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    Will Pyron Mr. Gribou Music 1240 13 April 2015 The Interview of Jimi Hendrix Good afternoon readers, this is Will Pyron reporting in. I have just been hired by Rolling Stone magazine to be the world’s first Time Traveling Interviewer/Reporter and by using the patented Rock’in, Every Now and Then® time machine. I am going to go back to the year 1970 to interview Jimi Hendrix. I chose to interview Hendrix, because Rolling Stone considers him to be the greatest guitar player of all time and the 6th

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    “Dick” Winters, (January 21, 1918 – January 2, 2011). Major Winters was an officer in the United States Army and a decorated war veteran. He is best known for commanding Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, during World War II, eventually being promoted to the rank of Major in command of the entire 2nd Battalion. As first lieutenant, Major Winters parachuted into Normandy in the early hours of D-Day, June 6th, 1944, and fought across France

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    Brown v. Board of Education: A Slow Yet Significant Step Towards Equality On May 17, 1954, in the landmark court case of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously outlawed racial segregation in public schools. The court decision, in light of the continual endeavor of African Americans to ban racial segregation, came hardly surprising. Still, the prohibition of school segregation stirred up hot debates throughout the country and was met with strong opposition, violence, and

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    The Reconstruction Era

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    Established in the latter part of the 15th century, slavery was first introduced by Portuguese tradesman as an economic force based on free labor. In the course of 400 years, 600,000 slaves were brought to North America from Africa. With the adaptation of technology such as the Cotton gin became prominent in the agricultural regions of America, the slaves became an established economic factor. The market for free labor was territorial as over 90% of the total slaves were in the South. The Reconstruction

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    The Battle Of The Bulge

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    Panzer Army in the center and the 7th Army in the south. The German War Machine included 400,000 troops, 1,400 tanks, 2,600 artillery pieces and 1,000 aircraft in comparison to the thin American line consisting of four American Infantry Divisions and one Armored Division totally 83,000 men and 400 tanks (Farrell 37). Despite an overwhelming Wehrmacht (German Army) and their extensive knowledge of terrain and an elaborate plan to infiltrate Allied lines through the use of espionage,

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    mini series directed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. The series aired on HBO in 2001 and is based on the book by Stephen Ambrose by the same title. The series follows the formation, training and combat action of Easy Company (506th Infantry, 101st Airborne). The story starts in Camp Toccoa, Georgia then follows the company in England, France, Belgium, Germany and eventually Austria. There are hundreds of men in the company but the series focuses on roughly two dozen men. The research for the movie

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    soldiers who train once a month. Battle assemblies conduct two to three weeks of annual training each year. Regardless of component, the Army conducts both operational and institutional missions. The operational Army consists of numbered armies, corps, divisions, brigades, and battalions that conduct full spectrum operations around the world. According to the U.S. Army website, its primary mission is "to fight and win our Nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range

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    Steven Allan Spielberg is known worldwide as a screenwriter, producer and one of America's most successful filmmakers. His 20 highest-grossing films grossed 8.45 billion. He is a three-time winner of the Oscar Award, twice as the best director of the year. Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati (Ohio, USA), the son of a Jewish family engineer Arnold Spielberg and professional pianist Leah Adler (nee Posner).The mother had to give up the idea of her career for education of four children

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    Throughout the creation of mankind and the discovery of North America, society constructed a term that classified human beings into categories. This term is used to identify people based on their physical characteristics, ancestry, or historical background. The term is race. Often, it is used in a negative connotation because of the belief that there is a superior race. However, settlers like John Smith who sought to prosper decided since they had the most power and were the “chosen ones”, they should

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    For this action he was stripped of his command over the 2nd Armored Division in Africa. Patton could not stand to have a soldier that was anything less than what he thought a true soldier should represent. Patton believes that “courage and fear are phenomena which can be governed by training and discipline,” and that fear

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