Dara Zambon Ms. Guerin Civics 24 January 2005 Nancy Reagan What was it like to change from an actress to the First Lady of the United States of America? In her early career‚ Nancy Davis worked as an actress in stage‚ film‚ and television productions. Her stage performances ranged from summer stock to road tours to Broadway and‚ in 1949‚ she was signed to a seven-year contract with MGM. During this time‚ she met Ronald Reagan and they were married on March 4‚ 1952. She made eleven films in
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Do you know what being acrougus means? Courageous means that you would risk your life for someone but it doesn’t even have to be that courageous. You would be considered courageous even if you did something little like remembering to take something out of the oven before it burns. My three types I woulod consider being coragous are standing up for someone or something‚ someone risking there life to save someone or something and last but not least when you speake up about something that most people
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“The House of the Scorpion” by Nancy Farmer is a confusing but good book that teaches a valuable lesson. “The House of the Scorpion” takes place in a futuristic setting. A region in between Mexico and the U.S. Then the setting changes to what was once Mexico but now is called Aztlan. Matt is the clone of a drug lord El Patron who is hated by everyone except for a handful of people. Matt is very confused and feels alone all throughout the book. In the beginning of the book Matt discoveries that he
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Definition Essay Jose Charles Ms. Saxton Adv. English 3 My interpretation of being an American would be is fairly different from others‚ I became an American and was not born as one. The influences of being an American mostly came from my friends that I made at school and not so much as from my parents because they too became Americans. So what I have learned to be an American is to speak the language and have different cultures around you to be different ethnicities because that how the U.S. is
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have had a person that would feel sympathy. I thought that line was too cruel and it was a line that was asking for a laugh it didn’t get and the audience would have reacted in a bad way. Another way we could improve would be that instead of Gid being the outsider‚ we could have made the outsider an imaginary character and have Gid be the person that would feel sympathy for him or her. Another negative would be that Gid‚ playing the outsider‚ didn’t have a thought. She could have said‚ “I shouldn’t
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Maris successfully uses the emotional strategy of argument to convince the reader that she chooses to name herself a “cripple” not to seem harsh but to best describe her condition. Maris openly chooses the undesirable word in order to manipulate the reader’s feelings by making the reader feel unsympathetic toward her condition “Multiple Sclerosis.” Maris believes that the word “cripple” is “a clean word‚ straightforward‚ and precise.” She appreciates the accuracy of the word that best shows that she
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good of others and gives you a lot more responsibilities than any other person. To protect the people Superman grew up with on planet earth (his Earth Family) he had to kill or rather destroy his real family that lived on Krypton‚ (Man of Steel). Being a Superhero comes with a great deal of self-sacrifice and a huge amount of responsibility because many lives are often in their hands. Which in the end of
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Racial Diversity by Nancy DeVan Racial Diversity: Historical Worksheet Racial Diversity ETH/125 Nancy DeVan March 1‚ 2013 Associate Program Material Racial Diversity: Historical Worksheet Answer the following questions in 100 to 250 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use. • Throughout most of U.S. history‚ in most locations‚ what race has been in the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? The United States is
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On Friday‚ March 11‚ 2016 my unit‚ Ben Morrell Battalion‚ and I arrived at Nancy Reagan’s funeral at around 0700 to honor the guests attending. We were stationed around the front entrance waiting for the guests to arrive. When the guests arrived‚ we snapped to attention and stood there until they had passed. I did not know who most of the guests were that passed us‚ but we did have the honor to greet Newt Gingrich and his wife‚ Larry King‚ and Tom Selleck. We alternated from at ease to attention
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“House of scorpions” by Nancy Farmer is a Fascinating stoy that should be read by all age groups. The story takes place in a in a country called Opium‚ a strip of poppy fields between the U.S and Mexico Matt is a misunderstood boy who is treated like trash just because he is unique After an encounter with some kids‚Matt finally learned the truth about who he was or what he was. He was a clone but know just any clone ‚ the clone of a rich power hungry man called El patron. Matt is sent to a house
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