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    This excerpt was taken from Nat Turner’s Confessions edited by Steven Mintz, Turner details his relationship with his master and what led to his decision to revolt in 1831. Nat Turner was born a slave in Richmond, Virginia in 1831. In this narrative Nate Turner recounts his version of events and later recorded during his revolt in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831. The revolt lasted two days but Nate was not captured until six weeks after. He was then tried for insurrection. Thomas Ruffin Gray

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    In history, a lot of great man have fallen do to pride and selfishness, In the bible it says Lucifer clearly turned out to be so awed with his own particular excellence, knowledge, power, and position that he started to want for himself the respect and transcendence that had a place with God alone. The transgression that ruined Lucifer was self-created pride. I used that lesson from the bible to say that pride can lead to major life consequences. In fences by Agust Wilson we see a perfect example

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    When I was younger, I hated reading, because I was too slow and never good at it. As I would look at some of my classmates, I noticed how fast they were at the reading and how easily they understood the reading. I remember thinking to myself that I wanted to be a good reader like them one day. At the time, of my fifth grade self I was not an avid reader; it wasn’t until the book Marley and Me that changed my perspective. Ever since I was a little girl I had a very hard time with reading. My mom

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    Turner Syndrome

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    Introduction Named after Henry Turner, who in 1938 was one the first doctors to report his discovery in the medical literature on this disorder, Turner Syndrome (TS) also known as monosomy X. Turner Syndrome is caused by the complete or partial loss of one of the X chromosomes resulting in 45X chromosomes. This disease affects only girls and women. It is one of the most common chromosomal disorder and likely the most common genetic disorder of females (National Organization for Rare Disorders

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    Tina Turner Inspiration

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    “Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.” Tina Turner once said this quote. With this quote she showed that through all the struggles that she had been through, she was still able to sing and dance happily. Tina Turner didn’t start off with a great career for singing. She built her way up to fame using her own techniques and with some help by Ike Turner. Tina Turner was an inspiration to others because of her way and ability of gathering fame, her passion for the songs that she sang, and

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    I was so excited, that right when we pulled into my driveway, I started building my invention: A piano page turner. My brother plays piano, and he always has trouble turning the page while playing. The best turner on the internet was over $300, and I knew there was a better solution. I started to make it out of legos, and put my heart and soul into making the page turner. After a week or two, I was done, but still made some changes to improve my invention afterwards. When it was the day

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    of the future will bring many benefits to consumers, owning home appliances connected to the internet may pose a security risk. In an article by Adam Turner, titled “Smart technology may make your home a net target”, Turner explains the dangers of using smart home devices. How do these dangers affect smart home technology? To explain the issues, Turner relays the knowledge of AVG security adviser Michael McKinnon. Mckinnon claims that people use most of these devices to access files remotely, giving

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    The Life of Nat King Cole Nat king Cole is arguably one of the greatest singers who ever lived. known as one of the best and most influential singer/pianist. Nathaniel Adams Coles was born in Montgomery, Alabama on March 17, 1919. Being one out of the five children of Edward Coles and Perlina Coles. Both parents were actively engaged in the religious life. Mr. Coles was actually a Baptist Pastor and Mrs. Coles was a church choir director. As surprising as it may seem, Nat King Cole didn't start

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    Title: Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert broke their post-divorce silence with a tweet about a shared interest There’s a lot of that can be said about a post-divorce conversation over Twitter, especially when the couple are two celebrities and they are speaking publicly for the first time. Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton divorced in 2015 and for a while there was no public chatter between the former country stars. Then on July 20, the couple broke their silence with a very quick Twitter conversation

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    The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) received a referral from the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES), on 02/13/2018. The referral alleges that, Mr. Baris SOY has AHCCCS Medical Assistance coverage for himself, but does not reside at his listed address. This case was assigned to Special Investigator (SI) Austin Koval on 03/20/2018. Reviews of the Health-e-Arizona Plus (HEA+) system indicate that on 01/16/2018, Mr. SOY reported his

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