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    “ok” so I went to bed. At 7:30 my dad got me up and I got ready and we got in the truck and went to town. When we got to town we went to fleet farm. We went in my dad brought me to the hunting section he pulled out his shopping list it had to get Dayton camouflage pants, shirt ,coat, boots,socks,gloves,orange hat,vest,hand warmers, feet warmers,shotgun,scope,slugs,targets. So he told me to get all that stuff except for the shotgun I went got every thing my dad told me to. When I found him…

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    school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. John T. Scopes John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee after college. In his first year in Dayton he was a teacher and a part-time coach. Scopes planned to return home to Kentucky for the summer. But he was distracted by, in his words, "a beautiful blonde" and he stayed for another week hoping for a date. The decision changed his life…

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    The Scopes Trial occurred in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925. Although, despite the common idea that the trial was a true incident of unlawfulness, there lies within a controversy that resonates the idea that this trial contained no true legal value, it simply allowed for more tourist dollars and publicity in the small town of Dayton (Singham 23). In all actuality it is exceedingly unclear whether John Thomas Scopes truly taught evolution during his substitute teaching career (26-27). In support of…

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    would have it any other way. Long weekends at hotels all across the state from Battle Creek to Frankenmuth, we played baseball where ever it was to be played. But these stages could not prepare me for where I was about to play next. The University of Dayton baseball stadium, the nicest natural field I have ever played on. It was beautiful from the seats, the mound, the outfield wall, it was all gorgeous. Just stepping on to it felt right. My biggest stage to play, and I had my self a good day of…

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    Freddy Ramirez Professor Brown Art History 141 26 May 2015 Fowler Museum Project The Fowler Museum was an interesting experience. The name of the Exhibition is Intersections: World Arts/ Local Lives, the exhibition doesn’t have an ending. The name of the organizers and curators were not provided. The art is interesting for the facts that the people who made the art pieces put a lot of dedication and time in wanting to make them look great. The first section in the exhibition is the Art and…

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    “Psychology is the most interesting of all fields. It’s the most interesting because it’s about us. It’s about the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. It’s about our memory of things. It’s about our dreams, love and hate. It’s about morality, our sense of right and wrong. It’s about when things go wrong as in depression or anxiety. It’s about happiness. It’s about everything that happens to us.” ~ Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology – Yale…

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    same area they both had different views on many issues. Although they were both fought for similar issues and were both feminists, Friedan’s name was associated with resurgent feminism and Schlafly was associated with antifeminism ( Kerber, De Hart, Dayton, & Wu, 2016). Betty friedan identified herself as a suburban housewife. She was a white middle class women, activist, writer,…

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    Facing It Analysis

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    you’ve forgotten the point again” (181). Clearly, the war is traumatizing to a degree where soldiers repress memories unconsciously. The burring of memories continues into “From Slaughterhouse-Five” as Vonnegut could not write about the bombing of Dayton for years due to a fogged memory. This possibly has to do with how quickly things occured during war and the need to focus on staying alive. Finally, Vonnegut considers that there is “nothing intelligent to say about a massacre”…

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    incentive on constructing his balladry. Using his struggles, he wrote literary art that pertained to not only himself, but other individuals who suffered the consequences of being African Americans. He changed the way many people see slavery. Born in Dayton, Ohio June 27,1892 ,he is a slave who absconded the clutches of captivity by escaping through the Underground Railroad. Not shortly after that he was legally free after the Civil war. Born into an unequal country it was hard to…

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    Substance Abuse And Family

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    An addiction is when a person cannot stop taking drugs or drinking alcohol even if they wanted to. It can happen to people from all backgrounds, rich or poor. Addiction happens at any age, but usually starting when the person is younger. The urge people with addiction feel when they use the drug can fill every moment of a person’s life. Addiction replaces everything that person once loved doing. The person addicted to drugs might lie, steal, or hurt people just to keep taking the drug. I had to…

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