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    If I wear to describe John Tavares in one word it would be legend. John Tavares is a hockey player for the New York Islanders. He is 6,1 and 93 kg. He plays center ice and is currently captain. He was born in Mississauga, ON, CAN on September, 20, 1990. He was drafted first over all in 2009 in the NHL entry draft. In his junior years he play in the OHL for the Oshawa Generals but got traded to the London Knights in the 2009 season. In that 2009 season he finished with a career total of 215 goals

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    BOULDER, Colo.—Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers Party and self-described “revolutionary humanist,” is coming to University of Colorado Boulder. This is following an event nearly one year ago when Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative agitator from the alt-right, stirred protests from a “lecture” titled “Why Ugly People Hate Me” in which he insulted women, people of color and other various marginalized groups. Seale is set to speak in CU Boulder’s mathematics building during a lecture, Q&A

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    her troubled marriage to rap star Bobby Brown,” (Day). Whitney Houston’s decline was documented all across America, news stations and tabloids taking advantage of her concerning situation. From her marriage to severe drug abuse, Whitney’s decline seemed to express a domino effect. She made bad decisions and allowed herself to be with a man who caused her to change who she was. While speaking with Whitney’s former bodyguard, The Guardian tells readers about Bobby and Whitney’s relationship, saying

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    “Ouch, Carina, careful with those flaming-hot rods!” said Joan to her best friend, as the petite little woman twisted a long lock of Joan’s hair around the hot tongs. “Don’t whine,” admonished Carina. “Your pin-straight hair needs some curl.” Carina had been at it for over an hour, jamming the tongs into the flames of Joan’s hearth, twisting Joan’s hair around the tongs, fluffing, pinning… it was becoming tiresome. Still, Joan wanted to look as beautiful as possible for Perceval. Tonight, at the

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    Sociologist Janet Poppendieck‟s work on hunger and emergency food services provides crucial historical grounding and theoretical framing for this discussion, while placing these short-lived programs in conversation with food politics at the turn of the 21st century.25 The Panthers‟ close practical alliance with community churches, which often housed the free breakfasts, fosters easy comparisons between the Survival Programs and the charity work often conducted by religious organizations. But in contrast

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    Bechdel's Ideal

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    Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) constructs the narrative around the tragic event of her father’s death in conjunction with the development of her lesbian identity. The extract is from Chapter Six The Ideal Husband, where Alison feels obligated to record her secretion in her diary. However, upon seeing her younger-self’s diary entries, Alison becomes indifferent to recording her experience of adolescence in her diary. The extract is suitable for exploring how it

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    progressive patriot associations, held the conviction that the administration around then should have been be changed to meet the requests for the black community. Under the comprehension of a "communist point of view", two youthful black activists, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton established the Black Panther Party in a general sense for

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    Essay on Coach Bowden

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    Bobby Bowden began his lifelong love for football at an early age. As a young child he would often climb onto the roof of his house and sit for hours watching the local high school team run practice drills. Bobby played football while a student at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama and again in college, first at the University of Alabama and then at Howard College (now Samford University). Bobby’s coaching career began in 1954 as an assistant coach at Howard College. After working as an

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    “ A Shot That Ricocheted Through History”      Medgar Evers was a man who was not afraid to stand up for what he believed in. He believed that one-day blacks and whites would be able to associate with each other without racial interference. He would later die for what he believed and leave an example for all who was following in his path. The man believed to have shot him was tried three times and finally convicted in the third trial nearly thirty years after his death. Evers

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    political demise was near. His poll numbers went up. I flew to a Coffee Party USA board meeting last week. Seated next to me were two Southern women. One was from Louisiana and the other was from Texas. They both sang praises to their own governors, Bobby Jindal and Rick Perry respectively (in the case of Perry, former governor). The person they admired the most however was Donald Trump. Think about that. Two Southern women that seemed as if they could have been members of the group United Daughters

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