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Michael Jeffrey Jordan known as MJ , was born in feb. 17, 1963. He is a national retired basketball player. He led the bulls to six NBA championships. He earned the NBA most valuable player award five times. MJ wanted to be the best basketball player alive. Plus he wanted to fly.( www.Biography. com) Jordan wife and kids In 1989, Jordan got married to Juanita vanoy. They had three kids together, Jeffery , Marcus, and Jasmine. They were married for seventeen years and they divorced in Dec.…

Atlanta, Georgia. He is an American black Baptist priest and leader of the American civil rights movement. He was opposed to violence and he supports racial equality in the worldwide. He was assassinated in 1968 and before this, he won Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, King was awarded the Freedom Award by former US President Jimmy Carter in 1966. In his honor, Martin Luther King Day began to be celebrated. He was very successful in school life. After high school, he continued Morehouse College,…

politics that are taking place right now. All of the participants this year were chosen based off of the fact that they all connect to “poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and have attempted to make sense and art out of political actualities” (Old Dominion University Libraries). The festival took place from Sunday September 25th to Thursday September 29th at different locations on campus. The event that I attended was held at the Baron and Ellie Gordon Art Galleries, I really enjoyed where the event…

different countries and states. In this particular course we focused on how religion affected the mountain people. In particular Methodism is an interesting domination. It was started by John Wesley and has continued to grow today. In this paper Methodism will be outlined by its history and origin, comparing it to characteristics of Appalachian religion in the word, and if it is still thriving today. In 1729, John Wesley and his brother Charles attended Oxford University in England. They with…

campaign. They were in the early stages, but they have gathered plenty of information that could to his reelection. The trip to Texas in November 1963 was to get a feeling to how he was received in Texas and the south. Texas would be an important state to be reelected. He met with business men in Fort Worth before heading to Dallas, and he was to meet with more business men in Dallas after a ride through downtown Dallas that resulted in…

1619, a Dutch ship brought the first 20 Africans to the shores of Jamestown, Virginia. In the following years of the 17th century, approximately 1,048,600 African slaves would be brought to the North American colonies. Approximately 9.7 million (Gates) more African slaves were brought to other parts of North America as a part of the slave trade. you’re forgetting about native americans; they…

of Whites and Blacks. COLOR LINE In this writing Du Bois states “in well-nigh the whole rural South the black farmers are peons, bound by law and custom to an economic slavery, from which the only escape is…

The Great Depression was a period of time that lasted from 1929­1939. All regions of the United States were hit hard­ some more than others. The Depression was a curious time in that it either created struggle in regions, or emphasized the struggle already present. This period certainly magnified the hardships that the Appalachian region was facing both socially and economically. These hardships, however, spawned far beyond the Depression, which led to the creation of the Appalachian Regional…

going to know what they stand for is if we are willing to take the time to research it and find out. If we are going to vote we need to make sure we make an informed vote otherwise we should not vote at all. It is important to know about our district, state, and about how our political figures vote. The district in my area is the sixth district of Ohio. It runs through a part of Mahoning Valley and 325 miles along the Ohio river (The Almanac of American Politics 2016). In the recent political…

Since before the formation of the United States, the issue of slavery has plagued the nation. Slavery, the practice of buying and selling of men and women as property, was ingrained in the very fabric of America’s origins. Article IV section 2 of the Constitution protected the rights of slave owners by prohibited one state from freeing slaves who fled to them from another state. There were nearly half a million slaves in the United States upon its founding on 4 July 1776. The importation of…