It was a simple beginning to a beautiful day in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico. The dry morning air brought a wealth of warmth to my tired skin. "Today is a day of opportunity‚" I thought. I would hopefully be entering the work force after a long battle with unemployment. I was excited because my days were filled with nothing but boredom and my mind was occupied with nothing but despair. Hopefully‚ today would be the day that I left my past behind me. Just three years ago‚ I was an up and coming astrophysicist
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The best thing i did over the summer was go to New Mexico to visit some of my family and friends. Now i will tell you about some of the fun things that I did over in New Mexico. One of the days that I was there me my family and friend went to this river and we swam there. It was a little hard to swim because there was a really fast current. The best part about it though was jumping of the cliffs that were there the first time I was up on the cliff I was a little scared to jump off of it. Another
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robbed a store in Monterey Park‚ California. King was caught after he stole two hundred dollars from the store and was later convicted. He was then sentenced to two years of imprisonment. He served one year of his sentence‚ then he was released from prison. The Rodney King Beating occurred in the early hours of the morning in Los Angeles‚ California. He and two of his friends had been at another friend’s house watching a basketball game and drinking the night before. King and his two friends left the
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four new independent states: India‚ Burma (now Myanmar)‚ Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)‚ and Pakistan (including East Pakistan‚ modern-day Bangladesh). The Indian subcontinent was partitioned into Hindu-dominated but secular India‚ and the Muslim state of Pakistan after attaining independence from Great Britain in August 1947. Unfortunately‚ it was accompanied by the largest mass migration in human history of around ten million people. An estimated one million civilians died in the accompanying riots‚ particularly
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hetersexual men. Her study proved the Association wrong and that homosexuality was not a mental disease‚ Other events such as the Stonewall riots occurred in the 1960s and are said to be the beginning events to the gay liberation movement. These riots were caused by police officers raiding gay bars where the members retaliated‚ and then days of protests followed these riots. Other incidents happened frequently through the next few years‚ but physical violence was not the only thing homosexuals
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Madonna‚ and the British groups Duran Duran and Depeche Mode. Nevertheless‚ performers such as the Irish group U2 and the American group R.E.M. emerged from their underground roots to enjoy enormous success. Now a few of the new genres of the 80’s. In the early 1980s‚ the "new wave" movement‚ a sub genre of punk rock that began in the ’70s‚ was generating a more sophisticated pop sound. In Britain‚ artists including bands such as the Clash‚ Squeeze‚ and the Police attained both critical and commercial
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History Research the 1980s At the start of the 1980s Britain was in a deep recession similar to what is happening at present and there was also mass unemployment. The person in charge of the country at this time was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who was also Great Britain’s first and only female prime minister. Margaret Thatcher along with Chancellor Geoffrey Howe tried to deal with this recession by raising taxes and slashing government spending‚ benefits and the selling of state owned services
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In the Summer of last year‚ me and my sister traveled all the way out to Clayton‚ New Mexico‚ with our nina and her husband. We were traveling in a very shiny‚ large truck on roads far off from any store or even telephone poll. The air was so clean and full of the unknown flowers scents. It took almost a whole day to reach Clayton but the long journey was worth it because we saw so many cattle‚ horses‚ and even a great lake shining the sun’s bright‚ warm‚ and soothing light back‚ the lake looked
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some residents of Mexico City‚ but for others‚ they have a high standard living. The first settlers in the Valley of Mexico came thousands of years ago. In 1325‚ a group now known as the Aztecs settled on an island in Lake Texcoco. They then created a city called Tenochtitlán. Since the Aztecs were great warriors‚ they soon created an empire. The city grew fast as well. When the Spanish arrived in 1519‚ Tenochtitlán was a huge city. Over 200‚000 people lived in the Valley of Mexico. In 1521‚ the
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Resurget Cineribus: The Detroit Riots of 1943 and 1967 One can pick many instances in Detroit’s last hundred years and conclude that the two riots of 1943 and 1967 were the presiding factor for this once great city’s fatal turn. Detroit has come to be known as the Motor City due to its insurgence of the automotive industry‚ has been dubbed Detroit Rock City for its groundbreaking revolutionary music throughout the 20th century‚ and has even been hailed as Hockeytown for its euphoric love of the
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