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Beggar In Jerusalem American Citizen Medal
458 wordsEliezer Wiesel was born in 1928, a native of Sight, Transylvania (Romania) which is near the Ukrainian border; He grew up experiencing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust, this started when at fifteen years old Wiesel and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished there, his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald In 1945, at the end of the war, Elie moved to Paris, where he studied literature, phi...
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Playing Cards Video Game
1,202 wordsEnglish p 17 1301 Nintendo the Survivor 'Work hard, but in the end it's in heaven's hands. ' This is a quote from Game Over about the meaning of the word 'Nintendo. ' In the video-gaming market, though, it was really in consumers' hands. Nintendo has always needed to adapt to survive in the market. Nintendo always needed to be on top; it was a company that needed to be ahead of the rest. Nintendo had to set new standards, or improve on an existing product or idea. The Dutch and Portuguese first ...
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African National Congress Nelson Mandela
1,076 wordsIn the early 1950 s, the African National Congress began a passive resistance campaign which helped it form a broad coalition. It issues a Freedom Charter that said South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people. The government reacted by passing further repressive legislation and by arresting 156 people. The Pan-African Congress organized a campaign against the pass laws. People gathered...
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Minimum Wage Laws Equal Rights Amendment
1,193 wordsEqual Rights Amendment Clearly, pro ERA spokesperson Alice Paul presented the most persuasive winning case for equal rights. Alice Paul was highly educated with an undergraduate degree in biology from Swarthmore, and M. A. and Phd in sociology and economics from the University of Pennsylvania with law degrees from Washington College and American University. She was a member of the Executive Board of Student Government and named Ivy Poetess. She was a commencement speaker. Her strongly held belie...
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Communist Party General Secretary
317 wordsDeng Xiaoping was born in 1904, he was a Chinese Communist leader, who survived two purges to become the ruler of China after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Deng served the Communist party in various capacities, and participating in the Long March from 1934 to 1935. After the establishment of the Communist government in 1949, Deng moved up rapidly in the Communist rank under Mao's patronage, serving as vice premier in 1954 and general secretary of the party from 1956 to 1966. Deng distinguishe...
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Environmental Protection Agency Agent Orange
1,129 wordsDioxin is one of the most toxic chemicals known. A report released for public comment in September 1994 by the US Environmental Protection Agency clearly describes dioxin as a serious public health threat. The public health impact of dioxin may rival the impact that DDT had on public health in the 1960 s. According to the EPA report, not only does there appear to be no " safe" level of exposure to dioxin, but levels of dioxin and dioxin-like chemicals have been found in the general US ...
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People Per Square Mile Opening Scene
543 wordsFILM TECHNIQUE ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE SMOKE SIGNALS In this essay, I would like to go into a bit more detail about the first questions in both the first viewing questions and the study questions, since they are very similar in nature. The scene in question is the opening scene of the motion picture Smoke Signals, when, after a fade-in, we see a radio station broadcasting out of a trailer / mobile home-like structure. In this scene, the trailer cum radio station is filmed in a rather deep field mo...
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President Of The United States Jimmy Carter
397 wordsJimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr. ), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born October 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr. , was a farmer and businessman and his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B. S. degree from the United States Na...
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Gallons Of Water Water Consumption
1,472 wordsWhat do we use all this water for? Of all the water that falls to California, 60 % is immediately returned to the atmosphere by evaporation or native plant use. The rest runs off into rivers, lakes, streams and the water table, where it is available for human use. We will explain what happens to all this water, show exactly how much water we do use, and give ways to reduce water use in and around your home. The single largest user of water is industry. Industries use 46 % of our annual water sup...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,419 wordsButlers novel Kindred Kindred Octavia Butlers novel Kindred is categorized as science fiction because of the existence of time travel. However, the novel does not center on the schematics of this type of journey. Instead, the novel deals with the relationships forged between a Los Angeles woman from the 20 th century, and slaves from the 19 th century. Therefore, the mechanism of time travel allows the author a sort of freedom when writing this " slavery narrative" apart from her count...
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Mao Zedong Economic Reform
468 wordsMao Zedong was one of if not the most famous communist leaders in the history of China. His views of modernizing his country won him millions of followers. After his death in 1976, a man by the name of Deng Xioping attempted to win over Mao's former followers and rule China. These two men were probably the most influential people in China inthe 1900 s. Though they both brought thoughts of ending poverty and inequality in China, Deng's ideas for economic reform was more successful. During the ear...
