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Martin Luther King Central High School
549 wordsthroughout the nation. In fact, it was required by law in most southern states. In 1952, the Supreme Court heard a number of school-segregation cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. It decided unanimously in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional, overthrowing the 1896 Please v. Ferguson ruling that had set the "separate but equal" the young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The leaders organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which would deprive the bus company of...
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Chesapeake Bay Spanish Fleet
754 wordsThe Different viewpoints of what happened to the missing people. Jamestown is thought by most of our general population to be the first colony in the New World. This is only half true. Jamestown is considered our first successful colony, however it was not our first attempt at a colony. There were a few attempts to colonize the New World before Jamestown and one in particular that is found to be interesting is Raleigh also known as the Lost Colony. It received this name due to the fact that the ...
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Watergate Scandal Richard Nixon
696 wordsIn the American Democracy it is vital for our right to freedom of press to be put into full throttle. Without the press, the society would be clueless and blind of Washington's dealings and business. The press informs the public, for better or worse, about what really goes on in Washington. But during the Watergate Scandal, the press coverage of the scandal demonstrated some of the best and the worst aspects of the way the American press covers the presidency. Richard Nixon despised the press. F...
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Nat Turner Sierra Leone
1,178 wordsIt could be considered almost ludicrous that most African-Americans were content with their station in life. Although that was how they were portrayed to the white people, it was a complete myth. Most slaves were dissatisfied with their stations in life, and longed to have the right of freedom. Their owners were acutely conscious of this fact and went to great lengths to prevent slave uprisings from occurring. An example of a drastic measure would be the prohibition of slaves receiving letters. ...
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University Of Toronto Handmaids Tale
498 wordsNovelist, poet, short story writer, critic, teacher, and feminist Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18, 1939. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Atwood was the second of three children to Carl Edmond and Margaret Dorothy Killam Atwood. She went on to marry writer, Graeme Gibson, and give birth to a daughter named Jess. Atwood's religion was that of Immanent Transcendentalist. During her childhood, she spent her summers in Northern Quebec while her father fulfilled aspirations of being a forest ...
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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
929 wordsBy definition, a symbol is something concrete that represents or suggests another thing that cannot in itself be pictured. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many people as symbols throughout The Scarlet Letter. The characters of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl, and Roger Chillingworth all represent sin. However, these four symbolize different aspects of sin. Through the character of Hester Prynne, Hawthorne shows how sin can make a person stronger. When Hester commits adultery, the Puritan punish...
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Grand Inquisitor Eighteenth Century
1,745 wordsEurope and frontier South America; mid-eighteenth century Pangloss, Candide's tutor and philosopher friend Cunegonde, the beautiful daughter of a baron Cacambo, Candide's servant and companion Martin, a later traveling companion Candide, the illegitimate son of a Baron's sister, was sent to live with the Baron at his beautiful castle in Westphalia. The Baroness weighed about three hundred and fifty pounds, as therefore greatly respected, and did the honors of the house it had dignity which rende...
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Rodham Clinton Extramarital Affairs
1,057 wordsWilliam Jefferson Clinton. He is the most powerful man in the world. He is also our President. However, what do we really know about him? With all the scandals and controversies surrounding this man and his family, is it possible to ever really know the truth about him? Perhaps the only way to do so is to examine the myths surrounding him, many of them of Clinton's own making, and delve beneath the surface. One of the most well known scandals surrounding Bill Clinton is the marijuana issue. Duri...
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Primary Colors Political Campaigns
1,253 wordsPrimary Colors opens with a quote be Machiavelli, Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. This is a great statement that sums up a good deal about Jack Stanton, the presidential candidate that this book follows. The handshake is the threshold act of politics and Jack Stanton knows it. He loves to go out, meet the people and shake hands with them. When he lost the New Hampshire primary he was not upset at all. A large number of voters on leaving the polls said the decidin...
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Great Salt Lake Twelve Apostles
806 words"Whenever I see a pretty woman I have to pray for grace. " - a quote from the founder and first Prophet of the Mormon Church and predecessor of the Great Prophet Brigham Young. Brigham Young was a very much-disliked person in his time but was also a praised person in his religion. A practical man of enormous common sense, he marched his people to the Rockies, directed the establishment of more than 325 western towns, built railroads, constructed stores, erected factories, brought Utah tens of th...
