general and soldier‚ who gave the “Swamp Fox” his name. Francis Marion was the “Swamp Fox’s” real name. Marion was born on February 26th 1732‚ in Goat Field Plantation in Saint Johns Parish‚ Berkeley County‚ South Carolina. When Marion was a boy‚ he set off to sail at the age of 15 but ended up being stranded at sea for a week before him and 7 other crewmembers drifted to shore stated in the online Smithsonian Magazine The Swamp Fox. Marion later joined the South Carolina militia just before his 25th
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I agree with Marion Jones being stripped of her five medals for the following reasons. Performance enhancing drugs improve an athlete’s ability to put on more muscle‚ recover faster‚ improve vo2 max‚ or endurance. It’s not right to cheat out other hard working athletes of something they worked for unlike her. It eliminates all the other hard working athletes because it gives an unfair advantage putting them ahead of anybody else with very little effort. Blood doping increase endurance up to 34%
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The film Big Men by Rachel Boyntons is indeed very wakening to what is happening in Africa‚ how the director portrays what the people of Ghana and Nigeria are going through is extremely somber. My impression on how the film might illustrates to the outside world is how helpless the citizens are against these greedy powerful men that have no business in help their country. What i’m very captivated about in the film is that filmmakers showed many different perspectives‚ for example they show the american
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The article “Rachel Dolezal and my Napoleon complex” by Damon Linker indicates the overall of Hegel’s philosophy to be adapted and related to Rachel Dolezal as an effective reasoning to his explanation. The author leans toward the credibility of Hegel’s philosophy. His subjective argument is the ideal of your mind and reality is the thought of the world‚ not what you think is to be truth. Meaning that the world has to accept your idealistic if that is only to be truth. The absolute truth belongs
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I am Rachel A. Etwaru. I am fourteen years old and was born on September 2‚ 2001. I have an older brother and a younger sister. I was born in Freehold‚ New Jersey‚ but when I was four or five years old‚ I moved here to Greenville‚ SC. My parents were both born in Guyana‚ South America. My brother was born in New York and my sister was born in Freehold‚ NJ‚ like me. I love to read. It is something that I take joy in doing every single day. When I read a book I love‚ I get lost into the book’s world
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In Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" she calls attention to the dangers of pesticides. Through her use of imagery‚ rhetorical questions‚ and similes she has created a very passionate argument towards whether or not farmers should use these poisons that affect much more than they think. She asks if "Indiana still raised any boys who roam throw woods?". "If so‚ who guarded the poisoned area to make sure no one went through?" " Who kept vigilant watch to tell the innocent stroller that he was about
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Book Review (1) Gail B. Stewart (2) Victorian England (3) 96 Pages (4) “Victorian England” is a book informing the reader on how Victoria became the queen of Great Britain on June 20‚ 1837 following the death of her uncle‚ King William IV. She was only eighteen years old. Nobody suspected her to ever become Queen because her grandfather‚ King George III had fifteen children in which had all died by this time. The idea of a teenage girl ruling one of the most powerful nations startled everybody
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The independent reading book that I am currently reading is called‚ “The Secret Keepers” by Trenton Lee Stewart. This book is in my opinion directly related to people today in the U.S. who are poor. For example an article from BBC News talks about unemployment and poverty. The book “The Secret Keepers” is about a boy named Reuben who is poor in a place where certain people have unlimited power‚ and are not messed with. He finds an important artifact and goes on an adventure. This article from BBC
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different sources such as newspapers‚ articles‚ by people watching‚ or even from other people’s mistakes. It becomes more effective if the subject in question is particularly high in our interest scale. The article titled “The Sense of Wonder” by Rachel Carson talks about the unique sense of wonder that characterizes newborns and children and the way that growing old and age counteracts and reduces this special gift. Carson details very specific suggestions for parents to promote and therefore establish
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In the eye-opening excerpt from the book Silent Spring‚ by Rachel Carson‚ we are regaled with a tale of an ideal‚ albeit fictional‚ flourishing town that blossomed with vitality. Through descriptive passages and an abundance of detail the author uses the setting and mood to take us on a journey through time as we learn about a prospering town that succumbs to a doomed fate that can only be instated through humans careless actions. The author immediately plunged into descriptive detail in this short
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