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I'm honored that you have chosen to do your history report on your ancestory. I'm not sure how much your mother has told you about our family history; so I'll start in the beggining. I was born on March 12, 1741 to Matilda and Hurai Muthui; they were good people and tried to provide for me and my six brothers; Guri, Moses, Thia, Martin, Danju and Muingo.I helped out as much a I could but we were very poor. When I was 19; I arrived by ship in Geogetown in the spring of 1760 with 150 other would…

team was my friend. One day after my game I went to give people my autographs and the line was like a mile long. It took 5 hours to give all the people my autographs. My number was 41. When I was done with college I sold my practice jersey at an auction and it went for 3 million…

The great American Revolution, taken place in the 18th century, was a political upheaval that removed ties between the thirteen North American Colonies and Great Britain. This led to the development of the United States of America. During this revolutionary war, the enslaved African Americans were denied their freedom from the nation who was at the time, also seeking independence themselves. The Declaration of Independence, composed by an American Founding Father and third President Thomas…

willing and offered to buy the horse from the nephew. The claimant wrote, “If I hear no more about him, I consider the horse mine at £30.15s” (Duxbury, 2008). The horse was said to be withdrawn from the auction but 6 weeks down the line Bindley, the defendant, accidentally sold the horse at the auction; then the claim was formed. The court agreed that Felthouse did not have ownership of the horse as the contract was never accepted, therefore no actual contract was formed. Although the nephew may…

Full house is a family show that demonstrates many variations of relational communications. When we analyze the relationships with in this big family you start to see the themes that were discussed in the beginning of this paper. I chose this film to analyze these themes because they are a blended family with various dimensions. For example, the characters Jessie and Joey are involuntary family, they are not biologically related. They became family because they were living with each other and…

1. What are the goals of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America? One of the goals of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is to foster the ability of children to rise above their circumstances and to realize their potential. It is also a goal to provide a role model, a friend, and a family member to these children. They ultimately want to build these kids and communities up to give them chances they wouldn’t get otherwise. 2. How does Purdue Big Brothers Big Sisters support the local office of BBBS…

I digress. We also had the complete 40-volume set called "The Yale Shakespeare". I know I had my face in those little blue books. What I would give to have that full set of books again. Actually I found them on eBay and I am watching an auction. If the price doesn 't become astronomical, I will bid on them. I wish…

Paul R. Williams and Christian Coster address blood antiquities and a culture of impunity- meaning freedom from punishment or injurious consequences. The past centuries and the decades that followed saw pillage, destruction, looting, faking and smuggling of invaluable excavated artifacts of “blood antiquities” into western markets from conflicted areas such as Iraq and Syria and its neighboring areas. In the recent past years, Isis destroyed in Iraq museum its precious work of art and destroyed…

chores around the estate, and even caring for their owners. Should a serf ever step out of line, they were met with a whipping, burning, cutting off of appendages, starvation or death. Stephanie Yuhl states, “…a terrified slave being sold on the auction block, to the crack of the auctioneer 's whip,” describing their physical and mental state at being captives. Despite these many horrors, there were many more on the ride to America from their home continent of Africa, as depicted by Olaudah…

Copper Sun, was written by Sharon M. Draper. It tells about an African female named Amari and Draper uses a lot of different ways to get people into the story. She uses a lot of emotion in her book, and two of the strongest emotions are fear and affection. Amari feels tons of fear throughout the entire novel. The part where she experiences fear the most is when her village is being attacked. The reason she felt afraid was because of the strange people attacking her village regardless of her…