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    excellent starting point for this nonprofit for two very contrasting reasons. Utah has historically had very low Latino graduation rates throughout the state. In 2015 the graduation rates for Hispanic high school students had jumped 17 points since 2010‚ but the jump only increased the graduation rate to 72%. Florida on the other hand simply has the sheer numbers of students that need assistance. For the 2016-2017 school year‚ Utah has 108‚141 Hispanic/Latino students enrolled in their K-12 classes‚ Florida

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    Felt Needs Assessment

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    Community Practice Project: Needs Assessment Paper #2 Identifying ‘felt needs’ is a crucial step in the community assessment process. Burghardt (2014) explains how community members act as a barometer in defining an issue as being merely heartfelt‚ or a more motivating felt need. “The difference between a need and a felt need is the difference between a group of people bothered by conditions in the world and a group acting on the world to make it a better place for themselves and others” (p. 61)

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    Ron Carlson’s “Happiness‚” is about a trip with a father‚ his two sons Nick and Colin‚ and brother Regan‚ visiting the family’s cabin in Utah to fish for the last time as the Father says goodbye and makes sure his sons are prepared for him to pass. Carlson suggests the central idea is that family needs to remember the happy times to prepare for the hard ones and uphold the traditions. Carlson uses setting to focus on the happy memories the family shared and the importance of tradition. Carlson uses

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    1984: Was Orwell Right?

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    sitting at a desk in an office to monitor the information. Also‚ the N.S.A. is currently building a massive data center in Bluffdale‚ Utah called the Utah Data Center‚ where all the information will be stored and processed once construction is finished by late 2013 or 2014. The data center brings a hefty price tag with a cost of over $2 billion (Bamford). The Utah Data center fits Orwell’s prediction about our government spying on us. “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being

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    from the Mormon’s of Tomorrow leader‚ Betty Dickerson. In the email Mrs. Dickerson‚ expressed that on Thanksgiving morning her son‚ Richard Dickerson‚ verbalized what he was truly thankful for. Coming from a well-respected family in Mount Pleasant‚ Utah‚ Mrs. Dickerson said she was expecting her son to be thankful for his extended family‚ his Cocker Spaniel “Lucky”‚ and his playmates. However‚ what Richard shared with her was not what she had been expecting. Mrs. Dickerson said that Richard pulled

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    Sectionalism (1840-1861)

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    Westward Expansion and Sectionalism (1840-1861) At the end of the Mexican War during Polk’s term as president‚ many new lands west of Texas were yielded to the United States‚ and the debate over the westward expansion of slavery was rekindled. Southern politicians and slave owners demanded that slavery be allowed in the West because they feared that a closed door would spell doom for their economy and way of life. Whig Northerners‚ however‚ believed that slavery should be banned from the new territories

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    Inquisition‚ the Salem witch trials‚ the Taliban in Afghanistan.” (Ferguson 1) If you really want to know about the dangers of an American theocracy‚ you need look no further than the state of Utah. The Mormon Church‚ or church of Latter Day Saints (LDS)‚ dominates public life in Salt Lake City. Ties between Utah public schools and the LDS church make life difficult for non-Mormon kids. Many of them convert just to escape the pressure. Parents who don’t like

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    link between the initial illegal search and seizure and a subsequent search and seizure‚ allows the subsequent evidence to be admitted. (Utah v. Strieff (2016) 136 S. Ct 2056‚ 2061.) The intervening cause that the prosecution relies on is the discovery of a valid‚ pre-existing and untainted the initial violation. (Id. at p. 2061.) Following the analysis of

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    What historical benefit did D-day have in history? If the allies did not succeed in D-day would Europe still be occupied by Hitler? The failure of D-day could have caused the Allies to lose in World War II. The idea of D-day was in process since March 9‚ 1942 when President Roosevelt said I am becoming interested in the established of a new front this summer on the European continent (Collier 8). With the idea of penetrating a very fortified German front the Allies had their hands full. The invasion

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    a blood-alcohol level of .08- the point at which drivers are considered intoxicated in most U.S. states. In fact‚ some tests have suggested drivers talking on cell phones are more likely to crash than drunk drivers. Professors at the University of Utah ran a test in which volunteers ’drove’ a stimulator. They first drove undistracted; then drove while talking to a university staff member over a cell phone; lastly‚ they drove after drinking enough vodka and orange juice to gain a .08 blood-alcohol

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