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    Charles Drew Biography

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    Charles Drew Essay Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3rd, 1904 in Washington, D.C. a African American physician who found way to process and store blood plasma in “blood banks”. He controlled blood plasma programs for the United States and Great Britain in WWII, but he resigned after the ruling that blood of the African Americans would eventually be segregated Dr.Drew Died April 1st, 1950. Dr.Drew found some unusual discoveries when in storage and processing of blood for transfusions. He…

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    3). The narrowing, but persistent, gender gap in pay. Retrieved from http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/03/gender-pay-gap-facts/ Budig, M. J. (2015, October 5). UMass Amherst Sociologists Find Lowest-Paid Women Suffer Most from Motherhood Penalty. Retrieved from https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-sociologists-find-lowest-paid-women-suffer-most-motherhood-penalty Chamberlain, A. (2016, March 23). Demystifying the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Glassdoor Salary Data.…

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    where many who doubted Antoine. Detroit thru 1760-1796 Thru 1760-1796 there where many fights breaking out over the french and brithish. But none of this mattered in the end becuase of one desive french victory in September 8, 1760, when General Amherst…

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    Emily Dickinson Influence

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    expressed all those feelings that females had kept locked up for so many years. Expressing feminist ideas is what in particular inspired many people and what had influenced them to make art, literature, movies and music. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst,…

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    Fast-forward a year, in September 1760, the French militia officially surrendered to Amherst in Montreal.5 The British victory in the French and Indian War had profound effects on both the British Empire as well as the American colonists. At first, it lead to development of British territorial claims in the New World, but the price of the…

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    During the mid 1800’s in the town of Amherst in Massachusetts, lived a woman would one day be known as one of the greatest poets of America. This woman was Emily Dickinson born to a prominent family attended Amherst Academy. Dickinson grew up as a social and outgoing girl, but as she approached her thirties she became more reclusive and spent most of her time locked away in her room. During this time she spent in her room she was able to write many very short poems. However, most of her poetry…

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    Schneider’s Journey to Success as an Entrepreneur Jeffry Schneider is the founder and CEO of Ascendant Capital with over 25 years of extensive experience in the field of alternative investment. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in Bachelor of Arts. He started his career with Alex Brown in New York City and several other employers before establishing Ascendant Capital. Jeffrey Schneider has risen to the peak of his profession with one thing in mind; deep…

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    Collegeboard). In the secular world this is the main focus of liberal arts educations, to be applicable in multiple vocational settings. While it is true that some general liberal arts schools such as Amherst College, one of the most academically renowned liberal arts colleges, still seek virtuous life: “Amherst College educates men and women … so that they may seek, value, and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence” (Amherst.edu), this…

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    Dhruv Trivedi HSS-403 Mid-Essay: Paper Junius William and his Journey through Newark “There are turning points in everyone’s life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.”(Junius Williams) Junius William is an author of book “Unfinished Agenda” which takes reader through a ride of Newark. He talks about how Newark has fought through the tough time during 1960’s and so on. Junius Williams grew up in Richmond, Virginia, he defines it as “Gateway to the…

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    which included “Out, Out,” and “The Road Not Taken.” Henry Holt had then taken the position of Frost’s publisher. Many journalist companies such as the Atlantic Monthly had at first turned Frost down, but now came calling. He taught at Dartmouth and Amherst College, but his most significant association was with the latter. In 1924, he won a Pulitzer Prize in New Hampshire and also received his honorary degree at Yale University. Around seven years later, he received a Russell Loines Poetry Prize…

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