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    emphasize on saloon ballads and swing tunes. Several of his songs in this genre hit the singles top 10‚ including “Learnin’ the Blues” (#1‚ 1955)‚ “All the Way” (#2‚ 1957)‚ “Hey! Jealous Lover” (#3‚ 1956)‚ and many more. (Rolling Stone Magazine) Sinatra also saw some TV time in the early ‘50s. Probably one of his biggest roles was in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955). He saw some downfall in his singles around 1959. They were failing to reach the top 30‚ so he left Capitol Records to set out and start

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    References: Life Application Study Bible. (2011). Grand Rapids‚ MI: Tyndale House. Campbell‚ T. H. (1955‚ June). Paul ’s ’Missionary Journeys ’ as Reflected in His Letters. Journal of Biblical Literature‚ 74(2)‚ 80-87. doi:10.2307/3261307 Canyon‚ U. G. (n.d.). Paul ’s Journey ’s. Phonenix‚ AZ‚ USA. Retrieved May 03‚ 2013‚ http://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/bib105_paulsJourneys

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    Although there was a significant amount of progress for African American civil rights by 1960‚ there were still problems to be dealt with: only 800‚000 out of 20 million black people were registered to vote in 1963‚ although it was a slowly rising number; in 1962‚ President Kennedy signed an executive order to end discrimination in federal housing construction‚ but there were still black ghettos in cities such as Chicago‚ Detroit and New York. Firstly‚ despite the high enlistment rate of black

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    If everyone lived inside of society‚ everything would be different. Everyone would all think the same way and it would get boring. Martin Luther King Jr. was a social outcast because his vision didn’t stick to the normal ways of society and now because of him people of color and white people can use the same water fountain‚ live in the same building‚ and even live in the same house without being looked down upon. Albert Einstein‚ also a social outcast‚ couldn’t accept the way things were being taught

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    company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the company as a franchise agent in 1955. He subsequently purchased the chain from the McDonald brothers and oversaw its worldwide growth.[7] A McDonald’s restaurant is operated by either a franchisee‚ an affiliate‚ or the corporation itself. McDonald’s Corporation revenues come from the

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    up with a plan to recruit more nurses. There had also been several series of legislature from previous years that was not passed. Finally on August 9th‚ 1955 President Eisenhower signed into law an Act that provided commissions for qualified male nurses in the military. This allows the Army to commission its first male officer on October 6th‚ 1955. Lieutenant Edward T. Lyon became the Army Nurse Corps’ first male nurse. This Bill allowed male nurses to be commissioned on a regular basis in the military

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    On December 1‚ 1955 Rosa Parks‚ active NAACP member‚ headed home from work on a bus like any other day. In Montgomery‚ the first 10 seats on city bus were strictly reserved for white people. Blacks were allowed to sit in those first few seats as long as a white person was not in the need of it‚ but if a black person was sitting there it was their job to get up to accommodate that white person. Rosa Parks however‚ refused to move even after being threatened to have the police summoned to arrest her

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    for the Vietnam Era. This music gave people sanity. It gave sanity especially to the people who were fighting in the war. The Vietnam War was a long and painful war‚ and in the end‚ North Vietnam won the war. The Vietnam War started on November 1st‚ 1955. This war is called the Second Indochina War because it is a direct result of the First Indochina War. The First Indochina War started in 1946 and ended in 1954. This war was between France and the communist forces. At the time‚ the communist forces

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    After Marty gets sent back to 1955 he meets Dr. Emmet Brown when he was a little younger. When Marty tries to go back to the present time he can’t because he needs 14‚000 gigawatts in order for the time machine to work. Doc tries to help fix the time machine to get Marty back to his

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    Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and after earning a divinity degree there‚ attended graduate school at Boston University‚ where he earned a Ph.D. in theology in 1955. At Boston University‚ he met Coretta Scott; they were married in 1953. King’s rise to national and international prominence began in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ in 1955. In that year‚ Rosa Parks‚ an African American woman‚ was arrested for refusing to obey a city ordinance that required African Americans to sit or stand at the back

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