Thorner School sixth-grader Stephen Bush‚ Reagan School fifth-grader Paityn Boyt and Discovery Elementary fourth-grader Jessica Stump emerged as winners at the annual Bank of America Essay and Speech Contest held (tonight) May 5 at University Square in Bakersfield. The three were the best at their grade levels from a finals field featuring 31 of the area’s top essayist-speakers. Each had three-to-five minutes to deliver their speech from an essay they had previously written on "Traditional Libraries:
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Alfredo Grimaldo HU-101-WL1 10-20-10 Xenophobia There are many factors that need to be observed to determine what causes people to experience xenophobia. Xenophobia is defined as a condition where people suffer irrational fear of strangers or foreigners. The symptoms of people that suffered from this condition are very real and can range from feeling nauseated or excessive sweating to dry mouth‚ heart palpitations‚ a fear of dying‚ and anxiety attacks. Nevertheless‚ what exactly causes people
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center counts with more than 30.000 lobbyists and‚ the annual estimated profit range around the order of billions of dollars. Lobbying deals with the support and leveraging of a whole diversity of‚ if not all‚ interest groups; “Every possible group in America is pushing something in Washington”. Consequently‚ lobbyist are important players in policy making in the present days‚ just as mentioned in the video‚ an important part regarding the conception and promotion of laws is directly linked to K street
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Lynching in History The event "Symbols and History of Lynching in America” gave me an insight into the facts behind lynching in our history‚ along with providing impactful discussions that I couldn’t have gotten anywhere else. Before the event‚ I didn’t understand a variety of different aspects of lynching and other black experiences that are even present in modern day. One example is the variety of things that black individuals would get lynched for; such as attempting to vote or disregarding
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U.S. presidents have often cited the widening gap between the rich and the poor as being the number one obstacle to world peace. So it is interesting to find that this gap is the greatest within the United States of America. Globalization has only widened this gap further in the U.S. and in countries where the U.S. has spread its capitalism through the exporting of U.S. businesses. Why then do U.S. presidents preach about the negative correlations between widening class gaps and civil disturbances
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purchase guns and operate them. However‚ there are multiple ways to get around these laws. People can get their guns from auctions or even gun shows. Despite the many gun laws that are being implemented‚ none are lowering the gun violence rate in America. From the constitution to the laws of today‚
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Research Paper 7 August 2012 Obesity in America In the United States today‚ obesity has become an enormous problem. In the last three decades‚ the number of people overweight has increased dramatically. A study done by the Centers of Disease Control showed that since 1980‚ one third of the adult population has become overweight. America is the richest but also the fattest nation in the world and our obese backsides are the butt of jokes in every other country (Klein 28). The 1980s were a time
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Cuong Manh Luong English 1A Professor: France 10 Nov 2014 Making it in America The article is about a meeting between Adam Davidson and a young but skilled worker in a factory‚ Madelyn. She’s a single mom‚ very young‚ and has ambition in her job and also in her life. She loves her job and always tries her best to adopt new technology. Her dream is going back to school like her parents and grandparents told her to do but her life with 2 kids is holding her back from that dream. This is a fact not
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The Rise of Industry In America By the 1900’s the United States had emerged as the leading industrial power in the world‚ with a manufacturing output that exceeded Great Britain‚ France‚ and Germany. There were many factors that helped to accomplish the rise of America. Those factors include natural resources‚ immigration‚ new inventions etc. On May 1862‚ the Homestead Act let any American‚ including freed slaves‚ to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of land. In exchange‚ homesteaders paid
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Asian Americans and Pacific Islander’s lives has also been influenced by the history of tobacco use in Asia and the Asian Pacific (Benowitz‚ Blum‚ Braithwaite & Castro‚ 2014). Tobacco is a crop of great significance in Asia that produces approximately 60% of the World’s tobacco crop (Goodman‚ 1992). Asians uses tobacco for medicinal purposes such as a remedy against colds‚ malaria‚ and cholera (Benowitz‚ Blum‚ Braithwaite & Castro‚ 2014). Sharing and distributing cigarettes among guests was also
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