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    Nelson Mandela Many would argue that Nelson Mandela is the most admired political figure of the twentieth century and a leader of the human rights movement. What did Nelson Mandela do in his life to deserve such accolades? Well, he took a stand against the way certain people were being treated in his country and stood up for what he believed in. This group of people was the blacks of South Africa. Throughout Nelson Mandela’s tedious life, he made a remarkable amount of achievements and turned…

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    29-year-old previous specialized right hand for the CIA and current worker of the barrier contractual worker Booz Allen Hamilton. He was raised initially in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. His family moved later to Maryland, close to the NSA base camp in Fort Meade. By his own particular affirmation, he was not a stellar understudy. So as to get the credits important to get a secondary school recognition, he went to a junior college in Maryland, considering figuring, yet never finished the…

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    After seceding from the Union, Confederates attacked the fort, demanding the Union to surrender it because the fort was located on their territory. Fort Sumter symbolizes the broken peace between the South and North as they lose their unison as a country and go into war. The Confederate’s rebellion challenged Abraham Lincoln to decide on the starvation of…

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    Mapping once was the guidelines to just about each and everything in destination making upon the thought of traveling. One could consider have postal mail delivered by someone whom has bought the mailed item and /or items to the receiver by way of horseback, as well as had to have their journey planned by some sought of guided route, that reference mapping by directional route to complete their delivery to the intended person and/or persons. Today devices could precisely place you there before…

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    Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on the date of January 3, 1919. Breaking the color barrier, Jackie Robinson turned into the first ever African-American to play in Major League Baseball. The most youthful of five youngsters, Robinson was brought up in relative destitution by a single parent. He went to John Muir High School and after he attended Pasadena Junior College, where he showed his skills playing four sports: baseball, track, football, and basketball. In 1938 he was…

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    Jackie Robinson was a very inspirational athlete, known world wide and his name will go down in history. He was a role model, a leader, and made it easier for African American ballplayers everywhere. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was the first African American professional baseball player in todays day in age of baseball. Jackie is credited and rightfully so, with breaking the “color line” in baseball. While he was a great baseball player, that was not even close to the most important thing in…

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    Not being able to access outside help the confederates would have never succeeded in the war. There were not a lot of navel battles in the civil war but having a successful navy really benefited the north because they could bombard the confederate forts which greatly assisted the north in winning…

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    in Littleton, Colorado, before committing suicide. July 1999 - A stock exchange trader in Atlanta, Georgia, killed 12 people including his wife and two children before taking his own life. September 1999 - A gunman opened fire at a prayer service in Fort Worth, Texas,…

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    shooters in military bases on U.S soil. Its bad enough to have to worry about being killed overseas, but to have to worry about being killed on base where you are supposed to be safe is just outrageous. The worst one to happen so far is the shooting at Fort Hood in texas in 2009, the shooter killed 13 people and wounded another 32, he was sentenced to death (NBC Washington 3). There are 794,300 armed police officers, they have a 11% error rate (Guns in America 1). The average amount of deaths…

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    We start in the time period of about 1803, this is all how the notorious adventure begins. Thomas Jefferson president at the time had an interest in the Louisiana territory owned by the French so with the help of the U.S. Senate he purchases it. Which is known today as the Louisiana Purchase. After Jefferson discussed exploring the New Land beyond the “great rock mountains” he appointed his personal secretary Meriwether Lewis to voyage to the ocean. Lewis asked for help on this trip by a man…

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