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    community since the 1970’s, there is still a presence of personal and institutionalized homophobia in rural settings such as Kentucky. Evidence of such homophobia was displayed in some of the public school districts, where harassment of actual and perceived gay students is rampant, and school policies fall short of protecting the students’ rights, and in most recent events where Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue marriage license to gay couples. The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national lesbian

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    I was born, raised, and reside in Clark County, Kentucky with my wife Rebecca and three children. I was a soldier during the war against the Indians and presently tend to my farm. I must hunt and fish to provide necessities for my family. I was born in 1792 to my now deceased parents who came from Ireland. It is at this time that I reflect on President Jackson’s acts and decisions during his tenure as President. I express satisfaction and gratitude to which President Jackson has led this nation and

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    Dr. Camden Wood Selig is the athletic director for Old Dominion University. Dr. Selig was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina but grew up right here in Norfolk, Virginia. He’s in his sixth year as ODU’s athletic director and his impact has already been felt. At first glance, his nonchalant attitude doesn’t strike me as a college athletic director. I expected an upbeat, go-getter persona, after all he is in one of the highest professions in college sports. But I don’t think he necessarily doesn’t

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    histories and accounts describe specifically how religion was impacted by the coal industry. This source provides context and additional sources to support my thesis. Caudill, H. (1992). A darkness at dawn: Appalachian Kentucky and the future. lexington, Ky: Universtiy press of kentucky. This short book written by Caudill describes the effects industry and modernization has played on the Appalachian lifestyle. While this book does not directly speak to how religion has changed it still provides context

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    Expanding from 6 to 24 programs over four years, Kentucky correctional system created a corrections-based modified therapeutic community treatment program. Corrections-based treatment program proves to reduce drug use and recidivism. Kentucky correctional compared offenders of none participants of the therapeutic community and program dropouts, graduates, and graduates who attended aftercare, “treatment groups were 15-20 times more likely to remain drug-free at 12-month follow-up” (Staton-Tindall

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    doubt are the masters of multitasking. Not only being able to play there individual sports at a high level but also finding the time to dedicate to there academics and achieve relatively decent grades. The amount of time that they dedicate to there university out on the game field and in the classroom should be deserving of a reward. Some argue that the problem would be that not every school can afford to give college athletes a decent compensation in every sport; for instance teams that do not bring

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    Judd is one smart cookie coming from a family of performers. Her mother, Naomi Judd, is famous. But one thing that sets her apart from the rest of the Judds? She enrolled in Harvard. In total, she attended 13 schools before attending at the University of Kentucky. According to The Richest, she pursued Harvard for her mid career master’s program. She took Public Administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Meryl Streep was her classmate! She enrolled for the purpose of knownig more about

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    Abraham was more than just the man from the civil war era. He was from Kentucky. He was a Kentuckian. He was a man of many words. He is quoted several times about honesty, slavery, and human kindness. One of my favorite quotes, ”You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence”. Comes from a point he was talking about There is no documents stating that he is from Monroe Kentucky, but as long as I can remember the story was told that he was born on

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    is the fastest to the market, operates with the lowest total cost and has the greatest ability to 'delight' its customers. FMS is simply one way that manufacturers are able to achieve this agility" (Flexible manufacturing systems, n.d, The University of Kentucky). With previous, 'job shop type systems,' the systems "were capable of large variety of product, but at a high cost. Transfer lines could produce large volumes of a product at a reasonable cost, but were limited to the production of one

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    obtain official transcripts for your board-certifying body of choice (3 points) Kayla There are a few requirements that must be met to graduate Frontier Nursing University. The Final Comprehensive Review course should be completed during the term that the student is enrolled in their last clinical course (Frontier Nursing University, 2015b).

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