family moved to the South Shore section on the South Side of Chicago. After Maurice graduated from high school‚ he attended Crane Junior College‚ and as his love of music grew‚ he went to the Chicago Conservatory of Music. Verdine White Earth Wind and Fire’s Facebook page announced the passing of their founder‚ on their Facebook page‚ Earth Wind and Fire. "My brother‚ hero and best friend Maurice White passed away peacefully last night in his
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Ellen Gould Harmon White‚ née Ellen Gould Harmon (born Nov. 26‚ 1827‚ Gorham‚ Maine‚ U.S.—diedJuly 16‚ 1915‚ St. Helena‚ Calif.)‚ American religious leader who was one of the founders of theSeventh-day Adventist Church and whose prophecies and other guidance were central to that denomination’s early growth. Ellen Harmon sustained a serious injury at the age of nine that left her facially disfigured and for some time unable to attend school. Her education ended with a brief period at the Westbrook
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Paper 2: White Collar Crimes and Consequences Financially motivated crimes‚ also known as white-collar crimes‚ are a pervasive problem that seems to not attract much attention. Unlike its counter part‚ blue-collar crimes‚ white-collar crimes are not exactly exciting or interesting. Blue-collar crimes like murder‚ shootings‚ rape and robbery are often very horrific‚ thus they receive a great deal of attention. Some say that the effects of these crimes tend to be exaggerated. A researcher in this
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The Devil in the White City Larson‚ Erik. The Devil in the White City. First Vintage Books Edition. New York: Random House‚ Inc.‚ 2003. Print. The Devil in the White City is a literary nonfictional novel written by Erik Larson set during the construction of the Chicago’s World Fair in 1893. The Chicago Fair was created to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s arrival in the new world. It was a cozy home to an intelligent architect‚ Daniel Hudson Burnham‚ and a mass murderer
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White Furniture Company was the “oldest maker of fine furniture.” This phrase was reiterated over and over again by longtime Mebane‚ North Carolina residents. This company employed 1 out of 20 Mebane residents and was a driving economic force in the town. White ’s “regulated many of the rhythms of the town-opening and closing time‚ lunchtime‚ weekend and holidays.” For this reason‚ when White Furniture Company closed the whole town was effected. Many individuals‚ some who had been with the factory
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Evan Allen 1/16/13 White Women While white woman have been on this world born just as man was‚ people still disrespect them in many ways. Racism and discrimination still exists to this day “In my opinion‚ had I been African-American‚ they would not have fired me‚"(Shira Hedgepeth‚ former director of academic technology at Winston-Salem State University)‚ According to Shira Hedgepeth she worked at an all black college for three years (August 2008 to July 2011) she got fired one day due to the University
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The White Tiger – A Review “Neither you nor I speak English‚ but there are some things that can be said only in English.” - Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga was born in Chennai during the mid-1970s to parents who hailed from a small city in Karnataka. He was welcomed into a very well educated and well-connected family. He kept the name of his family flying high when he ranked 1st in the State of Karnataka in the SSLC exams in 1990. He also went on
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Knights of the White Camellia was a secret organization of white men formed in the lower Southern states in the Reconstruction period. They were considered much more conservative than the Klan and they were generally less violent. Its members were pledged to support the supremacy of the white race‚ to oppose the uniting of the races‚ to resist the social and political seizing of the carpetbaggers‚ and to restore white control of the government (Cantrell‚ 2005). The Knights of the White Camellia was
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various unearned white privileges in her autobiographical article “White Privilege‚ Color and Crime: A Personal Account.” She illustrated the white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that one white person could count on cashing in each day. White people have these privileges given to them by the society in which they live in. The same society taught them to be ignorant and unawareness of these privileges. This system of unearned privileges established by white individuals made
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Decisions won’t always be as simple as chocolate or vanilla; there will be times when decisions can change the path of life. In Ridley Scott’s film White Squall‚ characters made difficult decisions that could’ve changed the path of their lives. When decisions are hard to make‚ there are three ways to get on the right track: make good choices that will make us happy‚ not making decisions based on fear or anger‚ and finding a support system that will understand us. Life won’t always be perfect‚ but
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