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    Zebulon Pike was born on January 5,1779 to Isabella Brown and Zebulon Pike Senior in the little town of Lamberton which is now a part of Trenton, New Jersey. He never had a formal education but he loved to read. He joined the army at the age of 15 following in his father’s footsteps and was promoted to cadet at the age of 20. He had his first mission at the age of 26. His first mission was a reconnaissance mission to scout out the source of the upper Mississippi River. He left August 9, 1805…

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    What is my Cultural Identity? That’s a great question that I am not sure I even know the full answers to. I can say there are things that are currently changing in my life that affect it and there are things that have been a strong influence on what makes me the person I am today. To discover my cultural identity we need to take a look at my values and how they developed, Let 's start with the basics. I was raised in a middle class family with strong educational background. I use the term…

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    Patriotism ran ramped during the Revolutionary War. Men picked up their muskets to fight for their freedom, and numerous revolutionaries stepped up to the great superpower at the time known as Great Britain. The revolutionary war saw many unknown heroes become known such as, "Mad" Anthony Wayne, Nathanael Greene, and Henry Knox. It was a time to stand up and fight for what you believed in. One of our first, and greatest president also led our country to victory, George Washington…

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    “The industrial revolution in the new century is in essence, a scientific, and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant” Before the Industrial Revolution the 1800’s, mostly all goods were either produced by hand or farmers . Later on, people invented machines that could replace goods made by hand, and their lives also changed in factories to produce goods. There were also new ways of transportation and communication that…

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    Danielle Spencer was born June 24, 1965 (cancer), in Trenton NJ. Her mother Cheryl Pelt was a writer who remarried to Tim Pelt. Danielle Spencer is currently married to Garry Fields (1999) she began her acting career in the hit tv show “What’s Happening!!” The show only ran for 3 years total however during the second season of the show on Sept 7, 1977 Spencer and her stepfather, Tim Pelt were involved in a tragic car accident that left Tim dead and Spencer in a 3 week coma. Tim apparently died…

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    What Causes People to Be Serial Killers? In 1970, Richard Trenton Trace drank the blood of six human beings and ate their flesh. Including a 1 year old Richard ate and then threw away at a church. 1974 through 1978, Theodore Robert murdered and raped 30 women across seven states. Theodore would fake an injury and trick the women to get into his car. Sometimes Theodore would engage in sexual activities with their dead bodies. Theodore even kept some heads of his victims in his home for months.…

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    It was unreasonable to think that an amateurish bunch of soldiers were going to defeat the world’s most powerful army. The odds were really not in their favors but against them all, they did not stop from trying though. They were determined to become their own country and disaffiliate from Britain. The entirety of the war could have not been won without the leadership of George Washington, the unfaltering fortitude of the fearless volunteers who sacrificed their lives for the better of the…

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    time was because of his outrageous toughness. It was December 25th and George Washington was on a mission. During the american revolutionary war, was the first move in a surprise attack organised by George Washington. Against the hessian forces in Trenton,New Jersey(En.wikipedia.org, 2018). This sentence showed how tough he was because he was risky and tough he was to plan a surprise attack. (En.wikipedia.org, 2018)On the morning of December 26,Washington led a column of Continental Army troops…

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    Trenton Figy Mrs. Bruner Progress Report 7 October 2015 I am doing my Progress Report on Woodrow Wilson. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia. His parents were Janet Woodrow and Joseph Ruggles Wilson. Woodrow was the third of four children and lived all over the south with his family from Staunton, Virginia to Augusta, Georgia. He grew up in an average family so he did not have much money. Wilson’s dream job was to be a professorship at Princeton. Woodrow Wilson…

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    While they have the intentions of the child being fostered into a loving family, “[an] inquiry into the Trenton, New Jersey foster care system that year found that up to 1 in 5 children within their foster system were abused at a foster home.” (Terez Malka 1). Since there is approximately 415,000 children in foster care each year, 83,000 kids are physically…

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