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The closer I get to graduation, there has many thoughts going through my mind. I have thought about taking a vacation and focusing on raising my daughter. By the time I graduate, my daughter will be one-year-old and I would love to be able to be a stay at home mother. If I decide to spend as much time as I can with my daughter, I plan on having a part time job in order to have a foot in the door once I decide to become full time. Another thought that I have been considering is continuing my…

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela. Education is shapes our country in to what it will be in the future. That is why education is important and schooling kids year round is just improving the school system for a better education for students. Year round schooling erases the problem of the summer slide. Also, it gives more breaks during the main part of the year. Lastly, more time and different times to go on vacation and other…

Ellington, “Increasing number of farmers were not only engaged in substance agriculture but were producing crop surpluses as well.” The speed of the increase of agriculture in Japan was faster than before. “Their primary source of income was a fixed stipend tied to agriculture production.” Quote from Britannica. This means that farming wasn't the primary source of income until the Tokugawa period making it the fastest period of economy increase. Secondly, the production of silk and cotton…

Violent Protests in the Frontier *Insert contextualization* Many grievances of the eighteenth century were expressed through violent protests such as the March of the Paxton Boys, Shay’s Rebellion, and the Whiskey Rebellion. The March of the Paxton Boys was a response to Pontiac’s Rebellion by a group of Scots-Irish Pennsylvanian frontiersmen called the Paxton Boys. The Paxton Boys led an attack on the Conestoga Indians, who were a friendly Native American group living on the frontier of…

He also gave himself a $16,500 retirement stipend that was also not in his employment contract. He is being charged with five counts of wire fraud and one count of embezzlement. The charges that he faces, if proven guilty, could be up to twenty years in prison for wire fraud and a maximum ten years…

With coaches making upwards of $7 million dollars a year and television ratings for its game coverage skyrocketing, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has had its fair share of good times in the 21st century. The association has also had its worst times as well, “the NCAA has never been more vulnerable and on the defensive with regards to it policies and practices, especially its reliance on the age-old characterization of college athletes as “amateurs” who are first and…

In order to reduce violence throughout the Southside of Chicago, The Greater Roseland Collation proposes the Bounce Back 2 Life Bridge Program, which is designed to provide high risk youth with the tools needed to become a successful contributor into their community. The program combines cognitive behavioral therapy, workforce development, and intensive case management, addressing the many needs of high risk youth in Chicago including life and problem-solving skills, employment, educational…

"A whale shark is still a shark! If you're going to call me all the way out here for my credentials as a scholar, don't don't get pretentious over a technicality!!" Professor Francois Gallichotte is, to put it lightly, a genius. This isn't to denote a sense of superiority or mockery of others in her field--ask any one of them and they will say the same, and ask the woman herself to hear the opposite. Regardless of her beliefs, however, one doesn't earn a double major in archaeology and marine…

Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai accompanied with the fact that it wasn’t glory stage of a bureaucrat near the end of Tokugawa period making his life harder to pay off livings for two daughters and a senile mother with just 50 koku (Samurai stipends in Edo period). Indeed, the Japanese economy in the end of Edo era encountered inflation due to the reduction of their…

SUMMARY Phil Smith is the band director for the Penzville High School Marching Band. The band won this year’s regional band contest and they have been asked to march in the Magnolia Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day. Phil had put in considerable time and energy to turn this band around from just a few members into a full-size band. He sacrificed time away from his family and friends to improve the band. The band is the pride of the town of Penzville. Just before the Thanksgiving holiday.…