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    OVERVIEW This project describes Drake Carter aged about 25 years of age. He is a sex offender who has been convicted and put on rehabilitation program as means of integrating him back into the society. He is a subject a case study of the sex offenders and what drives these people to engage in such crimes. Carter lives in the white neighborhood where the population is not dense, and people are friendly to the neighbors. This community also has many single mothers. Carter was very friendly and ready

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    jury in which, each person is supportive of capital punishment and are generally more supportive of a conviction) sentenced Carter and Artis to serve three consecutive life sentences for the murder of two men and a women in the Lafayette Bar in New Jersey in 1966. Besides the anticipated hardships that accompanied a long-term stay in prison, Carter had to bare the force of other unfair actions. In April 1974 Carter was illegally transferred from the original place of his detainment, Rahway State

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    Rubin “Hurricane” Carter- a well-known name throughout the boxing industry – a man who, for twenty years, lost his freedom because of a crime he did not commit. This biography, Hurricane: The Life of Rubin Carter, Fighter written by James S. Hirsch in 1988 recalls Carters life. This text shows how much of a strong man he was to overcome his unlawful sentencing. Rubin is a father to two kids, Theodora and Raheem. After his prison stint, he had set his responsibilities on things other than alcohol

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    Hurricane Carter

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    There was a man born with the name Rubin Carter. He then was given the name Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter. He received this nickname for many reasons, they all apply to him as a person. For example, the lyrics in the song “Hurricane” written and sung by Bob Dylan, he writes, “He could-a been the champion of the world.” What Dylan is referring to his Carter’s boxing career. After leaving prison the first time Carter became a world renowned boxer. He was a great boxer and this is where the nickname ‘Hurricane’

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    Rhetorical Analysis of “Hurricane” Martin Luther King once said, “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political, but because it is right.” The song “Hurricane”, written by Bob Dylan takes a stand and ignores what was safe, popular, and politically right during the 1960’s and 1970’s, in order to paint a picture of injustice. Dylan organizes the actual events of a man named Rubin “Hurricane” Carter who was a middleweight boxer

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    Lesra, Sam, Terry, and Lisa moved near the prison Carter was being held in in order to help prove his innocence. Lesra, Sam, Terry, and Lisa spoke with Carter’s lawyers and discovered new evidence that proved that his trial and arrest had been motivated by racial prejudice. On November 8, 1985 a federal judge allowed the new evidence to be presented. After reviewing the evidence, the judge released

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    after Grove was born he went to Memphis to study pharmacy. Then, in 1880 he made his own pharmacy in a small town called Paris, Tennessee. That's where he worked as a drugstore clerk earlier before he went to Memphis. In Paris he had created something new and revolutionary. He developed the formula for two products that were to make him his fortune. So he made a formula for the what is now called “Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic.” It was used as an antimalarial

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    Linda Carter Case

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    Background Linda Carter is an African American female that is twenty-two years of age, born and raised in the state of Virginia. Ms. Carter comes from a family that is of low socioeconomic status and due to this position Ms. Carter was raised in a low-income neighborhood. Ms. Carter’s childhood home was plagued with many social issues that affected her upbringing. Ms. Carter’s family history includes a significant amount of mental illness and substance abuse, due to the experienced trauma in her

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    The movie Lean on Me illustrates the story of the metamorphosis of Eastside High School, once crime and drug infested, into an honorable institute. This transition took place under Joe Clark, the new principal. Since the first day Clark had taken control of the school, it underwent major internal interventions, which stemmed from multiple speeches which he weaves his appeals. Through claims of the school being disrupted supported by the evidence of failing a basic skills test and emotional appeals

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    William Patterson

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    William Paterson (Patterson) was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1745. When he was almost 2 years of age, his family emigrated to America, disembarking at New Castle, DE. While the father traveled about the country, apparently selling tinware, the family lived in New London, other places in Connecticut, and in Trenton, NJ. In 1750 he settled in Princeton, NJ. There, he became a merchant and manufacturer of tin goods. His prosperity enabled William to attend local private schools and the College

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