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Kaylan Gerdes Everyday Masterpiece Anni Albers, even from her first memories has always been influenced by vivid and dynamic colors. Her inclinations for arts and creativity at such a young age were values she would hold within herself for the rest of her life. It’s through her use of colors, textures and patterns from everyday objects that she was able to create masterpieces and became a leader in the arts world because of her abilities. She was born Annelise Fleischmann on June 12th, 1899 in…

Bias #1, Page 171: “However, a CI can enable strong spoken language only when used with intensive auditory- oral exposure in extended, salient, and child-initiated interactions.6 Without a full linguistic and auditory experience, the effects of deafness- associated deprivation can derail the spoken language learning process before it begins.” (Mellon, N. K.) Author Nancy Mellon is currently the executive director at a non-profit agency providing several services for children who are deaf and…

leaning on family friends all what Diane Bilansky had to do with the day she had found her husband had been in a terrible accident and would lose his leg.” Diane Bilansky found out her husband had lost his leg in a terrible accident. While working at Hamburg State Center. He had a large object fall on his leg and was on his way to reading hospital. He would need surgery and have his leg removed. She said this was one of the hardest days of her life . All he was doing was working hard trying to…

campaign killing more than half a million people. The U.S. wanted to show everybody how powerful they were, but It wasn’t necessary to bomb civilians not taking part in the war. “Over the course of ten days, the RAF and the 8th Air Force devastate Hamburg with heavy bombing. The attack, named “Operation Gomorrah,” will leave more than 13 square miles destroyed and kill more civilians than the Germans’ entire Blitz over Great Britain in April 1942.” (PBS) The operation leveled the city and…

Reasons behind human responses and actions cannot be explained in black and white. After all, many decades of research later, neurologists and psychologist have been attempting to decipher several mechanisms in the human brain, that include the decision making process, and still have yet to find concrete answers. Decision making is essential to human nature because individuals need to make basic decisions to survive, or get through important events in their lives. The decision to comply with…

Buffalo, NY is the second most populated city after New York City. It sits on the shores of Lake Erie in the western part of the state, and at the head of the Niagara River. The residents of the city are called Buffalonians. Every month, whether it's summer or winter, it's a city that has plenty for cheap city breaks in Buffalo. Whether it's Ice Biking at Canalside in the winter or the Niagara Wine Trail in the summer, visitors looking for city breaks in Buffalo will have plenty of choices…

Thomas W. Truxes writes in “Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York that during the Seven Years' War”, New York's "most successful businessmen were daring, resourceful, and often ruthless." This assertion is supported throughout the book with multiple examples of how the successful businessmen of the time exhibited these traits. They were bold, inventive, and brutal. These men went to whatever lengths necessary to make money and ensure the security of their businesses. They…

For Alix, it began in high school when she attempted to please her ruthless coach and become better in figure skating (“Stories of Hope”). For Laura, it was the thin models in the media that caught her eye and go down a dangerous road (“Stories of Hope”). For Patrick, it was to gain control of his life after the continuous disappointments in life (“Male Athlete Speaks Out”). Based on South Carolina Department of Mental Health, about 8 million people throughout America suffer from eating…

Helmuth Hübener was born in Hamburg, Germany during Hitler's rise to power. He and his two best friends, Karl-Heinz Schnibbe and Rudolf Wobbe committed high treason. They listened to a radio, which had foreign stations, and was against the law. The books “The Boy Who Dared” and “Hitler Youth” tell about Helmuth’s life and the things that happened that lead to his execution. In “The Boy Who Dared”, Helmuth grows up in the midst of the Nazi’s rise to power. The Nazi's disrespected all…

Council to consider what steps might be taken to prevent it crossing to England. Quarantining of ships had been used during previous outbreaks and was again introduced for ships coming to London in November 1663, following outbreaks in Amsterdam and Hamburg. Naval ships were assigned to intercept any vessels entering the Thames estuary. Ships from infected ports were required to moor somewhere else for a period of 30 days before being allowed to travel upriver. Ships from ports free of plague or…