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    Chart 1: Pre-Research (This chart will help you explore your topic and gather information for your research paper.) Steps Your Notes Step 1: Identify your topic and explain why it is a good IRP topic. (2-3 sentences) The topic is how to solve the missing children problem in the United States. It is a good IRP topic because it is interesting. This topic is also significant because each case might mean a child is in danger. Additionally‚ this problem has been happening constantly over the pass few

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    [pic] By: Jessica Johnson The brutal murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on Christmas night in 1996 shocked America to its core. Just as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder seven decades earlier had seared the nation’s consciousness‚ this murder – of a beautiful and talented child in a wealthy Boulder‚ Colo.‚ home – renewed every parent’s worst nightmare: No child was truly safe‚ not even tucked in at home on Christmas night. Days went by and no arrests were made‚ this case had been

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    The story and movie “The Ransom of Red Chief” is alike in many ways. It is also different. In both the movie and story‚ the kidnappers need $2‚000. They set off to find someone to kidnap in order to get money back for the person. They came across a boy named Johnny Dorset. Also in the movie and story‚ Bill played Indians with Johnny. Johnny gave Bill the name “Old Hank” and he gave Sam the name “Snake-eye the Spy”. The kidnappers in both the movie and story also had to pay the father $250 for the

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    historical fiction‚ Melanie Benjamin‚ with her novel The Aviator’s Wife‚ tells the story of Anne and Charles Lindbergh‚ famous aviators from American history. Benjamin depicts her main character as curious in the beginning‚ but as the novel progresses her curiosity leads her to learn new things about her life‚ leading her to be less independent than she was in the beginning‚ and more dependant upon Charles. Although Benjamin enthralls the audiences’ attention by using pathos to relate Anne’s experiences

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    technologies all helped influence the social changes in the "Roaring Twenties". Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were admired for their talents. Henry ford introduced an afforidable automibile‚ and Charles Lindberg flew non-stop from New York to Paris in the flight of St. Louis. These two men were held on a petistil durning this era and are still admired til this day. Along with Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh‚ there were many other heros of the time. The main hereos came from the sports of the

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    to portray the reflections and meaning of Charles A. Lindbergh’s flight. The meaning of Lindbergh’s flight lies within the story. Author John William Ward starts off by describing the flight in small detail. As the paragraph proceeds he adds great detail about the flight and Lindbergh’s remarkable feats. On Friday‚ May 20‚ 1927‚ at 7:52 A.M‚ Charles A. Lindbergh took off in a silver-winged monoplane and flew from the United States to France. Lindbergh became the first man to fly alone across

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    "Fear presides over these memories‚ a perpetual fear. Of course no childhood is without its terrors‚ yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn’t been president or if I hadn’t been the offspring of Jews." (Roth 1) Philip Roth‚ the son of Herman and Bess Roth‚ had such a permanent fear of Charles Lindbergh‚(the supposed next president of the United States in the 1940 election against Franklin Roosevelt‚ controlling the world and ruining his and his family’s life‚ as

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    Airlines. Hughes is also remembered for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle in later life. His legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator‚ author‚ inventor‚ explorer‚ and social activist. As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot‚ Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20–21‚ 1927‚ made from Roosevelt Field located

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    The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights‚ radio‚ televisions‚ and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure‚ people grope about in flickering candlelight. Cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them‚ and food spoils in silent refrigerators. Yet‚ people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently

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    on May 20-21.On June 21‚1932 Earhart was awarded the National Geographic Society’s Special Gold Medal.The National Geographic Society’s Special Gold Medal is for becoming the first woman and only person besides Charles Lindbergh to accomplish a solo transatlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh was the first person to go over the Atlantic alone.A transatlantic flight is the flight of an airline over the Atlantic

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