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Yesterday I received a letter of dismissal from DePaul school of nursing. I am aware that my grades have been low for the last two semesters in which I take full responsibility. I write this appeal letter to explain the cause and ask you to please consider reinstating me. I wish to state that my poor grades are not due to low ability or not being able to retain the material. Neither was it procrastination to study. Instead, my grades have suffered because I have been trying to juggle between…

Between the years of 1914 to 1918, approaching 1 million British soldiers gave up their lives fighting for King and country (greatwar.co.uk). Wilfred Owens, one of the greater known first world war poets, was one of these. He died at the age of twenty-five, only a week away from armistice, leaving behind approaching 100 poems. Despite his early death, Owen’s poetry has immortalized him, passing to future generations both his experience and sentiments regarding the first world war. Like many at…

With American students falling behind in the world standings of academics, it is time that we review other options of grading and teaching in our educations system if we are going to reestablish ourselves in the world market of education. There is a new concept regarding the grading system known as , Grades out and Badges in, and I believe it would be a sufficient change to assist the level of learning for our students and our rankings in the world education. Grades out and Badges in is the…

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a female astronomer who lead the way for the ability to measure the distance between two planets, along with many other. Leavitt was born to a minister in Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1868. She attended a a higher education at Society for the Collegiate Instruction for Women, now named Radcliffe College. She graduated the college with a Bachelor's degree, but it was not in astronomy, which she would later dedicate her life to. She did take an astronomy class in her…

hill”. The Puritans settled in the now known area of Boston, and held services in bare churches throughout the town. Three people who were principal to Puritan religion in the colonies were Richard Mather, a minister in Dorchester Massachusetts who drafted the Cambridge Platform, a description of the Congregational system. His son Increase Mather, was the minister who ended the Salem Witch Trials. Cotton Mather, who was Richard Mather’s grandson, was a writer who published 450 books, and is…

Dickinson was born into a rich and powerful Christian family with firm beliefs. She lived in the nineteenth century, from 1830-1886. She grew up the town of Amherst in Massachusetts. Dickinson was educated; which was not that common for a woman who lived in during the era of the industrial revolution. She did some traveling throughout Massachusetts in her earlier years of life. However, toward the late 1860s she kept herself secluded from society. Many let their imaginations run wild about why…

physical geography of Massachusetts and support within the state to ratify the Constitution is that in Massachusetts the delegates supported the the ratification of the constitution. The map shows that there is a evenly division of states where somes states support ratification others oppose. The Proclamation Line of 1763 separated the states which forbade all settlement past the line along the Appalachian Mountains. Also, the Province of Massachusetts Bay was formed in 1691. Massachusetts is…

for varying groups. The Puritan ideal of attaining the Holy Commonwealth by the creation of a covenanted community was achieved in the American colonies of Virginia, Massachusetts (or more specifically, the Massachusetts Bay colony), and New England; moreover, in 1648, four New England Puritan colonies jointly adopted the Cambridge Platform, and established a…

of Joseph and Mary Dix. Both parents were known to suffer from alcoholism and bouts of depression, while her father was prone to violent outbursts. This unstable home environment lead Dix to seek refuge with her wealthy grandmother in Boston, Massachusetts where her blossoming interest in learning and education was strongly encouraged. Two years after moving in with her grandmother, at the young age of only 14, Dix began her career as a teacher. By 1821 she opened her first of several schools…

What were the causes? The American Revolution was a political rebellion that started in 1765, and ended in 1783. Things started when colonist from the Thirteen American Colonies refused to submit to the authority of King George III, and the Parliament of Great Britain. This act of defiance led to the foundation that ultimately led to the independent of the United States. In 1765, members of the American colonial society, representatives of the colonist, who would meet and discuss…