Gwinnett County growth in Gwinnett is Great! In 1950 Gwinnett county had a total population of just over 32‚000 people. Over the last 60 years‚ we have seen exponential growth with a population of more than 800‚000 people. For years Gwinnett has held the title as the county with the highest ranking school system in the state. Also many multi-national corporations such as NCR‚ Cadillac Jack‚ WIKA and many more have decided to headquarter their businesses right here in Gwinnett. With this spike
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Community is an American Television Sitcom Created by Dan Harmon that Premiered on NBC Jay Z once said‚ “Nobody built like you‚ you design yourself.” This quote embodies a campus’ culture tremendously. There are no two colleges that have the same culture. Kennesaw State University’s culture is like no other school and it is completely unique to Kennesaw. The students at this school shaped the culture of KSU into what it is today. Here at Kennesaw there is a wide variety of characteristics
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Kimberly Harper November 8‚2009 Professor Hallman History After 1877 “Atlanta Riots of 1906” Atlanta Georgia was thought to be a prime example of how blacks and whites could live together in harmony: however the 1906 race riot was a mass civil disturbance. By the 1900’s Atlanta was the place of regional economy. The population increased from 89‚000 in 1900 to 150‚000 by 1910‚ the black population went from 9‚000 in 1880 to 35‚000 by 1900. Such added rising tension between white and
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The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern‚ Eastern‚ and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600‚ varying regionally. Composed of series of urban settlements and villages (the largest city being Cahokia) and linked together by a loose trading network. The Mississippians had no writing system or stone architecture. They worked naturally occurring metal deposits‚ such as hammering and annealing copper
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Slide 1 My topic was the Case of Richard Jewell and the Media Mistreatment he endured. Slide 2 The 1996 Summer Olympic Games were underway in Atlanta Georgia Richard Jewell was working as a security gaurd at Centennial Park during a late night concert event. Jewell noticied an unattended knapsack left under a bench. He quickly notified federal agents who determined there was a bomb inside. Jewell and other personel started to quietly evacuate the area. 15 minutes later an unidentified
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died suffering through cruel and unfair government. In 1830‚ President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act‚ which was a law that forced Native Americans out of their land. In 1838 to 1839‚ 16‚000 Cherokees were forced to walk 600 miles from Georgia to Oklahoma. The Cherokees did try to rebel against the United States government but it didn’t go as well as planned. President Jackson
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The Cherokee Indians The American Indian History in the Eastern part of the country is always associated with the Cherokee Indian nation. The Cherokee’s were by far the largest and most advanced of the tribes when Europeans first arrived and came in contact with Native Americans. There are too many tribes to go over background on every one of them‚ so I’m going to focus on the Cherokee’s since many of their ways and customs are so similar to all the other tribes in the East. When Europeans
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January the 15th in 1929 in Atlanta Georgia to Reverend Martin Luther King‚ Sr. and Reverend Alberta Williams King. Dr. King was originally born Michael King Jr. but his father changed his name to Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of Martin Luther the leader of the Protestant Reformation. Dr. King was an American minister and became a Civil Rights Movement Leader in 1954 until his death in 1968. Dr. King grew up in a time where racism was a very big issue.
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During World War II Dickey enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. Dickey served as a navigator with the 418th Night Fighters in the South Pacific where he logged close to 500 combat hours while flying over 100 missions. Dickey was awarded several awards‚ including the Air Medal‚ The Asiatic Pacific Ribbon‚ The Philippine Liberation Ribbon and seven battle stars. Dickey’s nights consisted of near death experiences‚ while he days consisted of nothing to do. Dickey soon began to fill these long
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In 1811‚ the Shawnee leader Tecumseh‚ with the help of a comet and an earthquake‚ convinced some of the Upper Creek towns of the Muscogee to turn against the white civilization they had begun to embrace. This led to one of the worse massacres on American soil. The Battle of Fort Mims was orchestrated by William “Red Eagle” Weatherford‚ and‚ as news of the massacre spread‚ Americans found themselves in a war against the angry Creek. Although the massacre at Fort Mims served to ignite war with the
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