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    Student Name      Erica Nichole Smith Course and Section Number Program of Study      CCJ1020       Criminal Justice Investigation Introduction to Criminal Justice CCJ 1020 Week 1 Individual Work Student Success Plan Assignment Instructions This personalized Student Success Plan will help you focus on what it takes to be successful in this course and as a college student. To complete this assignment: 1. Answer all of the questions below. They help you think through

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    Manuel Romero January 26‚ 2014 English 142A Radiology Everyone wants to be successful in life. The easiest way to do so is to set goals for yourself just for a day or for the rest of your life. Having goals makes you have a clear focus and helps you organize your plans to achieving the goals you have set for yourself. My parents always remind me how it’s difficult to be successful in the world if you have no college education. They encourage me to strive for what I want so I won’t have to suffer

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    When I was coming up for the different elements of the strategic plan I used the theme of consistency throughout. I used this theme because I believe this is one very important part of orientation that sometimes gets overlooked. Consistency brings result whether they be good or bad. My overall goal was to create a program or tasks throughout the summer that will make orientation as a whole to run smoothly and allow students to feel as if they belong at the university. Based off my self-awareness

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    The Rule Day Club began in 1932 during the final year of prohibition‚ and the beginning years of the great depression. This club acquired its name because it met on the second Monday of every month‚ which at the time was colloquially known as “Rule Day” or the day “the law made certain writs returnable after service to the civil common law courts in Baltimore.” Unlike the Lawyers’ Round Table—which respected the legal restraints imposed by prohibition—the members of the Rule Day Club “freely imbibed”

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    Why Is Plagiarism Wrong

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    There are few things people really learn. Many claim to learn‚ but in reality these are empty claims and they haven’t learned anything at all. One of the few things I truly learned is that plagiarism is wrong. Although this is drilled into our heads year after year most don’t heed these warnings. Weirdly enough this lesson was learnt in math classes not the typical Wikipediang of history or English. In Mr. Smith’s class I learned this valuable lesson with the aid of some nefarious peers and the iron

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    The Men Who Built America

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    shipping and railroads‚ becoming one of the richest men in American history. Vanderbilt took an interest in railroads in the 1850’s and served on the boards of directors of the Erie Railway‚ the Central Railroad of New Jersey‚ the Hartford and New Haven‚ and the New York and Harlem. In 1863‚ he took control of the Harlem after buying most of its stock and was elected president of the railway. He realized the value of this railroad as it was the only steam railroad to enter the

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    In his novel‚ The Underground Railroad‚ Colson Whitehead uses the events in his book to show his audience the difficulty that slaves experienced in their pursuit of true freedom. Through the use of fiction‚ Whitehead explores the imaginative possibilities beyond the conditions of the past or present (Wild). Although the story and characters are fictional‚ Whitehead’s use of actual historical data–slave interviews‚ the syphilis and population control experiments‚ real “wanted” ads in the beginning

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    Africana Studies Final Paper 12/12/13 The Role of Women in the Underground Railroad In a time filled with torture and pain and where “whipped”‚ “chained” and “beaten to death” were words and phrases commonly tossed around the topic of American slaves‚ some individuals rose up and fought against the odds and in doing so solidified their place in history. Mostly all African Americans were subjected to slavery but it was the brave few that could only be pushed so far and decided to escape in hopes

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    Cornelius Vanderbilt

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    Cornelius Vanderbilt (Shipping and Railroad Tycoon) Overview On the north side of East 42nd Street‚ at the Park Avenue intersection‚ stands one of New York’s most admired buildings: Grand Central Terminal. Once the capitol of the New York Central Railroad empire‚ it remains the city’s glittering gate for tens of thousands of travelers each day. Over the entrance looms a larger-than-life bronze statue of the man who made it possible‚ Cornelius Vanderbilt. The memorial is fitting‚ even though

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    but they are a little long. I use my phone about 3 hours a day which equals 21 hours in a week. I think that is a lot less than other people use. I need to get off of my phone just like Thoreau. When Thoreau uses the quote‚ “ the rails under the railroad are dead bodies”‚ I agree with that. These stories are talking about how much more the world could be if we didn’t have laptops and or cell phones. Also‚according to Heitmans story‚ he agrees with Thoreau and describes the same thing as him. I think

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