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    John White was an English painter, explorer and colonist. John White used watercolors to paint maps and objects that he saw while he was exploring Roanoke. Today we use the paintings by John White to try and solve the mystery of the “Lost Colony.” There was three attempts to settle Roanoke. The first attempt was lead by Arthur Barlowe who took more than a hundred men with him to settle in July of 1585. They had a supply shortage and didn’t think the supplies would get to them in time, so they…

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    Roberto Clemente

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    Unit of Study: Using Strategies with Biography and Autobiographies Grade Level: Third Grade Item Objective Cognitive Level Selected Response Enter 8 Question & answers. * indicates correct answer At least 5 multiple choice Others may be multiple choice, T/F or fill in blank. 1. What is the best summary of this selection? A. Roberto Clemente lived in a poor community of Purto Rico. He loved playing baseball in the fields. He came to America to play baseball. He could hit the ball like no…

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    Carolina, Puerto Rico is home to a man named Roberto Clemente, who lived there for eighteen years. After high school, he said goodbye to this town and moved on to the United States. In the US Roberto Clemente signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, who gave him a 10,000 dollar signing bonus, which was very high. After some technicalities, the Dodgers lost Roberto Clemente to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who finished in last place the previous season. Roberto Clemente was a very successful player. Roberto…

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    The GREENSBORO SIT-IN were a progression of peaceful dissents in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which prompted the Woolworth retail chain evacuating its approach of racial isolation in the Southern United States. Regardless of advances in the battle for racial balance (counting the historic point 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Leading group of Education and the Montgomery Bus Boycott), isolation was still the over the southern United States in 1960. Early that year, a peaceful…

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    Roberto Alomar Essay

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    Roberto Alomar grew up around the sport of baseball, mainly because of his father Sandy Sr.’s success in Major League Baseball. Roberto Alomar was born on February 5th, 1968 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. However, he was raised in Salinas, Puerto Rico by his mother, Maria Alomar because his father played for fifteen different major league teams during his career. The only times Roberto would see his father was when he visited Sany Sr. in the summer. During the summer, Roberto would get to watch his…

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    McNiel. They were soon known as the “Greensboro Four.” The protest began on february 1st 1960, when he nonviolent protest was carried out by the African American students mentioned above. They entered the segregated woolworth’s, Greensboro, North Carolina. They then took a seat at the lunch counter where there policy was to refuse service to coloured people.This action lead to the police coming but were unable to take action due to lack of provocation, by this time it was being televised and…

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    The only clue to their mysterious disappearance was the word “CROATOAN” carved into the palisade that had been built around the settlement. White took the letters to mean that the colonists had moved to Croatoan Island, some 50 miles away, but . aA later search of the island found none of the settlers. A 100 people mysteriously went missing. I believe that the colonists on Roanoke Island got killed by the Natives because . John White and his men found no trace of the 100 or so colonists he left…

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    2. What do these documents suggest about societal expectation for white elite women’s role? About the roles of servants and slave women? Women of power during colonial times that owned servants/slaves women had some sort of sympathy. In Eliza Lucas Pinckney letter she references to teaching black women on how to read and she plans on teaching the children also. Eliza in a different letter discusses how she is going to assume control of the plantation with or without her father blessing.…

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    Ezell Blair Jr, together known as the Greensboro four. Woolworths Department store in Greensboro, North Carolina would ever be the same again. This is because the Greensboro Sit-Ins forwarded the civil rights of people by proving that non-violent protests can end racial segregation. The Greensboro Sit-Ins mainly occurred at Woolworth's Department Store Chain, in Greensboro, North Carolina (“Greensboro Sit-Ins”). The original four students that started the sit-ins at Woolworths were David…

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    John Watson Research Paper

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    John Watson, last name Broadus was an American psychologist noted as being one of the founders of behaviorism. He was born in January 1878 in Travelers rest in Greenville, South Carolina. He was also the fourth of six children. He father was not such a good influence on his life who always described his son as a sluggish delinquent. He deserted the family home Watson was a young in age and this really had a negative impact on him. His mother was very religious and wanted him to be a minister for…

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