Coming to America It was a cold morning on the 20 of December‚ that morning I woke up sleepy as a sloth. I didn’t have school that day and from my room I could smell the beans been cocked. The atmosphere at home didn’t feel right‚ I felt like if there was something going on and I was the only one that didn’t know. My mom and sister looked suspicious. My house was small‚ it had two bedrooms and one bathroom. My sister got on her blue BMX bike and went out‚ I didn’t know where she was going
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undertaker took my wife away. They wrapped her in a black sheet and loaded her into their Hearse. I felt helpless as I watched her leave. I wondered where her soul went‚ and I sat on the couch. The house seemed empty. Thinking that I was a man born in America‚ which is a country no more or no less bigoted than any other country. I thought about my wife‚ a Mexican-American. I thought about what her life meant to me in such a landscape of hatred. I was as if I stood in the dark side of my life. It was as
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Did you know that three out of every four leaders in business‚ religion‚ and politics can say they were at one time a Boy Scout? This is not a coincidence‚ the Boy Scouts of America is an organization that teaches boys from a young age the importance of leadership‚ morality‚ and patriotism. Most boys involved in scouting enter as a Cub Scout around the age of six years old. As a cub scout they will learn how to become young active members of their community‚ but only about half of these boys continue
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It’s Monday‚ December 9th. Today just seems unusual‚ like something big is going to happen! I wonder what it will be for a split second‚ then go back to studying for the Latin America quiz we have tomorrow. Mr. Fielder announces what questions we should highlight on our worksheets. I watch him go back to his desk. I look up and out the window‚ I see the glistening shimmer of fresh snow dancing in the sky. I cherish every second of it‚ wishing the time would go by slower. As time creeps closer
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We all said a prayer and thanked god for letting us be here in the new America. Then it was time for my dad to go to work and I helped my mom do things around the house like sweep and then washed dishes. We live in a big house and mile away from the town and were the port is its quiet and we have a lot of people around were
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decided to do this by restarting the Black History Club at our school. The Black History Club was something that had been around during my freshman year of high school‚ but had ended once the current president graduated. Though it was named the Black History Club we did not just sit around and talk about African -American history at our meetings. The Club was more of a place to discuss African -American culture but we decided to revamp it. Like the old Black History Club our new club held the name yet
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Faulkner January 27‚ 2009 History 484- Colonial America I have e-mailed you‚ and I have set up an appointment to discuss the choice I should make concerning my topic for this research paper and presentation. I have always been interested in American history‚ but it seems as though I never gave much thought to the particular time period in which I am most interested. I have concluded however‚ that I do not know much about Colonial America. Every time I would sit down and begin to delve deeper into
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Over Thanksgiving break I did all my favorite things. I played basketball for the first two days for 2 hours‚ Then I went to Arkansas where I got to go to another Arkansas football game that lasted 5 hours and was a back and forth game so it kept me standing‚ and on the way home I watched my favorite TV show criminal minds. A lot of people have different favorite things‚ but some of my favorites are‚ playing sports‚ watching Arkansas football‚ and watching a good TV show. First of all‚ playing sports
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Jamestown is the most important settlement in the history of America. Why? If not for the brave men (and women) who completed the long journey from Europe to the Americas‚ we might be speaking Spanish. If not for their integrity and determination‚ there might still be wars going on between the Spanish‚ French‚ English‚ and the Indians. One of the most important members of the Jamestown colony was John Smith. However‚ unlike the many nobleman who made this voyage to find riches and fame‚ Smith (who
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How could one unified country suddenly become so split apart? Every day I wonder what life I would lead if I was not forced to work in the heat of the South. Although factory work in the North would still be rigorous like the farming in the South‚ African Americans there are not treated as things‚ but people. In the North‚ I would not be frightened at the thought of being caught and tortured or killed if I tried to move to another place. I do not know if there will ever be a time when I would be
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