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    “Amazing” by Kanye West describes my summer and my personality for a few reasons. First and foremost‚ the mood of the song reflects my personality to a decent extent. For instance‚ this song has a slower‚ more “chill” feeling to it. As a person‚ I am predominantly calm‚ but have occasional moments of intensity. The Young Jeezy verse reflects the intense side of me‚ as the verse suddenly lashes out at you with wrathful‚ raspy vocals‚ while my calm side is reflected by the Kanye West verses‚ put out in

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    What were the tactics of Cesar Chavez and to what degree were they successful? Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker labor who was a leader and civil rights activist. Later‚ in 1962‚ Chávez founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA)‚ later renamed the United Farm Workers (UFW)‚ which became the voice of migrant farm workers throughout the United States. Cesar Chavez tactics were successful because his childhood experiences with discrimination made him get the courage to fight for their

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    publics perception of the controversy can become skewed. This could become something that escalates into the public taking action on a controversy that has not been reported correctly‚ example‚ the Tawana Brawley. This was a story about a African American teen from New York ‚ who claimed she was gang raped by a bunch of white men. The story caused an immediate public outcry for immediate action and justice. After a long process and separating fact from fiction‚ it turned out that the teenager lied

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    The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history for many different reasons. The first reason is because it is a Civil War. Anyone who died in the war would for the most part‚ be an American. This is the reason this was considered a brother v brother war because you could have families who would be split on certain issues and end up having siblings who would fight each other in battle just because of their different issue. The second reason is due to a mix of old-school battle tactics

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    the known world in what became known as the Age of Exploration. Out of all this came new philosophies about government‚ human nature‚ and politics. Of course‚ the philosophers had irreconcilable differences‚ but they shared one common goal: to apply reason to all aspects of life. Their ideas and principles deriving from the Enlightenment would continue to affect Europe and the rest of the Western world for decades and even centuries to come. The Enlightenment began from some major ideas put forth

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    There were people who wanted the power that was implicated in being a part of the Committee of Public Safety and others who wanted the Terror to end and were completely against the Revolutionary government as a whole vying for the removal of Robespierre. Others thought it would be best for him to be removed in order to keep themselves

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    Crockett died or if William B. Travis was placed on the funeral pyre alive‚ one of the most important mysteries is just why the people of the Alamo chose to stand and fight. To understand why the people of the Alamo fought‚ one must first examine the reasons for the Texas Revolution’s occurrence. Texas’ declaration of independence was caused by several things. First‚ in 1824‚ Mexico redefined their territories‚ with Texas being bound to Coahuila and the capital going from San Antonio to Saltillo. Secondly

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    Who Were the First Americans? It has long been the belief that the first Americans migrated from Asia some twelve thousand years ago by crossing the then frozen Bering Strait. In 1932‚ stone artifacts were found alongside mammoth bones in Clovis‚ New Mexico that supported this theory. In recent years‚ however‚ new evidence and discoveries challenge those beliefs. These new discoveries pre-date the Clovis artifacts and are located in different parts of North and South America. Along with those new

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    contains nicotine‚ a highly addictive drug‚ smokers are aware in this. Even people who haven’t been addicted to smoking at all‚ why do they take up smoking? What are the reasons? Why they engaged there selves to this kind of habit? Curiousness convinced me to study this problem. One of my objectives in this study is to know how important that reasons of smokers why they used to link and addicted in this habit. It seems obvious that smoking is very bad‚ and people tell us not to smoke. Yet in everyday

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    Washington in the Whiskey Rebellion or Lyndon Johnson in the late 1960s‚ brought unification to all US citizens; Northerners and Southerners But Lincoln’s goal was not galvanized by equality‚ though he did detest slavery‚ Blacks were (at least at first) a secondary issue. Blacks were mobilized as a military need. Emancipation‚ Lincoln saw‚ would further undermine the Confederacy while providing the Union with a new source of manpower to crush the rebellion. Lincoln goal was to change the government from

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