#ALSIceBucketChallenge The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a recent Internet trend‚ which has been done by anyone from locals‚ to famous individuals. Pete Frates‚ who is a former basketball player for Boston College‚ started it. He was diagnosed with ALS two years ago. Everyone from your next-door neighbor‚ to Justin Timberlake is accepting the challenge. The main purpose of this movement is to raise awareness and money for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)‚ also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Amyotrophic
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Al Capone was an iconic figure of an American gangster. Capone‚ otherwise known as “Scarface” or “Snorky”‚ killed around 300 people. They called him “Scarface” because of the scars he acquired during a fight‚ but he usually lied and said that they were from the war. He was called “Snorky” on account of the way he dressed. Al Capone was a notorious gangster‚ but like everyone else‚ fell from power. Early life Capone was born poor in Brooklyn‚ New York. His mother‚ Teresina Capone‚ was a very religious
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deforestation of many trees and plants in forests. Because of these negative actions‚ glaciers have been melting‚ animals have been suffering‚ and storms have been increasing throughout the whole world! Noticing such a drastic problem‚ former vice president Al Gore‚ created a very popular film in order to spread awareness throughout the United States. This film was called An Inconvenient Truth‚ and to pursue the audience to see the damage caused by global warming he uses ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos to effectively
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Al Capone Biography Mrs. McDonagh By: Jackson Spriet Alphonse Gabriel Capone (also known as “Scarface”) was a successful Italian-American gangster who obtained fame during the Prohibition Era. Capone was a big part of organized crime in Chicago and was the leader in the Italian Mafia. However‚ this would all change for Capone when he was arrested in 1931. Al Capone’s father Gabriel Capone left Naples‚ Italy and arrived in New York in 1894 alongside many other poor Italian immigrants‚ but the
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that kept coming up was Al Capone. They questioned him but he had an air-tight alibi. He was in Miami at the time trying to escape Chicago’s brutal winter with his family so he was safe. McGurn‚ the brains of the operation‚ also had an alibi stating that he had been at a hotel with his blonde girlfriend from 9p.m. on February 13 through 3 p.m. on February 14. Nobody was ever tried or convicted for the murders. Though the police did not possess enough evidence to convict Al Capone‚ everyone knew that
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] “Ich bin ein Berliner” By John F. Kennedy Summary On June 26th‚ 1963‚ John F. Kennedy delivered his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech to the city of West Berlin. Kennedy gave this speech while the world was in the midst of the war between communism and democracy‚ to a people who had been torn and divided because of it. The Berlin Wall had been erected only two years prior‚ and thousands of relatives and loved ones were separated. Kennedy commends the Berliners for their bravery and steadfastness
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"An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore‚ is a documentary that tells us about Global Warming. As he tells us‚ Global Warming involves solar radiation‚ in the form of light waves‚ passing through the atmosphere. Most of this radiation is absorbed by the Earth and warms it. Then some of the energy is radiated back into space‚ by the Earth‚ in the form of infrared waves. However during this process‚ some of the outgoing infrared radiation is trapped by the Earth’s atmosphere and warms it; which in return
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This experiment performed by the males and females in the Tuesday 4pm psychology lab‚ was done as a replication of the Halari et al experiment in London in 2005. The hypothesis in the original experiment was that women will‚ on average‚ gain a higher verbal fluency score than men and men will‚ on average‚ perform more accurately than women on mental rotation. The results obtained from Halari et al’s (2005) clearly prove this hypothesis correct. The results also rejected the null hypothesis which
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a heightened appreciation of each text? William Shakespeare’s‚ King Richard III‚ and Al Pacino’s film‚ Looking for Richard‚ conversely explores key ideas and values portrayed in both texts. The comparison accentuates the deep similarity of ideas and values‚ which drive the two texts. Villainy and power in King Richard III highlights the values of moderation and stability of the Renaissance age. Similarly‚ Al Pacino examines these same ideas to emphasise the values of creativity and artistic integrity
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Assignment 02 Unique number: 308605 PPPS03E/101 Student Number: 7746-4621 How corporate social responsible my organisation is? Our vision is being a world-class‚ global business engaged in multi-functional forestry‚ revolutionising the integration of forestry and communities. Our mission is driven by unwavering commitment to facilitate the sustainable economic empowerment of communities and the alleviation of poverty through. Implementing the needs driven interventions; and becoming a partner
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