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    have different costs, activities, locations, and offerings. After thinking about both colleges, I plan to attend Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Both colleges have a different cost to get in. Wright State and UC both have different costs in their college. Wright State is on average for an Ohio student $19, 434 while UC is on average $16,000 for an Ohio student. Clearly there is a difference in costs in those two colleges but it isn’t a whole lot. If I were an out of state student, I…

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    “Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles” ~ Freeman Dyson. I used this quote because it is showing how The Wright Brothers building a plane started off as a hobbie. The Wright Brothers invented the first successful airplane. The key topics in this essay are who are The Wright Brothers? What…

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    Milton Wright and Susan Koerner. He was the older brother of Orville Wright, who was born in 1871 in Dayton, Ohio, and invented the first airplane with. Wilbur was the third of seven in his family. According to The World Book Encyclopedia, “the boys attended high school. But neither received a diploma” (499). He moved a lot to state to state because, his father’s ministry. They traveled to Dayton, Ohio where he enrolled in Central High school. In 1885- 1886, he played hockey for school, until he…

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    Orville and Wilbur Wright were born in Dayton Ohio, they were two of five children of Susan Catherine Koerner, and Milton Wright. They were inventors known for building and flying the first free controlled powered flight in December of 1903. Later they became effective businessmen who not only conducted business with the United States but Europe as well. The Wright brothers invention had a great impact on commerce, travel,and war. (Orville Wright Biography) Planes had an effect on war…

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    five. Milton's preaching job was constantly moving Wilbur and his siblings around the country until Milton was elected editor of his church's newspaper, Religious Telescope, moving the family to Dayton, Ohio. After renting and buying different houses, the family finally settled in a house in West Dayton where Susan gave birth to her fourth child, Orville, on August 19, 1871. Their father encouraged them from a young age to actively think and expand their interests. In 1878, Milton bought a…

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    The Vandalism Act of 1966 was originally conceived as a legal weapon to combat the spread of mainly political graffiti common during the heady days of Singapore’s struggle for independence.“Unlike some other societies which may tolerate acts of vandalism, Singapore has its own standards of social order as reflected in our laws.” “Alejandro Reyes wrote an article about the Michael Fay caning case in Singapore. Reye's article discusses the case and what people have said about it, yet utilizes…

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    CareSource is nonprofit managed health care plan headquartered in Dayton, Ohio. I asked him many questions regarding information about the organization along with what he looks for in students for internships. He told me that he looks for people that highly interested in the healthy profession along with many character traits…

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    "Character Studies for Les Miserables." Stuartfernie. Stuart Fernie, n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2015. Stuart Fernie is one of the most famous writers, that's why I choose his article from his own website. In this article Fernie talks about the main characters, he focuses on the way of how they act, think and gives background about each one of them. He mentions many examples, and I'm interested in Valjean character because he is the most famous character in this novel. Fernie focuses on…

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    Lima, Ohio is a small, industrial town of just around 40,000 people, located between Dayton and Toledo on I-75. If you were to go to Lima, Ohio and ask who the greatest basketball player ever was you would get one name, Greg Simpson. Greg Simpson's story was that of success and failure. There was nothing stopping him from success, but himself. He was his own poison during his college years. He was featured in the Lima News as an eighth-grader at West Junior High. He garnered coverage due to his…

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    find this point hard to argue. For my essay, I decided to track the odds of winning the most recent Powerball jackpot to determine if winning is actually luck. To follow the story, I kept up with five different sources-EBSCOhost, CNN, New York Times, Dayton Daily News, and Fox News. After tracking the story, I discovered New York Times was the best source. Therefore, anyone interested in the news should read a national newspaper, like the New York Times. For four days, I closely followed five…

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