who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries‚ Barack Obama. My reasons are patriotic‚ political and personal‚ and the three are intertwined. All my life‚ people have told me that my father changed their lives‚ that they got involved in public service or politics because he asked them to. And the generation
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“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. “ – Martin Luther King Jr. We all cast a shadow. Most of which are bigger than we really are. We make the shadow as big as we can by feeding it. We use grandiloquent words to try and flabbergast our fellow classmates and teachers. We boast that I am great at everything we do. We say we have a black belt in Taekwondo. We say that we’re the captain of the basketball team. We try to hide behind our so called SWAG. We have a shadow
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Obama motivation speech Good evening my fellow people. I Barack Obama stand before you today to give you the reasons why you should vote for me in the upcoming elections. We are just a few days away‚ and the tension is in the air. Many of you are still undecided whether to vote for me‚ or my competitor Senator John Mc Cain. As a young boy that was born and grew up on Honolulu‚ Hawaii‚ I always dreamt that this would come. When people would ask me what I would want to be when I grew up‚ I always
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President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave‚ NW Washington‚ DC 20500 Dear President Barack Obama‚ I‚ Malcolm Little‚ am writing to you on behalf of the community of people of color. There are many pressing issues in the United States of America concerning inequality for minorities. I would like to specifically address issues concerning African Americans and Pan-Africanism‚ the current War on Drugs‚ and also educational empowerment. Before I tackle the matters above‚ I would first
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11/8/12 AP government Position paper I believe that Barack Obama is the most qualified candidate to run for the president of the United Sates of America. I believe that his plan of moving forward will indeed move us forward. Obama has interesting views that I agree with‚ and you should consider them‚ as did I. The first issue is innovation‚ more jobs and reviving manufacturing and the auto industry. Since Obama became president both manufacturing and the auto industry have had a
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Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ ( listen); born August 4‚ 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office‚ as well as the first president born in Hawaii. Obama previously served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School‚ where he was the president
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and Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X have the key to its freedom. Similar to society‚ Martin Luther King Jr. is locked in jail and uses his situation to write “Letter from Birmingham Jail”‚ a letter pushing for the end of racism. The other civil rights leader‚ Malcolm X‚ is building support to fight discrimination with “Racism: The Cancer that is Destroying America”. It takes a lot to convince people to think a certain way‚ let alone to act out on behalf of those thoughts. Martin Luther King
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The philosophies of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr had an impact on transcendentalism and the Civil Rights Movement. Henry David Thoreau was a leading philosopher and transcendentalist in New England. His most famous work in 1849‚ Civil Disobedience‚ took transcendentalism and implemented into society. Thoreau’s civil acts were fundamental due to the fact that he did not integrate violence or fear. Thoreau’s defiant actions‚ involving governmental issues‚ landed him in jail because
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were treated more favourably by law courts. In contrast‚ black Americans lived in poorer areas‚ had less money‚ and fewer job opportunities. In addition‚ they would often be victims of racist abuse from members of the public. I have chosen Martin Luther King as the most significant event of the 20th century in my opinion because he firstly affected millions of people lives and quite frankly changed they way in which we live to day. Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta on January 15th 1929. His father
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assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the three thousand dead from 9/11‚ these two major events have drastically changed‚ not only American history‚ but as well as the lives of many Americans themself. Both King and the Trade Center can be seen as symbols of a new hope and peace for many Americans but tragically‚ the fall of both these symbols results in chaos for this progressing nation. With the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Guardian’s “After the death of Martin Luther King: chaos
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