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    Time Management Action Plan

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    to complete and seldom enough time. Effective and efficient time management is something that I have room for improvement on and have great use of. I started by taking a time management survey. #1 Accept Problem My results from this diagnostic survey on time management assured me that my time management skills are low. The survey revealed that I am on the bottom of the scale of time management. There were two sections of the survey. One section measured your time management skills in an office

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God

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    Reading Guide Preview Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston About the Author Although Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) died penniless and was buried in an unmarked grave in a racially segregated cemetery‚ she had a remarkable career as a novelist. She was also a pioneer in documenting African American culture. Hurston grew up in Eatonville‚ Florida‚ a fully incorporated African American township‚ and studied at Howard University. In 1925‚ she moved to New York City‚ where she became

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    The President Must be a President Before They Are President An analysis of perpetuality in politics 2300 years ago‚ Aristotle wrote about the importance of character to persuade in his book Rhetoric‚ writing‚ “We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is‚ and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided” (181-182). This has been proven true since then‚ particularly in politics‚ where certainty is impossible

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    Our motives for invading and expanding are examined as we examine our successes throughout the New Era and the World Wars. America had wanted to expand outward and was imperializing surrounding countries for economic and political domination. There were three major terms of U.S. foreign relations. The first is the Monroe Doctrine of 1823‚ which expanded hemispheric relations and created an agreement of not invading European countries as long as they don’t invade

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    Almost 200 years ago‚ the United States counted themselves‚ revealing that only about 10% of the whole black population were free. However‚ were they really free? Were blacks that weren’t enslaved unrestrained and unimpeded? Comparing the free blacks in the North to the whites‚ free blacks were not actually free. They were not permitted political privileges‚ had only some social rights‚ and were still restricted in economics and education. To begin‚ although blacks were free‚ they were not permitted

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    them to a civil war? Women were mad about having so little rights‚ slavery was being questioned‚ and the political parties couldn’t seem to agree. Women in the United States had little rights‚ but women in the North had more‚ but not where it really counted. In the North‚ women had ownership of their wages and property (Holt‚ pg. 427). New York demonstrated giving women more rights‚ than other Northern states soon followed. Both women in the North and in the South thought marriage was like slavery

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    of thinking it prompted‚ scholars and philosophers emerged who thought of innovative ideas which prompted and affected the course of the democratic revolutions in England and the United States. Their innovative ideas began a new age‚ where philosophers laid down old principles and began a new age where they challenged old accepted beliefs. They extended the boundaries of the known world in what became known as the Age of Exploration. Out of all this came new philosophies about government‚ human nature

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    colonization as a peaceful movement‚ but reality tells a different a tale. The colonization of America‚ for example‚ resulted in massive deaths‚ rapes‚ and pillages of Native American tribes and communities who had inhabited the land centuries before the Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower. Much like the Native Americans‚ Africans were subject to this same type of abuse. Affluent European nations such as Britain‚ Germany‚ and Italy took it upon themselves to claim all the sovereign countries of Africa with

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    We Were Dancing Dove

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    Intro “We were dancing-” Dove recounts her past in a simple statement; however‚ this interrupted thought is more than it seems to be. It introduces the audience to the action and setting of the poem.. The first aspect that makes the statement important is the use of the plural noun “we”. “We” indicates that Dove wasn’t alone; she was with some type of partner‚ probably a dancing partner. It also bring the audience into question. Is the audience her dance partner? Or are we merely peering into the

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    comes back as the new south‚ a racist Jim Crow south. Jim Crow laws were laws that discriminated against free blacks. These laws took away their civil rights. Laws that did not allow you to vote‚ would not allow them to have jobs‚ had curfews‚ and every horrible thing you can imagine. Civil rights are the rights you were supposed to have under the constitution. All your freedoms and the amendments were out the window if you were black. The KKK is a terrorist organization created to terrorize free

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