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    studied under Titian, who was the most famous painter of his day. At the age of 35 he moved to Toledo, Spain where he lived and worked for the rest of his life and producing his best-known paintings. He is remembered of mistreated figure often religious in nature the style of which helped establish his years to come. In Madrid, El Greco tried to secure the royal King Philip II. So he moved on to Toledo, where he finally began to find the success history would remember and where he would paint…

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    Three son in laws Kerry, Jeff and Larry. Tami and Kerry have two kids, Paige who recently graduated from Kent State University. Chase is a freshman at The University Of Toledo. Jami and Jeff have one daughter Jorja freshman at Bishop Hartley High School. Ami and Larry have two wonderful kids, Logan is a freshman at The University Of Toledo and Nate is a 8th grader at Celina Middle School. My grandma is special to me because she is sincere, loving and optimistic. The word sincere is one of the…

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    I wanted to tell you about something I learned about in class this year. It was where cities were turning empty rundown lots and United Spaces in cities into green spaces, small parks and small gardens. I think this idea is marvelous. It takes an abandon lot in a small park or a community gardens. Everyone in that community would benefit from this idea. People in the area can take advantage of the garden, they would have food that is health for them, and they would take pride in it because…

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    Stadium “The Shoe”. Lastly, we have The Toledo zoo which was named “best zoo in the United States”. The weather may have mood swings but we have all four seasons, unlike some other states which I like better than not having all four. When people say that the people that live in Ohio are all “hicks” and farmers that is not true, we got stuck with that stereotype but, we have a mix of diversity in Ohio. We do have big cities like Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Toledo, so we have more than just fields…

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    Lima, Ohio is a small, industrial town of just around 40,000 people, located between Dayton and Toledo on I-75. If you were to go to Lima, Ohio and ask who the greatest basketball player ever was you would get one name, Greg Simpson. Greg Simpson's story was that of success and failure. There was nothing stopping him from success, but himself. He was his own poison during his college years. He was featured in the Lima News as an eighth-grader at West Junior High. He garnered coverage due to his…

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    that “God listened to their petitions and pitied his people. He sent Michael the Archangel to guard the city of Toledo and to strengthen its walls” which suggests that God simply gave someone the knowledge to strengthen Toledo’s walls, rather than defeating their enemies outright or using omnipotent abilities to protect “his people” (Attacks on Toledo by Ali and Texufin). In contrast to Toledo, other cities are taken despite the Lord’s favor: “They went out and, captured cities and castles in…

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    The Spanish Reconquista The history of Spain is a tale of both the blending and the clashing of cultures. When Muslims, Jews, and Christians could maintain peace, Spanish culture would exceed that of all the rest of Europe. When persecution and strife broke out, wars that amounted to crusades were the result. Ultimately Spain was united as a nation under triumphant Christian monarchs whose exploits went beyond anything medieval Europeans could even imagine. The result was the foundation of…

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    I recently watched the movie “Gimme Shelter” featuring Vanessa Hudgens as the main character Apple. Apple lived in a broken home with an abusive drug addicted mother and an absent father. At age eight she, was placed into foster care after her mother was arrested for drugs. At the age of twelve she had been placed in twelve different foster care homes. When Apple was sixteen she, made the decision to leave her home and ended up living on the streets. While living on the streets Apple discovered…

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    Sex trafficking in cities of the United States has become a prolonged epidemic. However, many individuals and groups have seized the opportunity to take a stand against those who run the sex trafficking rings, as well as provide comfort and support to those who fell victim to sex trafficking. Such individuals and organizations have started the process of ending sex trafficking and bringing justice to the victims by contracting prevention programs, building trust funds, expanding safe homes and…

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    Senate Bill 235 has been passed through both the House and the Senate in Ohio and has been signed by former governor Ted Strickland (Keehn, 2011). In major cities such as Columbus and Toledo where increased human trafficking was showing is one reason as to why the bill was created. One instance was with a Russian woman named Maria Terechina. She had come to the United States to seek employment in hotels. When Eastern European women would…

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