Paul Robeson was a famous African American athlete‚ singer‚ actor and advocate for the civil rights of people around the world. He rose to prominence in a time when segregation was legal in America and black people were being lynched by white mobs‚ especially in the South. Born on April 9‚ 1898 in Princeton‚ New Jersey‚ Paul Robeson was the youngest of five children. His father was a runaway slave who went on to graduate from Lincoln University‚ and his mother came from a family of Quakers
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Paul Allen co-founded the Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates (1955- ) ‚ adapting existing programming languages such as BASIC‚ which was originally written for mainframe computers‚ into software suitable for personal computers. Such innovations enabled the software industry to become established and expand as a viable business‚ strengthening the American economy and creating new groups of computer entrepreneurs and users. As personal computers became more affordable and accessible during the 1980s
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appearance of the abortion legislation for instance in times of election. Ever since the early 1900 almost every state had its own designed anti-abortion laws. Abortion was prohibited in more than 30 states and legal under specific circumstances in about 20 states. Circumstances that could make it legal for a woman to get an abortion could be pregnancies resulting from rape‚ incest or rare cases of date drugs. In 1973 one of the most controversial and famous cases of The Supreme Court‚ the decision
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Kerry James Marshall is a very prestigious man from Chicago‚ IL. He’s known for creating paintings that speaks to America from the voice of the unknowns or those not often heard. Marshall is known from creating the painting “Mansions” inspired by the projects and public houses located in Chicago and Los Angeles. He looked to explore the difference of talents that come from those environments. Like the success and failures he wanted to identify and challenge the stereotypes of public housing. When
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Derrick Rose or Chris Paul? The data we will be using to compare these two point guards will be ppg (points per game)‚ assist‚ steals‚ turnovers‚ field goal percentage and awards. Why? Because these categories of data are the things that make up a point game and most of the time their objective in the game to do good in one of those categories. The reason we chose these to pgs is because they are bot dominant at their position and now its time to see who is better. In the 2008-2009 Nba season
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Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum‚ August 15‚ 1914 – November 26‚ 1996) was a well-known American graphic designer‚ best known for his corporate logo designs. He designed many posters and corporate identities‚ including the logos for IBM‚ UPS‚ ABC and Westinghouse. Paul Rand portrayed abstract ideas with clarity that resonated with viewers. In his work‚ Rand recast modern art as something innocuous for the average patron‚ and no longer a radical political manifesto. This adoption of modernist ideas
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Flag (I2 - Germany) Germany’s Great Seal (I3 – Germany Seal) United States of America’s Flag (I1 - United States) United States of America and Germany: Friends For Real? The United States of America‚ also known as USA‚ is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America‚ where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington‚ D.C.‚ the capital district‚ lie between the Pacific and Atlantic
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Paul Revere Paul Revere was born on Jan. 1‚ 1735 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. His parents were Paul Revere (Apollos Rivoire) and Deborah Revere. Paul Revere’s only sibling was Deborah. As a boy‚ Paul Revere went to an “Infant School” until he was 7 or 8. Then he changed schools and went to “North Writing” (an all boy school). When he was 15 his father died and he had to take care of the family. He took over the family business as a gold and silversmith. For extra money he took the job of a
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of Jean Nidetch. Jean Nidetch was an overweight homemaker who became a slim‚ successful business woman by being the founder of one of the biggest weight loss programs‚ called “Weight Watchers.” With her personal experience and struggles of being overweight‚ she developed a program to help and teach other people how to do it themselves. I chose to research her because some of my family relatives and friends have done weight watchers in the past and lost a lot of weight. I love to learn about different
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passion of Christianity and his perspective of the future centred in eschatology. Paul writes following his first letter‚ he was preoccupied with the second coming of Jesus. He writes a second Eschatology letter (Thessalonians 1:1-7a). He writes many letters to the Thessalonians concerning eschatology‚ asking them to pray and may Jesus always be with them. Paul also reveals “the mystery of Christ” in Eph. 3:4. Paul believed to understand the eschatology you have to also understand Christology. Paul’s
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