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    As a first generation student from a rural area of South Carolina, my exposure to the outside world was very limited. Attending the University of South Carolina gave me my first chance to converse with a diverse group of students from various backgrounds and cultures. My exposure to diversity and social issues came through two outlets. The first was my inclusion in the McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program, which gave me my first chance to have intellectual conversations about issues…

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    Francis Petty grove was born in Calais, Maine, in 1812. While being educated in his home town. He grew up to enter into a number of independent business activities in New England. He paid fifty dollars for the land that is which known as Portland. He owned a lot of warehouses that made money off of grain, lumber, and salted fish. Later at the age of 75 he died, he was buried at Port Townshed.…

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    There are a lot of homeless people in our society today; there are all kind of races and ethics. Many of them are veterans that come home from war and lost everything that they had. Some communities try and help the homeless as much as they can but you never know who is actually homeless or not. Every exit that you get off at there will most likely be someone sitting there with a sign homeless anything helps. You want to give something to them but then you think do they really need it. The…

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    Scott Rocklage 5AM’s managing partner, a role he got in 2004. He had joined the company as a Venture Partner in 2003. His scientific background, as well as the thirty years’ experience he acquired while working in healthcare management has reinforced his background. Through his leadership responsibilities, he helped with the approval of three new drug applications namely Teslascan, Cubicin, and Omniscan. Work Experience Scott was the CEO and Chairman of Cubist Pharmaceuticals and the CEO and…

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    “There exists no luck, everything is as it should be. We meet the people we are fated to meet. We experience what we are fated to experience in our life.” - George Brady. George Brady was born on February 9, 1928 to Karel and Marketa Brady in Czechoslovakia. They lived in a yellow house on the main square of the town Nove Mesto na Morave alongside 3500 others. The Brady family was known at the time for their family business of making skis, which was located under were they were living.…

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    If you live in one of the Southern states, where would you spend your vacation? Chances are, on or along the Gulf of Mexico! Whether it’s jetskiing, boat riding, swimming, fishing, beachcombing, suntanning, or catching a gorgeous sunset, you’re sure to have a good time. Aside from the beauty, beaches, and fun that lures locals and tourist, the Seafood Industry and weather are also popular draws. In my opinion, seafood here, is one of the best things about being on the coast! This is why Biloxi…

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    Zoological Park — one of Florida’s oldest attractions; it opened on May 20, 1893. Take the Crocodile Crossing zip line challenge across the park (and over giant, toothy reptiles) and gawk at other forms of wildlife. Stop to Refuel Less than a mile south of the historic Bridge of Lions — which whisks you from the northern tip of Anastasia Island into downtown St. Augustine — sits O’steen’s Restaurant, a plain concrete-block building. The red shrimp on its sign should be a signal. Owned by…

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    myrtle beach is the best places to visit .prodway,contacars broadway , the mall coat cars prodway.Sentence: broadway is one of my favorite parts of going to the beach . I like walk around proxyway with my family . I like shoping around the stores there they have some good staff . I like eat the foods there and I like doing the rock calming thing . 2 there is a candy store there like buy some candy sometimes i go there . I like riding the bull ride it’s run . And we go to family kingdom…

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    In second grade, my sister was in the national guard so we planned to see her for the graduation in Georgia. Just so we could be early and have more of an experience, we flew out to South Carolina about a week before the graduation, for vacation. To make the trip complete, my whole family came with so the drive to the airport was quite chaotic. When my family and I arrived at Myrtle Beach, we stayed in a hotel by the ocean. I was in awe of how it had been so placid there, for all of the people…

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    2. What do these documents suggest about societal expectation for white elite women’s role? About the roles of servants and slave women? Women of power during colonial times that owned servants/slaves women had some sort of sympathy. In Eliza Lucas Pinckney letter she references to teaching black women on how to read and she plans on teaching the children also. Eliza in a different letter discusses how she is going to assume control of the plantation with or without her father blessing.…

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