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    guns and kids mix, tragedy results. Yet gun control legislation remains at a standstill. The battle for stricter gun-control laws has not been without victories. In 1968, Congress passed the Gun Control Act in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., President John F. Kennedy, and Senator Robert Kennedy. The law mandated stricter licensing requirements, prohibited the sale of

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    Names such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, E.B. DuBois, and Malcolm X are all brought to mind when discussing the struggles that African Americans have been involved in since the 1800s. All of these people were significant speakers who heavily influenced Americans of all skin colors. Maya Angelou is similar to those great black leaders in the way she influences others. Angelou’s contributions to American literature is superlative. She fought racism, segregation, and sexism without losing

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    The dynamics of leadership’s styles has changed throughout the century because the dynamics of leaders have changed. Many researchers have conceptualized the term leadership to make it simpler to understand, however it can be quite complicated because there are some many levels and components that make up a great leader in theory. There are no equations to explain how to become the perfect leader or how to obtain the perfect leadership style. There are strategies one can use to develop as a leader

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    As an African-American in the United States of America, the opportunity to exercise my constitutional right to vote in the 2016 Presidential election was an honor. During this time, I was a first-year college student in another city outside of my permanent residency in Texas; therefore, I decided to vote using an absentee ballot. However, using this method to vote was a concern because of possible fraud. Nevertheless, as a new voter, I proceeded with filing in my absentee ballot early in the voting

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    Plot Summary In April of 1971, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that ended all state imposed segregation in public schools. In the beginning of the movie the narrator, later to be known as Coach Bill Yoast’s young daughter Sheryl, discusses the transition from segregated schools to mixed races at T. C. Williams High School located in Alexandria, Virginia. The movie expands on many different smaller issues that are centered on the main issue of hatred of race, The african American

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    only tear the heart of Americans, but also arouse the rest of world’s curiosity about this heated matter, having a great impulse to explore the reason behind the problem. Uncovered in the United States "foreign policy", from the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968 till now, there are about 30000 people die each year under shooting, that means more than 80 people were killed by guns a day on the average. It is analysed that although there are innumerable deaths of shooting

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    Quentin Tarantino: Adventures in Postmodern Cinema Elias Soh Quentin Tarantino: Adventures in Contemporary Postmodern Cinema 0700173H T03 Ms. Ng Kwee Hoon Film Theory & Criticism Quentin Tarantino: Adventures in Contemporary Postmodern Cinema Introduction Abstract FILMS written and directed by Quentin Tarantino between 1991 and 2004 have been variously admired for their styles, visual and verbal wit, three-dimensional characterization and character development and unique narrative structure

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    The Dreamers In the 1950s, Martin Luther King created a movement called The Civil Rights Movement. He fought for the unjustified treatment for people of color, and for them to have equal rights. Now in 2017, undocumented students are standing up and fighting for equal rights for education. According to the article, Immigration Hardliners are forcing Trump’s Hand on DACA, “immigration policy is the battleground for the White House’s warring factions, and DACA is ground zero” (Gonzales, 2017). DACA

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    When the vagrancy law was out of the lawmaker reach, they found themselves back in the same problem they were in after slavery ended. Out of desperation to find a solution to their slave labor problem, the state took full advantage of the Tenth Amendment. The tenth Amendment “establishes a strong principle of states ' rights in the Constitution. Any powers not explicitly given to the federal government can be assumed to belong to the states, or directly to the people”. With this piece of legal document

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    Bill Clinton Legacy

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    The forty-second president of the United States was Bill Clinton. Running for president in 1992 and winning two terms of office, he was widely successful. Clinton had an active presidency, passing many laws within his eight years as president. Part of this success was due to his childhood and his distinctly marked path to presidency. His actions gave him a particular legacy, to both him and the First Lady. Throughout Bill Clinton’s presidency, he was influenced by his own life, and for the opportunity

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