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    It was spring break 2015 and my family decided we were going to take our first long road trip! We knew we had to drive a total of almost 17 hours so we made the decision to get up in the middle of the night to start our trip. We were on the road at 3:30am to get through Chicago without any traffic. It was dark and cold as we started out. We breezed through the windy city and headed to Indiana. By now the sun was starting to rise and we were all waking up. The ride so far had been very…

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    CPS: A Broken System Jack was a happy and healthy nine-month old baby boy. He had white-blond peach fuzz growing on his round little head and bright, blue, inquisitive eyes. He was the first grandchild in his family and was adored by his parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles alike. His father, Thomas, was an extremely busy young man. He was a college student who worked full-time and an Army Reservist. When Baby Jack’s mother, Misty, went on a trip, his daddy asked her brother and his…

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    Thesis: Throughout the novel, titled A Thousand Splendid Suns, the author, Khaled Hosseini, through language, indirectly and effectively argues that the style of parenting in which a parent utilizes throughout the childhood of a child significantly influences the child in the future stages of their life. Two of the children, Aziza and Zalmai, are significantly influenced through the parenting of Laila, Mariam, Rasheed, and Tariq due to various factors, including, but not limited to, beliefs on…

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    Cornelius Vanderbilt was an industrialist and a commercial leader. He was known as one of the wealthiest Americans in the 19th century. In his early business career, Vanderbilt was probably the greatest shipping tycoon known in the United States. Many people feared him because of his competitive abilities when it came down to business. Although, he didn’t just sit around and waited for the cash to come. In his early life, he belonged to a poor family, and his father made a living by providing…

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    Montclair is one of the most unique towns in New Jersey. People who live in my hometown range from extremely wealthy, living in the estate section, to homeless and living on the streets. Montclair prides itself on being very diverse and is only 60% caucasian. Everyone told me when I was growing up that I was in a bubble; they said that the real world was not be going to as accepting as the town that I am fortunate to live in. Race did not dictate your education and neither did your social class.…

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    end of the civil war, with people looking to make profit for new inventions. The main focus in this episode is Cornelius Vanderbilt who became so powerful, he was known as “The Commodore”. Vanderbilt at the age of sixteen he bought a ferry with a $100 loan from his mother and as he grew up he had gotten into a different field which revolutionized the business industry. Vanderbilt was poised to alter the country with a whole new infrastructure, railroads. In the episode the audience has also been…

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    the rise and fall of Cornelius “The Commodore” Vanderbilt and the rise of John D. Rockefeller. This episode focuses on how both of these titans became what the were. After the Civil War, Vanderbilt saw the opportunity that the railroads possessed in transportation and shipping, he capitalized on that by investing everything he owned into the railroads and eventually owning up to 40% of all the railroads in the United States. It also detailed Vanderbilts early life by showing that he was a…

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    Cornelius vanderbilt should be the captain of industry because he stated the transportation of oil through trains. Also he was the inspiration behind many other industrial men. Plus he turned $100 dollars and 1 ferry into a giant shipping business that he then sold for a giant train business then he made millions of dollars and making him the richest man in america at that time. Plus he invested very well in stocks only making more and more money to add to his already millions of dollars.…

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    changed from the Leave it to Beaver, nuclear family of the 1950s and sixties. From the suburban household with a husband at work, wife at home and their children, playing in the front yard. Brought upon many changes in the past couple of years to the staple of the nuclear family. Yet the traditional family still survives today, only to integrate and become a category among the varied families that now shape the new American society. This melting pot of families has emerged out of decades of…

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    Endorsing Gender Norms

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    reinforced by everything we do. There is not excepting it. There are many things in our world that are starting to make a change in how we see it can really be more destructive then helpful. We see it in how we talk and converse with one another, how our families are formed, and what classrooms look like today. I believe more behaviors are endorsing gender norms than challenging them. Language is something we learn at a very young age, what we do not learn is that it is filled with gendered…

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