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Fort Duquesne Continental Congress
1,107 words
Born February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, he
was the first son of his father Augustine's second
marriage; his mother was the former Mary Ball of
Epping Forest. When George was about three, his
family moved to Little Hunting Creek on the
Potomac, then to Ferry Farm opposite
Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock in King George
County. In the interim, the powerful Fairfax
family of neighboring Belvoir introduced him to
the accomplishments and appropriateness of
mannered wealth and, in 1748, prov...
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Employed At The Local Dedicated Worker Smoking
604 words
I do not smoke for many reasons. One is because I
am active in my community as a good student, as a
community leader, and as a dedicated worker. I
have to be a good role model to those in the
community and smoking is not one of those aspects
to be looked up to. Another reason I do not smoke
is because I have been personally affected by the
negative impact of smoking. My grandfather died of
emphozima when I was very young, this was
devastating impact on my life. I also see the
straggle that my mo...
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Novels And Short Stories William Faulkner
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William Faulkner is viewed by many as America's
greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in
New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life
filled with good times as well as bad. However,
despite bad times he would become known as a poet,
a short story writer, and finally one of the
greatest contemporary novelists of his time.
William Faulkner's accomplishments resulted not
only from his love and devotion to writing, but
also from family, friends, and certain
uncontrollable events. William F...
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Coalwood Homer Hickam Jr
1,769 words
Homer Hickam, Jr. had a dream too big for his
small coal mining town of West Virginia, however,
with the collective will of he and close friends,
he fulfilled his dream. Coalwood is located in the
southern most tip of West Virginia in McDowell
County. It was a coal mining town founded by
George Lafayette Carter in the early 1900 s.
Carter built the model town of his time, if a man
was willing to come to Coalwood and offer his
complete and utter loyalty to the coal company, he
would receive in re...
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Jem And Scout Boo Radley
917 words
To Kill a Mocking Bird explores the exuberant
humour and the irrational attitudes towards race
and class, through the young eyes of two Maycomb
County children, Jem and Scout Finch. Jem and
Scout endure the pressure to comprehend the
prejudice, violence and hypocrisy of Maycomb
County. The children are influenced by many
different characters, their father, the great
Atticus Finch being the more prominent. Ironically
Boo Radley, a Maycomb county resident who has been
burdened by the majority of f...
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Nat Turner Armed Men
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... t the first blow to the two masters. They were
mobbed before they could even fully wake up. Then
the rest of the whites in the household were
killed, even a tiny infant. They took some rifles,
muskets and gunpowder from the house. This was the
first stop of a ten-mile journey to Jerusalem, the
seat of Southampton County, which Nat planned to
conquer. Next was the farm of Salathial Travis,
brother of Sally Turner. The owners were finished
off in a minute. Nat picked up a light sword at
this h...
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Los Angeles County Santa Ana
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Human beings are able to adapt to almost any
environment, unfortunately sometimes we take
advantage of our natural surroundings. We find
ourselves amidst a struggle between our lifestyles
and nature. Although we affect nature profoundly
with our activities, we in turn are shaped by
nature's potent forces. Nature can be brutal to
humans, but we must remember that it merely is
following its course. As a result, we must learn
to coexist with it. Fire is a naturally occurring
phenomenon which humans...
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Nat Turner Slave Revolt
603 words
In the Fires of jubilee, author Stephen B. Oates
tells the story of a slave who led a revolt to end
the white supremacy in the South. This book is a
non - fiction book and describes the history of
slaves who rebelled against the white supremacy.
I've acknowledged my self of the efforts of
African American in the past. The author sets
images of story for reader to understand the
purpose of the book. I always wanted to know the
history of the African Americans who were
mistreated in the past. The ...
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Year Old Girl Child Molestation
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"If the occurrence of rape were audible, its
decibel level equal to its frequency, it would
overpower our days and nights, interrupt our
meals, our bedtime stories, howl behind our
love-making, an insistent jackhammer of distress.
We would demand an end to it. And if we failed to
locate its source, we would condemn the whole
structure. We would refuse to live under such
conditions. " Women have grown to accept, not
without resentment though, the male-dominated
atmosphere of the world. Because of...
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Affordable Housing Metropolitan Areas
1,301 words
Urban Problems and Solutions Urbanization is one
of the global trends that is followed by almost
all of the states and nations through out the
globe. This trend brings up many environmental and
other issues that concern with life of societies
living in urban areas. There are many positive and
negative affects that follow the trend of
urbanization and in this report we are going to
talk about problems and possible ways of solutions
faced by American cities. In particular we are
going to talk abou...
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Florida Supreme Court Supreme Court Justices
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Decisions are often made in the united states by
the U. S. Supreme Court that impact the country
greatly. Sometimes the decision of the case is
extremely controversial, leaving the Court and the
country split. One Such recent case was Bush V.
