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    read his speech and received his prize: a briefcase with a scholarship to the college for Negroes in it. That night he dreamed of his dead grandfather and he was told to open the briefcase. In the briefcase was a paper that said‚ “Keep This Nigger Boy Running‚” this was what blinded him from the rest of the world. The narrator went to college‚ where he soon got expelled and was sent back to New York City. While working at his new factory

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    School Life in the 1950's

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    School Life in the 1950’s School Life in the 1950’s was harder than today because the facilities were few and inadequate. Teachers were stricter and corporal punishment was still in use. They had fewer subjects and wealth‚ discrimination‚ sexism and racism meant they could only do certain subjects. After World War 2 there was a baby boom and as a result in the 1950’s schools were quickly filling up as the children enrolled. The enrolments increased as much as 30% over the ‘baby-boomers’ decade. In

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    Life in the 20's vs 30's

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    Life In the 20’s and 30’s Many people who just got back from the war were so unhappy due to the Spanish flu that they got from traveling around the world. In the 20’s people starting to life happy because of the prices and everything that they have starting to raise. Unfortunately everything in this world always rotating around. So this roaring that happening in the 20’s starting to end in the 30’s. This created the Great Depression. In the 20’s many people were so happy because they got

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    what it was like to live in London in the 1600 ’s? What did people learn? What kind of jobs did they do? I know you probably don ’t ever think about that‚ but maybe this presentation will leave you to walk away wondering: How could they live like that?!! Let ’s start with where we would be as children in London. The boys would be at a school getting a public education; the girls would be at home getting a private education from a tutor. Although a girl ’s education would usually include reading and

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    Troy Wolff: Exchange Year

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    1 01/21‚ 2013 Troy Wolff Exchange Year “Being an exchange student is awesome”‚ “I had the best year of my life”‚ “ I learned so much about myself”. These are what people‚ who had already been abroad‚ told me about their past experiences two years ago. They told me about how wonderful it was‚ how the exchange experiences have changed them forever‚ and what they had learned from it. I was truly inspired by their energy and passion. I became curious about going. What “life lesson” would my year

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    1930's Farm Life

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    Farm Life in the 1930’s Questions I have always lived on a farm for the majority of my life. Nowadays life now on a farm for me is much more different then how life was back then. The kids back then had it tough too they most likely had to work all day on the fields and your future was already determined once you were born. Just because there was no one else to take over the farm once your dad got too old or incapable to work. So with this said you were going to take up on you fathers trade

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    John Carrol "My Boy Life"

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    After reading the short story “My Boy Life” which is the memoir of John Carroll‚ I was from time to time envious of Carroll’s life but also relieved that I was not born in the 1800’s. Born just before the war of 1812 in Upper Canada‚ Carroll’s life was very simple. His prospective future occupations only consisted of a few and were predetermined from birth. How simple is life when everything is already set in stone? From the age of twelve to seventeen‚ Carroll worked at a tannery and as a currier

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    The Hobo Life in the 1930’s Imagine a time where there were no jobs‚ and the ones that were available weren’t paying enough to help anyone survive. Kids roamed the streets and little cardboard shackle houses were where most of the population lived‚ it was dangerous and unclean. Then there were the people who would jump aboard a train to seek work in other towns‚ or just go to see the world. There were approximately 2 million men‚ 8‚000 women (Ganzel)‚ and 250‚000 teens (“Riding the Rails” Encyclopedia

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    This emotional life – Family‚ Friends‚ and Lovers. This video talked about how and why we need relationship with others through family‚ friend and the case of lovers. In the beginning of the video psychologist‚ Daniel Gilbert‚ states that successful relationship gives us happiness. Moreover it also led to our emotional well being. On the section of family‚ it focused on the attachment. Children have problem communicating and building relationship‚ in most of the time‚ are lack of the love. Especially

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    The theme of the two articles is hardship "Boys Life"and "Emancipation". They have several things that are alike and several things that are different. They are both about two mammals being free. A human and one animal. In the beginning of “Boys Life” it starts of by saying “TICK……TICK……TICK”. The boys name is Cory Mackenson which is the narrator of the story. In the article it says‚ “In spite of what the calendar says‚ I have always counted the last day of school as the first day of summer. The

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