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    For as long as I have been alive the US Constitution has been known as the supreme law of the United States of America, bestowing upon us the national government of America. This law provided us with many different rights, some which are basic human rights, such as slavery being illegal. These rights affected our future ways of living, such as black people having the ability to have a life other than being a slave. However, there was a form of government before the US Constitution known as the Articles

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    Artist’s within the Romantic period reacted to the brutalities of inhumane occurrences in the world. Romanticism was an art movement that occurred in the 19th century in which undoubtedly allowed artists to react personally and emotionally to a specific subject matter. Contrasting to the refined period of Neoclassicism, Romantics broke it’s conformist, logic of the movement. The use of centring the human figure as the dominant feature embodied the tortuous and ghastly occurrences of war, depicting

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    English III Honors 5 May 2014 A. Biography: Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4th, 1804. He grew up with his relatives, the Mannings, and in the presence of women when we was little. He did not have a strong male role model to look up to when growing up, so many biographers believe that this is what had caused his shyness and introverted personality as he grew older. Nathaniel’s father died of yellow fever in Suriname in 1808. With this being said

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    I was present at the UBC PCU Unit based Council meeting on April 19, 2017. It started at 1705 and ended at 1808. The members spoke of various situations and ways to improve the unit. They spoke of what was considered “old business” which are considered ideas that were still in the process of dealing. During the last part of the meeting, they spoke of “new business” – these were things that just came up. The “old business” that was spoken of was about home medications, drawer checks, fall risk gowns

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    Outline of Movements in Art ART 101 Art Appreciation Submitted by: Na’Quisha Powell Submitted to: Instructor: Carrie Ann Wills Date: July 22, 2013 I. Baroque (began around 1600-1750) a. The Baroque era began as artistic revolt against the stylization of Mannerist art and as means of implementing the demands of the Counter-Reformation Church, which sought to restore its religious prominence in the western world in the face of the Protestant threat (Duckett, 2011). The Baroque movement

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    John Dalton did many things in his life. He was most known for his Atomic Theory, Law of Multiple Proportions, Dalton 's Law Partial Pressures, and Daltonism. He had a noble award for Royal Medals. Deborah and Joseph Dalton gave birth to John Dalton on September 6, 1766 at Eaglesfield, Cumberland, England. John was born into a Quaker family. His father was a weaver and his mother stayed at home and help with the cooking, children, laundry, etc. John had two other siblings Mary and Jonathan Dalton

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. His ancestors were some of the first settlers in Massachusetts and included a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. Hawthorne’s sea-captain father in 1808 in Surinam of yellow fever. After his death, Hawthorne’s mother, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, moved with her three children into the Manning’s commodity house in Salem. With him there lived his mother, sisters, grandparents, two aunts, and five uncles. It was in that

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    that bloodline doesn’t mean you inherit gentlemanliness “If you would be esteemed for the mere name / Of having been by birth a gentleman / …. / And do not live yourself by gentle deed / … / You are no gentleman,” (The Wife of Bath’s Tale, Chaucer 1808-1810). No matter what your bloodline, “‘fire never ceases to be fire,” or in other words, your true colors always show through (The Wife of Bath’s Tale, Chaucer 1804). Another character who inherited his estate is the squire. Unlike his father, Chaucer

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    The Pathology Of Asthma

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    year and is the third leading cause of hospitalization among children. There is no cure for asthma, but the good news is that it can be managed and treated, allowing you to live a normal, healthy life ("Learn About Asthma", 2016). One out of ten children and one out of twenty adults are diagnosed with asthma (Bryan, 2004). Asthma is noted as one of the most common chronic disorders among children under the age of 18. In addition to the millions of lost school days, it is also the third leading cause

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    When the Federalist party was organized in 1791, those people who favored a strong central government and a loose constitutional interpretation coagulated and followed the ideals of men such as Alexander Hamilton. The first opposition political party in the United States was the Republican party, which held power, nationally, between 1801 and 1825. Those who were in favor of states rights and a strict construction of the constitution fell under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson. These Jeffersonian

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