia, which is
against all forms of government, and technology.
Abu-Jamal was a radio journalist, a member of the
Black Panther Pa...
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