Once again‚ it is a week of new names and experiences for me to learn about. Prior to reading Leonard Peltier’s story I may have viewed his name with a hashtag in front of it and briefly clicked on it‚ but I didn’t delve any deeper than that. Per usual‚ I have a surplus of questions and fewer answers. For example‚ I know President Obama didn’t commute his sentence‚ but I want to know why. Is it just my perception‚ or has the fight for Civil Rights among the‚ African American population been more
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people’s Concert‚" the author‚ Leonard Bernstein‚ explains the meaning of Classical music. Mr. Bernstein believes that people do not understand the exact meaning of classical music and they describe any music that isn’t pop or jazz as a classical music. He started his argument by giving examples about the mistakes that people do when they describe music and he found that the reason why people use inappropriate words to describe music is because people do not know why people started to call some certain
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Who Is To Blame? As humans in search of friendship‚ love‚ and care we sometimes change ourselves in order to fit in with the people around us. Have you ever caught yourself copying your friends just because you did not want to be made fun of? Humans do not want to feel alone so we follow others even if their actions are wrong. If a person is born and raised in a neighborhood full of criminals that are stealing and killing every day‚ that person will eventually accept these actions as a way of life
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Kathryn Rodgers Take-Home Essay‚ Test 1 October 20‚ 2014 The Bull Lyre and The People of Ur The Bull Lyre was discovered in Iraq in 1929 by the archeologist‚ Sir Leonard Woolley. In 1926 Leonard Woolley had been elected by the Pennsylvanian and British museums of Archeology and Anthropology to lead an excavation that would examine the surrounding area of the mysterious ziggurat of Ur. Along with his team of excavators‚ Woolley was the first to unearth the “Royal Cemetery” of Ur‚ a mass grave
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Leonard Pitts criticizes McBudget’s argument by making emphasis on the missing points that were not included on the budget. He considers McDonald’s budget as offensive and controversial. Also‚ Mr. Leonard believes that it is impossible for a millionaire company advice the poor people to continue surviving to poverty. In his opinion‚ the poor people cannot live on the totally unrealistic McBudget. According to McBudget the value for health insurance that nowadays everybody must have is 20 dollars
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Truthfully‚ no one likes to take the blame for something they didn’t do‚ and John Proctor from “The Crucible” shows that people should be responsible for their actions‚ not someone else’s. “I speak my own sins: I cannot judge another”‚ this is what John says to Abigail‚ a girl in Salem who has an obsession with him. Not only that‚ but she was one of the main causes for the witch trials that occur in Salem at this time. What John is saying is that he will not blame others for his own actions; he will
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boy yelling "cowabunga" is a war cry that unleashes chaos in the classroom. "Suddenly we are faced with a little gang of ninja’s trying to kick and punch each other in the face‚" and when they are told to stop‚ the boys reply‚ "The turtles do it so why can’t we?" This is just another example of how children apply behaviors observed on television programs to their real situations (Brady 50). The worst cartoon for children is probably South Park. This cartoon has many accounts of violence in it. There
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president?John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday‚November 22‚1963 at 12:30 pm in Dallas‚Texas.While riding in a presidential motorcade to a plaza‚Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy.He got arrested for the state crime‚ but he was never prosecuted due to his murder by Jack Ruby.The assassination of John F. Kennedy was unjust because he took the US economy out of the recession and he worked for the Civil Rights for African Americans;however‚people believe that the assassination of John F. Kennedy
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fail.” John Green‚ Looking for Alaska. This is when Miles realizes and decides how he can accurately explain his friends and how he learns to understand Alaska’s behavior especially. In a way‚ he is somehow describing
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The two lovers Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet were found dead on Thursday‚July‚18. The two lovers were already married by friar Lawrence behind their families backs. Both of the families are devastated that Friar Lawrence did not tell them anything about him marrying their children. the two families find it kind of suspicious that friar Lawrence would give Juliet a simple solution instead of telling her to do the right thing and tell her parents. they think that maybe he did to protect
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