... Christmas Day, 1821. Her birth on the holiday that symbolizes peace, love and giving coincidentally foreshadowed what she did for the world in her remarkable lifetime. Clara's passion for compassion was evident even as a young child, when her brother was injured by a fall from a roof and she taught herself how to ... him because the doctors had since given up. After spending twelve years as a teacher who fought hard (and won) for equal pay among her male coworkers, Clara opened up her own school. After it was complete, she was replaced as principal by a man because the school board though...

• Word Count: 1686
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , fled south and scattered into numerous villages presumably to avoid further bloodshed. Though accounts of the Caste War invariably focus on the conflict between the Yucatecan government and the Santa Cruz rebels, the Maya that fled south became major players in this ongoing conflict, generating another less noted war with the British forces of British Honduras. Though originally one ... relatively neutral zone to which peasant refugees, army deserters, and dissident rebels were drawn. By 1863, Chichanha had been completely destroyed by the Santa Cruz raids, forcing the people of Chichan...

• Word Count: 1928
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... genetically modify our foods. Since the creation of genetically modified foods, their purposes and uses have dramatically evolved. Margaret McLean, a director and professor on medical ethics, science, and biotechnology at Santa Clara University reports that the main purposes for modern day genetic modification are to speed up the process of growing crops and to transfer genes from one organism to another to ... , the British Medical Association called for a ban on the release of GMOs into the environment " (Endres 457). Allergic responses are very prevalent with genetically modified food...

• Word Count: 1522
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... based on Allende's own life story, is a complex interweaving of multiple view points of the Trueba family, led by Esteban Trueba, and supported by Clara, his wife, their daughter Blanca, twin sons, Nicolas and Jaime, and Blanca's lovechild, Alba. The strength of the novel lies in Allende's ... world."" Allende ventures in the "Green world- with the first section of House of Spirits, with her surreal euphoric portrayal of Rosa the beautiful, Clara's oldest sister and Esteban's intended bride. Mermaid-like and fantastical, Allende describes that "At birth Rosa was white and smooth, without...

• Word Count: 1940
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the reader, and of the author. It is this sharing of fantasies between the author and the reader is what makes this style so unique. The most prominent fantasy concerns Clara the Clairvoyant'. The natural ties between her and the world around her, clearly render her placid and confident when dealing with the turbulent concept of fate. Some examples of this ... , dense, pompous house would end up full of twisted staircases that led to empty spaces doors hanging in midair, crooked hallways, all of which were Clara's inspiration."" The house's linkage with Clara becomes most apparent when, ...

• Word Count: 1458
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It is 5:27 a.m. in Santa Clara, Utah. Light is creeping in through the dense forest as an aged and battered minivan snakes its way along the mountain pass, meeting the sun along its slow ascent. In ... ...

• Word Count: 1725
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... the trial: "The mountain of evidence presented during the trial showed that Samsung's copying went far deeper than even we knew" (Vascellaro). According to Brian Love, an assistant professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, because Apple successfully proved that Samsung willfully infringed upon the patents, Judge Lucy Koh could not grant Apple three times the damages award. "This is a huge ... ...

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... will not be diverse. Secondly, only one out of the five articles completely opposed the act of affirmative action in our society. Brad Joondeph, an assistant professor of Law at Santa Clara University, states: Under this rather exacting scrutiny, the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions program, which assigned a specific number of points to certain applicants on the basis of race, was unconstitutional ... ...

• Word Count: 1705
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... internal turmoil in the Mexican-American war. As the supreme commander of Mexican forces, much of the blame for their crushing defeat fell on Santa Anna's shoulders. Nevertheless, he remained the most powerful individual in Mexico until 1853, when his sale of millions of acres in what is ... weeks armistice in return for the surrender of the city.  But, General Taylor, under pressure from Washington, broke the armistice and occupied Saltillo. Santa Anna blamed the loss of the Fortress on General Ampudia and demoted him. On the American side, the US government thought that Taylor lacked...

• Word Count: 1285
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... not succeed, which led to the establishment of the Liberal party, and the continued work toward elimination of the Catholic Church from society (Meyer and Beezley). General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was a member of this Liberal party. He came into power in 1833 but made Valentine Gomez Farias head of the government. In 1834 Farias began to attack the privileges ... of the clergy and Santa Anna immediately assumed his presidential post and nullified anticlerical legislation. Civil war and unrest continued throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century. Foreign powers became involve...

• Word Count: 2320
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... University). Courts typically rule in favor of the homeless in cases in which the homeless challenged laws restricting their freedom of movement. Stephanie Goldberg explains why the courts found a 1992 Santa Ana, California ordinance prohibiting camping unconstitutional in her article, "Homeless Victory," The court held that the ordinance infringed on the right to travel by giving the homeless two ... a poorhouse and, thus...destroy liberty. Punishment for poverty – which the camping ordinance surely is – is cruel and unusual punishment,' stated the decision. (S. Goldberg) Consideri...

