Sept. 9 2013 So What? The Strange Death of Silas Deane In the late 1700s‚ the case of Silas Deane’s death was as good as solved and put to rest. His depression weakened his body enough‚ to lead him to illness and an inevitable death. Despite the lack of evidence that led to this conclusion‚ people were at ease with it so there were no reasons to further officially investigate his case. There were‚ of course‚ speculations from the skeptics of the age. Perhaps his death were self-inflicted or
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My First Plane Ride The 21-hour voyage all begins when you step aboard the Boeing 747. For me this was my first plane ride. My parents and I were departing from LAX and our destination was Myanmar or Burma. I was probably 6 years of age waiting to see my relatives in Burma for the first time. Before we took off I was so excited‚ but when the plane started to take off my excitement turned converted to fear. Fortunately‚ about 2 minutes later the plane lost its slope and the roar of its engines
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My Blue Bike It was blue. It intimidated me topoint of tears many times. After succeeding to ride my first bike was magic‚ riding my bike was freedom. My dad thaught me to ride blue bike. My bike was the coolest‚ most special‚ better than anyone else’s bike in the whole world. I loved to look at it‚ riding it was another story entirely. Daddy loved to just do things. My first moments on my beautiful bike were filled with wind through my hair‚ my dad’s hands on my back pushing hard as I’m hurling
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I swiftly purchase a ticket and get in line behind her. She still has not spied me. The log ride was extremely fun except for the fact that I got soaking wet. By the time that I had gotten off the ride she was already on the Spongebob ride. There was NO way I would follow her on that one. The wait for her to get done was not very long . As I stayed far behind her I could hear her talking on the phone with someone
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10.1 CHARLES PERKINS AND THE FREEDOM RIDE CHARLES PERKINS Kumantjayi (Charles) Perkins was born in Alice Springs in 1936. His early education was at school in Adelaide. A skilled soccer player‚ Perkins played professional soccer in England from 1957 to 1960. Having turned down an offer to try out for Manchester United‚ he returned to Australia to coach a local Adelaide team. Here he became vice president of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines. Perkins moved to Sydney in 1962
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Although The Feminine Mystique is often hailed as the harbinger text of third-wave feminism‚ Stephanie Coontz is quick in the opening lines of her A Strange Stirring to revoke the piece of its grandiose status‚ instead affectionately remembering it as a “brilliant artifact— and not a timeless classic.” Published in 2011‚ Coontz’s A Strange Stirring was written in the challenge of the previously held notion that the feminist movement of the 50s and 60s had come about due to a national “dissatisfaction
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The Ride towards Freedom November 1‚ 2011 In 1961‚ the Freedom Riders set out for the Deep South to defy Jim Crow laws and call for change. They were often met by hatred and violence and local police commonly refused to intervene. The Riders efforts transformed the civil rights movement. About fifty years ago today‚ two buses left Washington‚ D.C.‚ in the first of what would become known as the Freedom Rides. On board was an interracial group determined to desegregate bus terminals across the
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are Equality by Maya Angelou and the song Strange Fruit‚ recorded by the legendary jazz singer‚ Billie Holiday. Both of these songs examine this issue of racism‚ from different viewpoints. Strange Fruit‚ written in third person by Abel Meeropol as a poem‚ it came to symbolise the brutality and racism of the practice of lynching in America’s South. Likewise‚ Equality was written in first person‚ protesting oppression as well as reflecting about
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The American Mission Part one A Very Strange Odyssey The second book in my saga has come to fruition. It sees our intrepid bunch of misfits attempting to overcome another series of obstacles and succeed against impossible odds. The action takes place in England‚ Greenland and America. The squad are trying to locate a Professor of archaeology who was part of an expedition to Australia as a student and apparently found an unusual artefact with a bizarre power. Other parties are also interested
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The book Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson is about six kids named Max‚ Fang‚ Iggy‚ Gazzy‚ Nudge‚ and Angel. They call themselves the flock because they all have bird genes in their DNA; and they all have wings and can fly. They got the genes from a place called the School. The School is a place where scientists create mutants. Four years ago the flock escaped with the help of one of the scientists there‚ Jeb Batchelder. Two years after their escape‚ Jeb disappears and everyone
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