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    cases‚ including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka‚ Kansas. This case decided unanimously in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional‚ overthrowing the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that had set the "separate but equal" precedent. In August 1955 a case that drew the most national publicity was the murder of 14 year old Emmett Till‚ a black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi that summer. Although warned by his mother not to talk to whites‚ he ignored that warning

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    University of the Philippines’ School of Fine Arts in 1926. Later‚ he would be appointed as the school’s secretary. In 1932‚ Tolentino married Paz Raymundo. They had a family of seven children. From 1953 to 1955 Tolentino also served as the School of Arts’ director. He retired in 1955 as professor emeritus. In 1973‚ Tolentino was named National Artist for Visual Arts for his works in the field of sculpture. He died in 1976. Works Guillermo Tolentino was known as a master in classical

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    About We are one of the Karachi’s Super Market trend setters! Description Imtiaz‚ a venture of Mr.Hakim Khan Abbasi stepped on ground in the year 1955. His initial step was to start a small store which contained general items of day to day use. Later Mr.Imtiaz Hussain joined in and dreamt of making Imtiaz Super Store‚ a store which would help make peoples live better. He had a vision‚ a vision of not making his business big but to serve people; a vision of not making profits but helping people

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    instead of revolving around power‚ the Naders lived with a powerful sense of justice. After he graduated from Gilbert School‚ Nader entered the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs at Princeton University where he graduated magna cum laude in 1955 with a major in government and economics‚ and later graduated from Harvard Law School in 1958. He served in the United States Army for six months in 1959‚ then began work as a lawyer in Hartford‚ Connecticut. Between 1961 and 1963‚ he was a Professor

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    America i believe that peacefully disobeying a law is much better than casung chaos.For example Rosa Parks was disobeyinga law peacefully‚ even though she was supposed to give up her seat because a caucasion person seemed to have more rights back in 1955 . By disobeying this law she was the first step to equality for all races. She helped people in society realize that it doesn’t matter what race you are or even how smart you are . Everyone deserves to be treated the same ‚ no one is worth any less

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    Tun Abdul Razak

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    political caliber‚ in 1950 he became the youth chief for United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). Two years later‚ he worked as the Assistant State Secretary of Pahang and in February 1955‚ at just 33 years of age‚ became Pahang’s Chief Minister. He stood in and won the country’s first general elections in July 1955 and was appointed as the Education Minister. Tun Razak was also a member of the February 1956 mission to London to seek the independence of Malaya from the British.After the general elections

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    which overturned desegregated schools across the nation. Schools‚ especially in the South‚ were slow to comply‚ and often attempts to register black students broke out in violence. Meanwhile‚ in 1955 in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ a seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man in December 1955 and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ a successful protest that took over a year and ended with the Supreme-Court-ordered desegregation of Montgomery buses. The boycott also brought to fame

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    Richard Avedon

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    breakthrough as Dovima is almost gliding through the gap between the two giants that resemble the bleak period in time breaking it up with hope and luxury. ----------------------- Image Analysis Dovima with Elephants‚ Richard Avedon‚ August 1955‚ Cirque d’Hiver Paris “ It is worth emphasising that there is no single or ‘correct’ answer to the question‚ ‘What does an image mean? or ‘What is this ad saying?’. Since there is no law which can guarantee that things will have ‘one‚ true meaning’

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    Strikes

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    Strike [Sec. 2 (q)]: Strike means "a cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any industry acting in combination or a concerted refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so employed‚ to continue to work or to accept employment". Mere stoppage of work does not come within the meaning of strike unless it can be shown that such stoppage of work was a concerted action for the enforcement of an industrial demand.  Procedure of Strikes  According to Sec

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    John Garcia

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    John Garcia (born June 12‚ 1917) is an American psychologist‚ most known for his research on taste aversion learning. Garcia studied at the University of California-Berkeley‚ where he received his A.B.‚ M.A.‚ and Ph.D. degrees in 1955 at the age of 38. He was appointed Professor Emeritus at Los Angeles’ University of California‚ though he at other points has also been an Assistant Professor at California State College‚ a Lecturer in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School‚ Professor and

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