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    The Miss America Pageant was created by businesses interacting and leisure activities coming together on New Jersey beach. Atlantic city appeared as a beach resort for Philadelphians by the 1860s. In the 1870s a boardwalk was added. Over the next 50 years hotel's, saltwater taffy, hot dog stands, and arcades were all added to the holiday atmosphere for summer vacationers. In 1920 the Businessmen's League of Atlantic City came up with a plan, to keep fun and profits continuing past Labor Day.…

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    spin-offs industries blossomed. Road construction created thousands of new jobs, as stores and local governments began funding highway design” (The Age 4). Soon enough, the federal government even became involved through the Federal Highway Act of 1921. Gas stations began to be made and mechanics began to earn a living fixing unavoidable problems that were sure to happen. When the demand for automobiles increases, so did oil and steel, which became two well-known industries (The Age 5).…

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    most doctors have never seen a case of measles recently. As vaccines were developed and became used widely, these diseases rates have been attenuated and almost gone from our country. Furthermore, more than 15,000 Americans died from diphtheria in 1921, before there was a vaccine. Only one case of diphtheria has been reported to CDC since 2004. Also, an epidemic of rubella which is German measles in 1964-65 infected 12½ million Americans, killed 2,000…

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York . He grew up here and in their summer house in Maine. His family was very wealthy. Franklin D. Roosevelt had private tutors until age 9 where he attended his first school in Germany. When he was 14 he was sent off to a prep school named Groton. He graduated from here in 1900 and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he went to college at Harvard and later to Columbia Law School. In his first year at Columbia, Roosevelt…

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    Princeton. Woodrow Wilson died at the age of 67 on February 3, 1924. He married Ellen Louise Axson and had three daughters with her. Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as the 28th president of The United States on March 4, 1913. He served a term from 1913-1921. Wilson publically…

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    and in 1813 opened the Royal Gymnastic Central Institute in Stockholm. (Axelsons, 2015) Nonetheless, modern physical therapy was we know it didn’t start the 19th century. The first physiotherapy research was published in the United States in March 1921 in the PT review. (Physiopedia,…

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    Mary Jackson Mary Winston Jackson was born on April 9, 1921, in Hampton, Virginia, the daughter of Ella and Frank Winston. She attended Hampton’s all-black schools and graduated with high honors from George P. Phenix training school in 1937 Where she lived at they had to deal with a bad case of racial segregation. After, five years she earned a two part bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physical science from Hampton Institute. Mary became one of NASA’s first black female engineer. Also,…

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    Delaware, in 1880. Contestants had to be under 25 years old, weigh less than 130 pounds, at least 5 feet 4 inches tall, and unmarried. The most well known of American beauty pageants today is probably the Miss America pageant, which has been held since 1921. It started as a publicity stunt to draw crowds to Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the off-season. Throughout the years, the Miss America Pageant has slowly developed into a scholarship contest, and although it still judges women's beauty, it…

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    I am specializing in mental health counseling, and this integrates a wellness-based method to counseling by providing support to a client’s individual requirements. As a counselor, I aspire to work with children and adolescents in unification with their families that are experiencing troubling matters. More specifically, children who are struggling academically, emotionally, or mentally for assorted reasons or conditions. I would like to incorporate cognitive behavior therapy, play therapy,…

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    Adolf Hitler;The Unforgotten Dictator Adolf Hitler was not always antisemitic. Adolf Hitler was seen as a heartless, cruel leader who betrayed Germany. Adolf Hitler as a young boy was very interested in a career in visual arts. It was not until he moved to Vienna, Hitler started having a larger anti-semitic ideology. Adolf Hitler was seen as a heartless, cruel, leader, who betrayed Germany. To begin, the phases of Hitler's life shaped him into who he became. Born on April 20 , 1889, baptized…

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