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    Gerald Sandusky

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    boy. In 2012, Calhoun was in a nursing home suffering from dementia. He was not competent enough to testify. In 2005, District Attorney Gricar disappeared and was not available to testify. On November 9, Penn State University fired long-time coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier four days after Sandusky was initially arrested. Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, school officials, resigned from their posts. They were accused of perjury and failing to report suspected child abuse. On June 22,…

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    On January seventeenth, 1942, Cassius Marcellus Clay was born into a small family in Louisville, Kentucky. At an early age, Clay showed that he was not afraid of any fight, whether it be inside or outside of the ring. As an African American child, growing up in the South, Clay experienced first hand racial discrimination and prejudice, which most likely contributed to his childhood passion for boxing. Upon being showed the boxing ring by a town police officer, Clay worked long and hard as an…

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    Polio Case Study

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    Not all cases of polio were able to be recovered by the vaccine but over 90% of cases were curable within Australia. Founder Dr. Jonas Salk started his research in 1947 after many test on monkeys and some human’s. http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/polio.php Governments around the world quickly granted permission to treat polios suffers with the Salk vaccine. The Salk vaccine…

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    Jonas Salk Vaccine

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    of Pittsburgh, the life of Jonas Edward Salk did not begin in Pittsburgh. Jonas Salk, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States was born on October 28, 1914 in New York City. It was in New York City that he became the first member of his family to attend college by attending New York University and earning his medical degree in 1939. The next stop on Jonas Salk’s journey to Pittsburgh was at the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan, Jonas Salk worked on a…

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    Demi Lovato is a singer and popular in many channels, she was born on August 20, 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Demi Lovato had a happy family, she was the middle sister, her mother and her oldest sisters is a singer, and actresses, and very not least her little sister.Demi was very talented at singing she done many several talents contests, and performed in famous venues, Eismann Center, Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day halftime show within LeAnn Rimes. When Demi was ten she was on a show…

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    Hayden Panettiere is back on Nashville once again now that CMT has picked it up after ABC canceled the show. Us Magazine shared that Hayden is speaking out about how this was hard on her considering it was so much like her real life. Back in 2014, Hayden had her daughter Kaya and dealt with postpartum depression. Hayden spoke to Access Hollywood about it all. Hayden shared saying, "You have to ride the waves like the character. When you're that close to your character, you feel their pain and…

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    tarnished public image for the White Sox. Management for baseball was poor in the 90s; including not enforcing enough rules against gambling. Charles Comiskey (White Sox President) had been known to break many contracts with players including “Shoeless Joe Jackson.” As Carney reveals, “The jury believed Comiskey had made and broken that promise, but it did not award Jackson any money. The foreman explained that the cause…

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    Critical Analysis In the book Shoeless Joe and Me, Dan Gutman talks about the old time baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson. Joe was a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox. He was involved in a scandal that’ll never be forgotten. This story is about a baseball fan who has the powers to go back in the time of the year a baseball card is. He wanted to travel back in time to 1919, to find out if Shoeless Joe was really involved in this or if he was against it. He also wanted to stop it from…

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    Shoeless Joe Jackson has the third best batting average of all time. “ Shoeless Joe Jackson was a superb hitter whose career average of .356 is the third highest attainted in the history of baseball’’ (“Shoeless Joe Jackson”). “ Joseph Jefferson Jackson was born in poverty on July 16, 1887, in the small South Carolina town of Brandon Mills. His father was a mill worker and never received a decent salary. Joe Jackson's education ended before his twelfth birthday, and he was illiterate when he…

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    mirror and I said “M-m-maybe s-she’s right”. I decided not for her but for me that I needed to improve myself. Later on I was watching ESPN they were showing a documentary about Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. They showed his fight against Jersey Joe Walcott that won him the championship and the two punch combination that knocked out Walcott. The speed, intensity and the confidence in his ability that shone through the grainy black and white footage in my TV told me that’s what I wanted to…

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