Sands and the strikers. Bobby Sands was born into a catholic family in Newtownabbey‚ County Antrim on the 9th of March 1954. He had 3 siblings which two were girls and the other was a boy. They were named Marcella who was the oldest of the siblings and was born in 1955‚ Bernadette was born in 1958 and John was born in 1962. Bobby left school and became a apprentice coach builder until he forced out at gunpoint by loyalists. He married Geraldine Noade and they had a son named Gerard who was born
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For my first quarter supplemental project‚ I chose to watch the movie Amistad. This movie portrays very unfortunate events that innocent people from Africa had to endure. The Africans were being held in Cuba and were chained to the cargo on the ship La Amistad. One of the Africans- Cinque; takes over the ship and him and his men kill most of the crew. Furthermore‚ they continue to sail‚ but reach the United States where they are imprisoned as runaway slaves. After this‚ the slaves are beginning to
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the Alberta tar sands worthwhile‚ knowing its devastating effects on the environment? There are very valid points for both arguments‚ being them economical‚ political‚ environmental‚ or moral. The mining of bitumen is not something that is sustainable for the environment‚ or the companies involved. Although these open-pit mines produce much of the world’s oil‚ people should consider paying more at the pumps rather than destroying the only world we have to live in. The tar sands in Alberta essentially
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From first glance of the Las Meninas painting‚ my eyes go to the center‚ down front‚ where a princess is being offered a drink and gives off an air of not being interested. Not too near to her‚ almost at the margin of the picture‚ a woman dwarf‚ and a boy bothers a tired dog‚ which disregards the torments. There is a woman in middle ground talks to a man who seems to be ignoring her while instead he looks directly at the viewer. Further in the back‚ a courtier in all black prepares to leave; his
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Day Dreaming While Driving Dagoberto Gilb’s “Love in L.A.” is a love story that is set on a freeway in Las Angeles. Now this is an unusual setting for a love story‚ however‚ “Love in L.A.” is a different kind of love story. The story opens up with Jake‚ a careless and irresponsible guy sitting in traffic. Gilb states that Jake is sitting in “near motionless traffic.” This symbolizes Jake’s life. Jake drives a ’58 Buick which is out of date and old. He wishes that this car had more accessories
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is out‚ “LA” Reid is in at Arista”. Newspoints [online] available at: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Gl4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=la+reid+challenges&source=bl&ots=oqkkNoOGqx&sig=ON1G1YaUzv7Vf6I1axck0Esq4Cw&hl=en&ei=nbKuTbLAEYyqvQPm6oiQDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=la%20reid%20challenges&f=false Hibberd‚ J. 2011. “Official: L.A. Reid signed as X-Factor judge”. Entertainment Weekly [online]. Available at: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/18/la-reid-x-factor/
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The Massacre of Sand Creek is a tragedy that occurred due to the greed of American’s. American’s have been trying to take away the Indian American’s land for years to expand the United States and it isn’t new for American’s to burst in on the Indian’s territory and remove their rights. This isn’t the first time the American’s have taken control of the Indian’s land for the purpose of pursuing something that is on or in their lands‚ such as gold in the Rocky Mountains. This gold found in the mountains
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Journal Entry 1 Brandi Beem Nature and Environmental Lit. Leopold gives the animals and nature certain human-like characteristics in this book because he wants us to connect with them in a way we likely have never done before. People don’t really stop to think about where their food comes from. If you consider all that it takes to produce the food we eat it might make you appreciate it more. If you’ve ever lived on a farm‚ you will have a greater appreciation for the food
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Oil Sands Oil sands are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. They are loose sand or partially consolidated sandstone that contains natural mixtures of clay and sand‚ saturated with a viscous form of petroleum. Natural petroleum deposits are reported in many countries‚ but are found in extremely large quantities in Canada; 70.8% of the globally estimated oil sand reserves are in Canada. Most of the oil sands of Canada are located in northern Alberta. They
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Sand control in horizontal wells The evolution of sand control from historical water wells to recommendations for 15‚000 ft+ horizontal oil/gas wells. This summary article backgrounds the need for formation sand entry prevention in downhole producing wells from man ’s first dumping of rocks into water wells drilled with rock or iron tools. Thousands of years later‚ the oil/gas industry invented basic gravel pack and sand screen methods to prevent inflow of unconsolidated formation sands.
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