Jeannette Rankin was born near Missoula‚ Montana on June 11‚ 1880. She successfully fought for a woman’s right to vote in Washington State and Montana and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916. The first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress‚ during her two separate terms Rankin helped pass the 19th Amendment and was the only Congressperson to vote against both WWI and WWII. She died in 1973. Jeannette Rankins was a vigorous feminist ‚ a life time pacifist and a reformer for social
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how to behave. Therefore‚ creating chaos politically draws attention to make it in history. To make a legacy‚ you must be uniquely different and brave to stand up against the set rules. Women such as Jeannette Rankin is one of that stubborn and demanding person in history. Jeannette Rankin is such an inspiration for women‚ gives women hope that they can be anything they set their heart to. Jeanette was a suffragist‚ pacifist‚ and the first congresswoman. I believe that her education played a significant
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ENG.2 5/23/2011 The Road The Road was both a phenomenal book and film. While reading The Road I was both intrigued and interested as to how Hollywood would portray this story‚ and after seeing the movie I was impressed with how closely the film followed the book. Though the book was enticing and unusual the movie quickly surpassed the book in my opinion. Though the movie followed the book closely‚ there were some differences such as the amount of flashbacks the father has‚ the illusion of hope
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The author of this book most assuredly saw the novel as political‚ indeed as didactic. Oh horrors–didactic fiction‚ story told in the service of teaching something‚ didactic that worst of curse words for the bourgeois literary establishment. It is no curse word to me‚ in fact is something to be aspired to‚ and I daresay the great Howard Fast felt the same way when he was writing Freedom Road‚ first published in 1944. The foreword to the edition of Freedom Road currently in print was written by
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Slobodan Bavrlic O’Banion‚ Patrick John World History Wilsons ‘s Fourteen Points In January 1918‚ after the World War I‚ and only a year before the peace conference‚ American president Woodrow Wilson proposed the postwar suggestion that would regulate the peace after the WWI. His proposal was called Wilson’s Fourteen Points. The goal and the idea were to create the safe world that every peaceful nation will be able to live. Wilson wanted an equal and united world that will stick until the end
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The Road To Wealth The road to wealth by Suze Orman. In this book Suze Orman talks us through the steps that can lead you to becoming a wealthy person. The book helps people understand ways to save up money. She gives financial information that gives you guys the power to act in your best interest. Suze Orman’s gives out answers that help remove obstacles that retain you from being wealthy. The road to wealth is a book designed to help you take action. Chapters 1
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Rebekah Newby March 28‚ 2013 Psychology Mr. Zeglin Road to Perdition Throughout Road to Perdition‚ Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development is evident mostly through the Post-Conventional stage in the abstract moral reasoning and quest for fairness by the main characters. Throughout the movie it follows an orphan named Mike Sullivan who’s raised by a crime boss by the name of Jeff Rooney. Mike Sullivan then becomes a hit man for Jeff Rooney. One night while on the job Sullivan’s own son Mike Sullivan
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Jack Mitchell 3/7/16 Section 3 The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Book Talks The book I read was The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. This book is about the rivalry between the two groups which are the Greasers VS. Soc’s. The main characters in this story are Ponyboy‚ Johnny‚ Dallas‚ Darry‚ Sodapop‚ and Two-bit. The Soc’s puts Ponyboy Curtis and his best friend Johnny in a bad and dangerous spot. One night at the movies‚ Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri and Marcia after they got Dally‚ the toughest
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Appreciate the people you have because you won’t have them long. In the book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton a boy that was born on the wrong side of town wishes he was not considered a “Greaser” and less than his brothers. So when he gets a chance to be to feel like a “Soc” he likes it. In the middle of the story he gets close to Dally that he didn’t like that much in the beginning. Ponyboy gets close to people that he thought he’d have for a long time. The whole conflict that lead to Bob dying
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“The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” by: Malcolm Gladwell A Summary: The Tipping Point presents us mainly with three rules or characteristics of “the tipping point” or an epidemic‚ and these are: 1. The Law of the Few 2. The Stickiness Factor 3. The Power of Context The Law of the Few There are three kinds of “the few”‚ namely: Connectors‚ Mavens and the Salesmen. The Connectors are the kinds of people who know lots of people‚ and are able to get a message
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