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    Mary Shadd Research Paper

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    She began her own integrated school in Windsor, Ontario, until the entire Shadd family relocated with Mary to Chatham. Here, Mary began her own newspaper company named “The Provincial Freeman.” It was revolutionary, as she was the first female African in North America and the first female in Canada to do so. The Provincial Freeman encouraged blacks, whether free…

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    People are shaped by their surroundings. These influences come in the form of anything from elementary school teachers to religious awakenings, from mission trips to news articles. For me, these influences come in the form of dance, God, and opportunity. Unexpectedly, dance has made a major impact on who I am. Though I started at age three, I've been dancing at a Vaganova-style ballet academy for seven years. Apart from the physical technique, dance has developed my identity and given me some…

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    Jack Pub in Broad Ripple is one of the top soccer bars in Indianapolis. Yelp ranks Union Jack as the number two soccer bar in Indy, after only Chatham Tap on Mass Ave (Yelp.com). For reference, in 2014 Chatham Tap was rated the number one soccer bar in the U.S. (GQ). Moreover, Foursquare ranks Union Jack as the number one bar to watch soccer, ahead of Chatham (Foursquare.com). Clearly, Union Jack is the place to be in Broad Ripple and all of Indianapolis when a soccer match is on. One of the…

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    has a small family. She has a loving and caring father and mother, and a brilliant sister named Madison, who she adores. Every year, Grace and her loving family visit Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. They stay in a small house close to the village of Chatham. They enjoy many bonding experiences on the beach.While Grace has had many amazing peer editors along the way, her family has always been the most supportive. When Grace enters the business world, she plans to look for a job involving writing. It…

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    his lifetime he wrote six novels; Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. Charles moved a lot in his childhood because of his family’s poor status. In 1816 they moved to Chatham, Kent, close to the countryside where they were free to roam and wander about. In 1822 they moved again, this time to Camden Town, a poor neighborhood in London. His family had hit a hard time in their lives when his father was sent to prison…

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    Rhetorical Analysis of Mary Riebe’s A Place of Her Own: The Case for University-Based Centers for Women Entrepreneurs Women-owned businesses have been recognized as the fastest growing segment of economic growth. Author Mary Riebes discusses this situation in her paper “A Place of Her Own: The Case for University-Based Centers for Women Entrepreneurs” published in 2012 in the Journal of Education for Business. The author is a professor, at Minnesota State University at Mankato Minnesota. Her…

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    1) Winkler, Adam. Gunfight : the battle over the right to bear arms in America. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2013. Print. In "Gunfight," his provocative, exceedingly uneven new book about the battle about gun control, the established law educator Adam Winkler composes that "gun rights and gun control are not just perfect; they have lived respectively since the introduction of America." He contends that "notwithstanding the contention over the importance of the Second Amendment, Americans have…

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    girl from the soccer team. I felt absolutely satisfied to play with boys considering I felt with more power and strength. Once I was 13 years of age, we were not allowed to play with boys. So they made me join a team of girls’ from the league of Chatham Soccer League. At first I felt satisfied considering they were all girls. After we played our first game I was upset for the reason that I felt that they didn’t have the same strength and power as the boys did, in for a moment I felt the same…

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    Gasland Documentary

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    Jwalant Bhagat Gasland is documentary, which talks about a problem that is currently sweeping the country and promising landowners a quick payoff. Gasland’s Josh Fox discovers hydraulic fracturing, a drilling process. The Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act of 2005 is an exemption that hydraulic fracturing has from the United States’ most basic environmental regulations. Some regulations include the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. Josh Fox discovered over a twenty-four investigation…

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    Varsity Athletes

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    for juniors who play sports to bypass gym class. According to the report, “The aim of the program is to reduce stress students feel when balancing time and energy for both schoolwork and sports. The report states that schools in Mahwah, Summit, Chatham, Lyndhurst, Paramus, Morristown, Montclair, Haddonfield, Bridgewater-Raritan and Watching Hills allowed or currently allowed student-athletes to skip gym class.” The new program gives students many different options when choosing their classes…

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