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The youngest of five children, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Georgia on January 31, 1919. At the age of 18 months, his sharecropper father left the family, distraught from the reality of his sixth child which he claimed he couldn't afford. His mother, Mallie, on the verge of insanity, moved the family to Pasadena, California to live with her brother and found work as a domestic housekeeper. While growing up with a psychologically abusive uncle, Jackie rarely....
The sample's introductor paragraph, which I did not quote, is terrible, too, but this one is just crap. So, he's the youngest of five children, but his father left the family "distraught from the reality of his sixth child which he claimed he couldn't afford." So did dad leave over having five kids, or was he the youngest of six? Or the fifth of six? And I could forgive an essay that screwed up on whether to say "whom he claimed" or "who he claimed", but "which he claimed"? And did I read that right? I could swear I just read that Jackie's father left his family at the age of 18 months. Was he even old enough to ride a bike at that age?
And they want money for this.
It should come with the following disclosure: "This essay is ideal for 'D' students who don't want to submit 'C' quality work that would arouse the teacher's suspicions."
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