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Gun Control: An Annotated Bibliography Doeden, Matt. Gun Control: Preventing Violence or Crushing Constitutional Rights? Twenty- First Century Books, 2012. Matt Doeden discusses the division amongst Americans when it comes to the laws on gun control in the United States. The author provides interviews from government officials, historians, activists, and American citizens on both sides of the issue. As gun control has been a worldwide issue for hundreds of years, the author discusses the…

fashion collection for Spring–Summer 1947. The show of "90 models of his first collection on six mannequins" was presented in the salons of the company's headquarters at 30 Avenue Montaigne. Originally, the two lines were named "Corolle" and "Huit". the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar Carmel Snow, strongly believed in the couturier’s talent, which she had already noted in 1937 with the cafè Anglais model that he designed for Robert Piguet. At the end of the fashion show, having seen those…

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, on the approximate date of April 23, 1564, three days before the first known record of him, his baptismal record. He was the third of eight children born to a tradesman and glovemaker, John Shakespeare, and Mary Arden, his mother (The Life). William ended up being John and Mary’s oldest child to survive. Having three younger brothers, William grew up as the “big brother” of the family. John, being a leading citizen of Stratford…

Martin Luther King Jr. is the most important civil rights leader in history due to his nonviolent activism and inspirational impact. For background, in the mid-20th century, the American Civil Rights Movement was a direct response to address severe racial segregation and discrimination faced by African Americans in the United States (ADL Education). Jim Crow laws marginalized African Americans, denying them fundamental rights (Carson). Leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. led nonviolent protests…

Domestic Terrorism is defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigations as “acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law; Appearing to intend (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping”(Definitions of Terrorism). This definition describes the case of John Allen Muhammad, 42, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 .…

Playwright Thornton Wilder and poet e. e. cummings are portraying ordinary life in a small town in the play Our Town and in the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” Both, the play and poem were written about at the same period. The towns in both the play and poem can be related to any city in the country. The poem and play take the readers through the similar themes of the passage of time, love, and death, which are an ordinary life that is monotonous and ultimately unmemorable. Both…

remarkable range and depth which impressed audiences because he was able to convey emotions like no other performer (Lewis). He reached new heights in his career when he released the best-selling album ever in history called, “Thriller”( Biography.com Editors). Paradoxically, Michael Jackson had been the most public and private figure when he was alive; he was a man whom everyone knew and loved. Michael Jackson was a very well-respected role model who had all the wealth and fame a person could…

and ended his term in 2005. His predecessor John Paul I, was in office was 33 days. It was good for him to be in office a long time because the pope before him had an extremely short reign. He was anointed a saint in April of 2014. (Biography.com editors) One characteristic of JPII’s spirituality is that he was an evangelist. He called all men and women to Jesus Christ. He told us that only Jesus Christ can discover the purpose and fulfilment of human life. John Paul II was big on…

thing but the children who got more than 30 minutes ate fruits and veggies. The children can not be rushed to eat that fast during school. In my opinion they should have 45+ minutes to eat lunch. This came from Samantha Cowan who is an associated editor for culture. In that same article it states “Many children, especially those from low-income families, rely on school meals for up to half their daily energy intake, so it is essential that we give students a sufficient amount of time to eat…

is an instable website because anyone can challenge the credibility of the writers and the next time one is on the site the information is updated. For example, Katharine Q. Seelye (2005) writes about John Seigenthaler Sr. a 78 year old and former editor of the Tennessean in Nashville who learned from reading a post in Wikipedia that he was "was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby"( Seelye, 2005, para. 1). Another example is…