James Oronoco Dexter. Although this name doesn’t come up frequently in history‚ that doesn’t make him anything less than a revolutionary man. James Dexter used his natural talents and good characteristics to help benefit others. For every obstacle he faced‚ Oronoco proved his ability to be a hard-worker. Throughout his many occupations‚ Dexter was known as a trustworthy man. Also‚ James Dexter always had a certain determination for everything he did. Throughout his life‚ James Dexter proved to
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Kahlyvia Butler The Age of Adaline The film “The Age of Adaline” is a great movie to represent the sociological take on the process of aging. In the film‚ the main character Adaline Bowman‚ 29‚ stops aging after a terrible freak accident. For decades Adaline remains 29 living through various periods of time. Originally from the 20th century‚ Adaline must change her appearance and location every 20 years once those around her begin aging. Never allowing anyone to get too close‚ Adaline avoids intimate
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Did They Succeed? Alcatraz is the biggest and most atrocious prison that America has ever known. It housed the worst of the worst. It was built to punish rather than rehabilitate. Alcatraz both mentally and physically broke down people like Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly. Many have attempted to escape The Rock‚ but none has succeeded. Three people are believed to have escaped. Many believe that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers successfully escaped and survived. Frank Morris‚ The Anglin
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Born In February 25‚ 1778‚ Don Jose De San Martin was born in Yapeyu Argentina. A province of Corrientes. San Martin was born to Juan De San Martin and Gregoria Matorras. Juan De San Martin was a governor of Yapeyu at the time and a troubled professional soldier. Don Jose de San Martin was born of dark complexion. He became a target of social shame considering his dark complexion and light complexion of his parents. It was rumored that his father would often mistreat the indigenous people of Yapeyu
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Adaline Bowman lived a normal life until one cold winter night in 1935 . When something incredible happened from that moment she would never age another day . Adaline got in a car crash and at that moment she was struck by lightning . That’s when it all happened that when she realized that she will never age again . In the interview of “The Age of Adaline “ Blake Lively the main character of Adaline talked about how it would be exciting at first to know that you’re not ageing but then that
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those words. They also think of the island it’s on in San Francisco Bay‚ the people that have been there like Al Capone and Robert Stroud‚ and also the many escape attempts quite a few prisoners have tried to take a stab at. Always though‚ these attempts failed. There are one-thousand eight hundred twenty-one prisons in the U.S.‚ but none of them were anything compared to Alcatraz. (“Alcatraz Prison”) Alcatraz is placed in San Francisco Bay for many reasons. First of all‚ it is surrounded by
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Francisco Goya Artists frequently respond to the world around them and this is highly evident with the Romanists artist Francisco Goya in his painting Colossus (panic) c. 1808‚ through his unique visual language; The language of his unique painting style‚ through his use of personal symbols for example the Colossus figure and the gesture of the face of the Colossus and its fist. Goya’s painting technique is using long brush strokes especially in the sky with exaggeration of the sky on the dawn
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Alcatraz Island The island we all know in the San Francisco bay was first explored by a French explorer names Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775." While the exact meaning is still debated‚ Alcatraz is usually defined as meaning "pelican" or "strange bird"(Bop). Instead of being called Alctraces‚ the name conformed and just became known as Alcatraz. The island opened as a federal prison in 1934. It was notorious for being the prison that held most‚ if not all of the United States of America’s most hazardous
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teaching us how to create our own and leaving them for us to realize. Biography Harvey Milk‚ was a visionary civil and human rights leader who became one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. Milk’s unprecedented loud and unapologetic proclamation of his authenticity as an openly gay candidate for public office‚ and his subsequent election gave never before experienced hope to Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual‚ and
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César Chávez Weekend of Service and Learning 2010 Sponsorship Packet “It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life." - César E. Chávez HandsOn Bay Area 135 Bluxome Street‚ Second Floor San Francisco‚ CA 94107 www.hoba.org MARCH 27 – 31‚ 2010 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ¡Sí se puede! PURPOSE In conjunction with California’s designated César Chávez Day of Service and Learning‚ HandsOn Bay Area (HOBA) will engage communities in service in honor of the life and values
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