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    boycotting‚ picketing‚ and nonpayment of taxes according to dictionary.com. Two authors write about civil disobedience in their pieces. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ who was a civil rights activist and minister‚ according to biography.com‚ wrote Letter to Birmingham Jail. He writes this letter to fellow clergymen while he is in jail about why he is sent to the jail. Henry David Thoreau‚ who was a philosopher‚ journalist‚ and poet‚ wrote his essay‚ Civil Disobedience. Thoreau writes this while in jail because

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    the war was still going strong and Japan wasn’t showing no sign of surrender. The war was costing a lot of American lives‚ the end was nowhere near‚ and Japan citizen were loyal to their Emperor and the war. So‚ I would be explaining why I think bombing Hiroshima with was the right thing to do to end World War II. The US was entering its third year in the

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    In 1963‚ strong opinions on black civil rights were being brought forth in Birmingham‚ Alabama and other southern states. Some of those strong opinions was from 8 clergymen‚ who spoke out against King and his ideas on desegregation and equality for all. King felt the need to defend his ideas of the men he thought were supportive of the civil rights cause. In King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”‚ he uses rhetorical strategies such as appeals to ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos‚ as well as diction‚ syntax

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    CASE STUDY 1 : BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 1) Identify some of the micro operations to be found at the airport. For each one : a) identify the transforming and transformed resources b) state which is the predominant transformed resource c) describe the output of each micro operation and say who you think its customers are MicroOperation | Transformed Process | Transforming Process | Output | Customer | Output | Baggage Handling | Bag | Baggage Handler | Reach Destination | Passenger

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    How far did the role of the USA in South East Asia change in the years 1950 – 1963? The USA were involved in South East Asia between the years 1950 to 1963 mainly because of the growing threat of communism spreading through Indo-China (Vietnam‚ Laos‚ Cambodia‚ Burma‚ Malaya‚ Thailand). This thirteen-year period saw two changes in Presidency and increased military involvement in Southern Vietnam. The ‘Domino Theory’ was a speculation many presumed would occur in Eastern Europe and South East

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    Analysis: Letter from Birmingham Jail S- To state the reason Martin Luther King Jr. is in Birmingham for attempting to change segregation as social justice and his use of civil disobedience as an instrument of freedom. O- King was incarcerated for expressing his rights as a US citizen and now writes a letter to explain the injustice A- The Alabama Clergymen and U.S. Citizens P- To announce that without forceful direct action‚ equal rights and true civil rights may never be achieved S- Martin

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    Untold The Sixteen Street Church bombing was a tragic day many lives were ruined that day‚ four girls were killed and 14 injured in a bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham‚ Alabama. Riots break out‚ and two African-American boys‚ Virgil Ware‚ 13‚ and Johnny Robinson‚ 16‚ are also killed. In all‚ at least 20 people are injured from the initial bombing and the ensuing riots. (CNN). The four little girls that died in the Sixteen Street Bombing but no one really recognize Johnny

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    The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Written By: Nicholas Phandoe World War II began on September 1st‚ 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and then ended on September 2nd‚ 1945 with the signing of the surrender documents from Japan aboard the American Battleship USS Missouri. During the course of 1941 when the US joined WWII‚ and 1945 when it ended over 291‚000 US American

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    Although Americans thought the camps were a good idea at the time to prevent another attack Japanese Americans. Did President Roosevelt take his powers to an extent? Briefly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ authorities took Japanese Americans to the 10 different stations called internment camps. Out of 112‚000 about 70‚000 were Japanese Americans. This living situation lasted about two years. They had no privacy whatsoever. Each housing

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    Simran Mistry 4/5/17 Reading response: Describe the successes of the Civil Rights movement from 1963-1965. Select one success and justify why it is the most significant victory for Black activists. The successes of the Civil Rights movement from 1963-1965 can be seen through the demonstrations in downtown Birmingham‚ the march on Washington‚ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most significant success in this time period out of these three is most likely the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because

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