Attention Grabber: At a record of 11-1 the Channel Islands High School football team was destined to win the California Interscholastic Federation Championship. Thesis Statement: The 1984 Channel Island Raiders were destined to bring home the school’s first CIF championship title. Topic Sentence #1: Home Games A. The 1983 Channel Islands defense was one of the strong points in keeping fans in the stands. The defense was full of players that put all their energy into every game. Play hard was
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The Progressive Era The progressive era was a time of great change‚ the way people thought and what they did began to change quickly. Industry and business also changed a great deal in this era‚ with the many new inventions and strong businessmen things where rapidly changing. The progressive era lasted about 40 years‚ from 1879-1920. In 1879 Tomas Edison invented the electric light‚ I guess you could say he just lit the way for may other inventions that people made during this time period
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C.J. Hassan Mr. Woodbury English H/P. 5 4/19/13 Tragedy: The Power to Change Feelings “Tragedy” is a term that although complex was given definition by Aristotle in his Poetics. In drama‚ specifically‚ “. . . a tragedy is a play‚ in verse or prose‚ that recounts an important and casually related series of events in the life of a person of significance‚ such events culminating in an unhappy catastrophe‚ the whole treated with great dignity and seriousness” (Handbook 505). Sophocles’ play Oedipus
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Beauty is More Than Skin Deep: Looking Good and Feeling Better It is often said that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”‚ but is there any real truth to that? The phrase itself merely means that beauty has no set characterization‚ depiction‚ or even value for that matter. In a beauty salon‚ hairdressers use the environment of the salon and their clear connection to the beauty culture to accommodate to each individual clients interpretation of beauty. I think this was best stated when Lennon
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End of and Era Queen Victoria reigned from 1837-1901 although the initial date of the “Victorian Age” dates back to 1832. A landowning elite dominated this era of politics. The last decades of the 19th century for Britain was an era that began to transition away from the traditional Victorian ideals. . It was a period that had many changes in political beliefs regarding the role of government and also a period of economic change. The Reform Bill of 1832 that was written by Lord Palmerston
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U.S. History March 5‚ 2013 Paper one first draft Progressive Era From 1815 to 1860 Industrialization was a problem in the world in the United States. During Industrialization immigrants came from eastern and western Europe. The reason why it was a problem because the immigrants came unskilled and with no jobs. They were also poor‚ catholic‚ Jewish‚ and likely to settle in cities rather than on farms. The families were so poor that they were living in tiny apartments with a lot of people. Because
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Progressive Era. You will also enter notes into a table and create a presentation based on your timeline and the notes you took. These tasks will help you understand the importance of the historical context and chronological sequence of these events. __________________________________________________________________________ Directions and Analysis Task 1: Organizing the Progressive Era For this task‚ you will create a timeline to show the chronological sequence of events from the Progressive Era. The Progressive
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The Reconstruction Era of the United States of America refers to a time of postbellum efforts to restructure the political‚ legal‚ and economic systems in the states that had seceded from the Union during the American Civil War. This period began when the Civil War ended in 1865 and continued for twelve years until its deterioration in 1877. A crucial period in the nation’s history‚ this reconstructive phase marked the first time the laws and Constitution were rewritten to guarantee African-Americans
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would want to live under this dull inexpressible culture? Well‚ the early Puritans were part of this "Age of Reason" and many a good man came out of this era. Anyway‚ it was time for change. People wanted to start believing in themselves more and having a greater sense or nationalism. This is where Romanticism came in and replaced classicism. It was the beginning of a new era and initiated a whole new way of thinking. Romanticism basically dealt with three attitudes: Nature‚ the past‚ and the inner
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There are three specific periods of policing that the 19th and 20th centuries embraced: political era‚ reform era‚ and community era. During the political era (1840s-1930s) the functions of law enforcement were controlled by the local politicians. This era was characterized by five points--authority was coming only from politicians and the law‚ it was a very broad social service function‚ the organizational design was decentralized‚ law enforcement had a very intimate relationship with the community
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