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    Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 on his parents lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, California. Richard Nixon was the second of five brothers, Harold, Donald, Arthur, and Edward. Nixon had a difficult childhood as he dealt with Harold and Arthur dying at a young age. “His early life was marked by financial

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    The War Of The Vietnam War

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    The American involvement in the Vietnam War created widespread division between the American people. There were many United States citizens who believed that the United States was involved in the Vietnam struggle for the right reasons, in order to prevent communism from taking over South Vietnam. There were also other citizens who believed that the United States was involved over there for the wrong reasons, due to the feeling that it was none of our business, and that it was considered another form

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    they were not the only innovators in musical theatre, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote many popular musicals,used new techniques, and won many awards; therefore, they left a lasting imprint on the theatrical world. The successful collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II began when their relationships with other composers and lyricists began to fail. In 1920, the two met

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    Watergate as ‘the nations most sustained political conflict and severest constitutional crisis since the Great Depression’” (Qtd. in Hillstrom, 2004, p.75). But that incident was just the key that unlocked a worm hole of unlawful activities that Richard Nixon’s administration was involved in. Some claim that the system established by the founders more than two hundred years ago was unequipped to handle the demands of the 20th century (Mosher, 1974, p.16), which may explain it all. When one administration

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    Good Leadership Characteristics of Good Presidents For our presentation, we have decided the best theme to show the many traits of great leaders was to show them in the Presidents of the United States. There were many different presidents who had different qualities; some bad and some good. In our presentation, we will show you the president who showed a specific trait in their actions. Most of the presidents who showed positive character traits were are remembered in a good way. Many of the presidents

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    leader with lost purpose for an organization. And the purpose should be to encourage, contribute, hold, build and inspire greatness. It’s not a matter of all you can be, but helping others to emerge as all they can be. Richard Branson: Fact file: A knight of British territory, Sir Richard Branson founder of virgin groups, is one of the 100 top most affluent business magnate. An extremist serial entrepreneur with more than 400 companies, with a very interesting and exciting leadership style, seemingly

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    It is often difficult for entrepreneurs to trust investors with their new business because the entrepreneurs have created a business from the start. It comes to the point where it has become their life and trusting an investor to own part of it is always a risk. It is true that entrepreneurs require investors, but they need to make sure that the investor does not start owning the business and making changes according to their preferences. Investing is a natural thing for any person to do and require

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    The day was July 5th 1954, a young truck driver from Tupelo Mississippi was sitting in a recording studio in Memphis Tennessee, to his left a man wielding a guitar named Scotty Moore and to his right the bassist, Bill Black (Littleton, 2014). The studio they were sitting in was owed by a hugely successful producer named Sam Phillips. Phillips was trying to get a new label called “Sun Records” off the ground, and he had great insight that it would be with this unknown kid. The three men were recording

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    Killing Reagan was wrote by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard as a part of their series to talk about the deaths, assassination, and near deaths of certain historical people. O’Reilly and Dugard write about the events leading up to the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan including discussing the attempted assassin, John Hinckley, and the events after up until his death. The authors present the viewpoint as if one were there to witness the lives of the people in the book. Killing Reagan talks about

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    “Tomorrow 's future is in the hands of the youth of today” is not a particularly new sentiment. But what is new, what has become a pressing question, is what is to become of the future if our youth are behind bars instead of in schools? Youth today are being pushed into the criminal justice system at an alarming rate. This issue is known as the school to prison pipeline ─ the rapid rate at which children are pushed out of schools and into the criminal justice system. The school to prison pipeline

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