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    It has changed a lot for today’s world. One thing it helped us in the long run. We are able to have Social Security. Even though some people do not work forty hours a week most people do. What Perkins created was something amazing. She made history for doing such wonderful. If it was not for her and the president at the time Roosevelt we would not have forty-hour work week and a minimum wage law and workers compensation and unemployment compensation, a federal law banning along with child labor,…

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    had one sibling, named Austin Dickinson. All of the men in her life, including her father grandfather, brother, uncles, were all attorneys with political ambitions. Many believe that because of this, Dickinson acquired her work ethic. attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. It has been widely said, that Dickinson was not a social woman, but the people she did surround herself with had an extreme impact on her, and her work. Dickinson was particularly…

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    Gehrig. Mary, Queen of Scots is supposed to be the first woman to play golf in Scotland. Women In Education The first public school for women was open on 1826 in New York and Boston. The first college for women was located in Massachusetts (Mount Holyoke). In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom Cabin that many schools read today. Women In Government According to Forbes the 3 Most Powerful Women In Politics (document reported in 2011) are, Angela Merkel(Chancellor Of Germany),…

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    As everyone knows many colleges require some form of test for admission into their program. This is a stressful process for students applying for college. Students are stressed because so much depends on getting the highest test score possible; therefore these tests should be eliminated. Even though the percentage of colleges using standardized tests to determine if a student is accepted is high, the outcome of these tests should not be a barrier to college admission. Colleges should not…

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    In recent years, an influx of international students in the U.S. have caused many colleges to face new challenges in terms of accommodating the new breeds of student. Devon Haynie (2014) claims that according to the 2014 Open Doors Report on International Educational, U.S. accommodates more of the world’s 4.5 million students from overseas than any other places around the world. Also, around 4 percent of the total college students in the United States consists of international students. Since…

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    questions this ideology in the poem, something she has been doing since she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary – a boarding school that focused on developing its students religiously. Students were often questioned whether they “professed faith,” had “hope,” or were resigned to “no hope”. Dickinson remained in the “no hope” group throughout her tenure at the boarding school. There must have been many times at Mount Holyoke where she suggested that we were not all damned from birth, or that…

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    Emily Dickinson was born 1830 to Edward and Emily Dickinson in Amherst Massachusetts. Amherst was a Puritan town in New England and “encouraged a Calvinist, Orthodox, and Conservative approach to Christianity”. She had two siblings by the names of William Austin Dickinson, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson. Her father was an amazing man and a model citizen. He was a lawyer and “served a single term as a representative from Massachusetts in U.S. congress, elected as state legislature and state senate.…

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    Not every poet was a guy there was also females like Emily Dickinson. She was born on Dec. 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended mount Holyoke female seminary in south Hedley, but only for a year throughout her life she left her home and she found people that in packed her life on her poetry. She started by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she first met on her trip to Philadelphia. In 1860 she left her trip to go visit her home. By the 1860 Dickinson lived in almost complete…

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    Modern Anesthesiologist

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    The profession we chose is the study of Anesthesiology. An anesthesiologist is a Physician who administer anesthetics prior to, during, or after surgery or other medical procedures. They have to go through 12 years of school to get their (M.D) (D.O.). Known colleges that offer the program are New York University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, Ohio State University, University of California. On the job they have to Monitor the patient before,…

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    Who Is Emily Dickinson

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    One of Emily Dickinson’s most well-known poems begins, “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” In her lifetime, Dickinson may indeed have been “Nobody.” Her accomplishments were barely known by her family, never mind the rest of the country, until after her death. Today, however, we know how truly impressive and worthy of fame Dickinson is. From her birth on December 10th, 1830, to her death on May 15th, 1886, Dickinson grew like one of the flowers from her beloved garden and developed into one of America’s…

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