During the Leadership Legacy Series for values and beliefs‚ students from the Honors Leadership Program gathered to learn more about what each person values. Everyone was presented with the same list of values and we were told to rank those values. It was very difficult for everyone to decide which things in life were the most important to us and which things could be cast aside. If that wasn’t hard enough‚ the next job was assigning a dollar value to each of our values. While some people decided
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The author of The Columbine Legacy Rampage Shootings as Political Acts has stated numerous purposes within this article. The first purpose of it was to explain about the events of Columbine and attempt to show the reader how this has created a large impact resulting in more wide spread school shootings taking place. With this the author tries to convey to the reader particular characteristics that differentiate a school rampage shooting from a wide range of other school related incidents where violence
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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus Abstract After many centuries‚ a lot of controversy still surrounds Christopher Columbus. He remains to be a strange figure in history regarded as a famous explorer and a great mariner who made many discoveries in his days. Other people still regard him as a visionary and a national hero while others chose to remember him as a brutal and greedy person who used the rest of the humanity for his own selfish gains. Despite the fact that there have been protests in
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with people that are not his friends‚ like conspirators plotting against him‚ Acts One and Two were all about Caesar. Caesar does die in Act Three‚ but the conflict of Brutus/Cassius and Antony/Octavius really centers upon the meaning of Caesar’s legacy. Brutus and Cassius‚ being conspirators‚ want everyone to forget about Caesar and continue on with no king. Antony
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The Legacy of the New Deal During the time of the Great Depression there were many people in dismay. The United States population‚ as a whole was pessimistic and negatively perceived the situation of the country. Once elected president‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt started changing the perspective of the country one piece of legislation at a time. Roosevelt was able to turn the negative believes the people once had into many positive and optimistic believes through the New Deal. Although the New Deal
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Breaking Barriers: Patricia Bath’s Legacy When Patricia E. Bath was an intern for Harlem Hospital‚ she observed that half of the patients were blind or had some sort of visual impairment. However‚ at Columbia University‚ where she was completing a fellowship‚ she noticed there were significantly fewer blind patients. It is important to note that Bath was also the first African American to train in ophthalmology at Columbia University. Her dedication to the field‚ and eagerness to learn led her to
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Assignment #1: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Book Précis HST1305: U.S. History‚ 1865 to the Present Professor. P. Blackmer March 7‚ 2012 Albert Lee In Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee‚ Dee Brown relies on many eyewitness accounts from Native Americans‚ letting them tell their side of how the West won. Several reviewers consider these eyewitness accounts the most important part of the book. In Browns thesis he states that “out of all these sources of almost forgotten oral history‚ I have tried
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Nicole Landis 4/21/13 Pandora’s Legacy Mr. McLaughlin Throughout life people are provided with lots of advice. Whether they take the advice or not‚ they should always listen. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe teaches the lesson on why you should always listen to advice that is given. The advice given may not always be the best‚ but it should be considered even if it is not used. The book shows that if you really listen to the advice given‚ it will most likely help in the long run. Faustus
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INTRODUCTION In the years of 1975 to 1979‚ Pol Pot became the head of the most murderous revolution of our time. His communist regime with the Khmer Rouge created one of the largest‚ yet greatly under-looked atrocities of the time. The genocide in his Democratic Kampuchea has created a death toll that could be as high as 3‚000‚000 people‚ or 25% of the country’s population. (Chandler‚ 1999; Cambodia Genocide) In an attempt to refashion his country‚ "people were simply sacrificed to our struggle
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Northfield‚ Minnesota‚ resulted in the capture or deaths of several gang members. They continued in crime for several years‚ recruiting new members‚ but were under increasing pressure from law enforcement. On April 3‚ 1882‚ Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford‚ who was a member of the gang living in the James house and who was hoping to collect a state reward on James’ head. The approach of the American Civil War loomed large in the James-Samuel household. Missouri was a border state‚ sharing characteristics
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