info Halifax‚ Nova Scotia‚ Canada B3H 3A6 William Hall‚ V C first Black person‚ the first Nova Scotian and one of the first Canadians to receive the Empire’s highest award for bravery‚ the Victoria Cross. The son of former American slaves‚ Hall was born in 1827 at Horton‚ Nova Scotia‚ where he also attended school. He grew up during the age of wooden ships‚ when many boys dreamed of travelling the world in sailing vessels. As a young man‚ Hall worked in shipyards at Hantsport for several years‚ building
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WHO IS PRINCE HALL ? Prince Hall is recognized as the Father of Black Masonry in the United States. Historically‚ he made it possible for Negroes to be recognized and enjoy all privileges of free and accepted masonry. Many rumors of the birth of Prince Hall have arisen. A few records and papers have been found of him in Barbados where it was rumored that he was born in 1748‚ but no record of birth by church or by state‚ has been found there‚ and none in Boston. All 11 countries were searched
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Gunston Hall Field Trip Assignment Indentured Servant Before I even got off the bus the beauty and amazement of Gunston Hall and all of the land that surrounded it caught me off guard. To start‚ there was so much land and George Mason once owned every bit of it. Next‚ when you actually approached Gunston Hall‚ you realized how breath taking it was. From the picturesque house with impressive woodwork in the front parlor all the way to the well kept gardens. Everything was perfect‚ but then it hit
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Segment 5: Dana Hall Case (Attempt 1 ) Due Date: June 5‚ 2011 11:59 PM Type: Work individually Grading Criteria: out of 100 Status: In Progress (Attempt 1) Instructions: [pic][pic][pic]In this course‚ you have focused on Step 1 of the Action Research Paradigm Protocol: Diagnose the problem. You have evaluated questions such as: • What are the issues? • What information do I need to understand the issues? • What data are available or need to be collected to analyze the problem? Now
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may pop out of their heads. There is here‚ in the hall‚ still another category of students who have trifled with their studies all through and thus probably expected nothing in the paper and also got nothing in their favour. Such students can be very easily spotted in the hall‚ within a few minutes of distribution of the papers. They just fidget with things as if that could help. Considering how important these three hours in the hall can be and really are‚ one does at times feel the absurdity
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Elvin Banuelos Back to Representation Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the future takes place during the 1950’s‚ a time when capitalism was on the rise in America. It serves a greater purpose than showing what it’s like for Marty Mcfly to travel back in time‚ but rather real events which had occurred prior to the 1950’s‚ including the beginning of the Cold war versus the Soviet Union. The movie serves as a good representation on how this country has changed its way of thinking from the 50’s until the
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------------------------------------------------- John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill‚ FRSE (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher‚ political economist and civil servant. He was an influential contributor tosocial theory‚ political theory and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century".[3]Mill’s conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.[4] He was a proponent
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John stuart mill believed in the principle of utilitarianism‚ a moral philosophy focused on the outcome of one’s actions. This is in counter to the Kantian or Aristotelian ethics‚ which focus on one’s actions and the character of the one acting respectively. Utilitarianism according to Mill is a philosophy that seeks to produce the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people. The good in that principle being based on Hedonism‚ a philosophy that believes in maximizing net pleasure. It
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Egyptian art was mainly made for after life purposes. For example‚ the Egyptians used a very accurate gridding system for many art pieces. On the grid system Egyptian artist created a method called frontalism or twisted perspective which is the head of a person drawn in profile and the body seen from the front. Frontalsim and the grid system were a very important piece in a pharaoh or important leader’s afterlife. In the tomb of Ti there is a painting of Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt which shows
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Greening Your Work and Your Commute Raising awareness and reducing your carbon footprint Did you know that by our everyday habits and choices‚ the average American puts out 22 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year? Experts studying the recent climate history of the earth agree now that global warming is occurring at a precipitous rate‚ and human activities are the dominant force driving the trend. Our smokestacks‚ tailpipes‚ and burning forests emit CO2 and other gasses that add to the planet’s
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