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    Michael Phelps is the best athlete of all times. Michael Fred Phelps II is an American retired competitive swimmer and the greatest and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for tons of individual events and also won Olympic gold medals in these races.He has proved the world that he was unique and that was not giving up even though he had adversities coming to the London Olympics. Another reason why Phelps is the best athlete of…

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    Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church followers believed that God punishes U.S.A for its tolerance on homosexuality especially in the military. To show their beliefs, Phelps and his followers used to show up at military funerals to protest against such acts. One of the military funerals they showed up in belonged to Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, the son to Albert Snyder (Court, 2011). They caused controversy by showing up at the funeral displaying signs such as “Thank God for dead soldiers,”…

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    Charlie Hebdo is a French newspaper founded in 1970, which had already achieved the circulation of 45,000 in French in 2012. It often published some reports about religions and politics. For example, the cover of a 2011 issue retitled Charia Hebdo (fr) (French for Sharia Weekly), featured a cartoon of Muhammad, whose depiction is forbidden in some interpretations of Islam. Moreover, in 2012, the newspaper published a series of satirical cartoons of Muhammad, including nude caricatures. Such…

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    “Christie sold more than two billion books, translated into 103 languages. Only the Bible and Shakespeare’s work are said to have sold more” (de Bruxelles). Agatha Christie published 78 mystery novels, 19 plays, six romance novels (under the pseudo name Mary Westmacott), two books of poetry, one children’s book, and two autobiographies, in addition to over 100 short stories. She averaged two books per year for most of her life (Agatha’s Life Hercule Poirot Poirot.us). Her mystery novels are…

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    righting a wrong. If she were righting a wrong, she would have gotten Amir arrested for battery and assault. However, she instead tells him not to contact her again, which is more of order than anything. On the other hand, Romaine gets justice after Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church protest their hate message during the trial. Romaine gets justice because she formed Angel Action, which shielded Matthew’s family from seeing their hate messages and how they were happy that Matthew was…

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    the man who works for the seven-eleven on the corner he still wears his white hen apron every morning and this morning in particular, it’s slow, so to pass time he decides to draw a picture of himself from the cosmic perspective underneath the counter, behind coffee filter replacements and confiscated counterfeits he untangles some yellow, wide-ruled notebook paper folds it, flips it horizontally and on the right end he writes “hyperbole north”, and near the left end he writes “hyperbole south”,…

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    The first protest was held at Gage Park in Topeka, Kansas. The group was protesting gay people. While on a bike ride, Fred Phelps the founder of Westboro Baptist Church, rode faster than his two grandsons and got ahead of them. When he rode back to get them, a man, who turned out to be gay, was trying to lure them into the trees, with the intention of molesting them. Phelps was outraged and told the city they needed to “clean the park”. When they refused to do so he took matters into his…

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    in the swimming history. He is known for playing the role of Tarzan in the movie. Concerning his swimming career, he controlled the swimming world taking part in the two Olympics Games and holding 6 Olympic medals including 5 gold. 6- Michael Fred Phelps II He is an American swimmer. His talent and proficiency are unique as a prodigy in the swimming history. His initial appearance was in the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, when he was 15. In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, his talent was tangible.…

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    1969 – Prime Minister Trudeau passed Bill C-150. The bill stated that homosexuality was no longer a crime, and that abortion was now allowed in certain circumstances. This also made it legal to buy contraceptives. Now, men over 21 years of age were legally allowed to be together. In order to have an abortion, the woman had to be reviewed by a panel of three doctors, and if they believed having the child would affect the woman’s mental, emotional, or physical health, she would be allowed an…

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    Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…

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