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    Introduction Ethan Allen was born in 1738 in Litchfield, Connecticut. He fought in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Allen lead the Green Mountain Boys and Benedict Arnold to Fort Ticonderoga to capture it from the British. Early life Ethan Allen was born on January 21, 1738 in Litchfield Connecticut. Allen was one of the first kids from Joseph and Mary Baker, Allen had 5 brothers and 2 sisters. Allen wanted to attend Yale university just like his father. Allen became…

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    Overpopulated Prisons

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    administrative functionality of the criminal justice system and the nature of the treatment inmates are subjected to by authorities in prison. We are quickly introduced to a stereotype about prison officers when Chapman first enters the reception area of Litchfield Penitentiary. The receiving officer is unaccommodating of just about everything. The officer who is supposed to escort her in is brought across as rude and condescending towards inmates. When her picture is taken for identification…

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    Piper has been convicted of transporting a great amount of drug money to her former girlfriend, Alex Vause who was in an international cartel. This all happened ten years prior to the start of the series. Pipers got send to a federal prison called Litchfield, which is operated by the “Federal Department of Corrections”. In prison Piper and Alex reunite and they re-examine their relationship and deal with the other prisoners. The show provides backstories of those inmates in form of flashbacks.…

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    Good morning, I'm once again excited to share another positive outcome with one of our Putting on AIRS (POA) partners; Connecticut Children's Medical Center. Specifically in this instance with Chris Corcoran from Connecticut Children’s Healthy Homes Program. I'll acknowledge, it can at times be confusing for all of you to figure me out....and I'm not just referring to my role as POA Coordinator in 3 Regions (please no comments from the peanut gallery). Although, , once the confusion unravels,…

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    greatest pieces of the time. B. Thesis Harriet Beecher Stowe used her religious background and education to promote the abolition of slavery in the United States of America. C. Early life, family, education Harriet Elizbeth Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield Connecticut in 1811 to Lyman and Roxana Beecher (hbsc). Her family is one of the most influential of the time. Her father was…

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    Oliver Wolcott was born on November 20 1726, he was soldier and was part of the sons of liberty . In 1776 he was the second continental congress debated over the declaration of Independence and signed the declaration Independence it’s on the right column second of the bottom. Then he went back to connecticut where he was placed in command of a detachment of connecticut militia of fourteen regiments raised to defend New York. About Oliver…

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    An additional TV show that has hit the top feminist shows according to views today is Orange is the New Black. Piper Chapman is a public relations executive with a career and a fiancé when her past suddenly catches up with her. In her mid-30s she is sentenced to spend time in a minimum-security women's prison in Connecticut for her association with a drug runner ten years earlier. Forced to use an orange prison suit, Chapman makes her way through the corrections system and adjusts to life behind…

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    Horace Mann thought highly of education from childhood. In his youth Mann was educated by underqualified teachers, then eventually began to teach himself in the town library. Samuel Barrett eventually tutored him, teaching him Latin and Greek. Mann had a great love for education. “God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.” (Babel). At the age of twenty Mann went to Brown University, joining the sophomore class.…

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    Like for instance, there are certain unsaid rules around litchfield about what to wear, how to look, and how to act, but most of us do not conform to those rules. I see girls with black clothes, bright sapphire contacts, thick black makeup, and an attitude the size of Texas. There are a few who dress like that and…

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    The Abolitionist Movement The abolitionist movement is a movement to end slavery in the united states. This movement occurred in the 1830s. it’s important because it would give blacks more rights. Three of the people that were involved were William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf whittier. These three people have to do with the start of the movement to end slavery.This is who they are and what they did. John Greenleaf Whittier born in Haverhill,MA 1807 he was a…

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