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    Warsaw Ghetto‚ 1943. Thousands of prisoners‚ many of them Jews intended to be sent to the death camp‚ Auschwitz‚ begin an uprising against their German captors. They are out gunned down and outnumbered by the . Most of the Jewish fighters are hungry and weak‚ many of them sick. Any man‚ woman or even a child who can fire a weapon‚ set a fuse or carry message has a part in the conspiracy against certain death. If caught with any links to the plan they will likely be killed on the spot. This monument

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    noticed the broken window theory and defensible space theory. The broken window theory was noticeable once I seen how the homes were deteriorating‚ trash all over the place‚ in empty lots‚ on curbs‚ gutters‚ sidewalks. Tons of abandoned houses all boarded up. Numerous liquor store establishments with gatherings of people all over the streets. Graffiti throughout the whole neighborhood on buildings‚ stores‚ trash cans‚ curbs and walls. Defensible space theory was recognizable when we seen homes‚ stores‚

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    The Ghetto Made Me Do It

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    024 ENG October 18‚ 2012 “The Ghetto Made Me Do It” Violent behavior is a direct result of heredity‚ environment‚ and parenting. The author of “Seeking The Roots Of Violence” believed that genetic heredity has to do with violent behaviors. I believe in her hypothesis‚ but also believe that environmental factors play a big role as well. How you are raised and people you are most closest to have a greater chance of influencing you in many ways. There

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    students. We believe that students getting a later start in school will improve overall student performance and comprehension when it comes to academics and extracurricular. Our school aims to start at around 8:30 AM‚ giving students more time to wake up comfortably and have a good night’s sleep‚ even for students who live farther away. According to an article written by Finley Edwards‚ “Do Schools Begin too Early?”‚ school starting times greatly affects the student’s overall performance and mental

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    Having grown up in a single parent home with two sisters who did not complete high school‚ made the pressure for me to succeed unimaginable. The constant reminder of achieving greatness has stuck with me since I was eight years old. Throughout middle school I was top of my class‚ in high school I graduated cum laude with a 4.4 GPA and currently in my 1st year of college I am top of my intermediate/college algebra class‚ I scored the highest grade out of all 5 of my psychology teachers classes‚ and

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    parts of living the ghetto‚ the dead. Beno Helmer described what it was like to see the bodies of people on the ground. He Talks about how the first few you saw shocked you‚ after that it just became a part of life. Ghettos took many lives during the holocaust. Treatment in the ghetto was terrible. (USHMM) described a scene where an officer killed a child by throwing them against the wall . During this story he focused on the mother. Children had little to do within the ghettos. Depending on the

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    To start with‚ I mainly grew up in two places: Sutter Creek‚ California‚ and Garnett‚ Kansas. Back in California I wasn’t really allowed to walk around outside of the house since I didn’t have many friends‚ and the friends I did have lived far away. So‚ I basically grew up restricted to the house‚ however‚ that wasn’t a very bad thing‚ since most things that I wanted to do was in the house or the Yard. However‚ when I moved to Garnett I shed the Shackles of Domesticity and roamed freely‚ wherever

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    The Soul of Black Folk and Up From Slavery The turn of the 19th century was a time in American history that brought with it major economic‚ cultural‚ and political changes. The Reconstruction era and Gilded Age had ended with rising influential Jim Crow laws‚ which made a clear division among the American population. The publishing of Booker T. Washington’s‚ Up from Slavery and W. E. B. Du Bois’s‚ The Souls of Black Folk both occurred in the early 1900’s when oppression of the black race in America

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    Man in the Mine A life in the ghetto is no life at all. Especially in Molesville‚ Pennsylvania‚ a town left in the dust by modern society. Ever since I can remember my mother has been sick‚ this terrible place is the cause. With little sanitation the streets are rat infested and the poor die young. We had not had enough money‚ when my father left us‚ to afford food to live with‚ let alone go get help from a doctor. After my mother’s pregnancies she gradually became more and more sick. I thought

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    Warsaw Ghetto The effects of living in the Warsaw Ghetto were cruel‚ it is a surprise that some Jews even survived‚ but the Jews never lost hope and fought back against the Nazis. It’s a wonder that most of the Jews were able to keep hope throughout the entire war. Especially with what they went through at various camps. The Warsaw Ghetto was one of the largest ghettos in Poland. (“Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” History) A lot of the Jewish people there were being told on the way to Warsaw that they

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