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Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. The youngest of five other siblings, Robinson was raised in poverty by a single mom. He attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College, where he was an extraordinary athlete and played four sports; football, basketball, track, and baseball. He was named the Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938. Jackie then took his talents to UCLA, where he got accepted there on 4 sports scholarships. His older brother,…

Love is a difficult matter when it comes to deciding what love actually is. There are many perspectives of love, which then leads to different values and characteristics of love. Generally, it is also diverse in a sense that it can be directed in all sorts of ways including love for selves, love for others, or love for or to something. If not dealt carefully and cautiously, then sometimes love can ultimately make a person to behave obsessively, manipulatively, or self-destructing. However,…

The African American museum is the only African American firefighter museum in the whole United States. The name of the museum challenged me to write about this unique site .I was wondering what this site will be about. Why specially the African Americans as firefighters. I decided to search more about the African American museum. The African American firefighter museum is located in Los Angeles County in California. This museum was built in the place fire station 30, where the some firefighters…

XI. Before any analysis of what Gilligan has written, how I would define emotional health is: being able to have and maintain a positive, uplifting state of self -- including self-esteem and self-respect -- capable of healing oneself through the daily hardships of life. There are several reasons why I chose to define emotional health this way. The first is that emotional health is a noun, or rather something that you can possess or not possess, hence my usage of the word ‘have’. The reason I use…

Enrico Darnell Nelson, the son of Percy Nelson and Johnda Johnson was born on August 14, 1973 in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Hospital with. He has a wife, two daughters, and a magnificent home in Lake Elsinore, California. Some of his greatest achievements include having a wonderful family, living in his own house, and graduating from high school. He would say that his personality is demanding, controlling, picky, has a sense of humor, understanding, loving, kind, and caring. I chose to write my…

Historiography Stefan Kühl explores this relationship between German and American eugenicists in his book, The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. He states, “Attempts to separate eugenics from the Nazi program of race improvement were only partially successful. The personal and ideological links between eugenics and mass sterilization and extermination were too obvious to be overlooked.” Indeed, the two movements were linked, and this relationship…

a file clerk and typist. Instead of thinking about marriage, she had been considering moving to California. While she did not regret growing up in a small town, she desired more in life. When the chance came to attend the wedding of a cousin in Pasadena, California she took the opportunity and told her parents she was going to California to stay. Coming to California forever changed the direction of her life. First, she learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After…

The operation called car wash (lava jato) is the biggest investigation on corruption and money laundering in Brazil. The name comes from the use of gas stations and car washs to move illicit resources in one of the criminal organizations initially investigated. The judge of the first instance responsible for the operation is called Sergio Moro; he is a Federal judge, writer and college professor, and he is considered a brave, effective and very well qualified judge. Even though the operation car…

This story must begin with an understanding of how the Super Bowl has evolved. Though it has always been a big game -- the first edition placed enormous stress on a man named Vince Lombardi (and probably contributed to his early death in 1970 at age 57) -- the cultural significance of the Super Bowl needed time to emerge in American life. Accordingly, the weight of the Super Bowl wasn't larger than life at the beginning. The game had to become a cultural event. The empty seats for the first…

The Drunkard Temptation is the desire to do something; everyday people face a great temptation. Most people might not even realize that they are being tempted, because it is easy to be tricked into something when it is unexpected. The Drunkard was first published on July 3, 1948. During this time period there was a lot of temptations especially with alcohol. In “The Drunkard” Frank O’Connor portrays over temptation throughout the whole story, in the story the father of the narrator gets tempted…