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    frontier" occurred with the extinction of the Western frontier and cowboy ’s character‚ Americans have found a way to glamorize the image of the cowboy in the west during the 1800 ’s. It is important to emphasize the distinction that historians make between the pop-culture romantic image of the cowboy and the actual lives of cowboys who worked the ranches in a quiet and solitary manner. Contemporary accounts of so-called cowboys offer many different images. John Clay‚ an old rancher who actually

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    Background Sarah Harris spent two years working for McKinsey & Co before leaving to manage her family hunting and fishing lodge in Jackson Hole‚ Wyoming. She left the family business‚ to attend Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sarah wants to open her own business in the customer care industry. Doug Smith is the owner of Never Wait‚ which does reservations for hotels and boutiques. Never Wait head quarters is based in Phoenix‚ Arizona. Doug has been running his business for 10 years. The

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    Sarah Palin: A Natural Effective Leader A leader is someone who inspires people‚ who can be clutch as a forerunner to get started on a way of thinking; or sometimes a leader is the fearless one who steps in a place no one has dared to and when they do‚ they do so without remorse. A leader doesn’t look back at what has passed‚ but instead looks ahead at what’s to come. A leader is honest‚ caring and has integrity. A leader confronts challenges and does not let the voice of haters or malicious

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    of events and programs; President Dillon Johnson hopes to successfully bridge that gap during his time in office. One of the changes that international students can expect to see this year in an effort to bridge that gap is few adjustments to the Cowboy Cousin program; a program for international students which aids them with becoming more familiar with American culture by

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    Characters Sarah Grimke- she is an abrupt young girl who loves to read and write and is very smart. She loved to read and write so much that she had taught her waiting maid Hetty how to read and write which was against the law. She was punished and was banished from her father’s book collection. Hetty then also was whipped. Hetty Grimke- a young slave girl who has bright yellowish eyes like her mother. She has always been a very bold girl. Also was later taught how to read and write by Ms. Sarah Grimke

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    The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton is a historical fiction novel detailing the Great Cowboy Strike of 1883. The main character‚ Hitch‚ finds himself stuck between the striking cowboys and the rich owners of the cattle ranches. Set just two decades after the civil war‚ barbed wire and the idea of trespassing came about in the plains. The big cattle companies began to take losses when the end of free grazing came‚ so the cowboys’ meager pay is not raised and their right to start their own small

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    Sarah Winchester’s life seemed to be going great; she was a brilliant lady who could’ve became anything she wanted. Things went awry when her daughter Annie then later husband William died. After that‚ everything changed drastically. She became more secretive than ever‚ and her life became more shrouded in mystery. Sarah was born in New Haven‚ into a rather wealthy family. She was a very talented child; at the young age of twelve she was fluent in over four languages. She was very passionate about

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    the authors of said literature are the forces behind it. Sarah Orne Jewett is a notable author from the nineteenth century and wrote many short stories and novels. Most of these works directly reflect Jewett’s early life in the New England countryside‚ and the characters take on Jewett’s childhood characteristics. Sarah Orne Jewett is an important author because she displays the many aspects of early country life to the reader. Sarah Orne Jewett was born in 1849 in rural Maine. This date is

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    When I mention the names Sarah Grimke and Frederick Douglass what comes to mind? Abolitionists? Equal rights activists? Of course‚ these two individuals are making great strives to fight for what they believe in. The sad thing about it is that we don’t have enough people with the likes of these two. England abolished slavery in 1834 so how long will we go on with this inhumane cruelty toward people. Our country is in a state of denial and if we don’t wake up soon‚ we will all pay the price. I’m going

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    Sarah Kay is a poet from New York City‚ who is also a poetry teacher‚ the founder and co-director of the V.O.I.C.E project. Sarah wrote many books some being best selling ones including "B" and "No Matter The Wreckage". She took place in many different conferences as a speaker and as a listener. Her most famous speech was at the Ted Talk conference in 2011 where she walked the audience through a journey‚ her own journey‚ and what it was like to grow up loving poetry. Her speech seems beautifully

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