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As found in the 1963 “Love that Forgives” Sunday school lesson from the 16th Street Baptist Church, “Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.” The idiosyncratic history of African Americans in the U.S. is marked by experiences of racism, oppression, inequality, and adversity. These problematic experiences are critical in understanding how intergroup forgiveness for a…

I. My Choices Brought Me Here Action is the end results of the choices we make. Over the course of my forty-eight months at the Naval Academy I have made some choices that led me to a position where I did not graduate on time. This paper will explore my decision making, critical thinking and other character components that have put me in this situation. My aptitude for commission is under review and the reasons for this are not just due to one incident but my overall record. My record conveys a…

For my father, what I witnessed with my own eyes on my first trip to Vietnam provided a sense of normalcy for him. Growing up in an economically challenged, underprivileged country means bearing witness to the effect and impacts of poverty on a daily basis. This in turn over time allowed him to become desensitized towards the poor. This is one of many disconnects between my father and I. My father’s immigration story is something I treasure greatly because it is a window into better…

be that the media hasn’t begun to cover it more. Eric garner is 43 year old African American a man named Eric Garner was allegedly selling black market cigarettes on the street when he was approached by New York police. As part of the effort to handcuff and arrest Garner, an officer named Daniel Panatela placed him in a choke hold. Garner was brought…

Cover page: What is the root of poor decisions that leads one to an imprisoned life being weighed down by shackles that one created on their own? Throughout this project my question has remained the same. What is the hold up to a successful life? As I began to explore my line of inquiry I came up with a few proposals to how one can be influenced to live a destructive lifestyle where their definition of success and goals was taught to them by hiphopcracy. A strong proposal that dominated my…

Its WrestleMania week and a bald man was working out. He is in his mid-thirties lifting weights but then all of the sudden someone shines a flashlight in his eyes. The barbell falls on the man’s stomach the murderer than keeps the flash light shined in his eyes and drops the barbell on his neck. The next morning of WrestleMania week the detectives arrives and it is The Rock n’ Sock Detectives. “What’s the scene look like Rocky?” Foley asks his partner the Rock. “The Rock says the jabroni…

On 05/29/2016 at approximately 19:11 hours I was in the parking lot of Nick’s Park located at 7929 US 19 in the City of Port Richey. At that time I was assisting officers from the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) as they were in the process of impounding a vessel from an unrelated call. While doing so, I observed a grey 2015 Toyota pickup truck driving around the parking lot loop at a high rate of speed. The vehicle approached the rear of a tow truck summoned by FWC. The…

A young boy named Montressor, who lived in a very small city called Rochester in Minnesota, where every night the streets are lonely, but every morning the birds are chirping. He disliked living in a city where he felt disconnected and it begins to bring memories when he was a child. He would rethink his past and the negative connection between him and his father and how his father disliked him because he was a strange boy. He dealt a lot with his father. He never got to know his mother because…

There have been many instances in the news lately of protests following the shooting of an unarmed African American male by a white police officer. These riots have taken place in cities like Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. In Ferguson the riot developed following the court’s ruling to not Indict the police officer in the case of Michael Brown. These cases are widely known due to national coverage, but people are unaware of the smaller cases that predate cases like that in Ferguson.…

3. An overview of the site and case studies: 3.1. Climate in Arwad Island and Outdoor weather during the period of measurement: The general climate of Arwad island is Mediterranean moderate climate all year round, latitude 34.53North and longitude 35.53East, which is characterized by the four seasons, humid environment, rainy winter weather and the prevailing wind is south and southwestern (Amer and Abou Hamed 2011). The average value of the diurnal highest temperature in Tartous is in summer in…