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alley where you can see a group that consists of three guys and two girls waiting for them. They walk up to them. But the closer they get, the slower they start to walk. Both seem to get a bit tense as this soon becomes a reality. Cort then approaches “Byrd”, a scrawny, tall drug dealer in his early 20’s. He has dark dirty skin and seems a bit shady. Intimidated, Cort greets the rest of the group. Matt and Pete, two clearly “high” guys in their late teens stand there both smoking a blunt. They are noticeably

Hate Crimes Prevention Act This act, also known as, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, was established in October of 2009 as the result of two malevolent murders. In 1998 Matthew Shepard was tortured and killed because he was believed to be gay. James Byrd Jr. was beaten, dragged behind a truck and eventually decapitated just because he was African American. The people who committed these crimes were later convicted for murder but could not be prosecuted for committing a hate

photos relevant to understanding the material. "The Diary of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1709-1712." National Humanities Center. Accessed November 7, 2016. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/text5/williambyrddiary.pdf. William Byrd 's diary is a primary source that illuminates the life of a colonial scientist. Byrd 's diary is a series of daily entries from April, 7 1709 to August 28, 1712. Byrd explains his daily routines of devout study, exercise, and accounts of

routine was to come to class and sit down with absolutely no talking. Mrs. Byrd told us our assignment, and then we would get right to work. Her boot camp style classroom assisted me by making me feel less anxious about how my thoughts would be transformed into text. Before senior English I struggled immensely with reading and writing. My ability to form ideas and to create a thesis statement limited me the most. Mrs. Byrd, however, shaped me into a scholarly writer by assisting me in whatever areas

documentary directed by Whitney Dow and Marco Williams that illustrates the murder of James Byrd Jr., who was a 49 year old African-American man that lived in Jasper, TX in the 20th century. In addition, it explicates in detail the trials of the three guilty men, and the opinions and feelings of the community (family and friends of Mr. Byrd, as well as the three guilty men’s). According to the documentary, James Byrd was wandering fully conscious on the night of June 7, 1998 when unexpectedly three men

Settlers treated the Indians as second-class. Virginians thought that they were far from being Christians. According to Byrd, “Morals and all considered, I can’t think the Indians were much greater Heathens than the first Adventures, who, had they been good Christians, would have had the charity to take this only method of converting the Natives to Christianity.”(William Byrd, History of the Dividing Line, p.3). Morals differ when dealing with a specific culture. Factors differ in material and cultural

(DL Chandler,2010) Two of the best examples of these crimes are the James Byrd and Mathew Shepard cases in 1998. These crimes prompted the enactment of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act that was signed by President Barack Obama in 2009. Although the crimes are both very horrific and morbid acts in their own right, they were based on different types of hate racial and homophobia. The James Byrd Case was racially motivated

William Byrd and Leonardo Da Vinci and the composer and artist duo that I have chosen from the Renaissance era or music and art. As Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in a city called Vinci, Republic of Florence which today is not modern day Italy and died on May 2, 1519 at the age of 67 in the city of Amboise, Kingdom of France. Da Vinci was more known as an artist and scientist, but was also an inventor, architect, musician, mathmation, engineer, astronomy, writer, historian, and geologist

their food portions for body image purposes (Quick & Byrd-Bredbenner, 2013, p. 55). Underlying factors of what caused the students to neglect their food intake. Aside from binge-eating; self-induced vomiting, medicine misuse, and excessive exercise were also examined in the questionnaire. There was also a questionnaire for night eating which assessed participants who woke up in the middle of the night and had cravings or urges to eat (Quick & Byrd-Bredbenner, 2013, p. 55). Participants were considered

“Sometimes your instincts are going to tell you you need to run,” Byrd said. “If you do that, no one’s going to argue with you, no one’s going to be mad at you, you’re not in trouble, you’re doing what you think you need to do.” Additionally, Byrd says that administrators are currently exploring the possibility of encouraging students to communicate with their family during lockdowns. This would lighten