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    “Rights of Man”‚ America is a place of diversity where everyone is different yet we are still equal which is still very true today. America is a place where you can be who you want to be since it is a place where you can be who you are without being unaccepted. While in today’s world this is true‚ there are still people out there that have their differences creating problems against this. However‚ we are still as diverse as ever and even with our differences like people who have money and those who

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    2+2=5. This type of powerful‚ oppressive government is not achievable today because people are too aware of how technology works‚ and what the government is doing. In 1948‚ when Orwell wrote 1984 technology was just starting to advance and people were still worried about machines becoming intelligent and self aware. Today people know that way of thinking is outrageous. Technology today surrounds society almost as much as it surrounds the Party members‚

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    The novel Medea by Euripides is a ancient Greek tragedy based on the myth of Jason and Medea. The hole story is centered on Medea’s actions and even more so on the theme of betrayal. When Jason leaves Princess Medea for another Princess named Corinth‚ Medea becomes vengeful. She enacts her revenge by killing Jason’s mistress and‚ her own children. After all this she leaves to go to Athens Greece. The main focus is on women killing their own children; a term for killing your own child is called maternal

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    that changed the course of humanity. They don’t have to be professionals‚ highly educated‚ or from wealthy‚ noble families. They need only the drive to fulfill a purpose‚ prove a point‚ and change lives. Henry David Thoreau‚ a well-noted polymath of the 1800s‚ and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ a pivotal African-American activist‚ spoke about the necessity for change in their time in influential ways. In Thoreau’s essay‚ “Resistance to Civil Government‚” he responds to the Mexican-American War and

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    credit to Sherlock Holmes than he deserves. The fact is civic management has been around since biblical times. I do agree‚ however‚ that the logical techniques of investigation that Sherlock Holmes practiced is as valid and relevant today as it was nearly a century ago. First Sherlock Holmes was not the initiator of public administration‚ like I said earlier managing people‚ helping to solve their problems‚ and settle disputes has been around since biblical times. For example‚ Moses was managing

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    The book 1984 depicts a utopia built on a world of fear and corrupted power. While the book seems like a false thing‚ 2016-17 has shown that objects of this book are in the world today. When it comes to power and people‚ 1984 is slowly becoming a reality. This is shown in today’s technology‚ in Trump’s Immigrant ban‚ and in the ‘sin taxes’. While 1984 seems like a weird book that most every highschooler reads‚ this fictional story is slowly becoming America’s reality. Everyday‚ little by little

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    Twenty-century music for Tuba: Analysis and Pedagogy methods of Solo Tuba of the master recital selected repertoire Chapter 1 Even though the tuba was not known as a solo instrument for another century‚ the bass tuba in F was created by Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht and Johann Gottfried Moritz (1777–1840) in September 1835. It was decided that a big bass instrument was required‚ to produce low harmonics in the brass family. Since then it has been used as a bass part to support and accompany other

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    There are many people in society today that think the same way that Atticus Finch does about Tom Robinson‚ a black male accused of raping a white woman‚ in Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Atticus believed that although Robinson was African American‚ he deserved a fair trial and not to be killed‚ despite what the other white people were saying in the town. Atticus thought that Tom had just as many rights as the Caucasian people. The towns’ people felt as though Tom was beneath them and

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    community colleges” (Finnigan‚14). According to Smith’s "Are HBCU ’s Still Relevant?”‚ “Most of these institutions are located in the former slave states of the Confederacy‚ they make up a diverse set of institutions in nineteen states‚ the District of Columbia‚ and the Virgin Islands.” Historically black colleges and universities were also established in a time of segregation and restricted educational

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    Discussion Guide for Gandhi Video: (Complete all 17 of these questions to answer prior to class‚ please.) 1. What was the principle or personal lesson that Gandhi taught his Christian clergyman friend‚ from the clergyman’s own law? Gandhi taught many lessons to his Christian clergyman friend‚ but the principal was probably that the lesson taught in the bible need it to be implemented in real life‚ on each act of our life and not only be preach. 2. What was the irony of Gandhi fighting for Indian

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