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    Raymond Richard Martin, born as George Raymond Marin (September 20, 1948) is an American novelist writer in the fantasy, horror and science fiction. He sold his first short story, "The Hero," to Galaxy, a science fiction magazine, which was published in 1971. He published nine novels, ten short story collections, and one children's book. From all of his good work one of his best known is the Song of Ice and Fire series. On 2015 he won the Emmy Award for the outstanding Drama series known as Game…

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    employees by celebrating 4 national holidays on Monday: Washington’s Birthday, Veteran’s Day, Memorial Day, and Columbus Day. T he first Veterans Day under the law was observed with much confusion on October 25th, 1971. It was quite apparent that the commemoration was on September 20th, 1971; President Gerald R. Ford signed Public Law 94-97 which returned the annual observance of Veterans Day to its original date of November 11th, beginning in 1978. In legislation that was passed in 1938,…

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    platforms ((Nelson, A. 1971; Schuckard, R.…

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    constitutional under the doctrine of stare decisis with regards to the 1971 landmark case Baker v. Nelson, wherein the Supreme Court implicitly endorsed the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans by dismissing the case (different from not issuing certiorari), tacitly upholding the Minnesota Supreme Court’s rationale that the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans is a political question. Yet in the time between 1971 and 2015, the Supreme Court had made a series of decisions that…

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    United States, 1971, affects me as a citizen, for if the New York Times didn't win the court case or the case didn't go to the Supreme Court, then the government could have the press and the media not show or give light on governmental issues and problems in our government…

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    Joey was born on June 7th of 1971. His family consisted of his mom, Evelyn, dad, Joey, and his stepfather. He has three siblings named Frank, Omar, and Sixto. Joey is the oldest of his siblings. Joey’s typical day in the 1971 was basically playing. He would spend mostly half of his day outside playing with friends. School for Joey was tough. He got into a lot of fights and that sometimes would affect his school work. Although he was getting decent grades and the teachers were nice he…

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    The Attica prison riot took place in a time period of the United States that welcomed progressive attitudes and supported increasing the rights of minority groups. Throughout the 1960s, America witnessed African Americans battle the government for equality through the Civil Rights Movement while also witnessing the organization of welfare groups, students, and people protesting the government’s decisions, such as the Vietnam War. Russell Oswald (1972, 32), the Commissioner of Correctional…

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    Colour Bar Racism

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    How far was racism a dominant feature of British Society from 1958-79? The colour bar of the 1950s showed that racism was still a dominant part of society. The Colour Bar was a form of direct racism where unions, employers and the government all took part in refusing minority races services and employment. For example, during the 1950s, unions and management in business such as Ford enforced a quota system where 95% of jobs had to go to white people. This suggested a dominant racist society as…

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    a one act play was written by Asif Currimbhoy.The play portrays the miserable condition of the refugees from East Bengal on hand and on the other hand the play throws ample light on the effects of the refugee problems in social life in India during 1971.Asif combines the major issues with other problems like communalism as it is also led by other issues. It suggests that one problem gives way to other problems. The present play focuses all the issues due to the influx of refugees. How the…

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    Astronaut Office. In 1968, a surgery was performed on Shepard that fixed his equilibrium. He volunteered for a lunar space mission, but was not chosen. Then, he was going to command the Apollo 13 mission, but had to turn back mid-course. Finally, in 1971, Shepard was able to command the Apollo 14 mission to the moon. Shepard accomplished so much even before the Apollo 14 mission. He could have just stopped working with NASA after his ear problem, but he wanted to continue to achieve his dreams.…

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