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    Celine Dion Celine Dion is the most influential Canadian singer. She was born on march 30 in 1968. She started to sing at the age of 10 and by the age of 12 she was discovered by a local manager-producer René Angélil. He helped the young singer by mortgaging his house to fund her 1981 debut album called La Voix du Bon Dieu. When she first started‚ she didn’t know how to speak english. To be famous around the world‚ she knew that she had to learn how to speak english and that she had to refined

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    Jesse Owens was a very well known African American track star. He competed on some of the highest levels. Jesse Owens was an important role model for many Americans during the Civil Rights Movement because of where he came from and how he lived his life‚ he broke several world records in high school and college ("Owens‚ Jesse.")‚ was a very well known Olympian who won 4 gold medals in the Berlin games of 1936 ("Jesse Owens Biography") and even though Jesse was seen as an unequal to the caucasians

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    On May 4‚ 1929‚ philanthropist and style heroine Audrey Hepburn was born near Brussels‚ Belgium. Unlike many other Hollywood film stars‚ she was not born into success. She had an arduous childhood‚ some of her younger years being spent hiding from the Nazis. Despite the suffering Audrey and her mother endured‚ she quickly blossomed into a beautiful young woman with a life overflowing with success. Across the world‚ people strive to follow in her chic and polished footsteps. Hepburn was‚ and remains

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    In the blossoming era of the blues only three short years after it went mainstream the “Empress of the Blues” began her career. She was a strong black woman with a rags-to riches story who was able to rise from performing on the streets to be the most successful blues singer in her era. Her music and life is filled with sex and violence and while many blues singers have come and gone‚ very few ever made such an impact with such a short career as she did. In 1923 her first recordings‚ “Down Hearted

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    Influential Powers Kaplan University Influential Powers In summary‚ the article from the Kaplan Online Library I read stated that social influence and power strategies have existed for as long as humans needed to interact (Raven‚ 2008). Bertram Raven‚ the author‚ states that people have utilized formal or informal power strategies and influences with varying degrees of knowledge and effectiveness of doing so (p. 10). Raven cites his original statements in his paper from 1959 regarding bases

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    differently. Such is the case for immigration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Due to the time in which these schools of thought came to be‚ ideas are carried off from one decade to another. The New Left is possibly the most influential school of thought in that it acknowledges everything stated in the latter two‚ while it also brings up new concepts. Predominantly in the period of 1910- 1945‚ Progressive historians were basically influenced by the Progressive movement. Ideals

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    Many different causes lead to the revolution‚ but all of the built up anger stemmed from Britain’s imposed laws. These laws were the Sugar Act‚ the Stamp Act‚ and the Intolerable Acts. In addition to these is the Boston massacre‚ one of the most influential moments of the revolution.

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    Karl Doenitz was one of the most influential naval officers throughout Germany’s warfare history. Doenitz‚ younger of two sons‚ was born to Emil Doenitz and Anna Beyer on September 16‚ 1881‚ in Grunau‚ Germany. His dad was a well-known engineer‚ and his mother stayed home to care for both him and his brother. At the age of three‚ Karl’s mom fell ill and died on March 6‚ 1895. Out of the respect for the boys‚ and the love Emil had for his wife‚ he vowed he would never get married again. This

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    Anne Finch: An Influential‚ but Minor Woman Poet Anne Kingsmills Finch is one the most significant published women poets prior to the Romantic Period. Her poetry clearly reflects her experiences and struggles along her witty personality and her candidness; her diverse work in poetry not only documents her personal struggles‚ but the social and political turmoil during that era. Undoubtedly‚ Finch’s greatness is due to the encouragement that she received from her family‚ husband‚ friends‚ and colleagues

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    proven to be a highly influential political too. Its influence able to be recorded from the early days of radio where Hitler and the Nazi’s used it as a tool to deliver propaganda to mass audiences during world war two‚ to the modern day where talk-back programs and shock jock radio presenters are contributing to the shaping of not only political campaigns but our entire political climate. Since the very beginnings of radio broadcasting‚ radio has been used as a highly influential political tool.

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