Back in 2007, a woman who claimed she had been abused in a trailer ended up getting six people sent to prison. The weird thing is, every one of them pleaded guilty. This included a mother and her son, a different mother and her daughter and two men.
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On sunday in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, two suicide car bombs blew up in front of the Justice Ministry and city government offices. These terrible bombings killed 136 innocent people! It is said to have been one of the worst atacks in more then two year
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This is my last blog that i had to redo so here it goes. A failed state is a weak government who can not control their area that they live in. The government can’t provide basic services to its people. An example of basic services would be water, san
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On October 9th a girl was found walking past a Covenant House at 12:30 am. It is a shelter for youths. A secerity guard asked her some questions, but she didn't know anything. The police then came and questioned her. She doesn't remember anything. On
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On June 5th, 1945, 43-year-old Josephine Ross was found stabbed to death in her apartment in Chicago. Six months later a woman was found in her bathroom with a bullet wound in her head and a stab wound through her neck. The killer had written on the
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Benjamin harrison was born on August 20th, 1833. Harrison was the 23 president of the United States. He served from 1889 to 1893. He was born in North Bend, Ohio. After he got married in 1853 he moved in with his father and finished his law studies a
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The oakland raiders head coach Tom Cable got in a fight with Randy Hanson(his former assistent). During the Fight Tom broke Randy's jaw. Tom must be very strong to be able to break a jaw. This happened earlier this week and Randy filed charges. Tom w
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The Dawes Act was named after its supporter, Senator Henry L. Dawes. The act pretty much tried to americanize Indians and send them to Oklahoma. The government gave each Native American in a family 160 acres of land or 320 acres of grazing land in Ok
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Mary Elizabeth Lease was a political activist, and was very involved in the suffrage movement. She was born to Irish immigrants in 1853, and moved to Kansas to teach when she was twenty years old. Three years after moving she married Charles Lease, w
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A declaration, signed on Friday by President Obama, has officially named H1N1, or Swine Flu, a national emergency. This doesn't come lightly; so far, it's estimated that nearly 1,000 people in the United States alone have died as a result of this vir
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Today in CWI was another workday. For the begining of class I studied for the Oral test that I was going to take. Then i took the Oral test. I did really good. WAY better then last time (:. Then Luke helped me study for the Map test. He has been help
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Today is my birthday! Mr. Bruns gave us all delicious doughnuts. It was a work day today because Mr. Bruns is startign the Oral Tests today. I worked on the Europe Map pretty much the entire time.. I played these Map games that were very helpful.. Th
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Today in CWI we talked about the oral test tomorrow and how DOW Jones reached 10,000 so Mr. Bruns now owes donuts to everyone tomorrow :). He also said he is adding a question to the test tomorrow. Which will be what the DOW Jones is. If the DOW Jone
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Today in CWI we once again went over the Europe map. Cheyenna told us about the story she did. It was about how Obama has been talking about International agreements. Reducing nuclear programs was a topic they talked about. She also talked a little b
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Today in CWI Mr. Bruns told us what will be on the oral test we are going to possibly take this week. He then gave everyone in class a topic for our next assigned blogs. My topic was why we went to war with Iraq in 1990. Next we went over the Europe
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Mary Harris Jones was born on August 1, 1837, even though Mary claimed she was born on May 1, 1837. Some people believe that she may have said her birth date was May 1 because it is the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair and is also a labor holiday
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Today Asia and I presented on Chapter 8 Section 3. The questions for this sections are..What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?One law that was put on African American's were the Jim C
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Today in class I studied the Europe map for most of the period. I then looked up some current events that had happened lately. I found one where the white house has criticized Fox News for not being a real news station. They are just an opinionated e
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The first amendment states that Congress cannot violate the freedom of speech or press. Freedom of speech means that you can say whatever you want and believe in, and the freedom of press means to print and write want you want without the government
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