The 7th Amendment "In suits at common law‚ where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars‚ the right of trial by jury shall be preserved‚ and no fact tried by a jury‚ shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States‚ than according to the rules of the common law." The 7th Amendment states that any person who is accused of a crime‚ where the dollar amount is deemed to be valued at twenty dollars or more‚ has the legal right to a trial by jury. A jury trial is a
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To Grade or Not to Grade Jamie Potts Baker College of Jackson To Grade or not to Grade Sweaty hands‚ racing heartbeat‚ trouble breathing. These are a few of the things some students may experience right before‚ or even during a test. Jerry Farber brings some very interesting alternatives to testing and to the whole grading process in an article he wrote called‚ “A young person’s guide to the grading system”. (Farber 1969) In A young persons guide to the grading system (Farber 1969) Farber
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The setting in the Hunger Games is not in the past or present‚ but in the future. The story takes place in District 12 and in a place called the Arena. District 12 is an old and very run down. It is a very; dull place of mines. The Arena is ;where the Hunger Games take place. It is a dangerous and scary place. The main protagonist is Katnis Everdeen. She is very good and is tryihng to get back to her family. She volunteered for her sister to go into Hunger Games. Cato is the antagonist.
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Teaching the Holocaust to 8th. Graders Teaching the Holocaust and World War II and Hitler’s rise to power is an extremely debatable topic for schools because of how violent and gruesome it truly was. A prime example is the gas chambers in which millions of Jews were murdered‚ which prompts some schools to drop related lessons in fear that the topic will offend students of Jewish descent. The problem is that the Holocaust needs to be taught or history may be doomed to repeat itself. The difficulty
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In this essay I will tell you things to do and not to do in 8th grade. When you get into 8th grade at first it will seem easy‚ that is because they are reviewing the things you were taught in 7th grade. You will like the things Mrs. Wright and Mr. Peters do to try and make the classes work harder‚ Mr. Peters gives pizza parties to classes for certain things and has a competition on which class can sing Lean on me the best. Mrs. Wright in her 5th period class tests you on the animals that live in
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favorites. For this story‚ I’ve asked various 8th grade students about what their favorite year was‚ what was their favorite moment of that year‚ and what they were looking forward to next year. Some students thought sixth grade was the best year for them because there was less rules‚ people got to know each other better and make friends‚ it was a smaller school‚ and there was only one grade at the school which meant more space. Jeira Esserman said‚ “6th grade was the best year because we did a lot of
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When I went to Washington‚ DC in 8th grade‚ I got to talk to a Holocaust survivor. I got to hear everything he went through. I even saw the number tattoo with which he was identified while being a prisoner. While listening to him‚ it sparked interest in me to learn more about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a tragic event that started in 1933‚ during which Nazis occupied Poland and took Jews to concentration camps.(“Holocaust”) When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they began to go against the Jews
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Western Civ. The Seventh Seal The gloomy‚ slow‚ and mysterious Bergman’s 1957 The Seventh Seal grasps the viewer’s attention through its underlining religious concepts and haunted themes. Kept in the original Swedish language it was a pleasant change and placed the viewer in the setting of the movie. The seventh seal follow Antonius Block and his game with death. Starting out at sea‚ Antonius and his squire Jons have just arrived from a crusade. They travel back to their town in
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Holocaust Reflection Essay Guilana Tedeschi‚ a Holocaust survivor said‚ “There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness‚ a place populated by the shadows of the dead in their multitudes‚ a place where the living are dead‚ where only death‚ pain and hate exist”(Brent). The Holocaust was a genocide‚ a murdering of six million Jewish people due to anti Semitism (Alfred). The Holocaust began due to one man whose hatred towards the Jewish
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There is sat in my 7th-grade class in Pulaski Middle School‚ yelling all around me and the teacher trying to take control of the chaotic classroom. This happened every day. Just staring at the racial slurs etched into the desk as my IQ fell more with every passing hour wasted when I could have been learning about the solar system or how to write a simple paragraph. This made me not care about my future or my education at all. As the terrible school system failed me I failed myself because I let myself
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