HS: Freshman Year

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A collection of essays I wrote during my freshman year of high school.

This section of my site is a collection of things I've written over the past several years. I hope some of them will be helpful and/or interesting to you! Please remember that citing any document located here without referencing your source is plagarism and has serious consequences.

Civil Rights Essay

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Freshman year in English class we discussed racism in our school and how it affects students. Along with the discussion in class, we had to interview two students - one Hispanic and one non-Hispanic - and a teacher from the school. This paper talks about racism in my school, using the interviews to add a more down-to-earth feel to it.

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Racism...the belief that a particular race is superior to others; discrimination or prejudice based on race. Racism has been around for a long time and its effects have been seen a lot in the past few centuries: during the 1800s and earlier - in slavery, the Civil War, and slaves being freed; and then recently, during the 1900s - in the Civil Rights Movement. Everyone in the United States is supposed to have equal rights and not be discriminated against because of race, but sadly, that is not always what happens. Racism shouldn’t be around anymore, but…

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The Guarani Indians and Missions of Paraguay

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In Spanish class, we do more than simply study the language. Each year, we also study some cultural aspect of things. This is an essay I wrote about the Guarani Indians and the Jesuit Missions established in Paraguay.

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The first contact anyone ever made with the Guarani Indians of Paraguay was in 1537 by Gonzalo de Mendoza. Mendoza founded Asuncion, now the capital of Paraguay. He also started the policy of intermarriage with Indian women and the policy of enslavement of the native tribes. It wasn't until the first Jesuits, Fathers Barcena and Angulo, came in 1585 that the Indians had protection from slavery. More Jesuits followed soon afterwards. The Jesuits developed a college at Asuncion. In 1608 the king of Spain, King Philip III, issued a command to the Jesuits for the colonization of the Guarani Indians…>

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