My choice for this semester’s congressional biography assignment is Representative Timothy Murphy from Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District. This choice was easy‚ as he represents an area adjacent to where I live‚ and in addition‚ I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple times during high school‚ so I was familiar with who he was and what kind of work he did at a young age. Born in 1952 in Cleveland‚ Ohio to a blue-collar family with ten other siblings‚ Tim knew the meaning of hard work
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Cupp v. Murphy 412 U.S. 291‚ 93 S.Ct. 2000‚ 36 L.Ed.2d 900 (1973) Merits: The respondent‚ Daniel Murphy‚ was convicted by a jury in an Oregon court of the second-degree murder of his wife. The victim died by strangulation in her home in the city of Portland‚ and abrasions and lacerations were found on her throat. There was no sign of a break-in or robbery. Word of the murder was sent to the estranged husband‚ Daniel Murphy. Upon receiving the message‚ Murphy promptly telephoned
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History Assignment: Victorian Britain Victorian Britain was in almost all ways a period of oppression and exploration of women. Women in Britain during the Victorian age were seen largely as second class citizens in a so called “man’s worlds.” Women lacked the right to vote and the own property and inherit money once they were married‚ and where seen as the property of their husband to do almost anything that they so pleased. Though there are many reasons for why we can see that Victorian Britain
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Annie Murphy Paul uses several forms of factual evidence from multiple sources. She also uses emotion-laced wordings to get her point across about how important deep reading is. Annie builds her argument by using factual evidence from Raymond Mar and Kieth Oatley‚ that states that individuals who read fiction often "appear to be better able to understand other people and empathize with them." By using this evidence‚ it allows the audience to learn one of the many benefits of deep reading.
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World War two was the greatest of all wars ever fought on this earth‚ with millions of men from every corner of the planet fighting for the cause that they felt right. Out of all of these men from this war and arguably any war Audie Murphy is the greatest. Born the seventh out of twelve children to a sharecropping family on June 20th 1924‚ all Audie wanted to do in life was “to be somebody” (Gale). To do this Audie had to fight against the odds his entire life on to his way to becoming one of America’s
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Within Annie Murphy Paul’s essay‚ it is argued that reading does have an impact on humans. She began her essay with the counter argument given by Gregory Currie; "we ought not to claim that literature improves us as people." Not only that but she does provide Currie’s credibility‚ stating that he is a philosophy professor. Annie Murphy Paul proceeds to incorporate dictation and factual research to slowly build up her persuasive passage. In the second paragraph of her article‚ Paul states the credentials
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Audie Murphy Audie Murphy was the most decorated warrior in American history. He is my hero from the fact of how heroic his actions were in almost every battle and how he lost his best friend from a group of Germans fake surrendering and then killing him responding. He was born on June‚20.1925 in Texas. His early life was mainly just farming and hunting he had explosive mood swings and a bad temper. He joined the service in 1942 after normal boot camp he went to advanced rifle training.His first
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Natives speak Spanish and become part of their society as well as to work. After the Natives become part of that society‚ a Presidio was set up. The purpose of the Presidio was to guard and protect the Mission and the people in it. Military forces opened land right after the Presidio was set up in order for the Natives to do labor. Finally after everything is set up‚ the Spaniards can make their own Pueblo. The Pueblo meant that native laborers were always supervised and the Presidio kept outsider away
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Fire and ice The world could possibly end in two ways. The author‚ if he had to perish twice would like to try both. Fire is desire and I think ice is equated to hate. I don’t think he necessarily thinks one has a greater destructive power than the other‚ but that his first choice would be fire/desire. This is because I think that the fire represents love. Both fire/desire and ice/hate can be extremes of emotions and the elements. Do you find it interesting that his last name is Frost?
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Ice Ages and Climate Change Scientists believe that over the past 2.8 billion years‚ immense layers of ice have covered the Earth. The ice age proposes a puzzle composed of the works and findings of dozens of scientists through history‚ each providing a crucial piece to the puzzle. Scientists who worked on the development of this puzzle ranged from Geologists‚ Astronomers‚ Physicists‚ and early Biologists whom ultimately proved the complexity of this expanding subject. Progressing from a hypothesis
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