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    mil/airchronicles/aureview/1982/jan- feb/obrien.html) In this paragraph I am going to write about Soviet women pilots and the role they played during World War 2. The first of these women pilots was Marina Raskova who was referred as the “Russian Amelia Earhart" and she was the first woman to become a navigator in the Soviet Air Force in 1933. When World War II started Raskova used her personal connections with Joseph Stalin to convince the military to form three combat regiments for women since before

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    By Christian Heath P age |2 Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Adventurers and Explorers: Amelia Earhart (Female Aviation Pioneer) ................................................................................................ 5 Christopher Columbus (“Discoverer” of the New World?)...............................................................

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    The book “The Greatest Generation”, by Tom Brokaw, is about the men and women who were born in the 1920’s and how they are what he deems to be the greatest generation thus far. He believes this generation is so tremendous because of the fact they did not demand respect for what they did and went through. Though may sacrificed as much as their lives, they do not think higher of themselves. Even through all their struggling they managed to have enough strength leave everything behind and fight for

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    Positive Female Influences in Emergency Medical Services Throughout History Shelby Lollar Coming into the emergency medical service world as a woman you can face many difficulties. It takes a strong individual and committed woman to enter into emergency medical services. Women are the minority in this field so there can be many twists and turns having a career in EMS. Women got their feet into the EMS career world by becoming firefighters first. The first

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    Historical fiction part 3: research: annotated bibliography (15 resources) Era 1: United States in the 1960s POV: from a NASA woman spy POV who worked to spy in Russia, age is about 27-30 1. Cabral, E. (2008, March 10). What a Ride! (cover story). Student Research Center. Retrieved January 10, 2014, from http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?sid=48dacef8-9126-4b87-9d13-3d736a97643d%40sessionmgr4004&vid=1&hid=4101&bdata=JnNpdGU9c3JjLWxpdmU%3d#db=mih&AN=31381859 • This article from the EBSCOHOST

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    Montessori Education SA Montessori, Pre-Primary Philosophy 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Covering Page 1 Table Of Contents 2 1 Write a page about Maria Montessori’s family, 4 where they lived, her father’s profession, her mother and her siblings 2 Where did Maria Montessori go to school, what did she study and why 5 3 Write about Maria Montessori’s Medical training, why, where 6 4 Note where she first practised medicine, why, and what did

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    Chapter 27—The New Power Balance, 1850-1900 1. How was ocean shipping transformed by the mid-nineteenth century? a. There were more efficient, powerful engines. b. The average size of freighters increased from 200 to 7,500 tons. c. Steel hulls replaced wooden hulls. d. Propellers replaced paddle wheels. e. All of these* 2. The "annihilation of time and space," extolled by the public and the press in the late nineteenth century, referred especially to a. the development of aircraft. b.

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    In 1919, when Langston Hughes was seventeen years old, he spent the summer with his father, Jim Hughes, in Toluca, Mexico. Langston had not seen his father since he was a small child, and he was excited about making the trip. However, during this visit, no affectionate bond would develop between Langston and Jim. Jim Hughes was a cold, difficult man, who was driven by ambition to make money and achieve respect. He had moved to Mexico to avoid segregation and racial injustice in the United States

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