George Washington was born at his father’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County‚ Virginia‚ on February 22‚ 1732. His father‚ Augustine Washington‚ was a leading planter in the area and also served as a justice of the county court. Augustine’s first wife‚ Janet Butler‚ died in 1729‚ leaving him with two sons‚ Lawrence and Augustine‚ Jr.‚ and a daughter‚ Jane. The elder Augustine then married George’s mother‚ Mary Ball‚ in 1731. George was the eldest of Augustine Washington’s and Mary
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The Star-Spangled Banner & Francis Scott Key It all started in 1812‚ while America was at war with England. The war broke out after England wanted to stop American Trade with the French. The British had entered the Chesapeake Bay on August 19th‚ 1814. Then on the 24th‚ the British invaded and captured Washington. The next day after burning down the capital the British turned around the Chesapeake Bay. However the American forces were busy getting prepared for the assault on Baltimore‚ that they
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A Thunderstorm It was a warm Saturday afternoon. I was alone at home as my parents had gone to visit my grandmother. I had just finished my school project and decided to relax on the veranda outside my room. I looked up the clear‚ blue sky and saw some white puffy clouds chasing one another. There was no hint of rain although I felt sticky all over‚ despite the fan going on at full blast earlier on. Then I heard the rumble of thunder a great distance away. A small squirrel scurried up
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Good afternoon and happy hump day! In reviewing and considering the papers in their totality‚ a few thoughts came to mind. I am not privy to some of the information that you are so; I realize that I may be a day late and a dollar short. 1) Three issues will potentially increase VBA’s workload in the near future‚ and garner significant attention from Congress and the media. a) Camp Lejeune Presumptive Conditions b) Character of Discharge (potential review of previous administrative decisions
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exhaust turning red; around our group I could hear the wilderness listen” ( Stafford 1520). Perhaps by thinking this way he felt that the wilderness and nature were watching and observing him to see what he would do next. It’s obvious that nature itself cannot hear a human but wild animals can hear and may have a sense of what he was feeling. He also writes “I thought hard for us all- my only swerving” (Stafford 1520). The narrator decides to the push the deer over into the river and this
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Something about Basketball Good afternoon everybody today is my great honor to be here to give my speech to all of you. My topic is something about basketball. It was my very first time playing basketball when I was in primary school. At that time‚ I even didn’t regard basketball as a kind of sports; I just enjoy the time playing basketball with my friends after school and that is my happiest time everyday. So now you see the result‚ I grow higher than others and this should contribute to basketball
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Separation and Reunion in Modern China (2002) by Charles Stafford In this monograph Charles Stafford considers separation as an existential state of human societies. He depicts how “repeated physical separations in various forms- including‚ ultimately‚ in the form of death- are surely an evitable feature of human life [that stands} in a complex relationship with various forms of emotional and social separation and distance” (Stafford 2002‚ p.5). By means of ethnographic data accumulated both in
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Maya Deren’s film “Meshes of the Afternoon” shows a women’s struggles with her relationship through her dreams. In her dreams there are three different options that she’s debating and a hooded figure that keeps reappearing. In this film the same woman is seen in four different roles. First she’s walks into the house and falling asleep in a chair‚ and then in her dream there are three other versions of herself. The first version gets pulled down the stairs by a force which makes me think she’s being
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Assignment 2 Film Form Analysis Meshes of the Afternoon: The first scene I chose to analyze is the scene where the woman‚ who is the only person in the film‚ is falling out of the bedroom window. We come to realize that she is‚ in fact‚ falling inside of the house rather than outside of the window‚ causing confusion for the viewer. The camera is out of focus for a moment and is used at a Dutch Angle or Dutch Tilt Shot‚ giving the impression that the world in frame is out of balance‚ which
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Compare and Contrast Staying in to watch a movie vs. going out to watch one It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon‚ the sun was shining‚ the flowers were blooming‚ and me my boyfriend were in the house debating on whether we were going to go out to watch a movie or if we were going to stay in the house and watch the movie. I wanted to go out because it was a beautiful day and we had already stayed in the house all week and he wanted to stay in the house to save some money because financially
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