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Martin Luther King Jr.
<view this essay>.... Dr. King stands strong on his view of non-violent protests saying, "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred." (503) Dr. King tells the listener not to give up under pressure but to persevere because the day will come when King's dream is recognized. Dr. King's dream is "…a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers." In his speech Dr. King hopes to persuade the "Great America" to abolish all racial prejudice.
Dr. King uses many different but effective methods to convince the .....
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Adolf Hilter
<view this essay>.... a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative imagination. To fullfil his dream he had moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection rea .....
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Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy
<view this essay>.... served as assistant counsel under Senator Joseph
McCarthy's permanent investigators subcommittee. He resigned in 1956
because he didn't agree with all of Senator McCarthy's ideas and methods.
He then in 1957 was elected to be chief council for the Senate Rackets'
committee. During that time he exposed mofia figureheads such as Jimmy
Hoffa and Dave Beck. He seemed to be obsessed with dismantling the Mofia.
Under his brother's administration, he continued his attack on the Mofia.
Robert Kennedy had no sympathy for the mob, nor did he care that he was
being criticized by the media for his “harsh measures” such as his
extensive use of wiretaps .
In 1964 he res .....
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Violence In The Media
<view this essay>.... status just after the killing of an 11 year old boy by a 14-year-old in Japan. The 11-year-old was decapitated and his head placed on the school fence. The idea supposedly came from a form of media or computer game. This lead to the investigations of the so-called "Nintendo generation", a generation so focused around computer games and television that reality is no longer easy to distinguish from fantasy and abnormality. Professor Fukaya of the New York Times says "They haven’t been growing up with real feelings, living with real friends, or with real nature."
Figures show that one in four British children has their own VCR and uses it to recor .....
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Margaret Sanger
<view this essay>.... But, because of the way that her political strategy changed and evolved, is seen by some as a hypocrite; a rags to riches story that involves a complete withdrawal from her commitment to the poorer classes. My research indicates that this is not the case; in fact, by all accounts was a brave crusader who recognized freedom and choice in a woman's reproductive life as vital to the issue of the liberation of women as a gender. Moreover, after years of being blocked by opposition, Sanger also recognized the need to shift political strategies in order to keep the movement alive. Unfortunately, misjudgments made by her in this area have left 's legac .....
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Charles Darwin
<view this essay>.... evolution. He eventually went back to London where he reviewed his note and findings. Out of his studies grew several related theories: one, evolution did occur; two, evolutionary change was gradual, requiring thousands to millions of years; three, the primary mechanism for evolution was natural selection; and four, the millions of species alive today arose from a single original life form through a branching process called "specialization." (Which seems like a very shifty idea.) He set these his theories forth in his book called, "On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" or "The .....
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Machiavellis Ideas Of Government
<view this essay>.... his country.
It was during this exile that he wrote his most famous work, The Prince, a piece about political power. Growing up, and through his time in political office, Machiavelli studied the men and/or groups in power, specifically noting their successes and failures. Using this information from his observations, Machiavelli wrote The Prince in order to try to re-enter politics by “assisting” the man whom had exiled him, Lorenzo de Medici, in his ruling. Though this was more of a plot to try to gain the favor of Lorenzo, he does note in his book that in order to gain the favor of a prince, you must present him with a gift; that was the pur .....
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Charles Manson
<view this essay>.... the both of them. Manson’s mother often neglected Charles after her husband left her. She tried to put him into a foster home, but the arrangements fell through. As a last resort she sent Charles to school in Terre Haute, Indiana. Mrs. Manson failed to make the payments for the school and once again Charles was sent back to his mother’s abuse. At only fourteen, Manson left his mother and rented a room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys To .....
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