Gloria Steinem was born on March 25‚ 1934‚ in Toledo‚ Ohio. Her father was an antique dealer and her mother was a newspaperwoman. She was the granddaughter of the noted suffragette‚ Pauline Steinem. Given her family’s background‚ it was not surprising that she became a feminist and a journalist. But her life followed a winding path which began in her youth‚ when she travelled around the country with her parents in a trailer. When she was only 8 years old her parents divorced‚ leaving Steinem to
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The Ohio State University Marching Band has been a big part of The Ohio State University campus and band history for a long time. The Ohio State Marching Band has influenced many people around the state and the country. Although becoming a member of The Ohio State Marching Band takes great effort and discipline in high school‚ staying a member of the band all four or five years of college takes even more tenacity. At the beginning of an Ohio State home football game‚ the marching band carries on
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3. French- Huron and Algonquin British- Iroquois 4. The French had claimed the Ohio River Valley and were trading furs to the Native Americans. The British wanted to settle on the river and trade furs as well. Conflict came about for fur trading between the French and British. 5. The leaders of the Great Awakening placed an importance on religion. The believed that it was
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retarded the city‚ making it full of swamps and malarial mosquitoes. The people tried to rearrange nature and moved the mouth a half of a mile in order to make more room for ship and barges at the same time that new canals connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River. This changed a lot in Cleveland. It became a bustling city for trading and for fortunes to be made. Cleveland became the silicon valley of the industrial era. Companies were founded here to make many products. By 1920‚ the value of goods produced
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case analysis of the Scotts’ Miracle-Gro Company (Scotts) alternative decisions regarding what to do with the Scotts’ plant based in Temecula‚ California. The Scotts Company was founded by Orlando McLean Scott in 1868‚ and was located in Marysville‚ Ohio. Scotts started its spreader business with the introduction of drop spreaders in 1930. In 1995 Scotts Miracle-Gro was formed after the merger of Scotts and Miracle-Gro making it the largest company in North America’s lawn and garden industry‚ and
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and later found guilty. The petitioner claimed that "stop and frisk" constituted an unreasonable search and seizure. In 1968‚ the Supreme Court established the standard for allowing police officers to perform a stop and frisk of a suspect in Terry v. Ohio case. Furthermore‚ a stop and frisk is detaining a person by law enforcement officer for the purpose of an investigation‚ accompanied by
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she had just given birth to the first half of one of the world’s most famous inventive partnerships. The other half of the duo‚ Orville‚ was born four years later‚ on August 19‚ 1871‚ in the family’s newly-built home at 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton‚ Ohio.”(Wright). With the combination of both parents the brothers inherited English‚ Dutch‚ and German-Swiss
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Could it be the budget or the bad economy? Can homelessness be eliminated? I don’t think so‚ but I think we can change things so that there are less people on the streets. In this paper I’m going to be discussing the homeless population in Toledo‚ Ohio (Lucas County) and what we can hope to change for them‚ for the better First‚ I’m going to start with some facts and figures on homelessness. For families the most common causes for homelessness are: lack of affordable housing‚ unemployment‚ and
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Sherwood Anderson’s collection of short stories‚ Winesburg‚ Ohio‚ follows the lives of residents in a small made up town in Ohio called Winesburg. The characters of each story all concern themselves with a truth‚ or a principle of reality‚ which effects the way in which they live their lives. There are clear connections in Anderson’s book of short stories that directly relate to the way he conducted his life. Although not an autobiography‚ Anderson relates his childhood and adulthood in the truths
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tipping point in the struggle against racial injustice‚ or will it be a minor footnote in some future grad student’s thesis on Civil Unrest in the Early Twenty-First Century? You probably have heard of the Kent State shootings: on May 4‚ 1970‚ the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University. During those 13 seconds of gunfire‚ four students were killed and nine were wounded‚ one of whom was permanently paralyzed. The shock and outcry resulted in a nationwide strike
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