Hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans live in what’s known as a food desert. A food desert is in an area of focus that is short on access to fresh meat and produce. These areas are usually over populated with packaged and processed foods‚ which are not always healthy. They also have a significant amount junk that you can easily find in convenience stores and fast food restaurants. What exactly qualifies a neighborhood to be part of a food desert? Food deserts usually have a bunch of blocks without
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Amounting to a Revolution The United States experienced a time period full of changes between the years of 1860 to 1877. During this time period‚ many constitutional and social developments brought about great change in the country‚ in both constitutional and social areas. Some constitutional developments that caused conflict include the Emancipation Proclamation‚ three civil rights bills‚ and the reconstruction. Meanwhile‚ some social developments during this period include the Freedmen’s Bureau
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The Different Perspectives of Being Wrong What is our evidence to our beliefs? How are we certain what we believe to be true without evidence and how do you determine if the evidence is accurate? Many of us never take the time to think about questions like those. As I read‚ Catherine Schulz book Being Wrong‚ I started to question my own beliefs. Coming from a country like Ethiopia‚ religion was a big part of my life. People in Ethiopia used religion as the get away from their struggles and I was
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A teacher’s goal for their students within every lesson is to communicate a lifelong theme that every child will take with them as they go on in life and have challenges they need to overcome. Mrs.Rivel‚ our ELA teacher for grades six and seven in WDS‚ communicates themes to us as students‚ though the literature we read in her class‚ that I plan to take with me for the rest of my life. Over the course of two years in ELA‚ I have learned to love who you are‚ seize the day because you only live once
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The frontier gave everyone opportunity’s including black‚ female‚ or even deprived white. With the westward expansion‚ you were allowed to build your own empire no matter your primary status. Especially with the Homestead Act now in place‚ it made the West very promising. The Homestead Act was an act that assured 160 acres of free land to any citizen who settled on the property for five years. The land could be seen as a new beginning as you could do what you wanted with this land whether it was
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General Allotment Act (United States [1887]). (n.d.). Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Retrieved October 26‚ 2013‚ from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/152952/Dawes-General-Allotment- Act Homestead Act. (n.d.). History.com. Retrieved October 26‚ 2013‚ from http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-act Kelly‚ H. (2010). Race‚ Remembering‚ and Jim Crow’s Teachers. New York: Routledge. Schultz‚ Kevin M. (2014) HIST: Volume 2: U.S. history since 1865 (3rd ed.). University of Illinois at Chicago:
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The wind whirled wildly through the gum leaves‚ kookaburras sang joyful songs. The cattle grazed in the kangaroo grass‚ with the Willy Wagtails feasting on the fleas doing the cattle a favor. Strong smells of the damped ground lingered around; the sun laid low in the sky. The night was setting in to be a cold one; winter had never set in so early as this season. The old horseman laid up against the fallen silky oak. Best horseman anyone had ever seen‚ they said that he was a horse whisperer. He was
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door waiting for her arrival. She was immediately surrounded by people who hugged and shook her to ask questions. They had all worried about losing the only person who had a chance to help them find an exit. She saw Rosa Pumps walking towards the homestead and she shuffled her way through the massive crowd‚ she had to talk to her. She darted towards Rosa and in an instant‚ she caught up to her like it was nothing. Rosa greeted her normally‚ not suspecting she knew who she
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such a simple thing that so many teens and adults alike have a hard time doing. The desire to be socially accepted sometimes outweighs the pros of being kind to others. In Palacio’s book Wonder‚ readers are introduced to a character named August Pullman. August is challenged with a facial deformity that causes him to look different than others. He has received many surgeries to fix some of the issues‚ but because of his surgeries‚ August has never went to school. At the age of ten his parents decided
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6 January 2013 Mr. Olsen Identify the sources and significance of Populism: Populists or people’s party members were part of this era’s greatest political insurgency. It evolved from the Farmers’ Alliance‚ where farmers across forty-three states banded together to remedy their condition. The people’s party not only attracted farmers but also included all the “producing classes.” Their lasting legacy comes from the populist platform of 1892 and also from the fact that populism came close to replacing
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