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    I grew up in the St. Louis suburb of Eureka, where I still live today. If you ever look at me and wonder where that scar on my forehead came from, well it happened when I was roughly 12 months old when I fell out of a moving car. My parents raised me as a Methodist at the Eureka United Methodist Church. During my years attending Geggie Elementary School, every Sunday my parents would force me to get out of bed and go to Church with them. During church, all the children would go to Sunday school

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    Students from lower socioeconomic families tend to underachieve in academic settings. The research was done to further the understanding of trauma in lower socioeconomic and educational function (Goodman et al., 2012). The purpose of this study was to explore whether socioeconomic and traumatic stress predict academic achievement for fifth-grade students (Goodman et al., 2012). The investigation whether traumatic stress and socioeconomic predict academic achievement (Goodman et al., 2012). Data

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    Today, scientist argue over the consequences of global warming. Scientist say that the heating of the atmosphere can influence many health problems. Some of the related problems due to global warming are death to heat waves and other climate changes, and infectious diseases. With the atmosphere temperature rising, we all will be at risk. The climate not only harms our bodies, it can also harm our crops and waters.      Floods and droughts associated with global warming can undermine our

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    There is a clear connection between modern art and African art. African symbols, shapes, and ideologies influence paintings, textiles, and sculptures. However, not many discuss comics within the traditional definition of art. The medium of comics boomed after the Great Depression with Superman. A time of hardship, the Depression left people needing something to believe in. Since the beginning of time people have used storytelling and mythology to explain the world around them. After the Depression

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    Community Health & Population-Focused Nursing Brown County is located in Northeast Wisconsin and is the state’s fourth largest county. The county consists of thirteen townships, nine villages, and two cities including Green Bay, the largest city and home of the Green Bay Packers. Brown County covers 530 square miles of land and 86 square miles of water (Brown County, n.d.). Green Bay is well-known, nation-wide on behalf of four large paper mills, three large pulp mills and four paper converting

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    Nancy Mathis, which depicts an amazingly horrific incident where mankind was not prepared for what was coming. The following is understanding of the events that took place on May 3rd, 1999, which showcased an amazing, and terrible, spectacle of tornadoes in Oklahoma. Furthermore we will delve into what has changed since this to better our understanding of upcoming weather related dangers as well as planning for said forces of nature. May 3rd, 1999 is day that bore witness to one of the strongest

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    groups of people around the world that will face greater challenges because of the climate change. Climate change can have a great impact on people who live in areas that can get affected by any natural disaster like droughts, coastal storms like tornadoes and hurricanes. People who are in poverty, communities that consist of immigrants, and elderly people can also be really affected by climate change. People’s jobs can be threatened by climate change. For people who are employed with outdoor professions

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    In the passage The Horizontal World by Debra Marquart’s it states “Aside from this myth making, the Midwest is a place that’s been considered devoid of stories, a flyover region one must endure to get to more interesting places” (Marquart 31). This quote is explaining how other citizens in the United States think of states like North Dakota. Throughout the passage it explains how growing up in North Dakota or the square states is boring and plain. Along with talking about how plain these states are

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    All of them were from family in California. My parents called them all back and they filled them in with everything that happened. That was how I found out about the tornadoes that took place in Joplin, Missouri. Thank God that the tornado did not come into my region. Awhile later, I saw a lot of our neighbors were outside chatting. They saw that I was home and had me call my mom for them to talk to. After about thirty

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    When I was attending my ninth grade, we had an assembly speaker who told us about how a tornado ripped through his town. The day that his school returned to session, his English teacher choose specific romanticism texts that involved tornadoes and weather. He stood before us as “In my own neighborhood, I had something that those writers described as beautiful and pure. The way they described it, I started to enjoy nature’s purest forms. I became so interested. I think I took the writers too literally

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