Sam Houston-Summary Sam Houston had to face many obstacles since he was a little boy. He had very little education; however he educated himself with many readings from his father’s library. Houston served as governor for Tennessee and Texas. He also served as a United States senator for thirteen years. . He befriended General Andrew Jackson and remarried three times. Houston was made the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1836 and was re-elected in 1841. He gave many speeches throughout
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With its approximately 2 million inhabitants‚ Beirut suffers from overpopulation of not only humans‚ but also cars. In a capital where scarcity of land is a serious problem‚ Beirutis face the daily problem of very limited parking spaces. More and more buildings are being constructed. More and more cars are being bought. The municipality has done little more than talk about building more parking lots. This issue is not only affecting public streets‚ but also private institutions. A case in point
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Committee: Security Council Country: Democratic India Delegate: Rishi Birudu‚ Meridian school Topic: situation in Syria The Syrian Arab Republic is currently in a state of civil war with its multi-religious and multi-ethnic society. For a year and a half since the “Arab Spring”‚ the rebel movement has protested the restrictions on their rights and the lack of government transparency‚ while the oppressive Syrian government‚ led by Bashar al-Assad‚ is fraught with corruption and attempts to stifle
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Prompt: Discuss some issue of personal‚ local‚ national‚ or international concern and its importance to you. Leading sentence: An issue of national and international concern that is of importance to me is our current debate about the US helping Syria or not. Main point: Syria is currently on a civil war between the Syrian government and the Syrian rebels. Paragraph 2 Transitional sentence: This war begin because of a religious rivalry between the Sunni and Shia Supporting point: Sunni are the
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with a heavy heart i must confirm the death of the human conscience. wait hasn’t it died 6 decades ago?.. alright okay whatever. I am trying to be deep but you know what we have tried everything but nothing has worked‚ and writing to let more people feel sorry about some people’s misery and suffering is all what i can do so here i am writing about the yarmouk camp. it’s really breaks my heart to see the infants dying from hunger it’s not a movie or drama‚ it’s so real. I am like other people in
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To Kill a Mockingbird Going from overalls to a pretty little dress is not something that Scout necessarily wanted to do. Then there was Jem. All he wanted to do was grow up and become a man. Growing up is not an easy thing to do‚ but the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows what it’s really like to grow up in an unequal society. When you are growing up you start to really see what is going on in the world around you that you never noticed was there before. Scout and Jem both started
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SPEECH UNHRC AGENDA SYRIAN CIVIL WAR The world is going through a change and millions of people are being oppressed under the name of democratic transition better known as Arab Spring. These victims require our voice-the voice of UNHRC. Saudi Arabia is highly critical of the Assad regime that has greatly violated Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the delegate feels that countries like Russia‚ China and Iran are just supporting it for their personal gain. The delegate mourns the
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StrengthsFinder Assessment Results Before starting this assessment‚ I fully expected the results of this assignment to be completely off from how I see myself as a leader. I tend to overthink surveys and assessments like these. I was surprised to see that many of the chosen themes matched my personality and leadership style. As I grow as a leader I hope to develop other traits and leadership themes. Theme Expectations There were a few themes that were not in my top five I expected to see before
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Arriving home‚ his meeting with Abda Afridi had triggered a fresh wave of inner conflict. His‚ sweats and nightmares returned with a fury unleashed. No matter how hard he tried to escape to his secret place‚ all he found was an uncontrollable shivering. His hair-raising escape from the Syrian farmhouse‚ played back like a horror video‚ leaving him crippled with fear. As he experienced it all over again‚ his eyes darted everywhere looking for any perceived threat. When he glanced down at his hands
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THE SYRIAN UNREST The Syria unrest‚ which has been going on since March of 2011 is an uprising by a rebel group against a governing party in Syria. The main objectives of the rebels are to overthrow current president‚ Bashar-al-asshad. In April of 2011‚ the president deployed the army‚ still loyal to president asshad whose family lineage has been ruling Syria for decades‚ to open fire on any protesters. The rebels‚ in retaliation‚ formed their own group of armed troops mainly consisting of ex-soldiers
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