“No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means‚ it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” George Orwell Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a protest movement which began September 17‚ 2011 in Zuccotti Park‚ located in New York City’s Wall Street financial
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In the Chapter titled American Copia 2 Marisol tells a story of how she and her boyfriend secure a grocery chart from a nearby market to be used in case Marisol goes into labor. Marisol and her boyfriend do not have a car and the hospital is too far for them to walk to. This brief story about a grocery cart was intriguing because after reading it I felt that it wasn’t just about simply stashing away a chart for future use. What caught my attention about this passage was the lack of access Marisol
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Aprie Knight Mrs. Range 4th-ENG I 1/31/16 Remember Me I chose to do my project on Tupac Shakur‚ because he is one of my many inspirations. He was mostly known for his music and making the term “Thug Life” famous. He was also known for his acting abilities. Additionally‚ Tupac was an advocate of creative arts‚ a supporter of the Black Panthers and contributed to several charities. Tupac is instrumental‚ because he spoke about real things
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leadership program that focuses on social justice‚ welcoming high school-aged youth from neighborhoods directly impacted by high rates of violence. UPM helped Dajon Ford a former high school football player get a shorter sentence and a clean record. Oakland youth residents have been insensitively incarcerated by the government when it comes to robbery. Youth have been unjustly incarcerated due to them being charged as adults rather than teenagers. This is an unfair practice because teenagers have not
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INVESTIGATING THE SCALES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE THROUGH GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS FOR AIR TOXICS IN WEST OAKLAND‚ CALIFORNIA (Fisher et al‚ 2006) The paper under analysis characterizes the spatial point pattern of air toxics in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated Environmental Justice area of West Oak-land‚ California. Integrating a GIS framework and an interdisciplinary statistical technique called Ripley’s K-function
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Oakland‚ California) Many individuals cheered President Trump’s decision to put a hiring freeze in place for the federal government. Those doing so often fail to realize the far reaching effects of a decision like this. In fact‚ Bloomberg reports this freeze may make the current backlog for Social Security Disability Insurance Claims and Appeals even worse. Currently‚ the backlog stands at 526‚ but fewer employees could extend this time frame. Sadly‚ California leads the list
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Bostick US History (Period 4) May 31‚ 2013 Black Panthers One of the biggest contributors to help develop civil rights in the United States was the Black Panther Party. This civil rights movement created by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland‚ California of 1966 was considered to be the “greatest threat to the internal security of the country” (US History 13.3). This party was created to specifically focus on self-defense especially from police brutality. Section 1: Background information:
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1997) In the movie‚ using “Moneyball” theory to win The World Series was the direction of the team‚ trying their best with assertive personality to reach the goal was the intensity‚ and the determination that they never give up before turning the Oakland Athletics around was his persistence. The motivation Beane installed in the organization led it to a successful baseball team during the season and won lots of games. Without motivation‚ the team might give up early and could not have went deep into
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This story takes place in San Francisco‚ where the Tang people worked for the Demons. Americans were referred to as Demons and Chinese people were referred to as Tang people. Only men could go workin San Francisco‚ while mothers stayed in the MIddle Kingdom taking care of their families. Men sent money to their families‚ and only got to see them about every five years. Moonshadow meets his father and the rest of the company. He meets some of his family members and his father’s friends. He learns
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teams to be publicly owned fans would have to show equal support for every team. This make sense because a team like the Dallas Cowboys‚ who are already worth $4 billion‚ would sell more stocks than the Oakland Raiders ‚ who are only worth $1 billion. The reason that is incorrect is that even the Oakland Raiders‚ making the lowest reneuve of any team‚ still makes more than enough money to support their franchise coming from their fans. The Raiders make 285 million dollars a year coming from fans in some
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