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    Robert Pierce, commonly referred to as Bob, was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1914. In his youth, his family moved to Southern California, where he would stay through college. Pierce went to Pasadena Nazarene College to prepare for ministry. In the mid-1930s, Pierce worked as a traveling evangelist in California. Later, he settled in Los Angeles and got connected with the Youth for Christ movement. He became a full-time traveling evangelist for Youth for Christ in 1947. This position allowed him the

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    The majestic mountain towers over the Washington state landscape and can be visible from most vantage point in the Seattle metro area. See the main Seattle page here. Mt. Rainier is an active volcano that is always topped with snow. It has 26 main glaciers - the most on any mountain in the lower 48 US states. It is more than 14 thousand feet high and spawns 6 major rivers and many waterfalls. The national park around the mountain was established in 1899 as the fifth national park in the United

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    Through these neglections and stereotypes, two Chiefs, Seattle and Tecumseh, speak out for their people by using various forms of rhetoric. In Chief Seattle's speech, he makes a letter to President Franklin Pierce and any other Americans that play any parts in Parliament. The audience that the chief is reaching out to may have Manifest Destiny, belief that God approves of the U.S, as well as the belief that Indians are savages. Chief Seattle explains, however, that the Americans are the true savages

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    Singer English 291-011 30 April 2015 Evaluating a Scholarly Source I am going to evaluate the scholarly paper that Northern Kentucky’s own professor Jonathan S. Cullick has written about the book called The Turner Diaries written by William Luther Pierce. To summaries Cullick’s written work. He has a complaint about this book being called a work of fiction, not because it is a super racist and anti-government book, but he is saying that the book cannot be called fiction, because the main character

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    The Inner Pilgrimage in William Langland's Piers Plowman Passus VIII of William Langland's Piers Plowman presents a search--which becomes a journey within the journey of the entire text. Here the narrator, Will, describes an inner pilgrimage--one that takes its shape in a religious context, but plays itself out through everyday life and the notion of self. The medieval traditional notion of pilgrimage involves the physical journey to a religious shrine as a means of obtaining, through journey

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    (1014) Student ID: 000376789 kpatami@my.wgu.edu I have been working as a registered nurse in Tacoma, WA since 2011 and I have chosen to assess the community health of Pierce County. Tacoma is the county seat of Pierce County and the largest city in the county and third largest city in the state (US Census Bureau, 2014). Pierce County is located south of Seattle and is comprised of 1,679 sq. miles, many of which front the Puget Sound. Northern areas of the county are comprised of islands and peninsulas

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    under the already-established fundamental right of parents having the ability to “direct” the education of their children. However, for Obergefell v. Hodges to take effect, it would have to be shown that the Court’s rationales in Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters are equally applicable to homeschooling. Part IV analyzes the first of these routes, which is whether homeschooling could become a fundamental right because of deep roots in American history and tradition. Raley argues that

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    Final Case Study: Pierce v. Society of Sisters Case (Citation) In 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Meyer v. Nebraska that parents have the right to decide how their children should be educated (Law Library, 2016). However, the Court’s decision also ruled that a state has the right to require children to attend school, as well as the minimum standards of education that private schools must meet (Law Library, 2016). In 1925, the Court heard the case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters

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    The only son of comedian Bill Cosby, Ennis, was murdered in 1997 at the age of 27. During a failed robbery attempt, Ennis was shot in the head while changing a tire on a Los Angeles freeway ramp. At the time of his death, Ennis was a graduate Student at Columbia University in pursuit of fulfilling his life goal of helping students with dyslexia. Back in 2008, the son rap legend Dr. Dre was found dead from a drug overdoes. Andre Young Jr who was only 20 years-old at the time had been out with

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    of the film, though, Bell’s character simply appears to be along for the ride – protecting the kids at all cost, but in the end, Annie Dwyer is more pivotal than you could possibly imagine. While Wilson and Bell are the screen dominant stars, Pierce Brosnan is surprisingly reduced to a disappointing supporting role. Marketing posters and trailers tend to point to the opposite, thus making it an unwelcoming surprise to notice he’s rarely involved. Sure, the former James Bond star rears-up here and

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