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    The Scopes Trial Essay

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    employment of radical or pacifist teachers. This being the antievolution law which the ACLU decided they could fight if a Tennessee teacher was willing to go to court to test the law there. The most unpredictable place for The Scopes Trial to take place; Dayton. Here john scopes inclined toward his father’s views about government and religion was later prosecuted for his teachings of evolution. The prosecution for his teachings was not necessarily a criminal one but more a public debate on what…

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    Target Corporation (Target) was founded by George Dayton in 1902 in the heart of Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902. Originally known as the Dayton Dry Goods Company, its focus was on general goods for families at competitive prices. As it grew from department store retailer to discount chain superstore, Target tailored its strategy on selling designer brand name goods at discount prices. Today, the innovative superstore has cultivated a brand that is known for its superior guest service, great…

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    Family life is a worldwide experience. We are born into a family. We develop our skills, and our ideas on worldwide views are shaped based on what we experience within a family. After maturing in a family, we create new values, and bring rituals and knowledge that have been taught to us from our original family to our new family. There are many definitions of the word family. Some people believe it is a term related to the bloodline, while others believe it is related to two or more people, who…

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    One of the hardest working groups on the Chino Hills High School campus is definitely our Husky Drumline. It is hard to find a group on campus that has more accolades than these Huskies. For the last few years, Drumline has gone to Dayton, Ohio to compete for the title of World Champions. Every year without fail, these Huskies have scored high and made Chino Hills High School proud. This year was no different. Drumline went above and beyond this year to make sure that this performance would be…

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    The treaty ended the war in Bosnia and tried to gain peace for Bosnia. There were two parts separated within Bosnia. There were the Croatians and the Serbs. The significance of the Dayton Accords was that it helped bring about peace in Bosnia. d) Akayesu took part in the Rwanda genocide during the mid-1990’s. The Rwanda genocide was against the Tutsis. The Hutu’s mass murdered many of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Many Hutus and Tutsis were…

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    The unlucky face that was paired with the ACLU’s efforts to take down the Butler Bill was John Thomas Scopes, a new, young, and popular professor who travelled to Tennessee for a teaching position. He, too, saw the Butler Bill as “a threat to freedom” (25), and agreed to become the test case and stepping stone for the ACLU. It was during this time that the issues of science versus religion and educational restrictions blended together to form one great, single conflict. Once the court case hit…

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    Warren was born and raised here in Ohio. After high school, he enlisted in the Army. While serving in Germany, he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. He excelled as a soldier compelling his commanders to recognize his work ethic and leadership potential. This earned Warren an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. At West Point Warren excelled in the classroom by finishing in the top ten percent of his class. Warren majored in American History and minored in…

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    They took flight on December,17,1903 where their lives changed. Wilbur was born in Millville,Indiana on April,16,1867 he was the first child in his family.His brother Orville Wright was brother and 2nd child of the Wright family. Where they moved to Dayton,Ohio where they grew up to work in their bicycle shop.Where they worked with their sister and his other brothers worked their to earn money. When the wright brothers were thinking of ideas for.The airplane the wright brothers suffered minor…

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    Chenfeld, D. (2011). Above All Else a World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. World champion skydiver Dan Chenfeld tells his story of overcoming tragedy by using the methods he created to become successful in skydiving and life. The book is informative and the author has proved the methods himself. I believe the information is accurate, but may be bias in favor of selling more copies of his book.…

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    John Scopes Trial

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    The Scopes Trial John Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, TN, beginning around 1924. He is best known for the controversy that he caused over teaching one very touchy subject to his students, Evolution. In 1925, Tennessee passed the Butler Act which made it illegal for any teacher in a public school "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” John Scopes was not a…

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