the welfare of their society. However‚ they did not treat sufferers of mental illnesses tenderly. They housed patients in the basement of the Pennsylvania Hospital which had a meager patient capacity. The few patients that were treated there were often shackled to walls. Pennsylvania Hospital eventually expanded to become its own facility‚ the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Although the Quakers administered cruel treatment‚ their work was a crucial step in the founding of more mental health
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The 7‚000 ft.² Pennsylvania House Museum had many roles‚ once a local tavern‚ a boarding house‚ a general store‚ a doctor’s clinic and secondhand shop before falling into disrepair‚ The daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) decided to restore the dilapidated building‚ to make it into a house museum in 1939. The museum today is setup as a federal style‚ three story house‚ furnished with 19th-century furnishings and artifacts‚ which were discovered in basement excavations‚ and donated by previous
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Government TH 9:30 Mr. Scott Covey March 11‚ 2010 [pic] The Case of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey [pic] [pic] Planned Parenthood v. Casey I. Introduction and Thesis Statement A. Statement of Case- Planned Parenthood v. Casey is a Supreme Court case in which the constitutionality of several Pennsylvania state regulations regarding abortion were challenged. B. Thesis Statement- the Supreme Court’s plurality
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This giving the officer reasonable suspicion that the person in the car may be armed and dangerous considering the broken tail light as well as the same vehicle description. Based on these hunches‚ as well as Pennsylvania vs. Mimms‚ “In Mimms‚ the U.S. Supreme Court noted that statistics indicated that 30 percent of the officers shot in the line of duty were shot as they approached a vehicle. The Court held that when officers make a traffic stop‚ they may routinely
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Pennsylvania‚ Maryland‚ Massachusetts‚ and Georgia all play a big role in the development of our country‚ but they differ in terms of living conditions‚ weather and religious climate‚ and job opportunities. For these reasons I selected two of those colonies that I would have lived in and two of those colonies that I would not have lived in. Without the successes and even the downfalls‚ we would not be where we are today. Out of the various colonies that emerged in the sixteen and 1700’s the two
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The Coatesville Fire Case CJ 101 Unit 8 5/18/15 LeCompte‚ Nicole Kaplan University Abstract This paper is about the Coatesville fires in Pennsylvania in 2008. The fires were being randomly started with no reason. The fires were set by a group of people. The five suspects that were arrested were Robert Tracy Jr who was an assistant fire chief‚ (6 ABC Action News 2009)‚ a 19 year old teenager named Roger Leon Barlow‚ McWilliams who suffered from mental illness‚ George Donkewicz‚
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Lyndsay E. Dyer 10/11/2012 HIS 131-01 Writing Assignment #1 Document Set: 4-4 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania Summary: The letters described in the document set were not‚ in fact‚ actual letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania‚ but from a well educated lawyer named John Dickinson. The document set highlights the first of this series of articles published in a Philadelphia Newspaper between 1767 and 1768. Dickinson recognized that the British rule over the colonies was growing ever-tense
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When William Penn founded Pennsylvania‚ his original intentions were for it to be a religious haven for English Quakers. One of these English Quakers to settle in Pennsylvania was Gabriel Thomas. As an early settler‚ he describes the extensive reasons to why many English came to the New World and the West Indies. Living in America was like paradise for a poor man. The resources were bountiful while the trade was tremendous. The discomfort one faced passing over the Atlantic to land in the New World
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Pennsylvania argument: So what is the buzz all about? Well‚ many‚ many whoopies ago‚ the people from Maine‚ Massachusetts‚ and Pennsylvania were staking claim that the whoopie pie originated in their state. The Pennsylvanians believed that the other states had no rights because the whoopies obviously were handed down through generations of Amish families. One of the many versions of folklore is that the wives took the little bits of batter left over from their cake making and made the tiny pies.
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My family and I went on a trip to Pennsylvania‚ Florida for my little cousin birthday. My heart was rushing and my face was lit up from the excitement that filled the room. I asked my mom can I bring two of my friends Patrick and Camarius‚ she said yes and all thirty two pearls lined up across my face. It was my first time traveling with my family and my last time. I never want to witness anything like the trip to Florida with my family ever again. As we drove up‚ I sat in the hard back seat with
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