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do with the devastated space where the buildings once stood, everything from a Japanese style of garden, to various types of memorials, there was even a call to rebuild the buildings, stronger than before. There was a competition held to design the new memorial (Bose, 2005), yet it was apparent from all the controversy, America was still not over the attack, fear and the unknown have a way of making intelligent people use bad judgement and rushed decisions.…

977 Americans, with another 6,000 wounded. The horrendous event highlighted significance of terrorism threats in America, while propelling the terrorist syndicate Al Qaeda to international stardom, eventually becoming the face of terrorism in the new millennium. Spanning the thirteen years subsequent to the attacks…

In the early 1900’s, were there legitimate ways to prevent fires like we do today? Albert Marrin’s non-fiction story, “Flesh And Blood So Cheap” uses both explicit and implicit evidence and examples in his excerpt to convey his theme that The Triangle Fire that took place in 1911 was caused by many unsafe practices and standards, which led to 146 deaths in the large fire. Fortunately, this fire prompted people to want to work for reforms to improve safety standards which we still use to this day…

Barbara Park was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey on April 21, 1947. She had two children named Steven and David. She also loved spending time with her two grandsons as well. She graduated from University of Alabama in 1969. Throughout college she want to teach high school history and political. After graduating with her college with her secondary education degree she quickly realized writing was calling her name. Her senior year of high school she was voted “wittiest”. When she knew teaching was…

On November 18, 1937 Audrey was born in McKeesport Pennsylvania. McKeesport is outside of Pittsburgh. She didn’t live in the wealthiest family, but just about moderate to that time. She grew up with her parents and one brother. Although she moved to Los Angeles California when she was only six, memories of McKeesport still flourish in her mind. "It was a small town, where everyone knew everyone," she said. People couldn’t get away with a crime because everyone would know exactly who it was.…

When immigrating to a foreign country, many sacrifices are made, including having to leave relatives, friends, acquaintances -but most of all- your country behind. The Latehomecomer –a memoir by Kao Kalia Yang- discusses how her family and Yang were forced to leave their home country due to persecution, causing them to immigrate to the United States in hopes of escaping their cruel fate. This sudden turn of events affected her grandmother the most because it was partly caused her to become…

2 Broke Girls is a show that first premiered on September 19 2011 on CBS. In went on for six seasons and was cancelled this year and they had a total of 137 episodes. The show s about two girls who work at a dinner to make money but have a dream of running a profitable cupcake businesses. The two girls Max black played by Kat Dennings and Caroline Channing played by Beth Behrs. The other cast member include a asian character who owns the restaurant and his name Han Lee. other characters…

(Sherwin, 2011) is a notorious street artist who innovatively used the Urbanscape as a mean for presenting his art through stencilling as a form of replication. BLR took his inspiration from 1970s street art and graffiti he was inundated with in New York and adapted his own theme of art he believed suited Paris from it. His rat stencils brought rise to fame as he painted them around France during the beginning of his career. (McNamara, 2011) (See appendix A). The rats were his first stencil he…

Robert Boyle was born in 1627, he was the seventh son of his father Richard Boyle. Boyle was named the father of of chemistry after he created a vacuum pump and found Boyle’s law, became a philosopher, chemist, physicist, and an inventor. He gave the first accurate definition of a chemical element, chemical reaction, and a chemical analysis. In 1641, Boyle went to Florence with his tutor who was French, he spent his winter studying with Galileo Galilei. He was also part of the “Invisible…

This paper will analyze the DC Mansion fire/murders that occurred on May 14, 2015. According to policer reports, a Washington, D. C., couple, their son and housekeeper were discovered dead after their house went up in flames (NBC Washington, 2015). Days later they were able to capture the primary suspect involved in the quadruple murders. In this paper I will be examining what happened before, during, and after the tragedy of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper. Additionally, I will be…