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    From Lucretius, Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, to Darwin, Smith and Lamarck, many Philosophers, artists, and scientists have produced theories of evolution in attempts to explain the living and non-living creatures around them. ‘Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin…”a British physician and poet… proposed that life had changed over time.” “The possibility of common descent based on changes undergone by animals during development…”Evolution is a fact, the theory of evolution explains how…

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    Jacob Riis Thesis

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    In late nineteenth through early twentieth century there was about 250 million children working under the age of fourteen. Children were employed in mining, farming, textiles and factories. Child laborers worked long shifts, sometimes up to 14 hours with little break periods. They worked in environments that were unhealthy and dangerous. The children risked losing limbs, being crushed by machinery, burns and exposure to poisonous fumes. Sometimes child laborers were shackled and beaten by…

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    Yorktown American Victory

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    multiple factors which contributed to the American victory at Yorktown, some planned and some unplanned, which ended the American Revolution in triumph for the Americans. It began with letters from Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton to General Charles Cornwallis, pressuring him to send troops into New York . When Cornwallis refused, he took his stance to look for a site in which to establish a naval base, for which he looked to Yorktown first . He decided not to establish a base in Yorktown,…

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    It was after this meeting on September 5th that the Acadian people had learned that they would be removed from their land. Governor Charles Lawrence had sent a group of men to the church in Grande Pre to read aloud his message to them saying that “inhabitants may not have it in their power to return to this Province, nor to join in strengthening the French of Canada or Louisbourg: it…

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    Schroeder’s attention, Linus pondering the meaning of life, and Charlie Brown’s lack of socializing. “He must be the one who suffers, because he is the caricature of the average person. Most of us are much more acquainted with losing than winning,”said by Charles Schulz referencing Charlie Brown’s everyday life to a normal…

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    In this passage, it is Christmas time and Rudy’s father is still gone. Liesel makes an attempt at cheering him up by bringing Rudy to his father’s tailoring company after dark. As the two children poke around the abandoned shop and find old treasures. To any passerby they would look like normal children, a little on the skinny side, but other than that normal. What they do not see is the hurt that stays inconspicuously behind the eyes of human embodiments of sorrow and pain. They escape these…

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    Charles Manson Trial

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    Charles Manson never killed anyone himself. Although, he was never found guilty for any of his murders, he is known for being the leader of the Manson Family. Charles manipulated his “family” into carrying out his horrific crimes for him. The Manson Family committed one of the most terrifying crimes in American History. According to Jeff Dunn, author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, starting in the first-grade Charles would recruit gullible classmates to attack other students he…

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    Have you ever wondered where we came from or how we got here? Some believe we came about through the single cell theory or evolution, but others believe life was created by some higher being that they call god. The teleological argument know also as the argument from design. The argument is used by theists to persuade the existence of god to agnostics and atheists. It states that god or some intelligent being created the universe or life on earth and keeps it in balance. It tells that an object…

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    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens shows the theme that anyone can become a better person if they look upon their past. The reader learns that even someone like Scrooge can become a great man. At the beginning of the story, Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy, rude man. On pages 17 and 18 he refuses to donate any of his money (Which he has plenty of) to the poor. On page 20 a caroller comes to his door and Scrooge makes them run away. On page 15 he refuses his own nephew’s Christmas meal invitation.…

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    The Most Dangerous Theory Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. This quote is a clever way of saying that people of all races should be treated equally. Unfortunately people like Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer did not agree with this concept and so Social Darwinism was born. Social Darwinism is the theory that certain groups of people should follow the same rules of natural selection as plants and animals do. Darwin created Darwinism which says that species evolved…

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