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    Upon reviewing the Mississippi Social Studies Standards‚ The National Council for the Social Studies Standards (NCSS)‚ and the Common Core Standards I have come to the conclusion‚ that these three sets of standards are all very similar‚ yet different. In my opinion NCSS and the Mississippi Social Studies Standards contain similar goals and structure. Although the Common Core Standards goal correspond with the Mississippi Social Studies Standards‚ I believe the Mississippi Social Studies Standards

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    Jennifer Bahol 10/25/12 “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong Only racists make them”. The great debaters movies and the Mississippi trial have their difference and also similarities about racism. In the great debaters and the Mississippi trial has their distinctness. The great debaters there was justice served. When one of the debaters James farmer give his audience a powerful speech about civil “disobedience is a moral weapon in

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    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was of the most powerful natural disasters of the 1900’s in 11 states along the Mississippi River from Illinois to Louisiana. The flood lasted from the beginning of April‚ through May‚ June and July and finally ended in August. During the flood‚ the river got to be as wide as 80 miles in some places and submerged residential areas in as much as 30 feet of water. The flood affected multiple states and the country in countless ways. Some of the ways it changed the

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    On the Mississippi River in New Orleans‚ there is a place where ships drop out of the water. These ships catch a current and go at least thirty feet‚ and then the ships will continue to descend to the east or south. This movement of the ships shows that there is a relationship between the rivers and the terrain that is around them‚ which can be seen with any river‚ not just the Mississippi. For the New Orleans River‚ the adjacent terrain is Cajun Country. There is a triangle formed in southern Louisiana

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    Life on the Mississippi was an amusing movie long and detailed movie which covered the story of the steamboat pilots. This movie shows Twain starting out as a young boy that conned his way onto the Paul Jones‚ where Mr. Bixby the pilot‚ finally agrees to teach him the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Louis for a cost of five hundred dollars‚ paid out of his first wages as a pilot. Life on the Mississippi was written early in his career‚ about his time as a boy and man‚ as an apprentice and as

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel that centers on a journey down the Mississippi River. An integral part of the story‚ the river takes Huck and Jim to different towns to experience many adventures. The river is also an important part of American history and has an interesting role today. With a length of 6‚270 km‚ the Mississippi River is the second- longest river in the United States (Mississippi River‚ 2005). Its source is Lake Itasca in Itasca State Park in northern Minnesota and

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    English 110 Quick Casual In “A Look at the Intersection of Fine Dining and Fast Food”‚ Brenda Falk discusses the differences and similarities in fast food and fine dining. Her main focus throughout the article is the new found overlap in these two dining techniques. She also seems to feel that soon these two dining techniques could easily become one known as “quick casual”. In this article she jumps around from point to point whether it be reasoning behind certain dining styles‚ types of changes

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    Mighty Mississippi Research Paper The Mississippi was the longest river in the United States and people have used the river for centuries for everything from entertainment to transporting goods and services. For example a lot of the water cargo on the river is agricultural commodities. Corn‚ soybeans and things like that are regularly shipped on the river. Also wood chips and sometimes trees used for pulp production by paper mills are shipped by barge. Gravel and other materials are sometimes

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    unknowledgeable nature of youth exists as a naturalistic quality amongst teenagers; characters within the texts ‘Coming Back’ by David Hill and ‘Tully’ by Paullina Simons further endorse this characteristic. The themes of guilt and recovery as well as Pain and friendship provide insight into fundamental lessons that attest the responder’s values. A central concern addressed in ‘Coming back’ by David Hill is the primary battle existent within Ryan‚ which is endorsed in a series of actions that Hill

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    Assessment 02.02 Letter: Dear Patrick‚ I hope this letter reaches you well and in time.  It’s Robert writing to like I promised when I reached the great lands of the United States of America.  Patrick I’ll tell you one thing and that would be how difficult the ride was to the great land.  There was a lady that got sick on the boat and in order to keep us all safe from her the captain had to let her off in the middle of the sea!  It was very unexpected but I stayed tough with my lucky Irish

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