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    Phineas Taylor Barnum is one of the most famous showmen in America. He was born July 5, 1810 and died April 7, 1891. During his lifetime, P.T Barnum invented the circus and he was the reason we have the three-ring circles in the circus. The movie The Greatest Showman tries to portray P.T Barnum’s life. There is a lot of similarities and differences between the movie The Greatest Showman and real life on P.T Barnum life. Some similarities are what he did before the circus and who he worked with.…

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    The main arguments of ‘Seize the time: the story of black panther’ is mainly against oppression and the party’s fight for equality. The author argues against the Fascist Power Structure that was designed to oppress colored people and poor Caucasian people. The role of the Black Panther Party was to focus on the Power Structure defined in 3 levels of oppression avaricious business men, demagogic politicians and fascist police forces. The US government, CIA, FBI, deemed the Black Panthers a Black…

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    Have you ever wondered how automobile businesses make so much money or how they have been so successful for such a long time? Alfred P. Sloan and Lee Iacocca were a part of this impact on the automobile industry for two of the biggest companies in the world. Alfred P. Sloan was born in 1875 and became a part of the Hyatt Rolling Bearing Company where he became the president and general manager in 1899. After 17 years, the company merged with the United Motors Corporation that soon became General…

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    The clouds broke, and light began to shine through the large, curtainless, loft-style windows flanking a four-hundred-square-foot apartment containing only a bed, a faded purple sofa, a birch-coloured dinner table, and a single chair. Hand-me-downs would be the explanation to friends regarding the eclectic range of furniture. The truth was that they were obtained for free through a series of favours to strangers. I sat down and opened a laptop bought off of Craigslist. The operating system was…

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    About the Author Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam more often than not alluded to as A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, was one of India 's most recognized researchers. He was an Aerospace architect, educator, and chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), who served as the eleventh President of India from 2002 to 2007. Amid his term as President, he was famously known as the People 's President. Prior to his term as India 's leader, he filled in as an aeronautical…

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    With a voluntary decision to have a firsthand industrial experience and zeal to test my knowledge and skills amassed during my graduate studies, I think it is the right time in my career to expand the horizon of my knowledge and skills, and invest all my potential to upgrade them with the post-graduation studies. The graduate studies and an industrial job after that has really opened me to a plethora of latitudes, and a good post-graduation will help me to streamline them and move ahead in my…

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    The Kennedy Family is both famous and infamous for many things, one of those things is The Kennedy Curse. The Kennedy Curse is said to impact the Kennedys and their relatives in bad ways after a great accomplishment that a Kennedy did. It is said that the Kennedy Curse was started by Patrick Kennedy. Another explanation is: “The Kennedy Curse is the result of destructive collision between the Kennedy’s fantasy omnipotence- their need to get away with things that others can not- and the cold,…

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    Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was targeted to be bombed on April 19, 1995 by a truck full of explosives parked out front. Over 300 other buildings were affected or destroyed in the explosion as well, this ending up with an overall death count of 168 people along with 650 more injured. The bombing was known as the worst terrorist attack on American soil up until six years later on September 11, 2001 (History.com) In this report I will be going over Edward T.…

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    a huge impact, many charges, lots of injuries. When Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, it became a national tragedy that American people will never forget. The Oklahoma City Bombing About the bomb. People huddle around the TV checking on updates, while others rush to the horrifying scene to find people or help pick up. Morning April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma City, the Alfred P. Murrah Building was obliterated. A bomb made out of tons of explosives exploded,…

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    because he was angry at the government. However, he quicklybecame a perfect example as to how strong our country truly is and how justice will be served.At 9:02am, on April 19, 1995, people’s lives changed forever (history.com staff). Outsidethe Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, an explosion left 168 innocent men,women, and children dead and more than 500 injured (history.com staff). This explosion was atruck-bomb set off by a man known as Timothy McVeigh and his…

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