For example, soldiers would hide behind trees or brush and shoot at the British. After they would shoot they would run or hide in another spot. ... "Within a month the whole army was drilling by the new regulations, with emphasis on loading and firing, the use of the bayonet, in which American troops had always bee week, and such essential foot movements as changing from column into lines" (Bill, 72). ... "It is estimated that more 50,000 slaves had bee led to freedom by the New Jersey routes of the Underground Railroad by the time of the Emancipation Proclamation" (Stansfield, 134). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is a major controversy that first showed up in 1997, when 13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon won the National Spelling Bee, showing the startled public that her unorthodox education must be doing something right. ... "This year, home-schooled kids swept the top three places on the National Spelling Bee, and Stanford accepted twenty-seven percent of its home-schooled applicants, nearly twice its average acceptance rate" (Lubienski 207). ... The horror of the fatal shootings at Columbine brought focus to the issue for many who before were uncertain about educating their child...

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• Grade Level: High School

Recently, a shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado left thirteen teachers and students dead. ... Teenagers alone should not even have an opportunity to get a gun, let alone shoot one. ... But no writer from the Sacramento Bee and any other newspaper company may be able to vent out just anything in the newspaper. ...

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Bee, seeing Jackson's line holding firm, said, "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall." ... Well that didn't work anymore seeing as we had rifles that could shoot 300 yards with high accuracy. ...

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Southern Pride: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Was there a purpose behind King's honorable humbleness and humility to those who so rudely besmirched his attempts at equality? To Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hostility and spite were not ways of achieving his goals for equality. Instead of rashness a...

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• Grade Level: High School

Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is a novel about self-discovery, in which Janie Crawford is determined to find true love in marriage, and live life according to her terms. Janie's search begins in her Nanny's yard, as Janie lies beneath th...

• Word Count: 1903
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• Grade Level: High School

"Ballerinas, technicians, musicians, and announcers cowered on their bees before him, expecting to die. " He was that enraged and fed up  it must have shown on his face,  those people  thought he was going to murder them. ... Tragically, despite Harrison's superior physical prowess and genius, he is stopped when the Handicapper General, Diana Moon  Glampers, shoots him down  with a shotgun. ...

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