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the differences between the republican ideology held within a disgraceful United States regarding the support for liberty and equality, and the converse reality which is faced by slaves across the nation. In his speech given on July 5th, 1852 in Rochester, New York, Douglass argues that the deceitful actions brought on by the United States in regards to slavery, labels the supported, slave-free republican view of the nation as inaccurate, and insincere. “You boast of your love of liberty, your…

The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man , Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in February 1818 on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He spent his early years with aunt and his grandparents. He saw his mother only four or five times before her death when he was seven years of age. (All Douglass knew of his father was that he was white slave owner.) During this time Frederick Douglass was exposed to degradation of slavery, witnessing firsthand brutal whipping and spending much time…

Hospitals and sadness comes into my mind when February 14th approaches every year. Every winter I participate in an annual swim meet held in Rochester, Minnesota, this year it happened to fall on the weekend of Valentine’s Day. Me being 14, I was beyond ecstatic to spend the weekend in a hotel. That cold Friday afternoon, I traveled with my team to Rochester while my parents worked. They assured me that they would be coming straight from work to see me swim. In my mind, my whole world…

Jerry Uelsmann is an American photographer. He was born June 11, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan and is still living today in Gainesville Florida. Uelsmann graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957 where he received his B.F.A degree. In addition, Uelsmann earned his M.S. as well as an M.F.A. from Indiana University in 1960. Aside from creating his own artwork, Uelsmann taught photography at the University of Florida Gainesville. In addition to teaching photography, he was a graduate…

speech. Like the title says, this speech was not given on the Fourth of July, which fell on a Sunday that year, since it was a custom of that era prohibited secular events on the Sabbath. The speech was organized the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York the Monday after the 4th of July. At this point in time the spokesman, Frederick Douglass was well know as a speaker. Douglass (1818-95) born into slavery, escaped at age 20 and went on to become a…

More, more, and more… “Sweat? Pain?” No more. More, more, and more… “Right now?” Yes. While life is never perfect, avarice and sloth tempt human beings to trade their souls for tangible gains. Ironically, drugs, the man-made devil, become the ultimate winner in this compact. Not only are the characters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea enticed by drugs, but also Samuel Coleridge, the author of “Kubla Khan,” indulges himself with drugs. While some of them yield to the great…

in risk when being scanned. Some doctors underestimate the dangers CT scans pose to children, where the risk of developing cancer later in life through more exposure is there. Stephen J. Swensen, M.D., medical director at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “If the scan isn’t necessary or emits the wrong dose of radiation, the risks far outweigh the benefits.” More importantly noted, “All too often children are receiving adult-sized doses of radiation, which is many times the amount they…

Joseph Nazo is an American serial killer, who was sentenced to death for the murder of six women. He was also a suspect in the so called Alphabet of Murder case. Joseph Naso or Crazy Joe was born on January 7, 1934 in Rochester, New York. After being in the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s, he met his first wife. Her name was Judith and their marriage lasted for 18 years, but later they got a divorce for reasons that I am not aware of. Naso continued visiting his ex-wife who lived in the Bay Area.…

Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach (born June 2, 1980) is an American retired soccer player, coach, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. A six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, Wambach has been a regular on the U.S. women's national soccer team since 2003 earning her first cap in 2001. As a forward, she currently stands as the highest all-time goal scorer for the national team and holds the world record for international goals for both female and…