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Get Up and Exercise!
When working on the computer, we tend to forget how long we’ve been sitting down for. Now that many more people are working from home and most work is digital, this mistake is becoming more common and harmful among not just teens and young adults, but older adults and elders. Sitting increases the risk of…
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St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 in Italy. His family was very wealthy, so Francis lived a very carefree life of drinking, partying, and women. In 1202, war broke between Assisi and Perugia, and Francis took his place in the cavalry. He was dressed like an aristocrat, in new, expensive armour. He was…
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc was born in the small town of Domremy, France in 1412. As a little girl, her father would tell Joan of the sad conditions of France, and how France was in the possession of England. However, when she was 12 years old, she had many visions and voices in her head telling…
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Giotto Di Bondone and Petrarch
Giotto Di Bondone was an Italian artist, known for being the first person in history to use emotions in his paintings. Giotto’s parents were painters, although he seemed to be completely self-taught. He was the apprentice to a master whose name was Cimabue, which evolved Giotto’s art style much less stylised and elongated than that…
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Knighthood
A knight was a title given to a man honoured by a King, or a monarch for an act of bravery and/or chivalry. Originally, knights were known as mounted soldiers, but eventually, they were just known as honoured people, mostly recognised for their great deeds in the military. An 8 year old boy (often a…
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The setting of ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court’
We first start with our protagonist, Hank Morgan, in his work place. A fight broke out, and while trying to stop it, he got hit in the head with a crowbar. He then ended up in the 6th century of Camelot, England. Everyone thought that he was evil (Since his clothes were a lot more…
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If I could travel back in time to any place
There would be so many places I would want to travel to, so many things I would want to learn, so many people I would want to meet, and so many cultures I would want to know about, but there is one place that I would be more than overjoyed to be in: Mediaeval Japan.…
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Someone who has shaped my life
Someone important to me who has shaped the person I am to this day is my Stepfather, Chris. He’s a dork, he likes to joke around, and sometimes, he can infuriate me, but I don’t think I’d be the classy, polite girl I am today without him. When I was in 4th grade, I would…
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Ron Paul curriculum History paper review #2
This is my paper on Ancient China. Already at around 500 AD, China had 5 dynasties: -Xia -Shang -Zhou -Qin -Han The first dynasty was the Qin dynasty, ruled by a man named Shi Huangdi. He was not the best leader. He hated education and he burned most of the books and killed many scholars.…
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