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Jimmy Carter James Earl
585 wordsJimmy Carter formally known as James Earl Carter, Jr. was born on October 1, 1924 and was the oldest of four children. He was born in a small farming town of Plains, Georgia and grew up in the nearby community if Archery. Jimmy's father, James Earl Carter, Sr. , was a peanut farmer and a storekeeper while his mother, Lillian Gordy, was a registered nurse. Jimmy Carter worked on the farm but as a boy dreamed of attending the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland because his uncle in the Unit...
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One Of The Girls Reverend Parris
1,161 wordsIt's the spring of 1692. The whole village of Salem is in an uproar. The Reverend Samuel Parris' daughter Betty won't wake up, and the Putnam's' little Ruth is walking around like a zombie. The night before, Reverend Parris had heard a funny noise in the woods outside his house, and stumbled onto a frightening scene: his black slave Tituba was waving her arms over a boiling kettle, muttering wild-sounding gibberish, and around the fire a dozen girls were dancing- dancing, strictly forbidden by P...
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Boston Tea Party Samuel Adams
1,151 wordsThe American Revolution contained many key points in American History. Without this revolution, American citizens could possibly not have the freedom they have today. This war was, and still is one of the most important wars the American army has ever battled. The American Revolution began when the king of Britain sent colonists to colonize which is now known as the thirteen original colonies. After a few years of being settled the King of Britain put a tax on many needed items such as tea, stam...
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Affair With Abigail Giles Corey
1,158 wordsAct One begins with the Rev. Samuel Parris praying for his daughter Betty who lies faint in her bed, suffering from a strange malady. Betty and Abigail, Parris's niece, and some of the other village girls had been surprised by Parris in the forest as they were engaged in a voodoo ritual led by Tituba, Parris's black slave. Betty fainted and still had not recovered. Ann and Thomas Putnam, prosperous villagers, arrive and claim that the children are suffering from "the Devil's touch" at the hands ...
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Anne Hutchinson John Cotton
1,107 words... need tons burden and could accommodate about two hundred passengers. On this trip the Griffen and her companion ship together brought only two hundred passengers. They brought a hundred heads of cattle that John Winthrop had asked to be sent over. The trip was inconvenient and inspite of the cramped quarters all on board had a blessed sense of freedom. The whole long trip usually took from fifty to seventy days. Among the whole company no one talked more brilliantly than Anne Hutchinson or e...
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Franklin D Roosevelt World War Ii
492 wordsFranklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty-second President of the United Sates, greatly expanded the role of the federal government with a wide-ranging economic and social program, the New Deal, designed to counter the Great Depression of the 1930 s. He also led the nation through most of its participation in the global struggle of World War II. Roosevelt attended a high-class high school and later graduated from Harvard in 1903. He quickly gained recognition by his leadership of upsta...
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Columbus Day Million People
742 wordsAnother Columbus Day has past by. And, as with every Columbus Day for the past year, I ask myself Why do we celebrate a man who was a murderer? Columbus sparked many a great western ideal. Capitalism, science as a religion, the establishment of a global monoculture, the enslavement of other races, the destruction of the environment, the eradication and abuse of life, and the genocide of Americas indigenous people are just a few of those ideals. If these are the ideals that he sparked, then why s...
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Duke And Duchess Gave The Man Back Sancho
730 wordsIn The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes contrasted the way that Sancho P governed his island to the way that the Duke and Duchess governed their land. This theme was developed over the entirety of Part Two. The first reference to government can be seen when the curate and barber visit Don Quixote, who has been at home recuperating for a number of weeks. They all make observations of statecraft and abuses and how they can be remedied or... correcting this abuse, c...
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Lee Harvey Oswald John F Kennedy
1,056 wordsJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, our nations 35 th President, was assassinated on November 22, 1963. He died at the age of 46. He was the youngest man elected President and the youngest to die in office. John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and entered into the United States Navy. In 1943 his boat was sank by a Japanese destroyer. He assumed command and led the survivors through the water to safety despite his serious injurie...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale People Of The Town
1,325 wordsAccording to the American Heritage Dictionary, symbolism is the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, uses much symbolism throughout the course of his complex novel. Through the use of symbolism Hawthorne gives the book a much deeper meaning. There are many symbols which can be found in The Scarlet Letter. Some may be hidden and others are...
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