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    overlooked in the creation of rock and roll is Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry’s signature riffs are all reminiscent of the blues guitar style and are quintessential in rock and roll. This list of artists that have covered Chuck Berry songs is endless. Baraka wrote that “cats like Stones and Beatles saying: “Yeh, I got everything I know from Chuck Berry,” is a scream dropping the final... “But I got all the dough...”(205) Guitar players such as Keith Richards and Jimmy Paige have admitted to learning

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    triumph over terrorism, paying little heed to the affectability or shrewdness of any outside strategy it may create. A victory over terrorism lies in the response of American Terrorists come in all shapes and sizes. Somebody Blew Up America by Amiri Baraka portrays specific american citizens as terrorists outside and inside their

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    The Police Division is entrusted to protect and serve the citizens of the City of Newark by securing neighborhoods, business districts, municipal assets and life, liberty and property. The Police Division currently responds to more than 520, 000 calls for service yearly. The Fire Division is also tasked with protecting the lives and property of the citizens of the City of Newark. They accomplish this by fighting fires and responding to sudden medical emergencies and exposure to dangerous conditions

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    Dr. Clack 's Doll Study

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    Education is one of the most effective ways to improve quality of life. Education is needed for expanding knowledge. It makes one’s brain healthy and filled with knowledge and new material s/he may never knew before. It is needed to succeed, reach greater heights, and find a good job. Without education, a lot of people might be beggars. Everything learnt is needed to take seriously, and valued with all respect. If people did not have an education, they might be unfortunate and yearning for it even

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    soon have to pay more for basic necessities. Also the boys and their family deal with problems appropriately, it is a very different environment and difficult to adjust to the lifestyle. What I gathered from watching the boys of Sudan and the boys of Baraka they both have similar conditions of wanting a better life, and seeking to have a better education, but not every boy in the films can be

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    Dutchman Play Analysis

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    Dutchman Dutchman written by Amiri Baraka is a perfect example of how race can play in important part in how you are perceived. In this story a powerful middle-aged white women tries to seduce a younger aged African-American man that presented himself as intelligent and well dressed. This play was written during a time when our world was very closed minded about race specifically with those who were of color. In the early 1960’s white was the major race and white americans were who were superior

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    Police these days have a bad reputation for police brutality. In the past few years, we have seen multiple police officers being fired or disciplined for unethical situations. In certain states and neighborhoods, police are the bad guys, because of how they treat the community in which they serve. This tension started to climax in 2014, as a police officer shot an African American male named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri that was when people started seeing police officers in a whole new different

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    According to Oxford Dictionary, cultural appropriation is defined as the inappropriate adoption of the customs of one people by members of a more dominant people. This can be especially dangerous due to the distortion and disconnection of a culture’s custom from its roots. However, at the same time, cultural appropriation can lead to cultural exchange which is beneficial to the overall development of the world because different cultural groups can connect to others through cultural similarities

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    Urban Education Essay

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    drastic when they became aware that 61 percent of the African American students were not graduating high school and of that percentage 50 percent ended up in jail (CITE). The drastic measures the school district took is twenty at-risk-kids are sent to Baraka School in Kenya each year without electronics, unless given permission, to live and attend school there for two years. This solution was implemented in response to the low graduation rates to take the inner city influence away from these kids and

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    2016 presidential election of United States of America are scheduled to be held on November 8, 2016, in which voters will choose presidential electors, and they will in turn choose President and Vice president through the Electoral College based on the jurisdiction results. The 2016 presidential election will announce the 45th president and 48th vice president of United States of America. With every single day passing, the US presidential election date is coming closer and debates are on rise of

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