unparalleled rate of scientific discoveries. In fact‚ there were so many new gadgets invented and discoveries made in the last century that it’s difficult to write the list down. However‚ I think I can say ten innovations or technologies that have had the greatest influence on humanity—both positively and the negatively. First of all‚ I want to remember penicillin: this drug (eventually group of drugs) was discovered in 1928‚ it opened the door to the discovery of antibiotics. Penicillin remains the most
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Zoe Jackson WHAT HAS BEEN OR WHAT YOU ANTICIPATED BEING YOUR GREATEST CHALLENGE Since the third grade my challenge has been the FCAT. I was determined not to let this test defeat me again. This assessment has affected me in several ways. My third grade teacher’s thoughts about me passing the FCAT were not good. She made accusations‚ evaluations‚ and predictions that I had a learning disability. She believed I was withdrawn socially‚ basically‚ stating that I had no social skills. The FCAT was a
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Medgar Evers Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist whose life was cut short due to the racism and discriminations towards blacks in his time. Medgar Wiley Evers was born on July 2‚ 1925‚ near Decatur‚ Mississippi. He grew up on a small farm that his father owned along with 5 other siblings. Evers strived to get his diploma by walking 12 miles to and from school every day‚ until 1943‚ when Evers was inducted into the army along with his brother Charles Evers. He fought during WWII he was honorably
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Medgar Evers Civil rights activist. Born July 2‚ 1925‚ in Decatur‚ Mississippi. After growing up in a Mississippi farming family‚ Evers enlisted in the United States Army in 1943. He fought in both France and Germany during World War II before receiving an honorable discharge in 1946. In 1948‚ he entered Alcorn Agricutural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University) in Lorman‚ Mississippi. During his senior year‚ Evers married a fellow student‚ Myrlie Beasley; they later had three children:
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life of preaching identifies in a person that God would like to use your life circumstances to convince others about Him. An excellent example of this point is found in a text that would have contributed well to this courses recommended reading. The Greatest Salesman
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IJOMA ASEME FS 101-010 MEDGAR EVERS DOCUMENTARY Medgar Wiley Evers was born on July 2 1925 in Decatur Mississippi. He was a very influential human rights activist who focused on segregation in America and was murdered in cold blood by a member of the white citizens council called Byron De La Beckwith on June 12 1963 at the age of 35. He was married to Myrlie Beasley Evers and together they had three children. Dissimilar to the 1960s‚ things are very different in terms of minorities and equality
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if it means selling them to a sex trafficker. In the book Sold‚ Patricia McCormik gives an example of how the step-father of the protagonist‚ Lakshmi‚ views her‚ "But a girl is like a goat. Good as long as she gives you milk and butter. But not worth crying over when it’s time to make a stew"(McCormik 8). In this third world country‚ women and girls are to be used and are for man’s pleasure. Lakshmi was thirteen when her step father sold her. He is a greedy man who does not work and sells her into
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The book I read this quarter was Sold by Patricia McCormick. The story is first-person and is narrated by thirteen year-old Lakshmi from Nepal. This book has over 170 chapters‚ each one only a few pages in length. This adds to the narrative as Lakshmi is thinking in small thoughts and does not think into many things due to her young age. Lakshmi’s family was poor‚ but managed to make it by on most days‚ on other days Lakshmi and her mother would starve while her step-father gambled. One day‚ Himalayan
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Ever-Wasers I found the article “The Information” by Adam Gopnik to be a difficult read. The information seemed to jump around and was very difficult to follow. While I understood the point Gopnik was making I couldn’t dive into the information like I wanted to. I wasn’t rally sure of Gopnik’s view on the subject‚ is he an Ever-Waser? What does‚ it’s not about the toast but the butter really mean? Is Gopnik trying to say that it’s not about the new technology but how we use it? Gopnik states
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McCormick’s novel Sold is extremely relevant because of the enormous human trafficking industry in not only South Asia‚ but many other parts of the world. Worldwide‚ the US State Department estimates that nearly half a million children are trafficked into sexual slavery a year‚ and about 12‚000 Nepali girls are sold by their families intentionally and unwillingly into sexual slavery in India annually. The issues of poverty‚ the shaming and subordination of women‚ rape‚ unsafe sexual practices and
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