Middle school was an adventure of awkwardly dressing and thinking you are cooler than you actually are. I remember growing up hearing the horror stories of that age and how hard seventh grade was compared to everything we have ever faced before. Seventh grade was the glory year. I hated my science teacher with a passion due to her non caring attitude‚ but I loved my English teacher. The best part of the entire year‚ was lunch. B lunch was an experience never to be forgotten. I sat at the same table
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wanted to leave Africa. In West Africa and also in the early Americas‚ the tribes would fight each other. If they won‚ the losing tribe would give you slaves and you would sell them to the European slave traders. The slaves had a harsh trip on the Middle Passage to the New World. When the slaves were in Africa‚ they sold them on an auction block. That also later happened in America. By the 1960’s‚ Africa’s started to come thousands at a time. Because there were so many slaves‚ slavery
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School has always been my biggest priority since I started middle school. In sixth grade I wasn’t the best student I could be. Instead of getting all A’s‚ I was getting B’s and C’s. I was one of the lazy students. Although I always turned in my homework but I never showed very good effort on it. In 7th grade I wanted to change everything! The way I act‚ work‚ performed‚ etc. Believe me when I say that I changed. My whole 7th grade year I had a 4.0 GPA. Do you want to know how I did it? I built
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Imagine a farmhand going to sleep around 500 A.D. and waking up in 1450 A.D. while having the world seem no more advanced than it was when he went to sleep. The Middle Ages were a time of nearly no scientific discovery due to the strong grip of the Catholic Church throughout the period. The ideals of humanism and the spirit for scientific discovery were beginning to rise during the Medieval Era. It was the humanist world view‚ with its spirit of inquiry‚ in addition to the diminishing grip of the
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My memory of my middle school math classroom it was one of the scariest part in my school it’s because I don’t understand math much. It was 6th grade in a old dusty building it was like a building that was built during the 80’s or the 90’s. The desk were broken‚ there are drawings on the desk‚ there were cracks on the ceiling‚ and some parts of the wall were turning into a nasty yellow. I sat at the last row in the classroom with 32 students in a room about 50cm3. There is a big blackboard in the
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The Middle Ages was a time where people tried to gain back the knowledge they previously lost due to the collapse of the Roman Empire. The most common system that they would use was Feudalism. Every level in feudalism benefitted each other‚ and everything would collapse if one level didn’t do their part. Feudalism is a military based system depending on loyalty to meet the needs of its people because if everyone is loyal to their obligations because everyone would benefit in some way. The Hundred
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Benya Kraus Period 6 HL History September 21‚ 2012 Finding the Middle Ground 1914 is arguably one of the most influential years in human history. Not only did it introduce the world to the practice of total warfare‚ but it also demonstrated the devastating outcome of rising political and economic tensions in Europe‚ as well as the inevitable conflict that is rooted in our global anarchic system. Almost a century later‚ historians continue to study the catastrophic events that occurred in
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aspect of society has been analyzed time and time again‚ each time concluding to a different result even to this day. Women have fulfilled a variety of different roles throughout mankind‚ but one of the most interesting times for women was during the Middle Ages due to the strong tie between society and the Catholic Church. In modern days‚ the Catholic Church plays a role in society even though religion is getting practiced less often compared to medieval society. In the medieval era‚ prostitution
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The rise of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages impacted much of Western Europe and was reestablished to be as powerful as the Old Roman empire. The Holy Roman Emperor was able to unite and influence the people of Europe for many years to come. Before Charlemagne (or Charles the Great) came into power in 768‚ his grandfather Charles Martel became the ruler of the Frankish territories after the Merovingian dynasty was losing control of it. When Martel died‚ his son Pepin the Short‚ took the power of the
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Although it may seem like serfs didn’t do much in the Middle Ages‚ they were actually the ones who kept both knights and nobles alive. The serfs were just like peasants‚ except for the fact that they served under a lord. The serfs would farm their lord’s land - one strip of the field’s crops were for themselves and their family‚ while the rest of the field and their crops belonged to the lord. In exchange‚ the lord would protect his serfs from robbery and any other kinds of harm. The serfs
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