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    Good Morning ALC students and students I’m Ms.Pastor your principal. I recognize some of your faces and some are new but it’s nice to see you all. Hopefully you all had a nice summer and welcome to a new school year. Before you all head to class I want to speak about a topic I feel needs to be addressed. Throughout‚ the years that I’ve been working here my fellow staff and teachers have told me that the students here lose focus during class and hopefully we can work together to change that. Everyone

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    there were obvious differences between the two cultures. The settlers saw themselves as superior and tried to force the Natives into taking on the European way of life. Although the settlers were friendly towards the Natives at first‚ war eventually broke out when they tried to protect their land. They slowly became the minority population of the United States. The genocide of the Native American people was not the end result that the settlers were desiring‚ however‚ the result only leaves an estimated

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    Emergency Room Nurses Face Increasing Danger Emergency nurses are starting to get hurt. According to the Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services International Conference held in Berlin this year‚ 98 percent of emergency room nurses in the Unites States reported verbal harassment and 67 percent reported physical violence. While in Canada‚ 84 percent of the nurses in the emergency department witnessed verbal harassment once in every shift. While there are 90 percent of them claimed

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    Why We Need Hardship and Difficulty in our Lives “Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines‚ but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” -Buddhist maxim. For example‚ Bilbo Baggins in the story The Hobbit had never before left the limits of the shire. But‚ by the end of the story‚ he’s off fighting goblins and helping to slay dragons. He has become a new man who isn’t afraid to face dangers‚ go on adventures‚ or go past his former limits. He became a different person

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    Hitler was a very smart but deceptive man his rise to power was more by force than being a favourite in Germany’s eyes until he convinced them to believe his beliefs. Hitler came to power by destabilising the German society by force with his gang of thugs. The German people were also at a very vulnerable point due to the world economic crisis which put thousands of Germans out of jobs. They thought they might end up back to the days of World War 2. Hitler took a prime opportunity by rallying the

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    Although the settlers of the New England and Chesapeake region were both settled by people of English origin‚ by the 1700s‚ they had transformed into very different societies. This was because of a number of reasons. Between the settlers‚ the New Englanders moved for religious purposes‚ while Chesapeakes moved for want for material wealth.The people of New England also consisted of more families than the predominantly young male population of the Chesapeake. Their governing styles were also different

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    “Don’t be a settler‚ get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.” This phrase in the “The Settlers: Satisfaction” ad makes viewers question if they are not getting the most out of life. This ad begins in a regular urban neighborhood with one old time farm house situated in the middle. The family shown are old fashioned people who live off the land. The mother asks the father why they don’t switch to Direct TV. The father insists they are settlers and‚ since they are settlers‚ it means they can ‘settle’

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    experienced war‚ their optimism quickly diminished. Meanwhile‚ the common people remained positive because they didn’t comprehend the true terrors of the war. Although the citizens faced many hardships similar to the soldiers‚ the overall effects were significantly different than the soldiers because they did not face the same struggles and were not directly influenced to the same extent. The primary differences between the civilians and the soldiers were the views about the war and the different roles

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    In J. D Salinger ’s novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ the protagonist‚ Holden‚ goes through many hardships in his journey to self-knowledge. In the beginning‚ Holden has to deal with being kicked out of school and not having any place to call home. He is also struggling with the unfortunate tragedy of the death of his beloved younger brother Allie. At the same time‚ Holden is trying to deal with growing up and accepting the adult world. Throughout the novel Salinger addresses the conflicts faced by

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    reason‚ most Americans moved to the west was to gain wealth‚ freedom‚ and to worship what they believed (Schultz‚ 2013). There were two periods of Americans moving west the first period transpired from 1820 and 1844 and took place regardless of the governments consent. At the beginning of the settling of the west Mountain Men were responsible for the exploration and finding the safest trails and paths to traverse. These Mountain Men paved the way for the new settlers into the western region of the United

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