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    Gun control is something that allows the government to intervene and control gun policies. The poor use of gun control in the United States has been the cause of multiple deaths and horrific events, thus being a major reason for gun laws to be enforced. Events such as the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting are all due to the lack of gun control in the United States. Arguments on gun laws have been taking place for years and still not one side of the argument has won (Martinez). Gun control laws…

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    Minister of Canada. Before Trudeau became a politician he worked as an assistant professor until he was elected as a new Liberal to the House of Commons (Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 22 Nov 2014). Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada from 20th of April 1968 to 4th of June 1979, and again from March 3 1980 to June 29 1984. Even after his death in 28th of September 2000 he is still known as one of the greatest politicians of Canada because of all the historical events he set in place during his…

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    When examining the American army in the Vietnam War it is clear that their loss came from the lack of public support, both in Vietnam and America. The moment American soldiers set foot on Vietnam they were doomed to los. The Vietnamese people had fought for their independence and right to self-determination for decades before the American government intervened. They were a people who held the strong belief that Ho Chi Minh and Communism would lead them to self-determination and were not about to…

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    On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on a balcony at the Loraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot with a high powered rifle from an estimated 250 feet away. He was shot in the neck and spinal cord and died within the first hour of the inflicted wound. Although he already had the impression he was not going to live for much longer as he quoted in his last speech he says “I may not get there with you”(King) as he refers to he might not live to see his work’s outcome.…

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    Jazz-Rock History

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    Jazz-Rock has been defined as music that has combined elements of both Jazz and Rock ‘N’ Roll, and is usually performed on amplified electric instruments (Dictionary.com). Jazz-Rock is often called fusion or cross over and is accompanied by bass lines, drumming styles and Rock music (Britannica.com). It tends to put an emphasis on electric instruments and dance rhythms and in the 1960s jazz tunes began to include Rock rhythms, those elements have contrasted and enhanced each other (Britannica).…

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    Dope Persuasive Essay

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    ancient Greeks; it wasn’t until the late 1920s that people felt the need to restrict the use. In 1966 world governing bodies for football and cycling were the first to enable an act that would allow their athletes to be tested for enhancement drugs. In 1968 the Olympics also introduced this motion. By the early 1970s most international federations introduced drug tests. Lance Armstrong, a famous American…

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    The proposed research question is: How do the three film adaptations, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde directed by Mamoulian in 1931, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde directed by Jarrott in 1968, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde directed by Buechler in 2008, of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reflect changing attitudes towards mental illness? After reading Robert L. Stevenson’s novella, I began to have interest on the topic of…

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    style, job preference and educations (Borick, Hyde, Russell & Shafritz, 2017, p.473). The civil right movement occurs between 1955 and 1968 among protesters and government. It’s to get same rights for all African-Americans’ who were neglected in public sectors like education, health and jobs. (“The Civil Rights Movement And The Second Reconstruction, 1945—1968”, n.d.)…

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    Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement. He held peaceful movements from 1954 up to his death on April 4, 1968. Mr. King had four kids in his lifetime with his wife, Coretta Scott King. While three out of the four children are still alive today and spreading the King name. One of the movements was the bus boycott. In december of 1955, Rosa Parks, decided to not sit in the back of the bus and got arrested.…

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    McCloskey wrote a paper, “On Being an Atheist” in 1968. This paper was his way of trying to prove that there is no God. He compares a lot with atheist and theists ways of looking at how people believe in God and that he does not believe that there is a God with some of the ways that the world functions. An atheist is someone who does not believe, but he makes it seem like it is easier to be an atheist where he feels that theists are just miserable. He contends that theists really do not believe…

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