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    On 03/15/18 at 1510 hours, I responded to 2921 S. Orlando Drive (CBC of Florida) Sanford FL. in reference to a possible battery. Upon my arrival, I made contact with Calista Bowling (arrestee/juvenile), Christina Brantley (victim/adult), and Temeka Harris (wittiness/adult). Brantley and Harris provided me with sworn written statements. On 03/15/18 at approximately 1500 hours, Brantley stated that she called Bowling into her officer to discuss the issue about Bowling’s cell phone and removing…

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    Dred Scott was a important person in America and in the Supreme Court's history. He helped push America towards what's right and the Civil War. Dred Scott was born sometime in 1795 and was born into slavery. He had a brother and a father and mother. His family and him were owned by Peter Blow. They had moved to Huntsville, Alabama, then St. Louis, Missouri. Peter Blow died in 1830. His death lead to Scott being sold to a U.S army doctor named Dr. Emerson. He and his owner for sometimes kept…

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    Hannah Webster Foster elaborates on gender expectations in her novel, “The Coquette”. The main characters Eliza Wharton and Major Sanford are examples of how society is very strict on gender norms. For example, from birth society is quick to picture an infant male with the color blue and a female infant with the color pink. This shows how men and women are socialized from birth. The novel also explains how men and women have double standards. Society has given men and women contradictory…

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    A community is similar to a puzzle; without one of the pieces it is never flawless. Being a part of a community and participating in community service doesn’t only better us, but it helps the general public. When I signed up to volunteer at Sanford Health I wasn’t sure if I was truly helping anyone or even making a difference. Never did I think that the service I was providing would have such a positive outcome. Although I had originally thought that by volunteering I would be providing a simple…

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    participated in was the Suicide Prevention 5k. This event was held at the Sanford Center. Participants could choose to run, walk or skate. Both a 5k and a 10k were also offered. I chose to participate running in the 5k with some of my cross country teammates. The course for the races were located on the path that goes around the Sanford Center and through the neighborhood behind it. Prior to the race, inside of the Sanford Center, was information set up about different ways to help yourself or…

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    Boyer she wishes to delay the marriage between them. He considers this to signify attraction to Major Sanford and indecision between the two men. While Eliza continues to see Major Sanford, she makes clear to him her decision. Major Sanford protests, of course, and urges her to reconsider. She does, indicating her attraction to him, but she also seeks his company because he has additional entertainment value as a friend…

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    and it influenced the civil rights movement greatly. Three Supreme Court cases influenced the civil rights movement by giving hope to the African Americans and making them want to fight even more: Dred Scott v. Sanford, Brown v. Board of Education, and Loving v. Virginia Dred Scott v. Sanford was only one of the great Supreme Court cases that changed the history of America and African Americans forever. To begin with, Dred Scott was an African Slave that had spent time in a free territory. He…

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    Scott and his family saved all of the money they earned in order to pay Emerson's wife Eliza Irene Sanford to leave them alone. She refused to let them free which is when Scott and his family decided to take legal action. During his time at court, Scott argued that the Missouri Compromise granted him freedom since he had lived in a free land. The Court sided with him. However, after Eliza Sanford remarried, she entrusted her brother with the court case. Her brother refused to pay what he owed…

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    The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster advances the reader’s understanding of the term ‘coquette’ by simultaneously showing the vulnerabilities and exceptional strengths of the main character, Eliza Wharton. The term coquette, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is defined as “a woman (more or less young), who uses arts to gain the admiration and affection of men, merely for the gratification of vanity or from a desire of conquest, and without any intention of responding to the feelings…

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    Walking into the small Sanford lake park, I feel the warm spring sun and the fresh breeze coming from Sanford dam, where there are fisherman always fishing even throughout the winter. Baseball and softball fields always filled with young children and parents practicing are spread all throughout the park. The scorching, black pavement was never freshly redone and the yellow parking lines had all but faded, yet it surrounded the best basketball court in all of Sanford. This court is not the most…

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