• Word Count: 2455
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... to take risks, he fights crime in his hometown of Detroit alongside his best friend and partner Jack Lewis. He goes home at night to his son, and his wife, Clara Murphy. One night and is crippled, horrifically maimed in a rigged car explosion, meant to kill him, but it doesn't. Omnicorp rebuilds him as their new Poster Bot, the first cyborg ... ...

• Word Count: 1718
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... of the Negro clubwoman who would readily shelve out her money to hear Raquel Meller sing but would not want to be seen doing the same for a black artist like Clara Smith who sang Negro folksongs. This is just one of the hurdles black artists that remained as black as they were faced with respect to their jobs and art. Their ... ...

• Word Count: 1560
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... ser dejadas por dos hombres. A lo largo de toda la Historia se percibe claramente una tristeza ironica, toques de melancolí que incluso forman, y permiten al lector, realizar una imagen clara del paisaje y la actividad del pueblo. MacCullers, en el personaje de Lymon habla de "el instinto de establecer un contacto inmediato y vital- entre las personas y el mundo, esto es un ... ...

• Word Count: 1415
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... to her authorship, and more outraged at her family. Before even marrying Percy Shelley, Mary had two children in the two years and five months they were traveling. One named Clara was born prematurely and died only a few weeks later in March 1815, Shannon Lawson states. Ten months later in January of 1816, Mary's second son William was born, which dispelled ... ...

• Word Count: 1927
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... obsessively. Though many people in Don Quixote's world seem to have given up on romantic love, Don Quixote and a few other characters hold dear this belief. Don Louis's love for Clara and Camacho's wedding, for instance, are situations in which romantic love rises above everything else. Even in the case of Sancho and Teresa, romantic love triumphs as a significant part of ... ...

• Word Count: 1783
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An interesting viewpoint was shared with the world when Clara Claiborne Park (1982) wrote a book about the first eight years of her autistic daughter's life. Park defines autism as: All the autistic child's deficiencies could be seen converging in this ... ...

• Word Count: 1864
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... that appears different up close than one would perceive it from far away. In both novels the characters" nationalities, with respect to identity, function in the same fashion. Patrick describes Clara, the Macedonian mistress of a millionaire, as a trompe l"oeil. From a distance, immigrants in Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion appear as petty bridge builders, tunnel diggers and leather factory workers. However ... ...

• Word Count: 1671
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... , in which the vertical piling-up of a series of different elements is characteristic. Important churches like Saint Peter's in Rome, Santi Giovanni de Paolo in Venice, and the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence contain large numbers of impressive monuments to the great and the good, created by the finest architects and sculptors available from this time. Local parish churches are ... ...

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... Harvard, whereas they would have to pay around $24,000 to $35,000 in public California colleges such as California State University at East Bay and University of California at Santa Cruz. So, college tuition may not be that big of a problem as some people make it out to be. With all said, it is to the student's advantage if he ... ...

• Word Count: 1808
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... also have animistic thinking, believing that fairy tale events and characters can be real. For instance, during the Christmas season, television is flooded with advertisements where toys are brought by Santa Claus and his sleigh is pulled by flying reindeer. Unfortunately, young children "buy in" these fantasies and also the culture they represent. Young children in pre-operational stage ... ...

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... expedition of leatherjacket soldiers, missionaries and muleteers killed a large-but-lean grizzly bear on the shore of an ocean-side lake in Upper California about 80 miles north of today's Santa Barbara It was the first time that a white man had ever killed a California grizzly" (Silva 66). Since then, "How I killed the bear" had become the wordiest word ... ...

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... be the first painting to define true linear perspective, Masaccio created the illusion of a chapel with a vaulted ceiling, for his patrons the Lenzi family, along the west side wall of Santa Maria Novella. Research suggests that Brunelleschi may have designed or collaborated with Masaccio but there is no documented evidence to prove this. Giorgio Vasari described the fresco. "The most ... ...

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... 's dictatorship was hegemonic instead of systemic since him and his secret police dominantly controlled everything. This included all major industries, financial institutions, and he even renamed the capital city of Santa Domingo to "Ciudad Trujillo," which meant "Trujillo City" (bio.com). In her work, Alvarez informs her readers about Trujillo's secret police force known as the SIM ... ...

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... et al., 2014). Another health benefit to remaining single is that single people are more likely to exercise regularly. According to Dr. Bella DePaulo, a researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara and author of Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored and Still Live Happily Ever After, "Many single women and men care about their health and ... ...

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