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    George Washington Carver was a chemist with an extraordinary mind and an extraordinary life. With the mentality he grew up having‚ this chemist amazed everybody of how to take one little thing and transform it into quite a few useful things. Earning the name “The Plant Doctor.” As a child‚ born around 1864 George grew up to an enslaved couple known as Mary and Giles‚ owned by Moses Caver. Then suddenly George followed by his mom and sister were kidnapped by raiders and sold in kentucky. Only then

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W.S.U. # xxxxx Why is a Washington State Education important to me?    Washington State has been my dream college since I was a baby. It has been my families university of choice. The two most influential in my life Uncle Tony Grafton and Grandpa Donald Grafton‚ both alumni‚ raised me as a cougar.    At my birth my Uncle Tony Grafton showed up at the hospital with a stuffed cougar from the WSU bookstore that sang the fight song and a baseball hat.  At

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    Free by ’63: The March on Washington One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation was written‚ African Americans were still fighting for equal rights in every day life. The first real success of this movement did not come until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was followed by many boycotts and protests. The largest of these protests‚ the March on Washington‚ was held on August 28‚ 1963 "for jobs and freedom" (March on Washington 11). An incredible amount of preparation

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    The debt over burning fossil fuels and the impact it has caused on climate change as been discussed over years without answer as to say if the gradual warming of the earth is a natural process or if human activity has added to the acceleration of climate change or is the key behind it. Evidence of this is the hockey stick debt as temperature rise rapidly once humans became developed. One thing we do know is that there are many natural events that possibly could accelerate global warming but also

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    topic is based on comparing Atticus’ and Agent Ward’s authority in their respective plots. Atticus Finch and Agent Ward are both very similar characters that play the same roles in their respective plots in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Mississippi Burning’. Both characters share the same authority in terms of the way they try to establish justice‚ they also resemble in their characteristics and beliefs. The occupations of Atticus Finch and Agent Ward both aim to establish justice and maintain peace

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    Burning Barn: Reading Response In William Faulkner’s short story‚ Burning Barn we see a young boy‚ Sarty‚ in conflict with the decisions to either be loyal to his family or do what is morally right and find himself alone. Sarty finally breaks away from his father’s reign because he has finally found the courage to stand up for what is morally right even if he does end up alone. The beginning of the story we can see Sarty‚ the main character‚ who seems to be in court with his father‚ where his father

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    Joseph Mallord William Turner’s painting‚ The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons‚ 16 October 1834 (1835)‚ captures the drama of first-hand expe rience through careful rendering of texture‚ colors‚ and composition. These elements‚ along with well-though out exhibit‚ make for a very powerful experience of a true historical event. Turner‚ an English Romantic artist‚ creates this work with oil on canvas. It measures about four feet high and five feet wide framed. This work is a good example

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    fire Edwards some months later." They seem to defend whatever Edwards says‚ but it true what he is saying towards the government economically. On the poem‚ “Upon the Burning of Our House”‚ Bradstreet says that “There lay that store I counted best. My pleasant things in ashes lie.” She wasn’t worried about her house when it was burning down‚ even with her precious items that she had because her husband belonged to the rich community and it could be recovered. But in another hand‚ the poor communities

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    Mr. Smith Goes To Washington Politics can be corrupt and extremely ugly. In Mr. Smith goes to Washington‚ Jefferson Smith is appointed as a new member of the senate. Jefferson Smith was too idealistic and naïve to be a senator in American government during this time of corruption. Mr. Smith was too naive to survive as a senator during the time the movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” took place. Mr. Smith’s naiveté was seen in his proposal to start a national boys camp. After this proposal during

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    George Washington was born on February 22‚ 1732. He was born at his family farm. His mother’s name was Mary and his father’s name was Augustine. George was the eldest out of Mary and Augustine’s six children‚ himself‚ Elizabeth‚ Samuel‚ John‚ Charles and Mildred. Mary‚ was Augustine’s second wife‚ Augustine’s first wife‚ Jane Butler Washington‚ had died leaving him with 2 sons‚ Lawrence and Augustine. The farm Washington’s family owned was called Ferry farm. It was in Popes Creek Estate in Westmoreland

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