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Congresswoman Rep. Maxine Wate

rs "A woman who will simply not go unheard" CIA/Crontras Connection to DrugTrafficking in the US (South Central Los Angeles) Congresswoman Maxine Waters is considered by many to be the most powerful Black woman in American politics today. She has gained a reputation as a fearless and outspoken ...

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Thoreau and King: Prisoned for Morality

Since the time of the hunter-gatherers and self-sufficient living, humanity never felt the need for a civilized government, however, when the first small cities began to emerge, so did the first recorded government. There have always been conflicts throughout history on whether or not the ...

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Condoleezza Rice

When choosing an influential woman in United States societal history a strong few come to mind. Out of the strong few there is one that I take pride in conversing about. Condoleezza Rice is her name. She is world renowned, known as a National Security Advisor during the Bush presidential ...

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The Application of International Law to Wars of National Liberation

The Application of International Law to Wars of National Liberation BY Noelle Higgins, Law Lecturer, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University; Ph.D. Candidate, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. Introduction The PLO[1], KLA[2] and PKK[3] ...

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Racial Profiling

Zakur Amun-El Ms. Nestuk English May 8, 2015 Racial Profiling Young black men probably know more about racial profiling by the police than any other racial group because they experience it almost every day. In her book, The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, ...

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Existence of Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling Young black men probably know more about racial profiling by the police than any other racial group because they experience it almost every day. In her book, The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander states, “It is not uncommon for a ...

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Existence of Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling Young black men probably know more about racial profiling by the police than any other racial group because they experience it almost every day. In her book, The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander states, "It is not uncommon for a ...

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A Raisin In The Sun

The civil rights movement brought enlightenment towards the abolishment of segregation laws. Although the laws are gone does segregation still exist in fact? “What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like ?” said, in a poem by Langston Huges. The story, , by Lorraine Hansberry ...

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The Life Of Mahatma Ghandi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism and the prophet of nonviolence in the 20th century, was born, the youngest child of his father's fourth wife, on Oct. 2, 1869, at Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in Gujarat in western India under British ...

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Facts That Lead To Poverty: Th

Poverty occurs in most parts of the world. Nevertheless, the more serious and problematical poverty takes part in the third world and the southern parts of the globe. First of all, we have to clearly define the word “poverty”. In a broad sense, it means that people within this ...

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Web Advertising

, not to mention the Internet itself, finds itself in a stage of relative infancy and therefore provides marketers with novel challenges and situations which need to be dealt with caution . The realm of is unchartered terri tory! In terms of South Africa, the country finds itsef somewhat behind ...

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Black Female Bodybuilders

"Yo, Yo, Yo -- go girl!" "Hey, over here -- We here for you, girl!" "You look good! REAL GOOD!" This is family and neighborhood pride at stake on the stage tonight. Sisters, mothers, boyfriends, husbands, cousins, and friends from the outer boroughs, Jersey, Philly, the deep South, and everywhere ...

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Government Lies From Vietnam

For nearly a decade, the civil conflict in Vietnam was merely a footnote to the evening news in the United States. But with the first reports of an “unprovoked attack” on the U.S. destroyer Maddox by the North Vietnamese in the summer of 1964, Americans were faced with a whole new vernacular of ...

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The Assassination Of MLK

"One of the world's best known advocates of non-violent social change strategies, Martin Luther King, Jr. synthesized ideas drawn from many different cultural traditions." (Carson 1). However, these protest strategies only furthered racial segregation, resulting in the eventual death of King. ...

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Everyday Use

Dee’s Idea of Heritage/Culture The short story "" is central in Alice Walker’s writing, particularly as it represents her response to the concept of heritage as expressed by the Black political movements of the 60s. "" is found in Alice Walker’s collection of short stories, In ...

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Everyday Use 2

Dee’s Idea of Heritage/Culture The short story “Everyday Use” is central in Alice Walker’s writing, particularly as it represents her response to the concept of heritage as expressed by the Black political movements of the 60s. “Everyday Use” is found in Alice ...

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Legal Status Of Mercenaries And Irregular Forces

INTRODUCTION: The legal status of mercenaries and that of irregular forces refers to the place they hold in the eyes of international law. In order to understand their status in international humanitarian law, we must first understand the question of who a combatant is. Article 43 (2) of the ...

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Racism

Fitting In Racism in Australia was extremely prevalent in the 1950’s, and Germans in particular were targeted due to them being on the opposite side of the War. “Fitting In” by Susan Midalia creates an environment of a 10 year old German girl, growing up in a racist Australian place. Susan has ...

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The Great Migration: Harlem Renaissance

Shaesha Meadows Robinson Humanities 1102 Terrance Kelly June 27, 2012 The Great Migration: Harlem Renaissance During the mid -- 1800s' the American Civil War came to an end and African Americans soon found themselves able to begin new lives. They were happy, and the liberated blacks began ...

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The Barber Shop and Modern Racism

The Barber Shop and Modern Racism The Barber Shop * I accompanied a friend of mine, Phillip, to his barber shop in his neighborhood at 49[th] and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In this neighborhood, I was instructed by Phil to carry my legal weapon being the lone Caucasian in the ...

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