much that you want to spend the rest of your life with. You want to become joined together in marriage‚ to articulate your love‚ to share everything in both of your lives‚ and stay together till death do you apart. According to the government of Illinois‚ as well as 42 other states‚ you are barred from doing so. In present day‚ 2012‚ 7 US states currently allow same-sex marriages. Let us first take a look at the definition of marriage. The definition itself has changed quite a bit over time
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Introduction Gun control has been an issue in the United States of America since it’s founding in 1776. After all‚ the first shots that were fired in the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord were an effort by the American colonists to keep the British army from taking the guns from the colonial armory. Even after gaining freedom from British control‚ the American people were obviously still concerned about their rights to own guns. This can be seen in the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution
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article Spotlight on Accountability: As E-learning Moves Further into the K-12 Mainstream‚ it is Attracting Greater Scrutiny of its Effectiveness focuses on district based e-learning and the responsibility of virtual education. The third article‚ Illinois Schools’ New App: Virtual Learning by John Keilman concentrates on apps and online education. New trends in technology-based learning are good resources for struggling students and give elementary educators a chance to explore the virtual education
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document.] | Scott v. Sanford The Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court in March 1857 was one of the major steps on the road to secession. Dred Scott was a slave who was taken to Missouri from Virginia and sold. His new master then moved to Illinois (a free state) for a while but soon moved back to Missouri. Upon his master’s death‚ Scott claimed that since he had resided in a free state‚ he was consequentially a free man. The case eventually made it to the Supreme Court. As stated by Supreme
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politics. Abraham Lincoln’s reputation was just starting to grow‚ and his life was about to make a drastic change. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a turning point in Abraham Lincoln’s political career. Lincoln had served four terms in the Illinois legislature‚ and now desired an office with greater prestige. Lincoln had served the Whig Party well‚ and election to Congress became his goal. In 1843 and 1844‚ Lincoln lost the nomination for Congress to other candidates. Although disappointed
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McDonalds Bar-B-Q‚ created their restaurant in 1948‚ Bay Kroc‚ the multi mixer salesman‚ made McDonalds a franchise in 1955‚ in Des Planes‚ Illinois‚ which is where most people believe to be the birthplace of McDonalds. Stanley Meston‚ designed McDonalds as a red and white tiled building with golden arches. This design was used for the opening of Kroc’s restaurant in Illinois. During the 1960s‚ McDonalds’ advances include the establishment of Hamburger University‚ indoor seating‚ public stocks offered‚ the
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Stephen Douglas born in Vermont in April of 1813. At an early age‚ he left his home in search of a political career. He settled in Illinois and became a teacher. There‚ he taught himself law with books that he borrowed which allowed him to become active in the in Democratic party. At 27‚ he was the youngest to ever to become a member of the Illinois Supreme Court. Later‚ he became a US Politian and a leader of the Democratic Party. He was also the person responsible for creating the Kansas-Nebraska
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Lincoln placed his hand on the Bible for his inauguration. Obama used the same Bible.2. Lincoln came from Illinois. Obama comes from Illinois.3. Lincoln served in the Illinois Legislature. Obama served in the Illinois Legislature.4. Lincoln had very little experience before becoming President. Obama had very little experience before becoming President.5. Lincoln rode the train from Philadelphia to Washington for
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individualizing instruction in increasing heterogeneous classrooms (Landrum‚ 2010). There are many different assessment objectives that can be learned by students if we teachers use the right tools to ensure that we reach every single one of our students. Illinois state standards state that one of the objectives for science is that students need to know how to explain how living things‚ such as organisms function‚ adapt and change. I would use
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Abraham Lincoln Thesis: Abraham Lincoln really is a man that we know so little about how he came to be the president. In the year of 1809 on February 12th‚ a baby boy was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. This boy was Abraham Lincoln after his grandfather who passed away. He was born in a log cabin in Hardin County‚ Kentucky as where his siblings Sarah and Thomas (who died as an infant). “When first my father settled here it was than the frontier line‚ The Panther’s screams filled the night
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