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    The Plantation The Levi Jordan Plantation was established in 1848 and was abandoned in 1888, probably because of mistreatment by Levi Jordan. Some artifacts that were found on the plantation included coins, rings, bone saw frame, and a slave tag. Some caches were found, and in them were shells, animal bones, wine bottles, copper, cast iron pans, grapes, and tobacco pipes. Pots were also found next to the hearth, in what is thought to be the Blacksmith's Cabin. The heath was probably used to bake

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    Monique Chavez Professor Larios DMT-100 10 October 2014 Who Is Richard Trevithick? For my essay I chose Richard Trevithick, born on April 13, 1771 he was a British inventor from Cornwall, United Kingdom, and was also a mining engineer. Trevithick was a son of a mining captain, and he did not do very well in school. However, he became an early pioneer of the rail transport and steam-powered road. I think Trevithick is a very interesting person because he performed poorly in school, he never profited

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    in an experiment conducted by a group of people known as WICKED. When a disease, known as the Flare breaks out to the human population, WICKED starts experimenting trying to find a cure. The Flare makes people go insane and become cannibals, called cranks. Thomas, the main

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    Stimulants, sometimes called “uppers,” temporarily increase alertness, attention, and energy, as well as elevate blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration.  Methamphetamine is a illegal drug in the form of white crystalline.It has the names of meth, crank, chalk and speed . IT can be taken by snorting , smoking, orally or injecting with a needle. It can develop a strong desire to continue using it because it creates a false sense of happiness and well confidence, hyperactiveness and energy and user

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    too although it was not used in war. It was called the Intelligent Whale. It was more commonly known as an experimental submarine. The Intelligent Whale was built in Newark,New Jersey during the Civil War. It was powered by a dozen men turning a big crank. It was nearly 30 feet long, weighing 46 tons, and was made of bolted together iron plates. In the 1850s,a man named Lodner Phillips designed and employed a submarine for salvage work on the Great Lakes. They continued successfully in this business

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    2013 film Hours, his baby is born and a few hours later, Hurricane Katrina hits, leaving the hospital in the dark. Walker stays because his baby is on a ventilator. The ventilator went out, the back-up generator went out so he is forced to use a hand-crank generator in order to keep the ventilator battery

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    A double shot of bourbon neat with a Labatt’s chaser was Evan’s standard drink of choice at the Pussy Corps. He had placed his order with the waitress after taking his usual seat at a little two-seater table that was nicely tucked away in a dark corner near the far side of the stage opposite the entrance. He then looked over the room as he patiently waited for Misty to take to her performance. Not even 1 p.m. and the place already had nearly three dozen patrons. Most of them businessmen who

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    experience that I would never forget. It was another week completed of work, and it was my turn to punch out at the time machine. I quickly stamped my card and placed it back into the holder. Without saying goodbye to my co-workers, I did not hesitate to crank my car and speed up the main highway. As the image of the factory disappeared in the rear view, I screamed “Interstate-Twenty here I come.” It felt good

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    What is a banned book? A banned book is a book that has been removed from the shelves; it could be from a library, classroom, or even the bookstore because of its content. A book could be banned for many reasons, but it could be banned because it contains sex, violence, inappropriate language, religious viewpoints, witch craft, and many more things because other people deem it inappropriate. When someone bans a book they ban it for everyone else too. The First Amendment states that "Congress shall

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    Essay on Abuses in the Food Industry

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    Oppression has always been a concept that humanity has turned its head too. Whether that means a country is being governed by a dictatorship, an individual race being discriminated against, or immigrants in a country not being able to find adequate working environment. Even today, big businesses and individual supervisors are oppressing many people, specifically immigrants in the lowest jobs available. Books like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. have brought light to the situation

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