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    James J Walker is a man that is put down in history as one of New York City’s mayors. Still James J Walker had a darker side to him that the public didn’t witness. James J Walker better known as Jimmy Walker was born June 19, 1881. A young boy that grew up in poverty, not being a great student, and dropped out of college later was graduated from New York Law School in 1904 and later went into politics and joined the State Senate. After many years in the Senate, Jimmy set his sights in on the 1926

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    winning of the case send a message to schools everywhere about how LGBTQ bullying cannot be ignored. Similar to Jamie Nabozny, On February 22nd 2010 Jesse James Devoreaux, a 13-year-old gay teen was nearly beaten to death by five male students with baseball bats in East Hartford, Connecticut (Significant Acts of Violence Against LGBT People). Jesse suffered a significant amount of skull fractures requiring emergency reconstructive surgery which took over fifty sutures to close the wounds at the Conneticut

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    You Do the Crime, You Do the Time Jesse Stuart, was born in 1906 in Greenup, Kentucky. He attended Lincoln Memorial University ("Distinguished"). He did graduate work from Vanderbilt University (Anderson). Jesse's professors are the ones who would keep encouraging him to writing. The professor who encouraged him are Robert Warren, and Donald Davidson ("Distinguished"). Both of his professors told Jesse to go back to his county. Jessie went back to Kentucky to write about people in his town. He

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    Introduction Jesse is a thirteen-year-old male from Vermont. Some of his hobbies include; 4-wheeling, mudding, and hanging out with his small group of friends. Jesse and his friends like to pack around confederate flags. They exclaim that this is not a symbol of racism, rather than to identify themselves’ s as a redneck. Jesse’s home life consists of living on a farm with his mother. At the age of 3, jesses father left him and his mother and never came back. Although Jesse’s father not in the picture

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    James Ritty History

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    The name, James Ritty, is not a very well known name to most Americans. But the mechanical cash register has become an important part of American life at every store. James Ritty invented the first mechanical type cash register back in 1879. It is not the cash register of modern times, but it was the first step in making life of a businessman easier and making their employees less likely to steal. Who was James Ritty? James Ritty was an American born on October 29th, 1883. He had started to go to

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    website I came across a tragic news story about a young teenager named Jesse James Romeo who was being shot at and killed by an officer after shooting at another officer earlier this week in LA. The suspicion of a gang related vandalism led up to Jesse’s horrible death. As LA officers were investigating the vandalism call, they encountered 2 suspects who fled the scene after being caught. One of the suspects was identified as Jesse J. Romero and was pronounced dead. LAPD Deputy Chief Robert Arcos stated

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    ultimately reddens the original person unrecognisable. Jesse James is strikingly enrapturing attention from the viewer in the blue robbery scene. His face is only partly covered by an banange , in contrast to the full masking of the other members of the gang, whom of which have a white sheet with rugged holes pierced through where the eyes and mouth would be on their faces. This clothing symbolisation addresses the fact, that although Jesse James had help during robberies, his face was the only one

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    Straying away from the stereotypical timid housewife, women in the West were given room to create new identities. In the movie Duel in the Sun (1946), Pearl engages in a shootout in the desert with a man. While in the movie The Outlaw (1943), Rio McDonald ambushes gunfighters in order to avenge her brother’s death. Although women often stood in the shadows of their more rugged male counterparts, these movies and characters proved that women were just as “rugged” as men, shocking the world with their

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    his life! Before James Garfield was born his parents, Abram and Eliza Garfield moved to Ohio. He was born on November 19th, 1831. When he was born he was the last president born in a log cabin. That’s where James Garfield was born. His Mother said, “when he was born he looked like a red Irishmen,” and was also over 10 pounds when he was born. When he was 2 years old his father died of pneumonia. At the same time his siblings also died of pneumonia. Eliza and little James Garfield still had

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    James “Jimmy” Snodgrass Craw III was born  Dec 7, 1999 in Lakeland, Florida; his mother and father agreed to pass on the James Snodgrass Craw name from his grandfather and father onto him. His family is a very colorful and unique as opposed to the usual American family. His mother Maritza Craw is a sales rep for a gun shop, and his father a firefighter. He lived a relatively sheltered life. However he was never ignorant toward the hardships others lived. James is an easily recognizable man with the

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