The short story “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”by Wendi Kaufman. The story goes something like this.Vita is trying out for a play but she doesn’t get the spot of helen troy that she wanted. When she comes home the problems add on with her dad not being home for 3 years and a mom’s boyfriend. She becomes helen of troy and the night of the play she hopes her dad comes but he doesn’t this is where Vita finds something better. The Author always states clues of her finding her true self in the book.Such
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on July 9th‚ 1868. It helped grant citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States (Primary Documents in American History).” One of the reasons the amendment was made to help former slaves become citizens after the civil war. They were being denied the right to become citizens after slavery had been abolished. One of the main points in the Amendment was that states can not denounce land‚ freedom or life from
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It is believed Earth may be in the midst of another mass extinction‚ also known as ’The Sixth Mass Extinction ’. This mass extinction is the first for 65 million years since the Cretaceous-Tertiary period. "It ’s the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now‚ and we‚ the human race‚ are its cause ’ (Leakey‚ 1995). Every year‚ between 17‚000 and 100‚000 species vanish from our planet‚ which will result in fifty per cent of the Earth ’s species vanishing inside the next 100
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the species and combat the sixth extinction as advised by Elizabeth Kolbert. This is a very serious issue and people need to start applying the ideas of McDonough and O’Connor as well as Bill Gates. Rachel Carson‚ credited by many to have brought the issues of conservation to the public eye‚ believed that “people care about the problem of sharing the planet with other species” and that increasing this awareness would be enough to avert the global impact of Kolbert’s “sixth
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In Helen on Eighty-sixth Street by Wendi Kaufman‚ Vita is in a play but doesn’t get the part she wants so she’s sad and mad at the person that got the part. Vita’s dad left her and her mom So her mom after a little while starts dating a new guy that Vita doesn’t like because she thinks her mom is trying to replace her dad. Then she made an offering with burnt-up cards she wrote for her dad‚ but didn’t know where to send them. She burnt the cards and made three wishes to act as Helen in the play‚
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After the end of the Civil War‚ slavery was finally abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment but had left the South in complete ruins‚ and with four million newly freed slaves that were homeless‚ jobless‚ and illiterate. Reconstruction was then introduced to reunite the South with the Union and assist the newly freed slaves with adjusting to a new society while also protecting them like the citizens they had become. The Reconstruction had successfully rebuilt the damaged cities and transportation of
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Among Descartes’ many notable arguments‚ in the Sixth Meditation he makes a case for the real distinction between mind and body. This idea that mind and body are distinct was not common during Descartes’ time and conflicted directly with the popularly accepted scholastic view of the human being as a hylomorphic substance. The argument of the Sixth Meditation draws on much of Descartes’ own work concerning substance‚ attributes and distinction. In this paper‚ I will argue that he arrives at the conclusion
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been taken away. Slavery in the Unites States dates back to the year 1619 in Jamestown‚ Virginia January 11‚ 1864‚ the 13th amendment was proposed by Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri if passed it would abolish all slavery in the United States. By April 8‚ 1864‚ the thirteenth amendment is approved on a vote of 38 to 6 where it was sent to be ratified. The thirteenth amendment was passed abolishing slavery. After 245 years of slavery‚ approximately 3.9 million slaves are freed by Abraham Lincoln
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Students in school should have the right to have privacy to prevent negative behavior‚ to stop violations of amendments‚ and to prevent bullying. It prevents negative behavior because if they don’t check their lockers than the parents won’t sue the school for violating their child’s property. It will stop violations of amendments because the amendments state that people can’t look through someone’s belongings unless for certain reasons. Also it can prevent bullying because if they have pads‚tampons
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The Thirteenth Amendment had a major role in our history and was one of the most influential Amendments to have ever been passed in our country. “It put slavery to an end in the United States and was passed by Congress on January 31‚ 1865‚ which gave a formal consent on December 6‚ 1865 (“Thirteenth Amendment”). Anti Slavery Acts and speeches led to the Thirteenth Amendment‚ resulting in the Great abolishment of Slavery (“Thirteenth Amendment”). Abraham Lincoln disliked slavery and thought it was
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