info Halifax‚ Nova Scotia‚ Canada B3H 3A6 William Hall‚ V C first Black person‚ the first Nova Scotian and one of the first Canadians to receive the Empire’s highest award for bravery‚ the Victoria Cross. The son of former American slaves‚ Hall was born in 1827 at Horton‚ Nova Scotia‚ where he also attended school. He grew up during the age of wooden ships‚ when many boys dreamed of travelling the world in sailing vessels. As a young man‚ Hall worked in shipyards at Hantsport for several years‚ building
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WHO IS PRINCE HALL ? Prince Hall is recognized as the Father of Black Masonry in the United States. Historically‚ he made it possible for Negroes to be recognized and enjoy all privileges of free and accepted masonry. Many rumors of the birth of Prince Hall have arisen. A few records and papers have been found of him in Barbados where it was rumored that he was born in 1748‚ but no record of birth by church or by state‚ has been found there‚ and none in Boston. All 11 countries were searched
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Hibbs Composition 2 February 3‚ 2014 In the Long Hall When life throws you lemons‚ you squeeze them and make lemonade; just like in the poem “In the Long Hall”‚ when the young boy gets stuck in between the tapestry trying to move forward‚ but the tapestry continued to unravel behind him as he tried to move forward. This scenario really made it hard for the young boy to move forward with things. Sometimes in life things may get hard or difficult‚ but we have to continue to move forward and not
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Gunston Hall Field Trip Assignment Indentured Servant Before I even got off the bus the beauty and amazement of Gunston Hall and all of the land that surrounded it caught me off guard. To start‚ there was so much land and George Mason once owned every bit of it. Next‚ when you actually approached Gunston Hall‚ you realized how breath taking it was. From the picturesque house with impressive woodwork in the front parlor all the way to the well kept gardens. Everything was perfect‚ but then it hit
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Cragon McBride Mr. Cravens Wednesday Comp. II 9 October 2012 Argumentative Essay Hall of Shame Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa may very well have saved Major League Baseball. The season after the MLB strike of 1994‚ attendance and TV ratings were the lowest they had been in over a decade. Baseball needed a way to boost interest and increase the games appeal and more importantly to the league‚ revenue. And it received that boost in the form of the greatest home run race the game has seen. Mark
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This article deals specifically with Dana Schutz’s controversial painting‚ “Open Casket”‚ that is being displayed at the Whitney Biennial. This abstract piece of art depicts the disfigured face of Emmett Till during his open-casket funeral. Several African American artists primarily Hannah Black have criticized the piece for being the ill-intentioned and the insincere work of a Caucasian man. She goes so far as to call for it to be either simply removed or destroyed in its entirety. Author Coco Fusco
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may pop out of their heads. There is here‚ in the hall‚ still another category of students who have trifled with their studies all through and thus probably expected nothing in the paper and also got nothing in their favour. Such students can be very easily spotted in the hall‚ within a few minutes of distribution of the papers. They just fidget with things as if that could help. Considering how important these three hours in the hall can be and really are‚ one does at times feel the absurdity
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Egyptian art was mainly made for after life purposes. For example‚ the Egyptians used a very accurate gridding system for many art pieces. On the grid system Egyptian artist created a method called frontalism or twisted perspective which is the head of a person drawn in profile and the body seen from the front. Frontalsim and the grid system were a very important piece in a pharaoh or important leader’s afterlife. In the tomb of Ti there is a painting of Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt which shows
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It was early sunday morning‚ an apparently ordinary sunday‚ the sun had barely peeked his head over the horizon and there seemed to a peaceful air over Washington D.C. however this was no ordinary day for Dana Scully‚ today marked the first time in months that her sleep wasn’t interrupted by her impetuous partner waking her to drag her along on another wacky alien theory about extraterrestrials. She laid in the longer than she normally did‚ tucked in the warmth of her covers she felt secure
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Greening Your Work and Your Commute Raising awareness and reducing your carbon footprint Did you know that by our everyday habits and choices‚ the average American puts out 22 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year? Experts studying the recent climate history of the earth agree now that global warming is occurring at a precipitous rate‚ and human activities are the dominant force driving the trend. Our smokestacks‚ tailpipes‚ and burning forests emit CO2 and other gasses that add to the planet’s
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