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    Sarah Dessen

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    10 successful best-selling novels. Novels such as What Happened to Goodbye, Along for the Ride, and Lock and Key have sparked the lives of many individuals all over the world. The world introduced the future adored author on June 6, 1970 in Evanston, Illinois. She grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she eventually attended UNC – Chapel Hill where she would study Creative Writing and graduated with a degree in English with highest honors. Both of her parents are professors at UNC and…

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    Gary Wills is the author of the book James Madison, which details the life of James Madison through his career as a politician. The focus of the book is Madison’s presidency, which Wills brings to the forefront as the major topic. Wills states that most other books do not focus on Madison’s presidency saying, “Madison’s very presidency is semi-forgotten. When Madison expert Jack N. Rakove published a selection of his writings in 1999, only 40 of its 864 pages came from his presidential years.”…

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    to mold world peace by helping our allies. She attempted to push people to create an “international organization to prevent further wars”, but the feedback she got was hostile. Addams gave a speech at Evanston, Illinois Church where, “an old colleague from Addams’s progressive reform days, Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Orrin Carter, stood up and criticized her for not supporting her government in a time of war” (Knight, 216). As a pacifist during the war Addams received lots of criticism,…

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    These study programs mimic a full-time work experience and develop student skills early on. The application process requires each student to create a resume and cover letter and interview (Jackson, 2016). While the Work-Study programs target Freshmen and Sophomores, Job Shadow programs and Loyola’s Job Fairs target Juniors and Seniors looking to enter into the workforce post-graduation (Jackson, 2016). Due to their location in an urban environment, Loyola establishes strong relationships with…

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    Movie Summary Mean Girls centers around Cady Heron, as she enters her junior year of high school. Cady has recently moved to Evanston, Illinois from rural Africa and is about to enter North Shore, a public high school, after being homeschooled for her entire educational career. Initially Cady is unfamiliar with the norms of the high school, but she soon learns how to navigate the social scene from Janis Ian and Damien, a duo of low social status. Soon after meeting Janis and Damien, Cady is…

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    was sentenced to three life sentence in prison. He had been in prison for sixty five years before he passed away at the age of eighty-three. Introduction William George Hereins was born on November 15, 1928. He was born in the suburb of Evanston,…

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    Mean Girls is a film, which premiered in 2004 with starred major actress: Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Lindsay Lohan. The film begins with a sixteen-year-old girl named Cady Heron who just moved to Evanston, Illinois from a twelve year research trip in Africa with her parents. Cady begins her first day of public school, since she was homeschooled, and she meets a group of three girls who are very popular and they are known as the Plastics: Regina the Queen Bee of…

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    Mean Girls: Cady Heron

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    The cult classic movie, Mean Girls, revolves around a sixteen year old girl named Cady Heron. Cady has been homeschooled in Africa for her entire life and is gifted in STEM. She moves to a small town in Evanston, Illinois, and meets an array of people as she assimilates to public school in the United States. She learns new skills that guide her social survival in an American high school. In the beginning, Cady is a sweet and quiet girl who keeps to herself. She meets Janice and Damian who coach…

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    Sabon Gari Case Study

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    1 The Question of Sabon Gari Phenomenon in Katsina Metropolis, 1903-2011 Samuel Wycliff Department of History, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria samuelwycliff@yahoo.ca and samwycliff@gmail.com 08060510055, 08053430606 Abstract The history of Sabon Gari system in Northern Nigeria has received attention from scholars, yet the absence of such settlements in some of the Northern cities and towns has not been addressed. This paper examined the reasons for its absence in Katsina metropolis unlike…

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