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    Currently I attend Ben Bronz Academy in West Hartford Connecticut. This school has a rather small community with about thirty students. From a young age school had been a struggle for me, as I am dyslexic. Being dyslexic had always caused me to feel like I was fighting an uphill battle that knew no end. As a fifth grader I entered a new school, a school where students were to call their teachers by their first name, a school with classes called ‘decoding’ and ‘morphographs’, a school that was…

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    called the Police Recruitment and Placement-Community Collaboration Model (Tangel, 2015). The Police Recruitment and Placement-Community Collaboration Model were developed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), and the Hartford, Connecticut, Police Department (HPD) and it is funded through the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (Tangel, 2015). The primary focus of the model is to “Position police executives and their local governments to…

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    Deaf Theater

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    The organization the essay is about, is the National Theater of the Deaf. The two addresses of the theaters are Monte Cristo Cottage 325 Pequot Avenue New London, CT 06320 and 139 North Main Street West Hartford, CT 06107. The company began in 1967, 10 years after David Hays, Dr. Edna Simon Levine, and Broadway's director Arthur Penn and actress Anne Bancroft got the idea. It all started in the 1950's when the show Miracle Worker was on broadway. Hays was the set designer of the show and was…

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    children from their native England in 1985. (Oster 310) She became the found the More House Soup Kitchen where meals were prepared for 160-240 meals weekly doing the academic year. (Oster310) She was also invited to become the board member of the Connecticut Food Bank. (Oster 310) Caught also taught economics for about nine years in England. (Oster310) She entered Yale’s School of Management in the Fall of 1984 to learn…

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    Four months after the death of his youngest daughter Mark Twain died at the age of 74 in his Redding, Connecticut home (“A Life Lived… 1835-1910”). Some interesting facts about Mark Twain are, before he started writing under the pen name Mark Twain, he used the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. He probably did this for humorous reasons and to have a funny…

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    In Bridgeport Connecticut public schools have 91.4% minority, Achievement First Bridgeport Academy have 98.7% minority. In Hartford, Public schools 92.6% minority, Achievement First Hartford Academy 99.5% minority. In New Haven CT. Public schools 86.9% minority Achievement First Amistad Academy 98.1% minority, Achievement First Elm City Prep 98.9% minority…

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, grand-niece to Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. She was heir, certainly, to the former’s enthusiasm for purposive exercise and healthful physical education, though not to her conservative views on gender roles. Catharine Beecher was an early and influential leader in ante-bellum America to stress the value of female exercise through calisthenics and female…

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    sense of this complex legal field and work with you to get the injury settlement you need to move forward with your life. Peck & Peck, Attorneys at Law, have more than 35 years' experience working with injured clients throughout the Greater Hartford, Connecticut, area. Here they share three ways an attorney can help you win the injury settlement you deserve. Comprehensive Case Preparation: A personal injury attorney understands the various components that must come together to make a compelling…

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    the Pagan religion, German and Dutch immigrants, and Native American customs. As time went on and early America was colonized by European Christians, these people were condemned as witches. From the first American witch hunt, which was in Hartford, Connecticut in 1662 (Klein), to the rise of modern tv witches in the 1960’s, America has seen a lot. In March of 1662, eight year old Elizabeth Kelly was allegedly “possessed” by a woman named Goody…

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    Field Observation Report

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    I attended the University of Hartford from August of 2015 through July of 2016. I took a medical leave of absence because I was struggling emotionally and needed to attend treatment. I attended Silver Hill in July of 2016 through August of 2016. I then transitioned to an IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program) in New York City from August 2016 to January 2017. As part of my treatment and in order to develop long-term sustainable skills, I then attended a residential young adult treatment program in…

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