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    Although President Kennedy wasn’t in office for very long‚ his actions in and out of the whitehouse are legendary. When President Kennedy took the oath of office in 1960 he wasted no time in cleaning up America. Several bills were enacted in President Kennedy’s tenor. A lot of the major ones had to do with crime control. A lot of President Kennedy’s bills were targeted at organized crime. Bill S1653 was singed into action on September 13 1961. This was an interstate travel bill. The bill made it

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    Mendoza‚ Alianne Gayle L. BSA 1-13 BIOGRAPHY OF THE PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTS Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (Term: January 23‚1899-April 1‚ 1901) Emilio Aguinaldo was born on March 23‚ 1869 in Cavite Viejo (Kawit) to Carlos Aguinaldo and Trinidad Famy‚ a Chinese mestizo couple who had eight children‚ the seventh of whom was Emilio. The Aguinaldo family was quite well-to-do‚ as Carlos Aguinaldo was the communities appointed gobernadorcillo. Emilio became the Cabeza de Barangay of Binakayan‚ a

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    IF I WERE PRESIDENT By: Shawn C. Yelton June 25‚ 2012 FINAL REPORT If I were President‚ I would end corporate welfare. I would also work to disband the Department of Energy (along with the Department of Education and many other federal departments). There is absolutely no reason for us to be dependent upon OPEC. There is enough gas and oil under the soil of Alaska (not to mention the Dakotas and the Gulf of Mexico) to meet the energy needs of the United States for the next 150-200 years

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    October 19‚ 1961)‚ better known as Sergio Osmeña‚ Sr.‚ was a Chinese Filipino politician who served as the 4th President of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946. He was Vice President under Manuel L. Quezon‚ and rose to the presidency upon Quezon’s death in 1944‚ being the oldest Philippine president to hold office at age 65. A founder of Nacionalista Party‚ he was the first Visayan to become President of the Philippines. Prior to his succession to the Presidency in 1944‚ Osmeña served as Governor of Cebu

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    President James Madison Georgia Military College 30 August 2014 President James Madison was born March 16‚ 1751 in Port Conway‚ Virginia. James Madison was the 4th president and also known as one of the founding fathers of our great nation. James Madison’s father‚ James Madison Sr.‚ acquired his wealth through inheritance and also by his marriage to Nelly Conway‚ the daughter of a wealthy tobacco merchant. Surrounded by seven younger siblings who looked up to him‚ James Madison

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    President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin D. Roosevelt both played a significant role in promoting economic opportunities during the Great Depression based on their own political ideologies. For example‚ Herbert Hoover’s reacted based on his conservative viewpoint and President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a liberal viewpoint. Both presidents succeeded in promoting economic opportunities during the hard times‚ but I believe that President Roosevelt’s actions succeeded in advancing economic opportunities

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    There has been a spotlight on Reginald Denny‚ a white man‚ from the Florence and Normandie riots‚ but not Fidel Lopez‚ also a man of color‚ who endured the same amount of pain and torture from the mob and was not mentioned in the media. In “The forgotten victim from Florence and Normandie” Steve Lopez sought to bring an example of the little importance of minorities and long-term effects on the man who was brutally beaten because of the lack of authoritative assistance. I agree with the message of

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    ‘THE FORGOTTEN SOULS’: QUESTIONING THE MASCULINITY OF ZIMBABWEAN HISTORY. Paper presented at OTAZI conference on documentation and memorisation of dark histories‚ Bulawayo‚ 7-8 December 2012. Prisca Nyaude Research and Public Archives section‚ National Archives of Zimbabwe. E-mail: priscamarova@gmail.com. And Brenda Mamvura Records

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    Old Age - Golden Age?

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    Is old age really golden age? What are its pros and cons? Old age in human beings is the final stage of the normal life span. In most contemporary countries 60 or 65 is the age of eligibility for retirement and old-age social programs. Thus retirement is the golden age when senior citizens can escape the daily grind of work and the routine chores‚ moreover they spend their time doing gardening‚ taking holidays and chatting with friends. Many developed countries have certainly the greatest respect

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    Industrial Age to Knowledge Age YourFirstNameYourLastName University title ITEM 1: PART 1: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SETTING: DRAWING ON THE ACTIVITIES AND REFLECTIONS The world is at the cusp of an information age. These changes have catapulted the industrial age into a knowledge age. This transition from the industrial to the knowledge age has come with its inherent challenges. This article

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