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    I began my educational journey at Georgia State University as an enthusiastic pre-medicine major with a very unrealistic goal of taking on the world.I told myself I would sacrifice anything to become a doctor, including accepting the possibility of never having children due to how hard it would be for me to spend quality time with them.I constantly worried about the finances required for my education, if my parents had the necessary funds to pay their bills, and much more.As far as my academic…

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    Celia, A slave: A trip to Slavery and Injustice The book Celia, A slave, by Melton A. McLaurin is an interpretation of one incident that depicted common slave fear prior to the Civil War in the United States. The author uses the account of the young female slave that was constantly struggling with rape and injustice 's hardship, that can be extremely violent in today 's naïve society. The story of Celia offers important insights on how the gender and racial oppression left the female slaves…

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    high cost of maintaining a properly functioning death penalty system was the reason for the abolishment. National studies suggest that each additional capital trail causes an increase in county spending of more than two million dollar and theses costs are borne primarily by increasing taxes. These cost force counties to seek help from state legislatures to create programs to diffuse death penalty costs; total taxes and expenditures for capital cases from 1983-1999 were more than $5.5 billion…

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    Joseph Hepburn, father of Audrey Hepburn, left his family and moved to London, England. This abrupt change in her life she regarded as "the most traumatic event of my life". She had an education at a small school located in Elham, England in the county of Kent. WWII During WWII the Hepburn family moved to the Netherlands in hope that the country would remain neutral through the war. To avoid the danger of an “English sounding name Audrey went by Edda van Heemstra. She attended a boarding…

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    Administration such as Senator Stephenson must immediately send innocent children to the office for this ridiculous blue-coated “Dress-code Violation” attire and pressing suspension to those who wish not to humiliate and embarrass themselves throughout the school day. I say it is downright deliberate intent to embarrass every student in every way possible by their operation of throwing the “Blue Suit” upon us. But certainly, from here on out, Westlake High School Dress-code shall no longer be…

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    Abstract Breast cancer remains the most common type of cancer diagnosed in women in the United States. It is the second most common cancer death with lung cancer being the first. African American women have a higher incidence of dying from the disease than any other race or ethnical group. For many years, it was thought that this was due to African American women not having access to the same health benefits as those of other races and that it was often found at a more advanced state. Though…

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    Police Body Cameras In recent polls it is said that in about nine out of every ten people believe body cameras are the solution to police misconduct. Police body cameras are cameras that are meant to record a police officers and a citizen 's actions and behavior. The Rialto Police Department was the first in the country to enforce the use of body cameras on their officers, In recent year body cameras are seen as a solution to protect the community from police harm. To most people that…

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    of a particular period” (such the morality of slavery) than to the lives of those who through significant achievements achieve national prominence.” Introduction xi In chapter one Beginning McLaurin uses the eighteenth federal census of Callaway County Missouri Notes page 144. Robert Newsom moved his wife and two young children from Virginia to Missouri between 1819 and 1822. He purchased land on the middle river minor tributaries of Missouri river. He owned 800 acres he grew…

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    After the American Revolution, the United States underwent a decade of political and economic unrest under the rule of the Articles of Confederation. Then, our nation adopted the Constitution. The document reshaped our nation economically, politically, and socially, from a vulnerable, divided nation to a powerful, stable nation. However, now, our nation had a traditional economic system, which focused mainly on agriculture, and enormous resources that waited to be exploited (lecture October 25).…

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    The industrial Revolution has the most far reaching changes in the history of humanity.It has altered our lives more than any development in the past thousands of years.There are some very important global influences of industrial revolution. It led people from countryside to towns and cities.But the growth of cities continued as industries continued to grow and by 2008 ,for the first time in the human history,more people in the world lived in cities than in rural areas.The industrial…

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