Potential Activity Tentative Date Tentative Location MMS ski trip Expected Turnou Team member 1st week feb 50 Vedant w.d. hill community center? Community kitchen / outreach activity Katie fuqua Katie Commemorative scavenger hunt Near program end Movies Night Every second w Fuqua/Loft S'mores night 20 Vedant Fuqua/Heights 50 Vedant Cookie Swap Spring Formal Vedant April WA Duke MMS Olympics ICE SKATING Fuqua Feb? Vedant
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song entitled, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,”also known as“The Negro National Anthem, as a poem in 1900. (The Black National Anthem, 2012) This song was first performed in public in Jacksonville, FL., as part of a celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s commemorative birthday celebration February 12, 1900. This song quickly became a means by which African Americans could demonstrate their patriotism and hope for the future of America. Development This song was originally written as a poem and performed
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War. He was born in Poland as Kazimierz Pułaski, on March 4, 1745. This holiday is celebrated mostly in areas with a large polish population, such as Chicago, in remembrance of him. On Jan. 16, 1931, the U.S. Post Office Department issued a commemorative stamp honoring this Polish patriot, Casimir Pulaski, who fought with American forces during the American Revolution. The stamp was first released in Savannah, GA, where he died, as well as in eleven American cities with large Polish populations
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only based in the Hawaiian Islands which gives a cultural edge over the other websites aimed at the same market. Hilo Hattie also offers items that would be indigenous to only Hawaii such as fruit, flowers, local style jewelry, and USS Arizona commemorative items of Pearl Harbor. The ideal of the fact that the stores are all based in Hawaii adds an appeal of a more exotic and unique flavor and style. Therefore, if you receiving something from there it required more thought from whom you received the
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biggest overseas interest. Global activities such as highly publicized basketball tournaments, such as the Quai 54 tournament held in Paris, France, or the Tokyo T23 tournament held in Japan in 2011 increase brand awareness and are combined with commemorative products that in their limited quantities have more value stateside. Nike has purposely over the last few years created more value in products only offered overseas as to create a sense of inclusion for overseas target
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Sir Edward Weary Dunlop Sir Edward Weary Dunlop was a respected and honoured Australian. Dunlop was born on the 12th of July, 1907 in Major Plains, Victoria and he lived from 1907 to 1993. Sir Edward Weary Dunlop survived a Japanese Prisoner of War camp in Thailand (Burma Railway). He was the camp doctor and provided the prisoners with the best care he could. During his life he displayed kindness and compassion to everyone he came across, even the Japanese after the war. Weary Dunlop grew
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In Rhode Island roadside makeshift memorials are common. The memorials are usually located either on a roadside to memorialize a fatal car accident or in some neighborhoods, to memorialize victims of violent crimes occurring on our public streets. This is a hotly debated topic with some states in the US following the trend against such memorials; citing reasons such as using public property for private use, separation of church and state (due to the use of crosses) and others see the memorials as
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Loving Husband has always wanted to go to a Star Wars Weekend, but between deployments and everything else in life, we never got to go. However, this year was different. This year we were living 5 minutes from Hollywood Studios, where the event is held, and this year, we had free passes! LH’s work schedule screwing everything up is a running theme throughout our lives, so it was no surprise that we ended up not being able to make it to the park until the very last day of the event. We had managed
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Araminta Ross better known as Harriet Tubman historically broke the mold for people of her time. Although she was best known for her work with the Underground Railroad Tubman was also an African-American humanitarian and abolitionist. In the year 1820 Tubman was born of two slave parents in Dorchester County, Maryland. Since she was born into slavery Tubman got hired out at the young age of six. Later in her life as the result of her abuse she suffered from a major head injury that would lead to
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Harriet Powers was an African-American slave, folk artist, and quilt maker. She was born in on October 29, 1837 in Athens, Georgia. For most of her life she lived in Sandy Creek. She had her first child at the age of 18, and would later have eight more with Armstead Powers her husband. It is believed that Powers was a part of the plantation owned by John and Nancy Lester. Black women slaves learned needlework either from their mistress or other older black slaves. Most women made the quilts to keep
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