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National Hockey League Social Control
1,118 wordsOn March 17, 1955, more than 10, 000 crazed hockey fans from inside the Montreal Forum and from the streets outside gathered together to protest the suspension of Maurice The Rocket Richard. An outraged fan slapped and punched the president of the National Hockey League, Clarence Campbell who was quietly sitting among the spectators. This seven-hour rampage of destruction and looting was a result of this attack that occurred during the game that opposed the Montreal Canadians and the Detroit Red...
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Sentenced To Death Method Of Execution
677 wordsMethods of Capital Punishment In the United States out of fifty states, thirty-eight of them have some type of death penalty. Out of the thirty-eight states that have a death penalty there are five different ways of execution used. Also the number of people sentenced to the death penalty and the number inmates that have been executed have increased quickly in the 1990 s to the present day. The thirty-eight states that have the death penalty use five ways of execution, lethal injection, electrocu...
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Los Angeles Robert Hayden
1,417 wordsKeith D. Leonard Michael S. Harper was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Walter Warren Harper, a postal worker, and Katherine Johnson Harper, a medical stenographer. Harper recalls his family's move in 1951 to a predominantly white Los Angeles neighborhood grappling with racial tension as a traumatic enough experience to " make" him a poet. Also, his family had an extensive record collection that profoundly affected Harpers poetry. Encouraged to pursue medicine, Harper became only a margi...
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Constitutional Negotiations Robert Bourassa Quebec
865 wordsOctober 20, 1996 Robert Bourassa Robert Bourassa died at 5: 45 am on Wednesday, October 9 th on the eighth floor of the Midtown Montreal Hospital. Bourassa was 63, and succumbed to malignant melanoma cancer. He was a skilled politician and strategist to some, but to most was just a nuisance. He had been a fixture on this countrys political terrain for the most part of the last three decades and will not be easily forgotten. Robert Bourassa was the son of a minor federal government functionary, a...
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Capital Punishment Cases Court Appointed Attorneys
892 wordsPunishable by Death? A crime that is apparently so heinous that the only conceivable punishment is death. The use of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is as heinous as the crimes that put people on death row. The death penalty is believed to be one rooted in racism and it has continued on in that tradition. The poor are at a disadvantage when it comes to being tried for the death penalty. Lastly the sentencing of the death penalty is not always given with just cause. The penalty of death...
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Sandy Skoglund United States Art
543 wordsSandy Skoglund has been in the forefront of contemporary art in the United States, as well as overseas, for nearly two decades. Her dramatic impact to the art world didnt begin overnight. After sheer dedication to art education she received her BA degree in Studio Art in 1968 from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Upon getting her BA, she pursued further education at the University of Iowa where she received her MD. With her remarkable educational background, Skoglund decided to expand ...
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Life Without Parole Capital Punishment
1,139 wordsCapital Punishment It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life (Edward Koch). As a supporter of the death penalty, I believe that capital punishment is a good thing for each state and its citizens. It is a very big issue. Putting people to death was a form of punishment that many states have practiced in past years. The United States today, capital punishment has been practiced, abolished, then reinstated. I believe capital punishment is necessary and not an option. Our so...
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Citizens Of The United States Thirteenth Amendment
526 wordsStandard Oil Case of 1911 Out of the cases decided by the Supreme Court I feel the most influential dealt with the issue of Civil Rights. Two cases in particular that dealt with the post Civil War use of the Thirteenth Amendment were Jones v. Mayer, 1968 and Runyan v. McCrary, 1976. Although the Thirteenth Amendment was added to the constitution in 1865 it was not fully put to use until one hundred years later. That is why I feel that the judgements made by the Supreme Court in these two cases w...
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Fell In Love Hewlett Packard
1,647 wordsSteve Wozniak's childhood had a big effect on his revolutionary developments in the computer world. Wozniak grew up in Sunnyvale California. His family lived in a development built for Lockheed engineers like his father. (Rose, 26) As a teenager he w During his high school years, Wozniak was a prankster and was once suspended for placing a metronome disguised as a bomb in a friends locker. (Brodhagen, 1) The more serious side of Wozniak loved electronics and spent one day a week working at Sylva...
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