Gore. There were many events and certain criteria
behind this case which made it a rarity, for the
Supreme Court. Though just barley a month old,
after the initial event, its journey to the
Supreme Court was a very complicated one. (7) Many
factors played i...
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Pope John Paul Hate Crimes
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UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition Mai Pham Another
Senseless Hate Crime March 5, 1997 Another
Senseless Hate Crime Tragedy befell the Vietnamese
community on Jan 29, 1996, when Thien Minh Ly, a
24 -year old Vietnamese man and former graduate of
UCLA, was murdered while rollerblading in his
Tustin hometown high school tennis court. Ly was
found lying in a pool of blood the following
morning by a janitor, maimed by an excessive
number of stabbing wounds to various parts of his
body, as well as slashing...
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Million A Year Legal And Illegal
1,497 words
English May 23, 1998 Research Paper Illegal
Immigration Should Be Allowed Along the dusty
Mexican boarder California and Texas, new chain
link fences are being built to keep out unwanted
immigrants. In Sacramento the California
Legislature looks with suspicion at the bilingual
education it once possessed. In Los Angeles there
is renewed political pressure to deny non
emergency medical services unable to provide proof
of citizenship. These reactions reflect a
persistent and growing belief that il...
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Jem And Scout Scout And Jem
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Innocence To Experience, In Harper Lees To
Innocence To Experience, In Harper Lees To Kill A
Mockingbird Innocence to Experience " Maycomb
was an old town, but it was a tired old town when
I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets
turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks,
the courthouse sagged in the square. " (Lee
9). This environment, as Scout Finch accurately
describes, is not conducive to young children,
loud noises, and games. But, the Finch children
and Dill must occup...
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Jem And Scout Scout And Jem
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11 / 27 / 98 To Kill A Mockingbird By, Harper Lee
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old
town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the
streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the
sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square.
(Lee 9). This environment, as Scout Finch
accurately describes, is not conducive to young
children, loud noises, and games. But, the Finch
children and Dill must occupy themselves in order
to avoid boredom. Their surroundings are their
boundaries, but in their...
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Daniel Jack
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Jasper Newton Daniel was born in 1848 as the tenth
child of thirteen. At the age of 12 Jack Daniel
started a career that would last him a lifetime.
He was hired out to work for a man by the name of
Dan Call, a preacher at a Lutheran church. At Mr.
Call? s distillery he learned the trait of making
whiskey. Three years later he and Mr. Call were
full partners in the whiskey making business. Mr.
Call was a dedicated Lutheran. Just after the
civil war his family and church told him to make a
decisio...
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Due To The Fact African Americans
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The Long Route Home: On July 25, 1946, two young
black couples- Roger and Dorothy Malcom, George
and Mae Murray Dorsey-were killed by a lynch mob
at the Moores Ford Bridge over the Appalachee
River connecting Walton and Oconee Counties
(Brooks, 1). The four victims were tied up and
shot hundreds of times in broad daylight by a mob
of unmasked men; murder weapons included rifles,
shotguns, pistols, and a machine gun. Shooting a
black person was like shooting a deer, George
Dorsey's nephew, George...
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Scout And Jem Kill A Mockingbird
2,658 words
To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird is a
story about racism, ignorance, fear, intolerance,
hate, injustice, learning, heroism, and growing
up. It is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary
district in Southern Alabama. The time is the
early 1930 s, the years of the Great Depression
when poverty and unemployment were widespread in
the United States. The Finch family contains of
Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt
Alexandra (Atticus sister), and (Jem) Jeremy (The
older of Atticus two chi...
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Parke Custis Fairfax County Washington
296 words
George Washington was born on February 22 (Feb. 11
on the Julian calendar), 1732. He had no middle
name. He was born at Wakefield estate near Bridges
Creek in Westmoreland County, VA, 40 miles south
of Mount Vernon. Washington took the oath of
office on April 30, 1789, while living in
Virginia. He served as president from 1789 - 1797.
There was no other person running, as Washington
was appointed to office rather than truely
elected. His vice president was John Adams, who
would later become pres...
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Harry S Truman Harry Truman
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US Sims 1 Ben Sims US History Mrs. Murphy 11
February 1999 Harry S. Truman Short and rather
bird-like behind thick glasses, Harry S. Truman
was not intimidating in looks. He spoke in a
Midwestern farmer? s tone. But he was a shrewd
politician, and established a reputation for
speaking the truth. Truman was born on May 8, 1884
in Lamar, Missouri. He was the oldest of three
children of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen
(Young) Truman (Steins 41). His birthplace is just
south of the area into w...
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