This led her to become "a professional lecturer for the abolitionist movement and was supported by various anti-slavery societies as she traveled from town to town, lecturing and reading her poems" (Bloom, 66). ... "Jamie's Puzzle" There was grief within our household Because of a vacant chair. Our mother, so loved and precious, No longer was sitting there. Our hearts grew heavy with sorrow, Our eyes with tears were blind, And little Jamie was wondering, Why we were left behind. ... We said that our precious mother, Had gone to that land so fair, To dwell with beau...

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David Livingstone - an explorer and a missionary As usual, when we are free to choose a theme for our projects, it is difficult to choose one thing to write about. ... After finishing his studies in Glasgow, he went to London Missionary Society, where he got ordained. 28 years old, he took his first step on Afican earth in Cape Town. ... Livingstone and Oswell went all the way back to Cape Town where Mary and the children left for England. ...

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Through out the centuries slavery has been a huge part of our history dating all the way back to the Spanish Empire in the sixteenth century. ... Slavery was a big part of our nation becoming established, most slave work was hard labor that without it our nation would not have survived. ... Many indentured servants were able to escape to neighboring towns since no one was really able to tell them apart from a normal civilian. ... Slavery has been in our history for thousands of years. Slavery is a huge reason why our nation was so successful for becoming established. ...

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But, he who placed us here, and commanded that we should stay until he willed to call us hence, has enforced his law on one written on our own hearts - a horror of death inwrought into our nature, so that we violate our own sensibilities by disobeying his will, unless, indeed, our feelings have become so distorted and perverted that they are untrue to their original action" (The Lowell Offering p 202). ... He decided to setup his own little town full of shops and houses for his railroad employees to live in. ... I as an American citizen am ashamed of the way we treated our own people, and am...

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It has become evident that our service, Women's Community Center, is experiencing a growth in the number of Asian women using our facility. ... Our agency has seen an increase in the number of Asian women seeking support and help with ways in which they can end their debt bondage and suffering in the sex trade. ... Funding is being sought from within the Women's Centre organization, to address the growing needs of trafficked women presenting to our service. ... Our service is aware of the need to do no further harm as trafficked women. Women who are trafficked are often targeted by s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even if our ethnic backgrounds are different ways, at the end of the day we are one species who need to look out for each other regardless of our minor differences. ... The fact that slavery existed in America and was a huge part of our history and singlehandedly contributed to our racism today. ... The problem is that the African American population is underrepresented in the police force with ninety four percent of them being white while sixty three percent of the town is black (Stewart). ... Then we are guided by what our parents are teaching us. Again we do not question this because our p...

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A creator, a just, and living God who even with our failures loves us unconditionally. Eons ago when our ancestors lived, in certain cultures there was a belief in one or more gods who governed the seas, land, air, the crops, and even a god of fertility. ... Thornton also speaks about the name given to our Lord (jesus christ) by another african name. ... In Trinidad and Tobago an island located to the south of the leeward antilles there was a black statue of the virgin mary found in a town called sapiria. ...

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Equiano tells the travels through the woods and towns on foot, and most of all being separated from his sibling to be merciless. ... This idea can be backed with the following words from Equiano when he was united with his sister for the last time, "Our meeting affected all who saw us, and indeed I must acknowledge, in honor of those sable destroyers of human rights, that I never met with any ill treatment, or saw any offered to their slaves except tying them." ... While living in the custody of his parents Equiano believed that slaves were treated different from the citizens of the town altho...

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"Listen, if you want me to get that letter to town soon, you put the map in the fire too"(Butler, 142). ... "He don't want no niggers round here talking better then him putting freedom ideas into our head" (Butler, 74). ...

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Taking place in a little town of Ohio, many African Americans traveled a road past Sethe's place, and often were leery of it because of what she did to her children. ... We all family situations that affect our decisions and participation. ... If others go unappreciated, we will start to lose our grip on tightening that connection....

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In addition to affecting eachother the early development of America before 1760 has influenced our society today. ... Jamestown, Virginia was the first town founded in the new world. ... The democracy and separation of church and state in Pennsylvania mirrors our governmental set up today. ...

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His rebellion took shape against several factors including taxation with out representation, dispensing of trial by jury, abolishing valued laws, maintenance of standing armies in times of peace, cutting off our foreign trade burning towns, and creating hostilities between us and the Indians by mother England. Jefferson's values and beliefs brought him the prominence he received in this time period allowing him to further enslave us in his philosophy as our 3rd president. ... Burdening the fragile unity of our nation would have done far more worse than good. ... But it was also realized t...

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She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ...

• Word Count: 1938
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of my favorite childhood memories was going to the carnival with my grandma whenever it was in town. My grandma and I would spend a whole Saturday riding all of the rides and eating as much junk food as our stomachs would allow. ...

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During the years of slavery, education was an extremely controversial issue among these individuals. The entire nation's economy depended heavily upon the free labor of slaves, which made so many oppose the idea of abolition. The main fear in the education of slaves was that they would revolt; and t...

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Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. Today we know t...

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• Grade Level: High School