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Benjamin Franklin is best known as one of the Founding Fathers of our country‚ who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Franklin was born in January of 1706 in Boston‚ where he was the fifteenth of seventeen children. He stopped going to school at age ten to help his father’s business but got bored of making candles. At age twelve Franklin went to apprentice at his older brother’s print shop‚ before eventually opening his own print shop in Philadelphia
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The Decline of the West - Hanif Kureishi Financial collapses changes the way of living for millions of people all over the world. In the short story “The Decline of the West” written by Hanif Kureishi in 2010‚ Mike and his family are represented as victims of the 2008 financial crisis (also known as the Global Financial Crisis). Mike and his family lives in a materialistic world in the modern western capitalistic society‚ to which they have lost the regularly known family values as for example
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The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin is a story written about the life of Benjamin Franklin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790. What is sad about this is he never had a chance to finish the book because of his passing. It was published unfinished‚ however there are many great things written in the book anyway. Looking to his many virtues‚ we discover Benjamin Franklin to be disciplined
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disfranchisement‚ and police brutality. In the late 1960s‚ the Chicano movement brought the mass walkouts by high school students in Denver and East Los Angeles in 1968 and the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles in 1970. An important civil rights activist was Cesar Chavez. Influenced by leaders such as Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Chavez wished to help migrant field workers of California in a peaceful manner. He created a union of migrant farm workers‚ the National Farm Workers Association‚ to
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sometimes a mix of the two.” Traditional and contemporary is what makes the Navajo sand paintings sacred. The ceremonials the Navajo have‚ contain sand paintings that relate to the ceremony taking place. These ceremonies contain not only sand paintings but also healing songs that return the patient back into “hozho” or balance. Creating the sand paintings has a definite process to it but it is not an easy job. The Navajo sand paintings go through a complex process‚ which in turn not only has a deeper
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Once someone has received this treatment‚ some may no longer need to worry about having major depressive disorder. A study found that the total improvement in hospitalized patients treated with ECT was approximately 90% while the improvement for those who were treated with antidepressants and therapy was only 60%. At the end of the seven weeks of hospitalization‚ 74% of the patients who received ECT had been discharged‚ which is significantly more than those who were treated with antidepressants: 54%
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the education system was not the best. Many of these neighborhoods were shared with other groups such as African Americans‚ but segregation
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What would you do if one country’s dominance over your country changed your life for the worse? This is what was occurring to the lithuanians. During Stalin’s rule‚ There were many things he did to ensure soviet dominance. Stalin had a five year plan. This five year plan was to gain complete soviet dominance through the secret deportation of Lithuanians to siberia. The lithuanians faced many hardships not only in Siberia but on the way there as well. The first part of the plan was to deport them
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• What was the progressive movement and what did it aim to do? Protecting Social Welfare • Who was Florence Kelley and what did she advocate for? Promoting Moral Improvement • What was the Prohibition and what led up to it? Creating Economic Reform • What were muckrakers? Fostering Efficiency • Who coined the scientific management? Reform Governors • Why was Robert M. La Follette an important figure under the progressive Republican party? Reforming Elections • What was
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