was the first black baseball player to play in Major League Baseball.What would professional sports be without all the greatest black athletes such as Michael Jordan‚ Muhammad Ali or Jackie Robinson? Today the NBA is filled with a large majority of African American players. The NBA would be nothing without those players. Muhammad Ali was a boxer‚ businessman and social activist for equal rights for all races. He wanted equal opportunities for all men‚ regardless of color‚ to be successful. Michael
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Muhammad Ali is considered by many to be one of the greatest boxers of all time. He fought inside the ring‚ becoming the only three-time lineal heavyweight champion‚ and outside of the ring for racial and religious equality. One of the greatest fights in his life‚ however‚ was his battle with Parkinson’s disease. Ali was only 42 years old when he was diagnosed with the disease in 1984. Though the cause of Parkinson’s is not often known or is attributed to genetic factors‚ doctors have attributed
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MUHAMMAD ALI ALINA VILLAREAL JUNIOR DIVISION 1525 WORDS December 12‚2016 lle‚Kentucky.Cassius was named after his father‚Cassius Marcellus clay‚Sr. Cassius later on in his life changed his name after joining Nations of Islam and was converted to Sunni Islam in 1975. He was hated very much little did he know what he did would make him famous. His courageous act got him in jail and a lot of people to dislike him. He made a stand in what he believed was right and what was wrong and he inspired
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than just changing hair dye. Leon Gast’s When We Were Kings reminds us of what a unique sports figure Muhammad Ali was‚ and still is. This entertaining documentary shows the boxer at one of the most celebrated moments in his career‚ dancing around the press‚ and preaching black pride with the same skill that he once used dancing around the ring. The film focuses on the 1974 bout between Ali and George Foreman‚ the infamous ’rumble in the jungle’ in Kinshasa‚ Zaire. Narrated by Norman Mailer
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513 520 516 480 481 Marks in Subject 155 159 166 113 152 126 115 122 152 165 Marks for Arabic Elec. or Fazil-e-Arabic 20 Marks for Hafiz-e-Quran 20 15 10 20 30 20 Marks for NCC/WG Marks Net Marks Deduction 734 714 654 650 645 639 635 633 632 631 Muhammad Tahir S/o Qari
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For example‚ he states‚ "White America too will be utterly destroyed by her own sins....and Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that as it was divine will in the case of the destruction of the slave empires of the ancient and modern past‚ America’s judgement and destruction will also be brought about by divine will and divine power” Malcolm encourages his audience
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behaviour of Miss Rehana‚ claiming her freedom. Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies is a moralistic tale about the meaning of freedom‚ the story centralizes interaction between Miss Rehana‚ a woman applying to leave her country for England‚ and Muhammad Ali‚ a trickster who offers to aid women like Rehana in their appeals for a price. First ‚we have to take into account the expectation about woman in Islamic culture ‚ where men are mostly chauvinist. Women are not expected to choose
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revealed that she actually doesn’t want to go‚ rather that she’s forced to go because she has to marry the man waiting for her in England. A man working at the embassy‚ Muhammad Ali‚ helps her‚ thinking of possible ways to get her to London‚ but when she’s rejected she only smiles and leaves. The conflict in this story is that Muhammad Ali thinks he is doing Miss Rehana a favor by going out of his way to help her immigrate to England‚ when in reality he’s only helping her cover up the fact that she doesn’t
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Muhammad Ali‚ once known as Cassius Clay Jr‚ was the face of professional boxing during the 1960’s. As an amateur‚ Ali “won a gold medal at the age of eighteen at the 1960 Olympics in Rome” (Hauser). After the Olympics‚ Ali turned pro; he then challenged the champion at the time‚ Sonny Liston‚ for the heavyweight title. Before fights Ali would write poems about what he was going to do to his opponent. On one of his poems
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father painted billboards and signs‚[6] and his mother‚ Odessa Grady Clay‚ was a household domestic. Although Cassius Sr. was a Methodist‚ he allowed Odessa to bring up both Cassius and his younger brother Rudolph "Rudy" Clay (later renamed Rahman Ali) as Baptists.[7] He is a descendant of pre-Civil War era American slaves in the American South‚[8] and is predominantly of African-American descent with Irish and English ancestry.[9] Clay was first directed toward
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