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    Have you ever met a wild fierce crazy girl before at vista prep academy (VPA) probably you have,there everywhere at this school, but i'm unique beyond the rest of them. I have dark brown curly poofy long hair with light brown highlights which is hard to brush and takes and takes really long time to straighten.I have brown eyes and a little bit of blue at the top which is my birthmark.I have small nose and i'm 4.9 and usually have my nails painted a color that matches with my outfit along with a…

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    John Brown Thesis

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    should be punished. He believed that owning a person was wrong. Brown wanted to get rid of sin “in himself and others” (Horwitz, 17). Brown came up with a plan in order to free slaves, he shared this plan with many of his supporters. There were many people who supported Brown such as Gerrit Smith, Samuel Gridley Howe, and George Luther Stearns. He also had the support of his children. Smith was an abolitionist from New York. He helped Brown move to New York by giving him land in order to “help…

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    John Brown was born on May 04, 1800 in Torrington Connecticut and his father was Owen Brown and Mother Ruth Mills Brown. John’s father worked as a tanner, making leather from animal skins. Owen Brown had a large tanner’s business and moved his family to Hudson Ohio John was raised in a very religious family and area who originated a Puritans and studied to be a minister in Connecticut but after flunking out he started working for his father to be a tanner. After becoming a foreman in his…

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    stress to meet anyone if you did not want to. I started talking to a couple of guys and I was able to weed them out very quickly. I had no interest in a man that was going to use me in any way. One day there was this man on the site, his name, Robert Sturms. His profile really caught my eye. He stated that he has custody of his two children and that he was a family man, but is not involved with the ex-girlfriend. Also, he said he likes home cooked meals and bonfires, riding four wheelers,…

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    Shaker Culture Book Report

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    We see an early example shaker culture when Mr. Tanner gives young Robert the pig for help and apron with the calving. Mr. Haven and Robert are fixing the fence when Mr. Tanner brings the pig Roberts father states about accepting the pig “we thank you brother Tanner but it’s not the shaker way to take frills for being neighborly” (P 21). I think this shows that in the shaker culture they feel that is not right to accept a gift or payment for doing the right thing in any given situation are…

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    Sir Robert Peel was born in Burry, Lancashire on February, 5th 1788. His father was a wealthy cotton mill owner, therefore young Robert Peel was able to go to an Ivy League schools such as Harrow and Oxford. Having such an impressive education under his belt Robert Peel was able to enter Parliament as a Tory (which is a part of the British Political Party) at the tender age of twenty-one. Part of his responsibilities were appointments as under-secretary for war and colonies (1809) and…

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    The Outsiders Theme

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    themes of change, family, and fitting in are shown through hard changes with his best buddy Johnny dying, having to stick together with his brothers no matter what happens, and having to deal with the Socs acting better than them and hurting them. Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” shows an example of how nothing amazing and beautiful, such as gold, lasts forever. This essay will show how some of the characters in The Outsiders show the message of the story Ponyboy is one of the main…

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    good at, and until recently I still did not know. Placing oneself into a category that shows one’s strengths and weaknesses helps a person use that information to succeed in their life, home, and occupation. To people that categorize intelligence are Robert J. Sternberg, and Howard Gardner (Santrock, 2012). Intelligence can be interpreted in many ways so Sternberg made a theory, Matthew made a theory, and children can use these theories to excel in school, and life. Two ways to determine…

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    Comparing Farley and Frost Blanche Farley, the author of “The Lover Not Taken”, written in 1984, wrote her poem as a parody to Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, published in 1951. In the original poem, the author states that the poem’s narrator has to choose between two paths, the road that is easy, open and wide, or the one that is chosen less and walked on less. In Farley's parodistic spin on Frost’s poem, she instead allows the narrator to chose both ‘paths’, instead she is referring to…

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    known to be comprised of these similar literary elements as well. This appears to be the case in Robert Frost’s famous poem, “Mending Wall” and Neil Simon’s well known drama, The Odd Couple. While these two writings are categorized in different groups, they share the comparable theme of limitations. It is a person’s civilized responsibility to, at all times, know their boundaries in life. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He became interested in reading…

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