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    I was a seventh-grader at Cedar Ridge Middle School and I was in the prime years of my life. I had just made the tennis team‚ I was in higher level classes‚ and I was making new friends every day. I felt like I already knew what it was like to live. There came a day‚ though‚ that I became unsure of who I was and if I was doing the right things. The reason for this was a boy named Ryan‚ and little did I know that he was going to impact my life in ways that I would never have thought of. He was not

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    murder in the shooting of two FBI agents during the 1975 Pine Ridge Indian Reservation conflict. In 1965‚ years before the conflict Leonard moved to Seattle Washington and became an owner of an auto body shop. While in Seattle Leonard became involved with many causes which supported Native American civil rights. Eventually Peltier joined the AIM‚ or the American Indian Movement. He began to learn about the dissenting tension at the Pine Ridge Indian Reserve in South Dakota between supporters of Richard

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    Saving Whiteclay Dude‚ lets walk to the liquor store and get some beer. The town of Whiteclay borders the Pine Ridge Reservation‚ and in just walking distance are four local off-sale beer retailers. Whiteclay is known for the huge amount of sale of alcohol. In 2009 between the four liquor stores they have sold approximately 191‚649 cases of beer according to the Nebraska Liquor Commission (Nebraska). Frank LaMere (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) has been advocating stopping the sale of alcohol in

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    that have taken place in the 1970 ’s on the Oglala Sioux Reservation. It is about an actual standoff between FBI agents and Indian activists in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota (Apted Michael‚ 1992). “Thunderheart” tells the story of Ray Levoi (played by Val Kilmer)‚ a mixed-blood FBI agentwho ventures onto the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to solve a murder but finds his Indian identity in the process. At first‚ Levoi’s loyalty clings to the American government

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    two federal bureau of investigation agents during a shootout on the pine ridge Indian reservation. Mr. Peltier served over 29 years in prison. This case happened on June 29‚ 1975 while two federal bureau of investigation agents in unmarked cars followed a red pick-up truck onto the jumping ball ranch believing it was a man accused of kidnap and armed assault. Peltier was there also because he was asked by people at pine ridge‚ South Dakota to support and protect the people being targeted for violence

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    www.ijecs.in International Journal Of Engineering And Computer Science ISSN:2319-7242 Volume 2 Issue 8 August‚ 2013 Page No. 2348-2354 Biometric Based Web Security Using Ridges of Fingers Md. Majharul Haque1‚ R. H. M. Alaol Kabir2‚ Md. Shakil Ahamed Shohag3‚ Dr. Zerina Begum4 1 Dhaka University‚ Department of Computer Science & Engineering‚ Dhaka‚ Bangladesh mazharul_13@yahoo.com 2 Dhaka University‚ Institute of Information Technology‚ Dhaka‚ Bangladesh alaol_kabir@yahoo.com

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    This essay that I’m going to talk about is about Ruby Bridges. She was the first black black child to cross an invisible line and enter an all-white school. She was only six years old when she went to the school in New Orleans on November 12‚ 1960. On her first day to the school she was escorted by three men that were white. Also on the first day of school there was a group of white people gathered by Franz Elementary school. When Ruby started walking into the school people would say mean things

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    | Prison Writings Book Review | Dr. Hansen | | Dillon Ekmalian | 10/1/2010 | The United States is home of the brave‚ the free‚ and the land of opportunity. People from countries all around the world come to the United States to better themselves‚ or to give their children a chance at a better life. Countries of all races and skin colors have come since the land of the Americas was “discovered‚” white‚ black‚ brown‚ and yellow. However‚ there is a key color missing; the

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    Ruby Langford’s Autobiography extract shows us different aspects of belonging than Winton’s story. Explain this. There are a substantial amount of aspects that correlate and contrast with the theme of belonging in various texts. Although our sense of belonging is vital for our survival and existence‚ everyone has their own approach to belonging and define it in their own way. The extract “why we didn’t assimilate” by Ruby Langford explores belonging from the eyes of an aborigine woman and how she

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