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    ten Booms began housing Jews until they can find them safe homes in the country. They have more than 6 Jews at a time and they hide in a very small room called the “secret room”. On February 28th, 1944, the Gestapo raids the Beje with the help of Dutchman Jan vogels(pg124-125). Corrie is sent to Scheveningen Prison with her Father and is later released except for Corrie. After 10 days in the prison corrie's father is sent to the hospital where he dies but she doesn't know that. Then they are sent

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    Ronald Reagan died June 5, 2004. Reagan was born February 6th 1911 in tampico Illinois. As a young kid Reagan's father would call him dutch because looked like a little fat dutchman. During his teenage years Reagan attended Dixon high school where he would graduate from in 1928. He would then go on to attend Eureka college where he would in a degree in economics and sociology. In 1937 Reagan landed his first big job by signing a seven year contract with Warner Bros. Over the next 27 years Reagan

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    Rip Van Winkle

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    Rip Van Winkle is the most widely read story in Irving’s The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon. The short story, Rip Van Winkle, is more than just a fairy tale written for children. It is, in fact, a metaphorically historical account of the early beginnings of the United States’ political and individual freedoms from Great Britain, both before, during, and after the American Revolution, yet it is based off an old tale originating in Germany. To fully understand the context of Rip Van Winkle, one must

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    This past week-end, nineteen Dutchman Creek Middle School students attended the SC Junior Thespian Competition in Summerville, SC. After an intense day of performing, competing, and participating in educational student workshops, six of our students emerged as top of their craft and have been invited to attend the National Thespian Competition in Lincoln, Nebraska. They are: • Solo Acting - Benjamin Gregory • Group Acting - Taylor Barber, Ashanti Burris, Kebrionna McCoy • Musical Theatre – Savannah

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    America or rather the Unites States of America bears a richly diverse history that cannot be summarized even in a million books, slides or videos. The reason supporting this argument range from the broad diversity in culture encompassing so many tribes and ethnic groups to the variation in skin formations guiding the country. The story started when Columbus sailed to virgin territories and activated a massive migration schedule from European countries. What happened next was a scramble of the fertile

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    home. She loved the musical and all the songs. Even though she did not show all of her emotions, the narrator saw them. “Aunt Georgiana sat silently upon her peak in Darien. She preserved this utter immobility throughout the numbers from the "Flying Dutchman," though her fingers worked mechanically upon her black dress, as though of themselves they recalled the piano score they had once

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    Phar Shape Timeline

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    final. Swimming the last leg, Thorpe passed the leading Americans and arrived in a new world record time, two tenths of a second ahead of the Americans. 2. Another event for the Australians on the fourth day of the Games was the 200 m freestyle. Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband had broken the world record in the semi-finals, taking it from the new Australian hero Ian Thorpe, who came close to the world record in his semi-final heat. As the final race finished, Van den Hoogenband's time was exactly

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    The Importance of Being Earnest Essay

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    AThe Importance of Being Earnest a play written by Oscar Wilde is set in England in the late Victorian era. Wilde uses obvious situational and dramatic irony within the play to satirize his time period. According to Roger Sale in Being Ernest the title has a double meaning to it and is certainly another example of satire used by Wilde. With a comedic approach, Wilde ridicules the absurdities of the character’s courtship rituals, their false faces, and their secrets. (Sale, 478) In the

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    good for our economy. An example of that would be to cut taxes down for the people, or increasing the spending on the military. Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico Illinois. His father nicknamed him Dutch, resembling a fat little Dutchman. His father’s name was John Reagan, and his mother’s name was Nelle Reagan. Ronald Reagan had a well rounded childhood. His childhood life was not hard or easy. It was easy for him to get along with other people. He was very educated, that's also

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    publish his work after his term in the air force ended in 1957. HIs work shifted as he shifted towards the black power movement. Baraka wrote many short plays, including the Dutchman, that showed the oppression of black people in the United States. His work afterwards was further influenced by his radical politics. In The Dutchman, Baraka showcases two distinct but related constructs which is black masculinity and white femininity in the figures of Clay and Lula respectively. Cultural constructions

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