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    Crime Trends

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    Crime trend Part 2 According to my crime trend: Career Criminals My crime trend does not seem to exist in Virginia. According to US legal “Parole has been abolished” (Us Legal‚ 2010). With parole being abolished this does not give felons a chance to become career criminals. By abolishing parole Virginia has cut down crime in their state significantly. According to the Lexington prosecutor the number of repeat offenders has risen from 1996 to 1999 about two percent each year. They are recommending

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    1. What percentage of the population did slaves comprise in New York City by the early 1740s? a. 20 percent Slaves comprised one-fifth or 20 percent of the total population of New York City‚ making it a city with one of the highest concentration of slaves in colonial America. (See the introductory section.) 2. Which statement describes African American slaves’ views on the American Revolution? A. They viewed it as an opportunity to gain their own freedom. As the battle for political independence

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    “Do you want to know who you are ? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” -Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was born in Virginia on April 13‚ 1743 and later died on July 4‚ 1826. Jefferson grew up in the Shad well ‚ Virginia where his father peter Jefferson was very wealthy. Jefferson and his family moved to Tuckahoe in 1745 ‚ and later his father died in 1775. He is the third of ten children. On June 11‚1776 anticipated that the vote for independence would be unfavorable. Something that

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    Malala Yousafzai (Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎; Urdu: ملالہ یوسف زئی‎ Malālah Yūsafzay‚ born 12 July 1997)[1] is a Pakistani school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her education andwomen’s rights activism in the Swat Valley‚ where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009‚ at the age of 11–12‚ Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her

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    Virginia Hall

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    VIRGINIA HALL This young woman was incredible. She was brave and unique and helped the Allies during that terrible World War 2. Virginia was born in 1906‚ in Baltimore. She was exceptional since she could speak both fluent‚ French and German. She was a very good student and when to a prestigious school‚ Radcliff. She wished to work in American embassies. Unfortunately‚ while hunting one day‚ she shot her leg. Medical help arrived too late and she had to amputate her leg. This would affect

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    Rhonda Howard Resume

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    upon. · Directed callers to destinations. · Operated telephone console to receive incoming messages. · Typed memos‚ correspondence‚ reports and other documents. Virginia Staffing Charlottesville‚ VA Data Entry Technician November 2012 to May 2013 · Operated keyboard and other data entry device to enter data into computer or onto magnetic

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    very interesting Englishman. He was a politician‚ explorer‚ aristocrat‚ soldier‚ and merchandiser of tobacco. He was quite the fellow and impressed Elizabeth I‚ In turn she knighted him in 1585. The Queen granted Raleigh a royal patent to explore Virginia. This would be the first English would set foot on the New World soil. John White was on this original voyage and became the governor of Roanoke. This journey was sponsored

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    Virginia Henderson

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    Virginia Henderson’s Need Theory Background * “First Lady of Nursing” * “First Truly Internetional Nurse” * “The Nightingale of modern Nursing” * “The 20th century Florence Nightingale” * Born in Kansa City‚ Missouri‚ in 1897 and is the 5th child of the family of 8th children but spent her formative years in virginia. * Received a Diploma in Nursing from the Army School of Nursing at Walter Reed Hospital‚ Washington‚ D.C. in 1921. * Worked at the Henry Street Visiting

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    how this republican freedom depended on its opposite‚ slavery. How had the Virginia‚ a society that originally never incorporated slaves into their workforce‚ become so dependent on them to the point that they feared them? This question and the republican belief of freedom in America are the thesis and topic for Edmund S. Morgan’s book. The analysis‚ done by Morgan‚ begins back before the beginnings of the colony in Virginia. The colony was originally proposed by Sir Humphrey Gilbert; this idea was

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    English by origin‚ they had developed two very different societies. Each group had it’s own beliefs and expectations of what they will find in this new world‚ and the results of their settlement were very different as well. When the ship headed for Virginia left England in 1635‚ it was filled mostly with men in their twenties and thirties. The ship’s name - "Merchant’s Hope" very much explains the reason for which these people were heading to the New World. They were looking to find gold‚ silver and

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