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    Robinson v. California‚ 1962 “11721 of the California Health and Safety Code states: “No person shall use‚ or be under the influence of‚ or be addicted to the use of narcotics‚ except when administered by or under the direction of a person licensed by the State to prescribe and administer narcotics. Any person convicted of violating any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be sentenced to serve a term of not less than 90 days nor more than one year in the county jail” (law

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    that changed their lives and their countries. One broke the color line in baseball and changed the United States‚ another changed aviation and industrialized China‚ and the last made it so schools were not labeled by race in the U.S.A. Jackie Robinson changed all sports for the better by breaking the color line in baseball. He inspired many individuals to push his cause. And his cause‚ was giving equal rights to all races. He faced discrimination from his

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    all the injustice that Tom Robinson endured during his trials‚ so Jem really understands that killing is wrong‚ especially to something so innocent.

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    Chloe Robinson Chloe Robinson 11/10/12 Period 7 A Day in the Life of a Slave Slaves. The worse kind of person to be in Mesopotamia. They live on the bottom class. And that is exactly what I am. I work twelve hours straight each day for a farmer. The bad part is there are no breaks. “Hey You!” my head shot straight up. I pointed at myself. “Yeah‚ You!” As I walked toward

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    (Jackie Robinson). This hero is Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson is a hero because of how he fought discrimination through playing baseball. If Jackie Robinson hadn’t broken the color barrier‚ was discriminated‚ and integrated baseball America wouldn’t be the same. Because Jackie Robinson was one of the first American baseball player‚ he paved the way to break the color barrier. First‚ 71 years ago Jackie Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. “On April 18‚ 1946‚ Jackie Robinson broke

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    In Marilynne Robinson’s Lila‚ Robinson tells the story of a preacher’s wife in Gilead‚ Iowa. Lila was born into the world an orphan. In a benevolent act of kidnapping‚ Doll‚ a migrant worker‚ saves Lila from her home of neglect. Together they lead a rootless‚ nomadic life as “a cow and her calf.” At the mercy of the elements‚ taking work where they could find it‚ Lila and Doll belonged nowhere and to nobody except for each other. Life had been neither kind nor fair to either of them‚ but they found

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    Notes for a Jackie Robinson Essay: Obstacle/barrier: Getting bullied Characteristics: Excellence and persistence A barrier i faced was being able to be myself and trying to fit in and stand out. HOOK SENTENCE:“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All i ask is that you respect me as a human being.” These famous words were spoken by the memorable and amazing Jackie Robinson. This quote is talking about the fact that even though Jackie knew he was different‚ he still wanted to be

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    English editorial 1. To kill A Mockingbird Critical Evaluation     Jennifer McLaren ‘She was white‚ and she tempted a negro. She did something that our society is unspeakable: She kissed a black man ‘ These words from chapter 18 of the novel “To Kill Mockingbird” by Harper Lee;         This quote shows just how racist and prejudiced the town Maycomb was. The society just cannot accept that a white woman likes a black man. The words illustrate a major theme in the novel that of the existence

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    Jackie Robinson was the first African American to ever play in the white baseball league. At first no one liked him because the color of his skin but he got them farther then they could. On January 31‚ 1919 Jackie Roosevelt Robinson is born to jerry Robinson and Millie McGriff Robinson in Cairo Georgia. He is the youngest of five children. Mallei Robinson takes her five children including sixteen-month-old Jackie and moves to Pasadena California where Jackie spends his childhood.

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    Harriet Robinson worked in the Lowell mills from 1834 to 1848‚ starting at the age of 10. Who than became an active abolitionist and was involved in the women’s rights movement. She wrote this autobiography‚ Loom and Spindle: Or‚ Life Among the Early Mill Girls‚ 1898‚ when she was 73 years old with the intention to entertain her readers but also to compare the political issues of the 1890s. During the 1820s‚ Francis Cabot Lowell developed a new system for organizing textile factories in Massachusetts

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