Imagine yourself losing your family on a street filled with strangers and homeless people all around you. What would you do and how would you feel? On 12/33/2017 my family‚ cousins and I went to Hollywood because my older cousins really wanted to see the stars that had names of famous people. On our way to Hollywood‚ it took us at least one hour and a half to get there because of traffic and the house we rented was an hour away. I asked my mother when we would arrive‚ because half an hour took forever
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We’re on the lookout for food. We’re starving -- literally starving. We are always going to this person’s house and trying to get food. Ethan‚ Brecken‚ Brady. Billy and I are looking for food. We have seen the humans go into that house. Since we have not been eating we are really skinny and boney. We are really hungry so when we sneak up on the pray we can not howl or make any noises. There is four of use and then we can try and get into the house. We gotta make a plan‚ Brady you try and break
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Having an immigrant status in Los Angeles was problematic. Growing up‚ I always tried to fit into the typical American lifestyle by trying to erase my Mexican culture. I got to the point where I was a master in reducing my heritage. I was ashamed how Mexicans were named called “criminals” “lazy” and “drunks.” So‚ I believed if I tried to be more American my problems would disappear. I wanted to join every typical American sport from dance to cheerleading. I displayed my name as Amber instead of Daisy
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One day nearly two years ago‚ I came back from the worst trip and experience ever in my life. Three years ago‚ my family made the biggest decision of our lifetime together and we had decided to move. Now the fact that we were moving didn’t bother me or my little sister‚ it was just the simple fact that we were moving from our home that we had grown up in our entire life. The only problem was the fact that we had eventually found out that we were going to move to Oregon. This Alabama home that we
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Manifest destiny is an ideal that can be found throughout the history of America. From the discovery of Columbus in 1492 until today. The portion of our history that is affected the most by this is the expansion‚ and settling land‚ west from the original 13 colonies. Not only that‚ but it also helped shape how we treated other people and laws in relation to them. The Collins English Dictionary definition states that manifest destiny is “the belief that the US was a chosen land that had been allotted
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could go back in time and change something in history what would it be? History does have bad things everyone wished wouldn’t have happened‚ but it’s what shaped where we are today. Everyone has at least one thing that they would change‚ to hope it would make nowadays better and more advanced or united. Some things that I would go back in time and change in history would be slavery and segregation. One thing I would go back in time and change in history would be slavery. I would change slavery because
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Throughout history many ethnic cliques have experienced abuse and distrust from our American society. The people in America seem to be less understanding‚ and less willing to accept cultures different from their own‚ at least years ago. Groups such as the Indians‚ the African Americans‚ and the Immigrants‚ fall deeply into this category. The situations and struggles they have gone through are greatly explained in Ronald Takaki’s novel‚ “A Different Mirror‚ A History of a Multicultural America.” Although
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The discovery of the Americas was one of the biggest events in history. But some tend to look over the fact that the discovery of the Americas led also to the discovery of Native American groups who were already settled here. So did the Europeans really have the right to settle in the Americas? The Europeans had every right to settle in the Americas. They had this right because no nation or form of government had been established here. If a nation or government had been established‚ then it would
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In order to complete this assignment‚ I reviewed the textbook used in my eleventh grade Modern American History class. The title of the book is United States History: Modern America. Printed by Prentice Hall‚ it was published in 2008 and is now in its fifth year of usage for my class. I used the Fry Readability Graph to determine the readability of the book. Additionally‚ I selected three passages‚ one from the beginning‚ middle and end of the book‚ in order to assure accurate results. The
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somehow common themes and ideas transect the pages of history‚ excluding none. Here in the digital age‚ the surrounding environment continues to become more and more visually-infested‚ nearly keeping pace with the rapid development of communications technology. "In such a world‚ the problem of how words and pictures connect is a vital one. And no artistic medium seems to me as properly suited to the working out of the connection as the visual narrative is. It is itself the meeting ground of words and
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