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The Richmond High School, located in the poor area of Richmond city, held a graduation rate of 50% for their students. Out of that percentage, only 6% of those who graduate go to college. Conveniently located in western Contra Costa county, where every one out of three black men between the ages of 18-24 tends to get arrested, the youths of Richmond High are 80% more likely to end up in prison than college. Coach Carter is based on a true story of coach Ken Carter and the Richmond High basketball

Throughout the history of Richmond Hill, the city has experienced everything from failure to success and tragedies to victories. Today, Richmond Hill is a peaceful suburb located in southern Bryan County. Positioned within a 30-minute radius of Savannah, Richmond Hill offers a wonderful convenience to the nearby metropolitan city. This coastal town is home to more than 10,000 people. Richmond Hill’s community has an excellent reputation with great schools and education opportunities and a low crime

conducted in a hospital setting and correlates to patients. I would be developing my research skills in a laboratory setting while also developing intrapersonal skills working with patients. The research that I have conducted at the University of Richmond has been invaluable; however, I plan on applying to an MD/PhD program and I feel that clinical research would be a more valuable experience for this upcoming summer.  I have applied to a clinical research internship at Stanford University that focuses

Southern culture and the circumstances of the war fostered an environment where military officials who could distinguish themselves, especially those with values that most coincided with the ideal southern man, were set up to become the mythologized figures that would eventually become central to southern history. Jackson and Lee, through their own skill sets and actions during the war, solidified their respective legacies as a martyr and a leader. In 1861, Jackson was promoted as brigadier general

Jamestown is now known as the very first permanent English settlement in the New World. However, from 1607-1610, early Jamestown constantly hovered right above the line of failure from reasons both outside the settlement and within its borders. Three main reasons the Jamestown colonists died were because of their lack of preparation, poor relations with the Native Americans, and the location of their settlement. Many Jamestown colonists died because of their lack of preparation. According to the

| Assignment 3- Richmond Engineering in China | | Executive Summary Richmond Engineering has been attempting to enter the Chinese market since 1984 without much success however in 1991 they were sought out to be part of a joint venture with the Chinese. Two years later Richmond Engineering’s vice-president and treasurer, Smilla Finn, has been summoned to China, for final negotiations, in an isolated town outside of Beijing and the grueling hours of negotiations were not going well nor seemed

There were many important historical figures in social work. I choose Mary Richmond from the assignment list of important historical figures in social work. Mary Ellen Richmond was born on August 5, 1861 in Belleville, Illinois to Lavinia and Henry Richmond. Mary was very young when her parents died which lead her maternal grandmother and two aunts to help raise her in Baltimore, Maryland. Mary’s highest level of education was high school. Mary accomplishments included her spending her life modernizing

Monument #1: Monument to Mosby’s Men: Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby was quite the character. Known as the “Gray Ghost”, his strategy of rapid military assaults against Union troops proved deadly effective (Wheeler, thewashingtonpost.com, 2012). He sported a plumed hat and scarlet-lined grey cloak as he directed his troops, Mosby’s Rangers, straight from the saddle (Wheeler, thewashingtonpost.com, 2012). Their mission was to harass and discourage Union soldiers in stationed Virginia (Wheeler

to how to make the Hilltop Mall better than it was ever before, and after all those steps, I recommend that we provide better modes of transportation to help customers get around, and add a community center. The Hilltop Mall is a mall located in Richmond, the middle of the East San Francisco Bay Area. During the 70’s, people would come from all over the Bay

The Seven Days Campaign of 1862 was a sequence of battles that took place along the Virginia Peninsula east of Richmond between the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Virginia Army. The campaign consisted of the following six battles: Mechanicsville, Gaines ' Mill, and Savage Station, engagement at Oak Swamp Bridge, and battles of Frazier 's Farm and Malvern Hill over a seven-day period. Major General George B. McClellan led the Union Army of nearly 104,000 soldiers, while General Robert