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    The legacy of Jackie Robinson goes beyond the April 15‚ 1947 afternoon at Ebbets Field‚ when the Brooklyn Dodger infielder became the first black in the 20th century to play baseball in the major leagues. He changed the sport‚ and he changed the attitude of a lot of people in this country‚ Jackie Robinson fought for all the people that were fortunate‚ a lot of them are‚ especially the minority guys‚ to be able to play in the major leagues and the impact on the people of color today. Robinson was

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    living absent of their biological fathers. Beginning in 1960 with 8% of children living without their biological father‚ that percentage has continued to increase. The issue of absent fathers has raised many questions as to what effects this has on individuals and society. Absent fathers (a term that can consist of many different things) can have a profound effect on the development of their daughter’s relationships‚ especially when it comes to their relationships with other men. While the research

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    we have been looking deeper into the equity and ethics regarding racism in Canada and the United States of America. The two things that stuck out the most to me we reading the Jim Crow laws and watching the “Class Divided” studies performed by Jane Elliot. These caused me to think deeper‚ and question my actions‚ thoughts and words‚ along with those of the people around me regarding discrimination and racism. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United

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    to Romeo and Juliet respectively. As only children‚ their parents are naturally protective of them – Juliet’s father‚ especially. Towards the beginning of the play‚ in Act 1‚ Scene 2‚ Paris asks Capulet for permission to marry his daughter. In Elizabethan times (when the play was written and performed)‚ it was the job of the father to give away the daughter‚ as if she were a present or his property‚ rather than her own person. Rather than just give away

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    In The Odyssey‚ Odysseus is in correlation with the journey of his father. In this‚ Odysseus is developed from a childish‚ passive‚ and untested boy‚ to a young man preparing to stand by his father’s side. This is directly connected to the voyage of Odysseus‚ in that they he lead to the same finale‚ and are both stepping-stones towards wisdom‚ manhood‚ and scholarship. It all starts out happily enough.The mortal hero‚ Peleus‚ is getting married to the lovely sea goddess‚ Thetis.It’s shaping up to

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    Memory and history share a unique dependent relationship with one another‚ and through the study of Mark Bakers’ The Fiftieth Gate along with Christopher Koch’s Highways to a War it becomes evident that the combination of history and memory brings meaning of past events to the present. French historian Pierre Nora once said that ’history is a representation of the past; memory is a perpetually actual phenomenon‚ a bond tying us to the eternal present’‚ therefore implying history is a record of

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    culture since it’s creation in the 1590’s. Some interpret the love between Romeo and Juliet as something to strive for‚ but they’re wrong. Romeo’s love towards Juliet is completely vain‚ and Juliet’s love towards Romeo is just as superficial. Romeo and Juliet could not be in love‚ Juliet was much too young‚ Romeo’s idea of love was outer beauty‚ and they barely knew each other. Juliet’s father introduces his daughter through his conversation with Paris where he says‚” My child is yet a stranger

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    For centuries‚ the idea of god and his relationship with human beings has been altered and adjusted according to the beliefs of different people. God has been molded to fit the beliefs of Christianity‚ Islam and redefined in Judaism. To some‚ God does not exist and to others‚ God is heaven and earth. To stoic philosophers like Epictetus‚ god is a playwright who assigns a role for each and every living thing‚ instilling himself as the rationality to all things like a conscience. To Christian‚ Judaism

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    Relationship between Antigone and Creon Antigone is a play written by Sophocles. The genre of the play that Sophocles wrote was based on tragedy. It is one of the first plays that use tragedy. In the play a young girl named Antigone‚ stands up against her uncle Creon who is the king. She stands up for her rights‚ so that she can give a religious burial to Polynices. She was a girl with a lot of will power. This essay talks about the relationship between Antigone and Creon. This essay would contain

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    in paragraph one‚ Douglass is talking about his mother death. How he was not able to have a relationship that a mother would have with their child. The death of his mother leaves him with the same emotions as if it was a stranger. The theme is dehumanizing‚ Douglass was not able to have the a relationship with his birth mother as a human or a child would be able to. This chapter shows the beginnings of slavery‚ Slaveholders first remove a child from his family‚ and Douglass explains how this destroys

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