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    When the newly arrived slave reached the plantations after his tedious journey from the auction or scramble‚ this is what would meet his or her eyes‚ a large sprawling plantation with different buildings and crops. The land was used for mainly three purposes: 1.  Agriculture: Canefields woodlands and provision grounds 2.  Buildings: Factory‚ workshops and hospital/goal 3.  Living Quarters: Great House‚ Overseer’s house and slave huts Canefields Most of the land was used for the cultivation of the

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    old black American teenager‚ Brenton Butler‚ gets accused of robbing and murdering the elderly white tourist. The police arrested the first black American guy they came across‚ a boy who was on his way to apply for a job at a Blockbuster Video outlet. They had no evidence to tie him to the crime other than the positive I.D by the sole eyewitness to the murder‚ husband of the woman. Mr. Stephens was sure about one thing only; the shooter was a black guy. Butler gets interviewed by an intimidating police

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    sequences present in a sample can differ between individuals. (John M. Butler) Fingerprinting was first used in an immigration case to determine the identity of a British boy‚ who was detained from his family when they had emigrated from Ghana to the United Kingdom. The first time DNA testing was used forensically with the police was in a major case of two young girls who were sexually assaulted. In 1986 Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth were raped and brutally murdered. Investigators found traces of

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    As if growing up without parents wasn’t bad enough‚ Cathy and Chris had to become parents at teenagers for their younger siblings. Not every child gets to grow up and blossom into a man/ woman‚ and for the Dollanganger children‚ it wasn’t even possible. It wasn’t long before they found themselves in a situation where they had to break all the rules and escape from the horror. In the year 1957‚ Cathy Dollanganger is twelve-years-old and the second of four children (following her older brother‚ Chris

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    murdered led Christine to the decrepit castle. The myth says that there were many people abducted during the late 1840s and it is believed that they were murdered by the butler of the rich family who used to live in the beautiful home. According to the story their bodies still remain in the hidden catacombs of the fortress; and the butler still haunts those who enter the woods surrounding the home. No one who entered the woods has returned. Christine is passionate about debunking horror story myths and

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    Butler (under the pseudonym Cellarius) wrote the letter‚ “Darwin among the Machines‚” 46 years before Forster (whose story‚ “The Machine Stops‚” was published 107 years ago). It is hard to believe that two stories with a similar tone could have been written so long ago. What is even more incredible is that they both seem to relate to present day society. How could two people (both from a time when technology was in its infancy) could write stories that could have been written about our time or

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    was grown‚ she married Bradford’s law student‚ Clark Woodruff. When Bradford died in 1808‚ Sara and her husband cared for the plantation for her mother (Kermeen 43). Sara and Clark had three children while married: Cornelia Gale‚ James‚ and Mary Octavia. In 1834‚ Woodruff sold the plantation‚ the land‚ and its slaves to Ruffin Gray Stirling (“Myrtles Plantation”). Stirling and his wife‚ Mary‚ moved into the plantation and remodeled it. The plantation had doubled in size and got its name‚ The Myrtles

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    family and his approach to religion. Suetonius begins by telling us that Augustus (born Gauis Octavius Thurinus) was the son of Gauis Octavius- a man of great wealth and reputation. He had one younger sister Octavia‚ who was born to the same mother‚ and an elder half-sister also named Octavia (daughter of Octavius and Ancharia). His mother Aria was the niece of Julius Caesar.

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    Parrot” by Robert Olen Butler. These stories were both fascinating and intriguing in the sense that they made me feel like if I was the actual character. You could feel the pain and anguish the characters felt‚ even the desperation. It got to a point that I felt pity for the protagonist whom in both stories where narrating. Here we can see how someone can feel so desperate that they think the only way out is by taking their lives. Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Robert Olen Butler created an incredible

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    The World of Magic Do you believe in magic? People including myself often get amazed by the tricks made by the magicians and left mesmerized and wondering how that happens even after the end of the show. Is there really magic or are they just merely illusions of the mind? What is magic? This question has many answers and that magic is not easy to define. Magic is defined by yahoo as the art to control natural events by invoking the supernatural and a power that is used to cause evil

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