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    knew I was born and raised in Louisiana but i wanted to know more about my past family. My grandfather always tells me that on my his side of the family it´s mainly russian‚ but on my grandmother´s side it´s mainly french. My mom‚ aunts‚ and uncles can all speak fluent french because my great grandmother did not know english so they had to learn it. The basics of my family is cajun french‚ or creole. Just by the foods we eat you could tell were from Louisiana‚ Were always eating gumbo

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    Megan Shanks History 1301-I53 February 25‚ 2017 Professor Stokes The Louisiana Purchase The United States has a long history of crucial decision after crucial decision‚ each one with significant impact on the country and the world. While these decisions do hold great importance‚ the Louisiana Purchase was especially significant in American history. Jefferson dealt with different options‚ faced consequences‚ as well as created a huge impact across time when he signed the “Treaty of Cession.”

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    1/18/13 The first stage of the French Revolution (1789-1792) * Previously talking about the estates general – 1789 Louis XVI trying to solve economic problems divided into clergy‚ nobility‚ commoners because the French society was legally divided in the same way (all had different obligations and different rights) * Middle class included: bankers‚ merchants‚ doctors‚ entrepreneurs‚ lawyers‚ shopkeepers‚ artisans…comfortable life * Working class: lower class‚ those working for a wage/salary

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    want her students to starve and it helps students who don’t have food or didn’t have breakfast in the morning or didn’t have lunch to get some food from the vending machine. Some people think that vending machines are both a positive and negative influence on students in high school because it partially depends on what is being filled up in the vending machine. If junk is being filled into it such as candy bars and chips‚ it will cause kids to want to spend their money on it and after a while it will

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    LV & UV GCSE French Oral Examination Questions for Speaking There are four broad areas of questions for the general conversation section of the oral examination. These are listed below: 1. Lifestyle 2. Leisure 3. Home and environment 4. Work and education Amusez-vous bien et bon courage! Lifestyle Health 1. Qu’est-ce que tu aimes manger et boire? (State what you like to eat & drink & why‚ mention things you don’t like to eat & drink & why‚ what did you eat &

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    Questions about Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan ACT ONE 1. How does Raimi establish the simple‚ rustic nature of life in late 1990s Minnesota in the opening sequence? How does protagonist Hank Mitchell’s opening monologue support this rustic simplicity? The death of winter shows the winter decline The untended fence and rundown farm are metonyms for the broader economic downturn that characterized rural America in the late 1990s (context) The monotony of Hank’s life is established in the opening shots

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    the acquisition of Louisiana by the United States‚ and the controversies and complications of assimilating this newly acquired territory in our country. The President was Thomas Jefferson. He purchased Louisiana because it was a well coveted territory‚ mostly by the U.S. Not only was it a huge piece of land that could grow Americas size immensely‚ but commerce was huge there. Also tensions were high with France‚ who was seemed to be constantly at war. Jefferson purchased Louisiana to keep France from

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    French Colonialism greatly influenced the Viet Minh to seek Change. The Viet Minh wanted independence for Vietnam. Their attempts were made to achieve independence in 1945 with the battle of Cao Bang which then grew to the battle of DBP. These actions had significant consequences such as enormous loss of life‚ French Surrender and the independence for North Vietnam French Colonialism influenced the VM to seek independence for their nation. Colonialism is the ‘Outworking’ desire of a nation to

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    development was when Jefferson swallowed his constitutional reservations and bought the vast Louisiana territory. The Louisiana Purchase changed and affected the formative United States in many ways. By adding the Louisiana Territory‚ Jefferson helped expand the wave of slavery. It also resulted in a wide debate on the nature of the Constitution and the pros and cons. But on the other hand the Louisiana purchase had positive effects such as discovering new beneficial resources and giving the United

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    Stadium becomes the sixth largest city in the state of Louisiana as over 91‚000 fans pack the cathedral of college football to watch the Tigers play. It was in 1893 that LSU first sponsored a football team. The Tigers were coached by university professor Dr Charles E. Coates against in-state school Tulane University of New Orleans. The game sparked a rivalry between the Tigers and the Green Wave that has lasted generations. Future Louisiana governor Ruffin G. Pleasant was the quarterback and captain

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