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Woman Research Project Directions: You will select one book about a famous woman, read it, and use it to fill in the form below. The book must be approved by me. You must also use one encyclopedia article for additional information. Feel free to use http://www.wikipedia.org. Next you need to fill out the form and post it on your wiki page. Also, you must create a slide show of your famous woman using the website http://www.slidelicious.com. Please embed your slide show on your wiki. Finally, create a bibliography using the site www.bibme.org and add it to the end of this assignment. This will count as a reading grade and is worth 150 points.

BOOK REPORT- Biography Name Tanner Henderson Date 3/10/09 BOOK TITLE:

Author Ann Petry Biography of Harriet Tubman Publisher Harper Collins publishers.

Early Years: Write what you have learned about the person’s early years. How did these childhood experiences influence the person’s achievements as an adult? Harriet Tubman was born with the name Minta. Her parents Bob and Susie decided that her name would change when she was 11 years old of age. Harriet started being a slave when she was only six years old. She was selled to a very rough group of people. She would trap Rascals for her owner.

What were this person’s main accomplishments? Harriet had a lot of Accomplishments. She escaped from Maryland in1850. And she was a very strong woman. She was a cook at a restaurant in Philadelphia for about a year. Then she wanted to go back to slavery to free her brothers too. She gathered up money to go back.

Describe the goals of this person. Do you think this person was successful? Why or why not? First of all i love what Harriet Tubman did. I think she was very successful because she was a very strong person and she was very brave. I like how she helped other people. I mean she helped people be free. That is what people wanted to be back then. Go Harriet Tubman!!

What influence did this person have on the community, or the world? I think Harriet Tubman effected the world greatly. I say that because i think she encouraged a lot of people around the world. I think a lot of people should look up to her. I think she was one of the most bravest woman i have ever known!

What is your opinion of this person’s life and accomplishments? As i said i love what Harriet Tubman has done. I wish i could go back in time and really see her running through the woods away from the people. She is very good at being the one at the lead. i think she is famous for her scar on her head.

Would you recommend this biography to others? Why, or why not? I would totally recommend this bio to other people because i just love the way that Harriet Tubman did things. And how she did it. I would love other people even people about 4 years old to know what Harriet Tubman did to this world. She is just so amazing!

This is my Work Citied Page.


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A former student of Fort Lee High School, now plagued by a grade-fixing scandal, [|told the Record of][|Hackensack] she was questioned by detectives during an investigation back in the summer of 2007 looking into allegations that someone altered the transcripts of about a dozen students, according about a dozen students, according School officials in Fort Lee are investigating allegations that surfaced [|earlier this week] that high school faculty or administrators changed or deleted grades on students' transcripts to help them get into better colleges, which were done over several years without the knowledge of the students or their parents. The student, Katie Onufrey, now a freshman at Rutgers University, said police called her and about a dozen other students to police headquarters in July 2007 to be questioned about grade tampering. The initial investigation ended in November 2007.

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The booming train whistles that blare around Inman Avenue and Tingley Lane in Edison will soon go silent. Those North Edison neighborhoods have been designated the first official "quiet zone" in New Jersey. That means 24 hours a day, trains traveling along the Conrail tracks between Inman and Tingley can now only blow their horns in an emergency.  Residents have complained about the noisy blasts since the mid-1990s. "This is a huge issue," Mayor Jun Choi said, noting that township officials have been working with the state Department of Transportation for years on the $.15 million project. Trains approaching railstops must blow their horns four times to alert cars. And sometimes, more than 40 trains a day pass through Inman and Tingley, Choi said. Stewart Weiss, who lives in an apartment complex adjacent to the tracks, started the Inman Railroad Committee six years ago, lobbying township and state officials to silence the horns.

"This allows you to open your windows at night," Weiss said today about the quiet zone.

The project will also improve the safety of the rail crossings, officials said. Workers will install four new gates, new lighting technology, roadside upgrades and motion detectors that alert trains of any problems. This allows trains to pass through at normal speed, reducing traffic, Choi said, noting there have been fatal auto accidents at the crossing.

"This is not a minor improvement," the mayor said today during a press conference along the Inman tracks. Funding will come from township capital funds, a $2,000 grant from the state Department of Transportation and a $250,000 grant from Middlesex County.

Construction will close Inman Avenue from Monday through May 12. Tingley will be close May 13-29. I think that this is very bad. Concerning how people might usually take the road to go to work. And I cant believe it takes so much money to fix that road. Plus the way this economy is going is very bad chances for them. I think it is a very rough time for them.
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