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    All of Rains life she has known her Genie as her guardian. Anything and everything Rain needed Genie was there, he was her “parents”. Rain didn’t recall much about her actual parents but she was told they had passed away when she was 3yrs old. Rain is now 15, she attends Bayside High School and comes home to her Genie, that’s normal life for her. Until now, everything is going in a downward spiral. Her grades were down, and Genie was not thrilled. As they argued over a algebra, Rain was furious…

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    What is Gentrification? Since the early 1970’s , American cities have experienced constant urban growth despite the Urban Sprawl which resulted in many Americans moving away from urban cities, and into low density neighborhoods. This phenomenon which intrigued many urban observers known as Gentrification, resulted in not only urban city growth, but it also had varied effects on city life, income rates and including culture. The impact gentrification leaves on many American cities differ from…

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    Disappearing out of thin air or falling into a rocky and huge ocean, what happened to The Flannan lighthouse men . These three people disappeared while waiting for the next shift of lighthouse men to show up. This happened on the date of December 26, 1900. Location of course is The Flannan Isles Lighthouse in the West Coast of Scotland. This island is named after Saint Flannan who lived there and died there. There were three people that disappeared, they were all males. No bodies were ever…

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    Sue’s Employee Review Sue is a great worker, with a great attitude. Sue is part of the cleaning crew where she cleans the planes for Frontier airlines. What makes her so great at her job is that she is worked in a rush fashion. Not many people can do the work as fast and as quick as she does with a great spirit the entire time. I plan to prove that Sue is a great worker by: helping you understand her conditions and comparing her amount of work to the other competitors (airlines). Sue is in…

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    A flight attendant, known as Sarah Low’s legacy lives on with Karyn’s wings. In the article “On the Wings of memory¨ By Jon Ramirez, the story of Karyn’s wings is shared. These particular wings have been through many important events. They carry on Sarah’s legacy. Sarah Low was a flight attendant for the American Airlines flight 11 on September 11, 2001. A friend of Sarah’s, Karyn Ramsey, was at the memorial service and to display her respect, gave her flight attendant wings to Mike Low,…

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    The word gentrification was first coined by British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964 when she observed certain alterations in the social structure and housing markets in certain areas of inner London (Mitchell, 2012). She noticed that it begins in a small district and rapidly proceeds until all or almost all of the working class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed (Mitchell, 2012). Because gentrification is such a widespread, international phenomenon…

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    ships, such as Flight 19 and the USS Cyclops, but most of these disappearances can be explained by natural occurrences. The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area of the North Atlantic Ocean located off the southeast coast of the United States. The enigma of the area is its great controversy. “The enigma is that more ships and planes disappear in this area, in fair weather, more than in any other place in the world, for no readily explainable reason” (Bermuda Triangle: Introduction). Flight 19 is…

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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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    K, a travel companion of hooks being called by white female flight attendants and accuse her of occupying a wrong seat. The truth is that the airline “made” a mistake on her ticket, but K did not get a chance to explain to the flight attendant. The sense of powerlessness in K forces her to move to a new seat and give up her assigned seat. hooks describes her emotion towards the white men who took…

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    working to inspire black aviators. Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas; she was the tenth of thirteen children. George Coleman, her father, was three quarter Cherokee Indian. Her parents worked as sharecroppers. (Carly Courtney, Disciples of flight) When she was 12 years old, Coleman was accepted into the Missionary Baptist Church. At 18 she took all of her savings and enrolled in the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University in Langston, Oklahoma. She only had one term…

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