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    Jason Nolting‚ a University of Iowa graduate‚ has been teaching for 7 years. While  studying at the University of Iowa‚ Mr. Nolting worked at Four Oaks‚ a non­profit child welfare‚  juvenile justice‚ and behavioral health agency. It is there that he decided to pursue a career in  teaching. He said‚ “I really enjoyed working with kids and watching them develop over time.”  Also with a passion for sports‚ Mr. Nolting wanted to be able to coach. After graduating from  Iowa with a B.A. in Psychology and a degree in Secondary Social Studies Education

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    really do not remember my dad at home‚ the only memory is riding in dad’s squad car‚ he was a sheriff deputy‚ after eating a bottle of baby aspirin—mostly the lights and sound). I was born and raised (by my mother and paternal grandparents) in the Iowa City and Coralville area; in fact Coralville was the Cole family farm until interstate 80 came through and the family farm house still stands today. My father passed in June 2014 after suffering a traumatic brain injury‚ falling from a ladder at

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    I believe that all offenders should have to be chemically castrated. Although chemical castration is presented as a humane alternative to lifelong imprisonment or surgical castration‚ the American Civil Liberties Union opposes the coerced administration of any drug‚ including antiandrogen drugs for sex offenders. They argue that forced chemical castration is a "cruel and unusual punishment"‚ and therefore should be constitutionally prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. They also stated that it interfered

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    Ever since I was a little boy I have always loved the warm weather. Maybe that is because I was born in California. I have always been a fan of the water‚ big waves‚ and the warm sand in between my toes. If I had to choose any state or country to live in I would choose Hawaii. Snow days are not my favorite; it is either too cold outside or there is too much snow. I always have to plow the snow myself. Another reason why I hate snow is because I am a shoe fanatic. I can never wear nice shoes in the

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    following items.   Issue/charges being discussed:  John Tinker‚ Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhar who were each suspended from their schools for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam. Circuit Courts and the Court of Appeals in the state of Iowa both ruled that black armbands‚ which represented bad feelings towards the Vietnam War‚ was inappropriate attire for school. Because of this ruling and because the kids were each suspended from school‚ they appealed and brought their matter to a higher

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    personality is. When I first came to Sartell many people thought that I was shy‚different and non outgoing. I was in 3rd grade when I came to Sartell it was a fresh start for me and my family. My old school in Iowa was very different than in Sartell. I knew who I was as a person in Iowa now it felt like a restart. In my class different classmates would instantly judge me before actually trying to know who I was. My class in 3rd grade had 27 people more than half wouldn’t even try to talk to me.

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    are strongly in support of legalized same sex marriage are Iowa Representative Ed Fallon’s speech to the House in 1996‚ and an article from the Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples. One article that is strongly opposed to same sex marriage is an article written by Dr. Paul Cameron titled "Same Sex Marriage: Till Death Do Us Part?" In a speech read to the United States House of Representatives on February 20‚ 1996‚ Iowa Representative Ed Fallon discussed why he is in support of the

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    Jane Elliott is the meanest‚ the lowest‚ the most detestful‚ the most hypocritical human being hell has ever spit back on earth. But she should be an example for all of us." - Stuttgarter Zeitung Jane Elliot was a third-grade teacher in Riceville‚ Iowa when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. The day following Dr. King’s murder‚ in an effort to make her young‚ all-white class understand the issue of racism‚ she divided the students into “blue-eyed” and “brown-eyed” groups. On the first

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    Hawk’s Encroachment by White Settlers‚ where Black Hawk‚ a Sac Indian war chief‚ conveys his life story to try and justify his actions in the Black Hawk war against the American settlers‚ and an Encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters in Iowa‚ where a hostile encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters was the result of dramatically different conceptions of landownership amongst them. Tecumseh‚ a Shawnee diplomat and warrior‚ saw his homeland being invaded by white settlers and

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    Wyatt’s career. The Earp family was moving around the United States quite often‚ ranging in several states in the West and near the Great Plains. His father took his still growing family from Kentucky to Western Illinois‚ Monmouth‚ Iowa‚ and Nebraska. While moving between Iowa and Nebraska on the way to California‚ Wyatt received his first firearms from his father‚ an “over and under” rifle-shotgun combination. The top of

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