The American Legacy Foundation is a rare example of a public charity being born with a silver spoon. Even before it began operating in 1999‚ the foundation was bequeathed more than $1 billion from the settlement of a massive lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of 46 states against the country’s major tobacco companies. That money is part of billions of dollars that the tobacco companies paid‚ basically as reparations‚ for the damage their products wreaked on the public. The foundation was conceived
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Legacy remains an integral aspect of the African American community as the honoring of generational influence has proved to be instrumental in racial identity and communal solidarity. From seventeenth-century slave novels progressing to contemporary black literature‚ artists use their social status and nobility to act as a vehicle for elucidating the younger generation of the predecessors that challenged racism and societal discrimination‚ hoping for future generations to carry that baton. African-American
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n | American Beyond the Color Line | | | Lashekia Stanley | 3/7/2013 | | Marlon Marshall in my opinion wasn’t serious about the juvenile program. You can tell that he really loved what he do as in selling drugs. Marlon loved how much money that was coming in everyday; he isn’t ready to give up that kind of lifestyle just yet. He basically states that he’s still selling drugs while he’s in the juvenile program. I think he wants to do better in life‚ but the only thing he knows
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Ernest Hemingway‚ A legacy for American Literature Some say that Hemingway’s personal life should disqualify him from the literature canon. They state that his torrent affairs‚ his alcoholism‚ and his mental state should preclude him from entry into the canon. These are the very things that help to make Hemingway a unique writer. Although his genre is fiction‚ he relies on his real life experiences with the people and places that he visited. The very definition of the literary canon disputes these
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Legacies and Differences of Cultural Change There were many Legacies that are still in existence today‚ because the early encounters with Native Americans and Africans‚ this civilization is still in existence. The encounters caused the Native Americans to adopt and integrate their traditions‚ cultures and societies and tribes of cultures and were integrated with the way of life of many cultures. Architecture‚ food and music were all resonates of legacies from the early encounters. The legacies
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Beyond Beyond Fashion There is a trick of my writing teacher: When we finish reading an essay‚ first he asks: "What is it about?" We answer‚ then he asks:" If that’s not what the essay is about‚ then what is it about?" So we answer again‚ striving to squeeze out every drop of intelligence out of our brain cells. Repetitively‚ after we are willingly tortured by this same question for three more rounds‚ the essence of the essay shows up. This was exactly the same feeling I received from the exhibition
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Truth Beauty in American Society In the today’s society‚ Americans‚ especially women‚ are eager to be slimmer because thin defines the American standard of beauty. For example‚ advertisements‚ called Lipo-6‚ are used to promote the use of diet pills that burn body fat. Naomi Wolf ’s "Beauty Myth" explains about how women are obsessed about their appearance and are dying to look better. “[C]ontemporary standards of feminine beauty have devolved to a point that can only be described as anorexic
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canal because of financial problems. Not only that‚ but yellow fever and malaria flooded the campgrounds with the aid of mosquitoes‚ which made the workforce unbalanced (Avery). Then in 1904‚ the Americans were to take over under the leadership and guidance of President Theodore Roosevelt. Even then Americans had a difficult time with construction. Moreover‚ with the canal built‚ it’s more sufficient then sailing around the tip of South America. Even today‚ the canal is used several times a day to
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Medici Legacy: Renaissance Ideals and Scientific Revolution The Medici legacy brought a reform of new ideas by allowing great minds to express and contemplate the universe. The Renaissance allowed the Medici to fully grant a new form of thinking that led to effects that have split the church and science defining a new era of human worth. The Medici wealth and taste in art endorsed the ideas that many thought moved away from the Vatican Church orthodox way of thought and caused such controversy for
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fortunate to bring about a real and lasting legacy. The key may be to remind myself to consistently ask this guiding question. I’ll admit that sitting here‚ writing this‚ I’m a bit starry-eyed. As a 23 year-old‚ husband and father to one‚ everything is still so new and life seems to be racing in fast forward. There is so much life left to live‚ and yet I’m learning quickly just how fast life can past. I consider this opportunity to imagine and prepare for the legacy I hope to leave a privilege. I wish to
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