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    The March From Selma to Montgomery and The Impact It Left In Birmingham Alabama‚ a small little church that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders exploded. On September 15‚ 1963 a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services. Four young girls were killed during the explosion and many others was badly injured. Outrage over the incident with the four young girls’ deaths sparked violence that clashed between protesters and police. The march from Selma to Montgomery is important because

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    The cautious policies that were executed by President John F. Kennedy and his administration were directly influenced by all the pressures that surrounded Kennedy and‚ thankfully‚ prevented the cold war from escalating. Kennedy had to utilize all the hard lessons provided from the first and second World Wars in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes‚ to instead make a strong and good decision as leader of our country. Some of the pressures that Kennedy was under were; to first avoid engaging

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    Brent Staples memoir Parallel Time: Growing Up Black and White‚ he wrote a selection called Black Men and Public Space. Throughout the essay Staples talks about the injustice and racial profiling that he receives as a black man in society. This causes him to change certain aspects that he does on a daily basis to make the people around him feel less threatened. Unconsciously‚ Staples presents ways on how he and society systematizes him and other black males. The very first paragraph of the selection

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    absentee ballot‚ and sent it in time to vote. However that experience lead to the questions I hoped to answer in my project. My goal was to interview students and ask them if they registered to vote and how‚ did they encounter any problems‚ and if after registering to vote they did end up voting. I felt it would be interesting because‚ during an election year‚ the youth vote is highly talked about and why the youth has the lowest turnout rate out of any voter age demographic. There are three types

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    The Black Death Did you know that the black death killed over 25 million people? Well now you do‚ the black death was a plague that started in the early 1300’s and is still around today. The Black death was a plague that wiped out millions of people and is the greatest catastrophe in human history. Although the black death sounds like a terrible plague that only harmed people it also did some good too. Cowen‚ Mary Morton. "A World Turned Upside Down." Holt McDougal Literature: Grade 7. S.l.: Houghton

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    Have you ever heard of the Black Death? A lot people are familiar with the horrible plague that spread across Europe from early 1348 to late 1349. However‚ most do not know just how big of an effect it had on the nation of Europe. Over time‚ the disease caused famine‚ mass death in highly populated areas‚ and even led to rebellion and uprising from poor people‚ or “peasants”. The disease ravaged the continent of Europe for around two years‚ yet it left tens of thousands of casualties in its wake

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    America's Voting System

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    Millions of Americans every year choose not to vote and for many of them it’s because they don’t think their vote matters. They may be right! Even many of the votes that are cast each year end up having no bearing‚ and it’s because of the way America’s voting system is set up. In the US we use a system called the electoral college. It’s based on electors who are selected by the political parties in each state. When election day comes each elector‚ 538 in total‚ casts their vote for who will be the president

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    Advance Security Measures

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    ADVANCED SECURITY MEASURES IN A WIRELESS LAN [pic] KAKATIYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCES WARANGAL. AUTHORS: Rathipally Santosh kumar EMAIL:santhosh_rathi@yahoo.co.in III/IV B.Tech. (cse) M.R.Aditya Pranav kumar EMAIL:mr.adityapranav@yahoo.co.in III/IV B.Tech. (cse) ABSTRACT Wireless local area networks (wireless LANs‚ or WLANs) are metamorphosing the landscape of computer networking. The use of mobile computing devices

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    accorded the highest priority by Indian Railways and all possible steps are undertaken on a continuing basis to prevent accidents and to enhance safety. Strategy of the Indian Railways for accident prevention include progressively achieving reduction in accidents attributable to human failure by way of introduction of modern technologies and devices and mechanization of maintenance. Safety measures taken by the Railways include timely replacement of over-aged assets‚ adoption of suitable technologies for

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    allowed to interbreed with inferior races. Many ‘ordinary’ Germans shared these ideas and there was little evidence of opposition to persecution from German civilians. There was also a public participation in persecution‚ if an ‘ordinary’ German believed someone to be racially impure they would turn them in to the Nazis. Some ’ordinary’ Germans even benefitted from the persecution of minorities‚ especially because the majority of Jews were earning a lot of money‚ and because of these persecutions the Jews

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