African American women's rights. She was the first African American congresswoman and even got to run for President of the United States in 1972. Also, she was a part of the House of Representatives and protested for civil rights for blacks. She fought for women's rights and influenced the life of African Americans for the near future. Shirley Chisholm was born on November 30, 1924. She was born to a black family who lived in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Her dad served as
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Abraham Lincoln, born February 12th 1809. Born into a small family in Hodgenville Kentucky, Lincoln self-educated himself and be came a Lawyer and a Whig Party leader, and also became a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. He served from 1834 till 1846. He then was elected into the United States House of Representatives in 1846. He then returned to Springfield Illinois where he grew up. He then started his debates against Stephen A. Douglas against slavery. He ended up loosing his senate
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change to the United States was Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States. Years passed and during the year of 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected president of the United States. Although Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were born in completely different eras and had different backgrounds, what they believed in and worked for was remarkably similar. Both Presidents had different peoples then “people down south”, their family lives were similar with their children and even wives
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some believe only a natural born citizen is fit for the highest office in the land, while others believe that even a naturalized citizen should be capable of running for president. The credence that our president shouldn’t have to be a native resident comes from the belief that it contradicts the basic American principal of equality; whether you are a native or naturalized citizen your rights are equal. As stated in the 14 amendment of the constitution “All persons born or naturalized in the United
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|When I was born, I wasn't supposed to live past my childhood. | | | |Someone must have missed something, 'cause I lived 'til 46. | | | |It attacked my lungs; it was hard to breathe.
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University Of Maryland Eastern Shore Sickle Cell Anemia Dayona Williams Developmental Psychology 0301 Evelyn Jones 25 November 2014 Abstract: The paper you are about to read will inform you about the disease Sickle cell Anemia. It will explain to you about what Sickle cell Anemia is and how you develop it. This paper will also tell you the symptoms and who can get it. While reading the information you will understand all about the disease and how it’s treated and can it be cured. Also
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Who is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball? His name is Dr. James Naismith, he was born in 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend
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and she decides they need to kill the king in order for him to seize the throne. Macbeth kills the king but his wife has to return the daggers to the guards, to frame them for the crime, because Macbeth did not. After all that the King Duncans' sons run away becuase they fear that they were gonna be put to blame. Macbeth then becomes king. Once he became king, he did not want anyone else to have the same power as him or to do the same thing to him, as he did to King Duncan. Also he remembers one of
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per year. Many women smoke without knowing the negative effect that smoking can have on their unborn babies during the pregnancy and after. These health complications include ectopic pregnancy, placental abruption, and increase jeopardy of the baby born in premature and low birth weight. Smoking while pregnant exposes the mother and her unborn baby to several health problems. When a pregnant women smokes her unborn baby smokes too. What this means is that the nicotine, carbon monoxide, and the other
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work, struggle and determination, he achieved things that a young entrepreneur only dreamed of. By promoting early hall of fame group Run DMC, in which one member of the group is Simmons’ brother Joseph “Run” Simmons. Throughout the years, Russell Simmons has taken Hip Hop to great lengths in our economy and in African American Business. Russell Simmons was born October 4, 1957 in Queens New York. He was an excellent student through grade school and made his was to CCNY-Harlem to study in sociology
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