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    Reading the book‚ “Promises I can keep” by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas was very touching because I am also a woman and I can understand parts of their few points. To me it is so weird to see that young women are having kids at a really young age and it usually the woman that are poor. “Half of the poor woman who give birth while unmarried have no high school diploma at the time‚ and nearly a third have not worked at all in the last year” (2). That is really sad to see that young woman start to

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    the paper. It obviously shows that the writer is worried about what direction our country is headed for. The author begins his paper by telling the audience that he was in Bethlehem Pennsylvania for a talk entitled “Making America As Good As Its Promise”. Hearing this‚ the audience obviously automatically thinks of Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” but the author quickly informs the audience that they have nothing in common with one another. Smiley then shares with the

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    Final Paper Eastern Promises Character Study Kirill Story Plot Eastern Promises is a story that takes place in London. The story takes place in a world that is governed by open violence and slavery‚ a location hidden from the public view where kindness‚ duty and the rule of are the alien intrusion. When a young anglicized nurse Anna Khitrova‚ received a diary of a Russian teenager who dies while giving birth on Anna’s watchs. She compelled to hunt down the family of

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    In 1989‚ it cost $6 billion dollars to fix the damaged caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake in California. Many things happen when there an earthquake‚ not just the ground shaking and people becoming terrified. It affects earth‚ people and property. Earthquakes can do a lot of damage and I will tell you about the effects from them. The first thing earthquakes effects is earth. When two continental plates meet‚ earthquakes are happening‚ volcano eruptions and mountain formation caused by continental

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    invite YOU the youth to come forward and express your thoughts and ideas on these topics‚ designed to give you a unique opportunity for introspection and self assessment. Topics Theme for the All India Essay Writing Event 2010: Youth: A Time of Promise and for Effort Category 1 [Class 6 to 9]: Points to Ponder P B( (Character Protects Life [Word Limit : 750 words] Fitzwater once said “Character is the sum and total of one’s choices. “What then is the surest way to choose rightly? Youth is a period

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    The Independence of California As California separated from the United States in 2016‚ becoming an independent country‚ it faced the greatest question: How liberal should California be? Presented with this major dilemma‚ local governments called in some of the state’s most influential citizens for advice. Luckily‚ I happened to be one of these individuals and also found myself posed with a great dilemma. California has continued to excel in improving the quality of life‚ by focusing on its social

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    not only the development of California‚ but also the outcome of the United States of America. It was a period of time in American history in which large groups of people migrated with hopes to find gold in California‚ which proved to be crucial for the success and growth of California. The California Gold Rush had a major impact on the development of California‚ as it caused the economy and cities of California to flourish. This event caused major changes in California‚ such as a population increase

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    The Basic Structure of the California Courts DeVry University The Basic Structure of the California Courts In the United States there are two separate judicial systems‚ the state and federal. According to USCourts.gov‚ every “state has its own system with most having specific courts such as juvenile court‚ probate court‚ family court‚ and others that oversee specific legal issues.” (Judicial Council of California‚ 2012). Where Federal court deals with constitutional law‚ or in cases between

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    Jasmine Hood ENRICHMENT IDEAS: "Documenting The American Promise: The Brown Decision. 1. Q: What reasons did the Supreme Court give in favor of desegregation? What reasons did black students give for wanting to attend integrated schools? How do these reasons differ? 1. A: One of the reasons the supreme court gave in favor of desegregation is because they felt the need to substitute their personal political and social ideas for the established law of the land

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    Coloma‚ California. Once gold was discovered and the economy of California began to really take off‚ it did not take long for the government officials to recognize the advantage of allowing California to join the union. As a result‚ in 1850 California was accepted as a free state. Young men with a pick and wash pan in hand left their wives and children to move to California. Men used dams and flumes to expose stream and river beds for mining. People from around the world came to California to get

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