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    initiative for online voter registration in Illinois, which was passed by the legislature in 2013. Moreover, he created the online petition to garner support for free tuition at the state schools for Illinois residents. His online petition collected 6000 signatures. Representative Guzzardi’s concerns are the higher education costs (expensive) in the state of Illinois, which some parents cannot afford. Because of budget crisis, parents lose confidence in the Illinois institutions. Based on the current situation

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    I was the year 2013, and I was in sixth grade. On this day, I had an orthodontist appointment. My father gave me the choice of either going back to school, or I could go home. What I had chosen was to go home. The reason for this is due to the fact that I wanted to watch President Barrack Obama get sworn in another time. I had learned on November 4th, 2012 that he had won his title back against, the Republican, Mitt Romney. I had heard many great things about Obama, yet I heard many negative things

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    America has suffered a great loss today, as Joseph Arthur Silverstein has passed away. Joseph graduated from Queens College in 2014 with a BA in Political Science, and he graduated with a Juris Doctorate from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2016. Prior to graduating from Loyola, Joseph was married to Rebecca Birnbaum. After he graduated from Law School he was hired by Gauthier & Gooch. The reason he wanted to pursue a career in family law was because his favorite course in law school

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    Community Assessment The community we chose to perform an analysis on is the Village of Oswego, a far western suburb of Chicago. The analysis will include a brief history with both subjective and objective observations of the people, place, and social systems. Additionally, this paper will include an analysis of the village’s strength and weakness as well as a nursing wellness diagnosis and plans for goals and interventions. History Oswego Township is located in Kendall County, which is fifty miles

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    2009. He has always been a leader in a true sense. Even before becoming the 44th United States President and holding two terms at the office, Obama was an incredible politician and was revered by the American public especially from his home state of Illinois and city of Chicago from where he was elected as Senator as well. Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii, His mother was still a student

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    throughout its entry into the stratosphere and the troposphere. Only when the meteorite reaches a couple of miles above the earth will it break up into many flaming pieces. At this height, the meteorite would spread out into a wide enough radius to impact Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Since the troposphere only reaches 6 miles into the air, the meteor would have to break apart in the stratosphere. If a meteor broke apart in the stratosphere, which lies 25 miles in the air, it would take a great effort

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    Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. He was born on February 9th,1809 in Hodgenville Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln's parents were Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln. When Lincoln was only nine years old his mother died of tremetol, the death of Nancy Lincoln’s mother was very hard for him to go through. Thomas, father of Lincoln married Sarah Bush Johnston after a year of Nancy's death, Lincoln quickly adapted by Sarah. Lincoln's childhood was very interesting

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    The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 went on for several days, destroyed thousands of buildings, killed many people, and cause well over millions of dollars in damage. This is a horrible tragedy that happen in our country. It led to unlawfulness of the citizens it affected. There is still great controversy on the start of the fire. Although we do know that in the end everything turned out good and the city is now rebuilt bigger and better than before and is still continuing to grow to this day. This paper

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    The speech was held on February 10, 2007 in Springfield, Illinois by Barack Obama, who at this time was a Senator in Illinois. The occasion behind the speech was the presidential election in 2008, the purpose behind was, therefor, to announce that Obama was running for president. The audience to the speech is all Americans in general, but especially the part of the population who already supports Obama. His main focus and intention in this speech is, thereby, to keep this part of the population as

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    mean that future students who want to become pilots would not be able to attend the University of Illinois. However, this is not only devastating for the students but the school, too, because this would mean a decrease in student attendance, which would affect the schools monetary income. Therefore, withdrawing troops and stopping all military action is Libya could help save the University of Illinois and possibly the national economy. In President Barack Obama’s speech addressing the action taken

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