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My person is nathan hale he was a white patriot in the american revolution. he helped with the siege on the british when there were the first casualties of war. He also served in connecticut. He was also a spy for the patriots and went to new york city to spy on the british when he was 21 years old. His last words were ¨ my only regret is that i have but one life to give for my country.¨ Hale, Nathan (June 6, 1755 - Sept. 22, 1776), patriot, spy, hanged by the British, long known as the…

Lefties: The People that are Still There When Things Don’t Go Right “The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.” -Author Unknown Lefties often get a bad rap, and it is time to clear up the misconceptions and make being left-handed a new desirable trait. In the Latin dictionary, the word “left” was often defined as sinister or evil, a matching definition if you were to look into the American education system.…

Memoirs of a Geisha This report is about the film “Memoirs of a Geisha” which portrays the life of Chiyo, a young Japanese girl, who was sold to a geisha house, in Kyoto in the 1930s because of her family’s financial difficulties. Her geisha training is almost near to the life of slavery. Chiyo finds herself working as a maid to a despiteful geisha naming Hatsumomo. Chiyo’s unique beauty attracted Hatsumomo’s jealousy. Hatsumomo then made little Chiyo’s life miserable. One day, as Chiyo weeps by…

Bell is a small city in the Los Angeles County located west of the Los Angeles River. Some surrounding cities include Maywood, Cudahy, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, Commerce, Walnut Park, and South Gate. Bell, although is a suburb, it is considered its own city and only takes up 2.5 sq miles of land. HISTORY Bell has a rich history of Native Americans dating back thousands of years. In 500 B.C. the Gabrieliño Indians migrated to what is now known as the city of Bell. Spaniards occupied the…

types of mutations. (Department of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine, Para I) Some examples are point mutations, missense mutation, nonsense mutation, frame shift mutation, silent mutation, deletion, insertion, and duplication. (US National Library of Medicine) These mutations can either occur naturally or actually made to happen. Mutations can have a huge impact that can be beneficial or unhelpful. Mutations can occur in humans, animals, or plants. Mutations affect today’s society in many…

“Dear Mr. Laughlin, It has been suggested by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale that I write you concerning a suggestion which I made to him that sometime during the International Birth Control Conference there be a round-table discussion between the Eugenics group and the friends of Birth Control… “ Margaret Sanger, Sanger Letter (E-1-1), Truman State Special Collections, March 13, 1925. The connection between American first wave feminism and the eugenics movement, at first glance seems unusual.…

I was born into a family where money seems to be the one thing that we are missing to make our dream real. My mom came to this country for a better life. She has traveled a long way in order to see her children have a better life and not have to struggle like she did. When she settled down I was in her stomach while she works in places that accepted people with no documentation to this country. My mother has struggled with money since the moment she was born. She comes from a family that grows…

When the country initially gained its independence from Britain in 1960, expectations were high that Nigeria would become an economic heavyweight in Africa. With abundant natural resources and a large population, it seemed the stage was set for success. However, despite earnings of more than $500 billion from oil sales during the period 1970 to 2007, the country still suffered from extreme poverty, illiteracy, and high debt. Several factors have been blamed for Nigeria’s troubles including…