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    light the apparent concerns of discrimination, intimidation and inequality. During this period, pressure was placed on the Federal Government to examine their roles in the perseverance of inequalities when it came to Multicultural Education (Russell, Robert, The History of Multicultural Education, 2011). It can be compared to “Affirmative Action” where whites were asked to leave behind their own point of view and gain knowledge of the traditions of Multicultural groups (Taylor, Samuel. The Challenge

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    “Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” (Robert Frost). Robert Frost wrote his poems with emotion and with a connection to his personal life. Frost wrote his poems like no other poet. His works are world renowned and impact literature today. His works are read in schools and people still talk and write about him and his writing today. Frost lived in a hard time period, but he still was able to write and be successful. It took years to become a success

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    Builds ‘Sociable’ Robot by Elizabeth A. Thompson, the quote “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out,” by Robert Collier is supported. Both the articles Careers in Robotics: A Case Study NASA Robotic Education Project and Team Builds ‘Sociable’ Robot Elizabeth A. Thompson, support the quote, “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out,” by Robert Collier by stating that you have to first figure out what you want. In the article Careers in Robotics: A

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    accepts it. Jean Louise enjoys her free, empty days playing in her front yard until her father decides to put her in school. When Jean arrives, she is teased and bullied because of her father’s reputation to support African American men in court. Jean gets very angry and almost starts fighting with her antagonizer when her older brother steps in and breaks it up. Jean gets really upset and begs her father, Atticus, to let her stay home from school. Atticus rejects her begging and tells her to try

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    Robert Frost, one of the most famous and remarkable poet in America, was known as a great poet who expressed the pureness and beauty of nature in an easy language. However, it’s a big misunderstanding of him in a way that he wasn’t just writing about nature. He was rather a poet who not only focused on nature, but also intended to understand about human beings through depicting nature. He is regarded as a poet whose style was somewhat in between the 19th-century and modernism. Again

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    The poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden shows how a young boy appreciates everything his father does for him but doesn’t thank him for it and looking back as an old man acknowledges it. Throughout my life my mom has always gone out of her way and devoted many hours to help with every club or sport that I participated in, even though I never asked her and I regret that I never conveyed how thankful I was for how much time she put in to make my life easier. Throughout my life I have participated

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    word that has taken on a negative connotation in today's society. Since the beginning of the equal rights movement, the perceived meaning of the word discrimination has shifted from that of a useful virtue to one of an insulting, derogatory word. Robert Keith Miller wrote an essay for Newsweek in the summer of 1980 that focuses on the discrepancies in the use of the word discrimination. “Discrimination Is a Virtue” points out the differences in the dictionary’s definition of the word discrimination

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    Throughout the history of the American government, there have been changes that have ultimately influenced the way our society runs. From the rapid growth of the thirteen colonies to today’s 21 century political and legal systems, the development of the American government has grown substantially from the creation of the Continental Congress to the what is now known as the United States Supreme Court. The origins of the American government traces all the way back to the struggle between the developing

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    Lee Harvey Oswald came into the world on October 39th, 1939. His parents were Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr and Marguerite Frances Claverie. Robert Oswald was dead of a heart attack three months before Lee Harvey Oswald was born. Although Lee Harvey Oswald never met his dad, he was always reminded of him through pictures around the house. “Robert Oswald was a far cousin of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from the American Civil Wars”. (Wikipedia said that) In 1944, Marguerite Frances Claverie moved

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    Colonel Roberts. During the interview, Vigeland and Roberts discuss the horrors of Agent Orange and Roberts’ personal experience with it. Back in 1981, Roberts was a First Lieutenant in the military. He was the facilities maintenance officer of the Futenma Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. Roberts explains that one day he was assigned to check out the high chemical readings in the water runoff from the base. The theory of the chemicals coming from a collection of underground fuel tanks, Roberts was ordered

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