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Socrates
<view this essay>.... products, hoping we will be hooked for life and therefore provide them with a steady income. These people know the consequences of their actions. They know that every person that becomes addicted to tobacco will suffer terrible effects, and probably die from it in the end. believed that one, if healthy himself, should put the well being of others ahead of his own material goals. If the tobacco industry shared his views, they would stop deliberately harming their own kind and help repair the damages they have already done.
One more act of greed concerns the auto industry and its planned obsolescence of cars. If the people in charge of car companies respected th .....
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Jfk Alliance
<view this essay>.... policy of expanded U.S. economic assistance to Latin America in the wake of Fidel Castro’s successful Communist revolution in Cuba. The United States was fearful of a communism spread due to the poverty and social inequities of the Latin American nations. The U.S. felt that the southern continent was ripe for violent radical political upheaval, which would eventually bring forth the spread of communism. The Alliance for Progress program was initially met with open arms by most Latin Americans leaders and immediately boosted U.S. relations throughout the hemisphere.1
The alliance’s charter was signed by all members of the organization except for Cuba .....
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Biography On Mario Lemieux
<view this essay>.... his first years in the NHL and how he helped carry the team, midway through his career, and save the franchise, winning it's first, and only two back to back Stanley Cups. I talk in detail of each of his seasons; the goals, the awards, and the playoffs. I talk about how, strong willed, Mario continued to play hockey dispite having serious back problems and being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.
My third chapter is called "The Legacy". I talk about Mario's amazing talent and I describe some of his amazing moves. I talk about how Mario wanted to spend more time with family and watch his kids grow. I talk about what Mario did off the ice including meeting with .....
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William Lloyd Garrison
<view this essay>.... Lundy to publish a monthly periodical, The Genius of Universal Emancipation, in Baltimore, Maryland. Lundy believed in gradual emancipation, and Garrison at first shared his views; but he soon became convinced that immediate and complete emancipation was necessary. Because Baltimore was then a center of the domestic slave trade in the U.S., Garrison's eloquent denunciations of the trade aroused great animosity. A slave trader sued him for libel; he was fined, and, lacking funds to pay the fine, was jailed. After his release from prison Garrison dissolved his partnership with Lundy and returned to New England. in partnership with another American abolition .....
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Emily Dickinson 2
<view this essay>.... to write poems with such elegance. All of the poems that she would write she kept hidden somewhere in her room. She would hide the poems in places like her window, under her bed, in corners of the room, and lots of other places. After Emily’s death the truth would be told about her secret talent.
Emily’s sister, Lavinia Dickinson found around 900 of the poems Emily had hidden in her room. Her sister decided that the poems were good enough to be published. She went to a friend of the family where she would get help in editing and publishing the poems. Lavinia’s friend, Mabel Loomis Todd and a friend of hers, Thomas Wentworth Hig .....
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The Life Of Ian Fleming
<view this essay>.... social stripes with
service and blood. Ian's father was a service-oriented land-owner in
Oxfordshire and a member of Parliament. When Valentine Fleming died in the
Great War, Ian was almost nine. Winston Churchill wrote the obituary for
the Times. Fleming's mother, Evelyn St. Croix Rose Fleming, inherited
Valentine's large estate in trust, making her a very wealthy woman. The
trust, though, cut her out if she ever re-married. This provision virtually
guaranteed that she would remain forever Valentine's widow, regardless of
other loves or circumstances.
The knowledge of Ian's late father's looming wealth, and Ian's lack
of access to it was bound to .....
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Fray Junipero Serra
<view this essay>.... When the original Junipero was condemned by others Saint Francis was to have remarked: "My brothers, my brothers, I wish I had a forest of such junipers." Serra was ordained in 1737. He taught for seven years at Lullian University of Mallorca. In 1744 he was named Professor of Philosophy at the monastery of San Francisco and at Lullian University. Serra was known as bright, articulate, scholar, a moving speaker, and a clear precise writer. He did not remain long in the academic venue. His dream was to become as missionary and in 1749 he responded to the call for Franciscan missionaries to the New World. His dream became a reality. He left his family .....
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Nathan McCall
<view this essay>.... has been on tour for two years promoting his book Makes
Me Wanna Holler. He said he has been “gauging the social pulse of the
nation beyond what I read in the newspapers and what I see in the TV news.
"Yeah, I'm obsessed with race because White America is obsessed with race,”
he said. “Blacks are routinely treated with disdain and regarded with
suspicion...wherever we go in this country we are hated.” He said this is
the reason why Black men commit so many crimes against each other--they
internalize the hatred that others in society have for them. They end up
hating themselves.
"I learned to hate myself by the time I was 12 years old," he said. McCall
said he .....
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