Did you know Gabby Douglas was the first African American to win gold in the prestigious event? She won the gold on uneven bars when she was 13 in the 2010 Pan American Championships. In 2011‚ at the age of 14‚ she won a gold medal with the U.S. team at the World Championships. She got the nick name "The Flying Squirrel‚" from that event. She gained celebrity status after her 2012 medals at the Olympics. Childhood Gabrielle (Gabby) Douglas was born on December 31st‚ 1995. She grew up in Virginia
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In London‚ England‚ on February 6‚ 1913‚ Mary Douglas Leakey was born. Her original name was Mary Douglas Nicol. She had no siblings and two parents who were Erskine Nicol‚ a scenery painter‚ and Cecilia Frere Nicol. Due to her father’s work‚ the family moved frequently. Quite a bit of her initial adolescence was gone through voyaging abroad with her parents through mostly Europe and some parts of Africa. This made her develop a dedication both for prehistory and drawing. Mary’s powerful fondness
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Kerrie Neal James Grubb History 111 May 3rd 2013 The BlackBerry Riots In the summer of 2011‚ the city of London‚ England was disheveled. With what started as a simple police brutality protest soon turned the city upside down with riots clustering in almost every borough. Parliament abruptly returned from their summer holidays to quickly address the chaos dismantling their city’s wellbeing. Just under 2‚000 riot related arrests were made by the Metropolitan police and just under 4‚000 throughout
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roots in a tree hold it together and keep it from falling down at the slightest resistance. In the same way‚ when leaders work from the bottom all the stakeholders involved gain strength to face adversity from those who stand beneath them. The Douglas McGregor XY Theory highlights two types of leaders: one is authoritarian and the other enables those under their supervision to have a variety of responsibilities for their tasks and freely work towards a common goal. When I took this screening my
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Douglas Adams Research Paper “It was one of those beautiful starlit nights‚ and it occurred to me that at some point that somebody should write a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. I fell asleep and forgot about it for six years” (Douglas Adams). Douglas Adams was a brilliant‚ well known writer who discovered his gift of writing as a teenager. He was from an educated family who supported his writing through his childhood and into his college years. Douglas Adams shows what he values in and is
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Tommy Douglas (October 20‚ 1904 - February 24‚ 1986) Thomas “Tommy” Douglas was the seventh Premier and CCF leader of Saskatchewan; he amended the province of Saskatchewan and initiated many social reforms in the rest of Canada. Tommy Douglas is considered Canada’s “Father of Medicare” because of his introduction of universal hospitalization in Saskatchewan in 1949 and a Medicare plan for Saskatchewan in 1959. Later after Douglas moved from Scotland to Winnipeg‚ his infected knee got worse and
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The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln‚ the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois‚ and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas‚ the Democratic Party candidate. At the time‚ U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures‚ in turn Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln would face in the aftermath of his victory in the 1860 presidential
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Fredrick Douglass The analysis By Justin Ruano 11/14/11 Hist Am Civ 1607-1877 [pic] Have you ever wondered to yourself if you firmly belief in something that you could understand the opposite side of it? Well if you just so happened to believe in slavery and I were to tell you a story about an American born slave that is making his case to abolish I‚ would you listen? In the book Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass‚ An American slave & Incidents in the Life of
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In the story “Moonface” by Richardo Keens Douglas‚ a young 13-year-old boy named Moonface is exceptionally unique for several fascinating reasons. What genuinely sets him apart from the majority of those around him are his personality traits. To begin with‚ Moonface is very beloved and kind hearted towards the people around him. In the beginning of the book‚ it is stated that “Everybody loved this little boy called Moonface”(Keens-Douglas 1). All the people of the town enjoyed his presence‚ and they
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DESCRIBING A PERSON 1-Text 2- Unfamiliar words 3- Reading Comprehension 4-Key answers 5- Four Friends 6-Remember 7-Key answers 1 1-Text Michael Douglas / Star / Cinema / Celebrity. Michael Douglas Michael Douglas is a very famous and popular American actor. He is about sixty years old. He is a slim person and he is average height. He has got light brown eyes and short fair hair. His wife is a very beautiful British actress who is named Catherine Zeta-Johns‚ she has got green eyes and
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