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    Malik Hart August 20, 2015 Research Paper William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was one of the most important activist in the early 20th century. He was born February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1885 Du Bois came across his first encounter with the Jim Crow laws. He went to Harvard to receive his masters and before completing his masters he was offered an opportunity to study abroad in Berlin. Du Bois is known for many of his accomplishments such as being one of the most important

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    Essay C (Required for UT Austin, Optional for A&M) Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals. I stood on my tiptoes, leaning over the counter to get a good look at my face in the mirror. Like the other twenty girls rushing around the dressing room fixing makeup and hair, I was crammed on time. Carefully drawing a thin, black line across my eyelid, my hand suddenly lost its grip. I now had a dot

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    smiling faces of so many of my fellow students. We are here to celebrate something special. We are here to celebrate the fulfillment of eight hundred and forty hopes. We are here to celebrate the realization of eight hundred and forty dreams. Class of 2017, congratulations! My fellow graduate engineers, I must first apologize on behalf of each of your respective curricula for depriving you of sleeping, keeping you away from friends, and essentially stealing your souls. I am sorry. I know that after

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    dough at Christmas. Probably because of this, I've always found solace in the kitchen. After two fellow students died in a horrible car crash in high school, I remember pulling the tub of cookie dough out of the freezer. It wasn't much but the act of rolling the chilled dough in my hands and plopping it on a pan restored a sense of normalcy that had been sorely lacking for over a week. In college, when

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    Religion was radical, inhumane, and cold. He argues that the outcome of their punishments' was damaging to the characters and their personality. However, this accusation is false. The punishments although seemingly inhumane, caused positive outcomes for all three characters Hester Prynne, Pearl Prynne, and Arthur Dimmesdale. Hester Prynne is accused of adultery in a Massachusetts puritan colony in the 1600's. (Hawthorne, 49) Although Hawthorne argues that Hester Prynne was hardened both socially and

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    Here are some inspirational examples of “high-achievers”, who skipped college: 1. Will Smith, one of the highest paid Hollywood actor. 2. Walt Disney, the creator of “Walt Disney” 3. Steve Jobs, and most of the “tech billionaires” like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerman Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin… 4. Masterminds of the Industry like John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Paul Getty All the examples mentioned above are “self directed learners.” Self directed learners are motivated

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    The week had been strenuous, yet productive. The multiple meetings with fellow organizations and countless hours of volunteer services depleted my energy. Add the hours of academic work, and well, I could never complain that my life was uneventful.On this eventful day, the Social Justice Fellows were holding our monthly guest speaker meeting. Although at the time I was feeling lethargic, the monthly meetings always gave me a boost of inspiration. I have an affinity towards academia and activism,

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    American to do so. While in college, Du Bois studied to get a degree in history

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    generations this corruption of Eros has been passed down from parents to their children by word, deed, and action. Man has the tendency to prefer what is most pleasant for himself, and he does not give a second thought as to the impact it has on his fellow man. This corruption of Eros can be documented back to the time of Socrates and has been a problem even before that time. We must come to terms with the fact that it is humanity that brings this upon themselves, and it is through our methods of

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    crafted his thoughts and ideas out of the ideas of Empiricism whom he shared common thought with John Locke and David Hume. Empiricism ties in with Idealism by the way it uses sensory perception and experiences as a form ideas. Berkeley later tied it all together by

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