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    There are many differences and similarities between the Boston Massacre and the Kent State shooting.     One similarity between the two are that both the students and the colonist were throwing rocks and calling the the soldiers unpoliet names. Both the Ohio National Guard and the British Soldiers fired at the students and colonist. Also both the National Guard and the British soldiers carried bayonets. Both protests were strong enough that proper authorities had to come in and help maintain the

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    Another event that eroded support in the war and US Government occured during a protest at Kent State University. During a protest on May 4, 1970, twenty-nine National Guardsmen gathered at the university to oversee a Vietnam War protest. In the midst of the protest, the National Guardsmen fired into the crowd of protesters killing four people in the process (Gordon Page 35). This event sparked an enormous uprising from the public and “the event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced

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    How is the Kent State Shootings similar to The Salem Witch Trials? Both events are similar because innocent lives were lost, arrests were made, people were scared for their lives, and there were trials held for both events. Both left a mark on American history. The Salem Witch Trials and the Kent State Shootings both were a terrible time in history. In both incidents many innocent lives were lost that should have not been. The Salem Witch Trial began in Massachusetts in 1692 when innocent people's

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    Personal Development as a Manager & Leader Author: Liz Oram Kent County Council 16th December 2011 Contents Executive Summary …………………Page 3 Introduction …………………………..Page 3 Section 1………………………………Page 3 Section 2………………………………Page 5 Section 3………………………………Page 7 Section 4………………………………Page 10 Conclusion…………………………….Page 12 Recommendation……………………

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    REI is an acronym Recreational Equipment Inc. This is an American retail and free services corporation that aims at providing fun to the citizens of America at large. It is one of the best service providers when it comes to hiking, camping, sporting and other traveling equipment. The U.S economy is growing rapidly and therefore it has affect any business organization of a firm. The current economic state affects the retail services of REI in the following ways. The U.S. Economy has truly possessed

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    Kent Cavern

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    entrance to Kents Cavern. While thus engaged he exposed a human skull which was recovered from fragments. Apparently the skull had been laid in a fissure or recess of the rock which in the course of time had become build up am buried beneath the debris which had fallen from the face of the cliff. Nothing was found with the skull to assist the archaeologist in assigning a date to its in entombmentbut,at the same level,shells ofmolluscs off to species whichMr. A. S. Kennard has identified as belonging

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    London is iconic for many things Big Ben, red telephone booths, double decker buses, and Tower Bridge. Built in 1884, Tower Bridge a staple of London. Pryor to the building of Tower Bridge, London Bridge was the only way to cross the Thames river. By the nineteenth century, the population of London had grown much too large for one bridge, however there was a challenge as to how to build the bridge without disrupting river traffic. In 1876 a “Special Bridge Committee” was formed to oversee the designing

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    Kent State Shooting

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    And I saw that the Guard had turned, had wheeled, and I heard this popping sound going off, and then I saw Jeffrey Miller…oh my God, this is real. And then I dived between the cars…when I looked up again, they were gone. Ibid. The Kent State shootings was a tragic event that had a profound effect on the outcome of the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon's presidency. This tragic indecent provoked enormous display in campus protests. A national student strike shut down over 500 colleges

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    Kent Gop Reflection

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    occurred at The Kent GOP’s February Executive Committee Meeting. I searched for their events on their website and this drew my attention for several reasons. It was open to the public but I could tell I was the only one who hadn’t been there before. I was able to speak to many people one of whom was Luke Arends who has served as a guest speaker in one of our classes. I RSVP’d online before the event, although I don’t think it was necessary. I could listen in on political talk regarding the Kent GOP and their

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    Kent Waters Character

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    exact whenever she moves to a new town Kent Waters nobody stands out. It's a very plain little town filled with lots of plain people but Jane wants to change that when she meets three other Janes and befriends them they make secret plans to make the town not so plain any more. When they do make plans, Jane has a hard time trusting them that they will be there or that anyone even likes her because Jane was in a very traumatic terrorist attack before she moved to Kent Waters from Metro city. A bomb went

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