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    supported African American progress in the military. Some whites have tried to prevent progress while most whites have not cared one way or the other. The white officers who commanded African American troops have tended to be the most supportive of African Americans within the military. These officers have frequently commended African American soldiers‚ sailors‚ and airmen for their bravery and heroism.(Moskos‚ Charles C. "Success Story: Blacks in the Military." The Atlantic. May 01‚ 1986. Accessed September

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    Pericles’ Funeral Oration Why do we fight wars if they just cause death and sorrow? This famous speech was written by Thucydides‚ but given by Pericles sometime during Athens’ Pelponnesian War. This kind of speech was generally given at a mass funeral‚ to honor many who had died fighting in the war. Typically‚ funeral speeches at that time were very somber and mournful‚ but Pericles changed that. In this speech‚ he created this idea of national pride and faith in society‚ by using many hopeful

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    right to vote‚ (Richardson & Luker‚ 2014‚ p. 19). Another example of nonviolent protest can be seen in the Greensboro sit-in‚ where four members of the NAACP Youth Councils waited to be served at the lunch counter in a Woolworth‚ (Richardson & Luker‚ 2014‚ p. 20). The police were called‚ but refused to arrest the four students because they had not been violent‚ and within a number of days‚ hundreds of students began to protest the segregation not only of retail stores‚ hotels‚ beaches‚

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    My Funeral Eulogy

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    A eulogy that I would fear to be read at my funeral would be as follows. “Number 17 was my daughter. At least she biologically was. She thought she was kind to me‚ she thought I didn’t see through her insincere comments. She always asked me questions about her mom and I’s life‚ or commented on the

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    During Operation Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn (OIF/OND)‚ over 2.1 million American military troops have been deployed‚ 44% of whom have children (DOD 2010a)‚ resulting in nearly 2 million children experiencing stressors of parental deployment (DOD 2010b) to a war zone‚ whereby a parent may be either wounded or killed (Link‚ Palinkas‚ 2013). Children are moved between 6 to 9 times during their school careers‚ following their parent as they are re-stationed from base to base. When a child is repeatedly

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    1) What is Cloud computing? Cloud computing: is a model of computing where firms and individuals obtain computing power and software applications over the Internet (the cloud)‚ rather than purchasing their own hardware and software. Data are stored on powerful servers in massive data centers‚ and can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection and standard Web browser. Cloud computing consists of three types of services: * Cloud infrastructure as a service: customers use processing

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    This is a book about Tiananmen Square protests. The author is Feng Congde and the publishing house is Green Field Bookstore. This book likes a dairy of Feng. He recorded the events which happened between 15th April to 4th June. The author wrote this book because he hopes that people can know more about Tiananmen Square protests. There are many versions of story of Tiananmen Square protests in the world. The author had experienced this event so he wants to tell the people the truth. This book begins

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    its liberation war and like then (1971). The Shahbag area — the epicenter of the protests — has been now christened as “Projonmo Chottor”; the place of protest against the war criminal and overall corruption of Bangladesh‚ the place where people protested through different cultural performance and movement. Shahbag Square in Dhaka had a festive look‚ with people holding various cultural events as part of the protest. Groups within the throng sit in circles‚ singing‚ reciting poems. Slogan is all

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    A Protest from a Bushman

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    201005894 | ENG 373 ASSIGNMENT | BOIKANYO MAKAUSU | 1. A PROTEST FROM A BUSHMAN POEM THEME: SADNESS The theme of the poet A Protest From a Bushman is SADNESS. The poet is expressing disapproval or objection to something‚ thus how his fellowman treats them and undermine the tribe‚ culture & tradition. TONE MORAL INDIGNATION The tone of the poem is typically a reactive emotion to anger over perceived mistreatment‚ insult or malice. It is somehow a sense of injustice. The bushman is

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    to die-I expect the summons soon-I have endeavored to discharge all my official duties faithfully-I regret nothing‚ but am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.” Taylor then lost consciousness and died. His funeral took place on July 13. Nearly 100‚000 people stood along the funeral

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