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    Lloyd Augustus Hall was born in Elgin, Illinois on June 20th, 1894. While growing up he was an honors student at West Side High School in Aurora, Illinois. He was captain of the school debate team while competing in baseball, football, and track. He graduated high school at the top 10 of his class. Hall then chose to attend Northwestern University. In 1916, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He then graduated, earning a degree from the University of Chicago. Through a…

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    Tick! Tick! Tick! The metal monster slowed to a stop. I could see the entire park all the way to the horizon. Admiration flowed through me while looking at the view. I heard a click when WHOOSH, the roller coaster zoomed down the track. I’m in the second row. The unbelievable force as the roller coaster accelerates down the drop made my eyes bulge. The extreme amount of pressure made my heart fly to my head, and for all I know, my kidney may now be in my arm. I found myself smiling the whole…

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    Strangely enough one of my close friends shares a birthday with the famous symbolic interactionism theorists because Herbert George Blumer who is a white male was born on March 7th, 1900 in Missouri. He grew up on a farm with his mother being a homemaker and his father making cabinets. However, this small town feeling did not stop him wanting to be surrounded in the world of business. It is when he attended college was where Herbert got his first taste of the sociological and psychological…

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    Every year, around fifty million people visit Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Fifty million people trek across the country to see a giant blue castle that seems to touch the clouds and a human-sized mouse that wears bright red shorts. When I was fourteen, my family and I joined those ranks when we set off on a family vacation down south to the “Sunshine state”. Mine and my little brother’s eyes sparkled with childlike joy as we pulled into the enormous parking lot, and we were fit to burst…

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    The ride to Atlanta is never boring with the sound of horns honking, tires screeching, people yelling. Seeing the towering buildings over me, surrounding me from every corner, like being trapped behind oversized prison bars. But as soon as I see Turner Field in the distance, I know I am in for a real treat. Attending a baseball game at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia, is something I believe people must experience at some point in their lifetime. Watching the Braves play on the television is a…

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    Roller coasters have always intrigued me. It amazes me that people eagerly exchange the safety of the ground for the well sought out moment to be tossed through the air like debris in a hurricane, flying around in the sky. Someone at some point in history thought that people would enjoy such crazy experiences, and that person engineered what some of the first of these terrifying machines. What I find most interesting about these marvelous death machines is precisely the thrill and excitement of…

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    My intent of this paper topic will be highlighting the inspiration of how Robert Hammond and Josh David visionary idea transformed the creation of an unused, abandoned railway line to a spectacular greenery park in the sky -the New York’s High Line. Hammond and David were two guys from the neighborhood who decided that tearing down the railway line was not a good idea, while other people in the community, including property owners and the Mayor Giuliani wanted the unused railway demolish. With…

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    Rosalind Franklin’s story started in Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom. Her full name was Rosalind Elsie Franklin, and she was born to a rather conspicuous British Jewish family on July 25, 1920. The second of five children, three boys and two girls. Daughter of Muriel and Ellis Franklin, both of her parents originated from Jewish families that settled in England in the 1700s and 1800s. Her guardians owned banks and publishing companies. They were both educated and companionable people.These…

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    Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox Baseball team, where you can eat your foods, and where the greatest fans meet to watch a game. Fenway Park, is the stadium of the Boston Red Sox. It is the oldest baseball stadium in the country. When I first approach Fenway, it look to be a row of food shops and vendors, Inside it is a regular baseball field like any other, except for the Green Monster, a massive wall in left field, that stands a little over thirty seven feet high and two hundred thirty…

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    Martin still wanted to change the black race, so he became a member of Executive Committee of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People. He soon led the Boycott Montgomery’s segregated buses, in December, 1955, and it lasted for over a year. During the campaign, he received threats over the phone as well as via mails. This position got so extreme that eventually, Martin got arrested and his house got bombed.The campaign was ended in 1956, with Supreme Court…

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