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    Stacey Robinette Professor Mary Downing Gardner English 111 17‚ January 2013 My Online Assessment When taking the Smarter Measure assessment I was surprised at what my strengths and weaknesses were. My strongest section was internet competency. Reading recall was the section that was the weakest. I never thought these two would be accurate. I am thirty eight years old‚ and when I attended high school computers had really just entered the world of technology. Over the years computers have really

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    Why voting right should be reformed College students are among the largest group of people that would be affected most by the new voting rights laws. Most college students enter college at age seventeen so once it’s time to go to the polls they would just be turning eighteen which is the age you are allowed to vote. That seem as if it wouldn’t be a problem but a lot of college students go out of state for college so the new voting right act would make it difficult for them to register to vote

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    continues today. In our nation‚ the struggle for the right to vote continued for over a century after the U.S. Constitution granted voting rights to white male landowners. It took over a century before American women were given the right to vote. African-Americans have had the constitutional right to vote for 130 years‚ but it wasn’t until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before these rights were enforced by federal authorities. Eighteen-year-olds were granted the right to vote

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    Financial Policy Responses 3 Maintaining Fiscal Control While there may be some dispute over what constitutes an optimal long-run fiscal stance for developing countries there is little‚ if any‚ about the importance of ensuring that this stance persists over time.12 A number of papers have studied variations in the persistence of periods of fiscal stability‚ contrasting the experience of middle-income and low-income developing countries with those of the OECD.13 Fiscal outcomes are found

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    Mindanao State University at Naawan Department of Information Technology 9023 Naawan‚ Misamis Oriental MSUN-IDS Enrolment System Arienza Farrah L. Bagares Jocebhel M. Garay Philip Cesar B. Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Software Engineering II March 14‚ 2011 MSU-IDS ENROLMENT SYSTEM Introduction Background of the Study   The discovery of the computer was the great function

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    Fundamental Differences Between the Black Abolitionists and the White Abolitionists Movements Black and white abolitionists shared common assumptions about the evil of slavery‚ the "virtue of moral reform"‚ and the certainty of human progress"(1). Schor‚ Garnet‚1877‚ & Lanngston‚ 1989). This shared understanding provided "the basic for the interracial solidarity" and cooperation so vital in the crusade against slavery"(2). (Schor and Garnet‚ 1877). But blacks also brought a distinct perspective

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    The 2008 Financial Crisis & how to prevent it from happening again The 2008 financial crisis originated from the USA‚ where large growth of the subprime mortgage market resulted in a housing price bubble. However‚ agency problems started arising that resulted in households to take on mortgages they could not afford. Eventually‚ the bubble burst led to rising mortgage defaults. Ultimately‚ investment banks like Lehmann Brothers and Merrill Lynch filed for bankruptcy‚ citing heavy losses

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    The White Porch: A Journey From Child to Woman The poetry of Cathy Song is a flowing collection of soft spoken and colorful imagery. She gently weaves her thoughts into an imaginative yet graceful story that has an overall sensual tone to it. Cathy invites the reader into her personal sanctuary of memories. She allows the reader to share in some of her most personal and critical moments in life. Some may think these things mundane but‚ when reading her poetry you can feel how utterly important

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    The Black Revolution Malcolm X‚ edited by Imam Benjamin Karim You can listen to a sound clip [requires RealPlayer‚ approx. 46sec] from this speech from Malcolm X : A Research Site. June‚ 1963 note - this speech was delivered before Malcolm left the Nation of Islam and accepted true Islam -- so his views in this speech do not reflect his own or those he held near the end of his life. Dr. Powell‚ distinguished guests‚ brothers and sisters‚ friends‚ and even our enemies. As a follower and

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