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    Sense Of Place

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    This can be applied in a real-world context in areas such as Charleston, SC. charleston is a port city so there is much debate of the importance of the environment and the increase of profits. One side is from the business point of view, saying that they want to increase the depths of the port, allowing larger ships to enter…

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    Evolution Of Swing Dance

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    possible to attend the Charleston classes it is not used as independent dance style anymore. There are more Charleston steps invented such as side, back, fly or double Charleston, but all of this are just the part of the Lindy Hop movements. Balboa Another popular swing dance is called Balboa that was originated in Southern California during the 1920s/30s. A lot of dance historians believe that this dance was influenced by Foxtrot, but others state that it was evolved from the Charleston.…

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    David G. Gil, a Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at Brandeis University, theorizes that throughout history people have been motivated to evolve, maintain and modify their lifestyles in order to fulfill their basic needs. In order for this to happen, Gil explains that there are six needs that need to be fulfilled. These six needs include, biological materials, social-psychological, productive creative, security, self-actualization and spiritual needs (27). When any of these necessities are…

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    Methadone maintenance, a term the reader may or may not familiar with. In order to sufficiently explain my research and data, one must understand the subject to a level of generalization. Methadone maintenance is a form medicated assisted treatment for those in treatment, in order to recover from addiction. There are various forms of addiction treatment options, but methadone maintenance is one of the leading forms of treatment. Methadone is a synthetic analgesic drug, meaning that it is similar…

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    Robert Smalls was born on April 5, 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina. His mother was a house servant and his father is believed to be Henry McKee, the owner of the plantation they lived on. Robert was not treated the same as other slave children were. Robert has opportunities to play with both black and white children and was free to roam around the plantation. McKee frequently took Robert around with him in the neighborhood. Robert’s mother feared her son did not fully know how horrible slavery…

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    Roxane Gay, a well-known author, wrote an article for the New York Times discussing the unfortunate terrorist shooting in Charleston, South Carolina that resulted in nine deaths. To begin her article, Gay bluntly states that she does not forgive Dylann Roof—the shooter—for his ill-conceived actions. She continues into detail why she believes Roof does not deserve to be forgiven. She uses fair amounts of pathos in her statements, making references to her childhood and her Catholic faith. She…

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    that commit nonviolent offences are deserving of jail time. The piece begins with the example of a young mother reported shoplifting groceries by store officials at a Walmart store in Charleston, South Carolina. This example of a nonviolent offence is a moral issue that our author, who is also a sheriff of Charleston County has encountered several times before. He then claims that if this encounter had taken years prior, that the outcome would have been different than what is was. However,…

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    long time for Morgan to make money doing stuff he loved, he couldn’t have wished for it to be any better. Another Reason he is confident was his life in 2007. He and his second wife, Myrna, split in 2007, and he was in a near-fatal car accident in Charleston, Mississippi the following year (Biography). His Wife and him split, and after that, he was in a car accident, but that didn’t stop him, so today he is still a great role model/hero for kids and young adults. Morgan freeman shows many…

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    In a portion from the Exposition, Furman says: That, taking all things into account, the Citizens of America have all in all acquired the African slaves, which they have, on standards, which can be advocated; however much remorselessness has without a doubt been practiced toward by numerous, who have been worried in the slave-exchange, and by other people who have held them here. That subjugation, when tempered with mankind and equity, is a condition of fair bliss: parallel, if not unrivaled…

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    stake, according to John C. Calhoun with the “peculiar domestic institutions of the southern states.” There was a South Carolina state convention in 1832. The convention was to reject the federal tariff acts of 1828 and 1832. The federal agents in Charleston was to collect all the federal tariff revenue after February 1, 1833. The state legislature provided citizens whose property was seized for failure to pay, to get a state court order to recover twice its value. Robert Hayne was selected as…

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