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    Obama is the first African-American to serve as the United State president.Obama was born in Honolulu Hawaii,on August 4,1961. Obama’s parent are Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr.When Obama dad decided to pursue his Ph.D in Massachusetts to attend Harvard University.Obama parents divorced in March 1994 .Obama struggled in the abent of his father.Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro a year later they moved to Jakarta Indonesia where Obama half sister,Maya Soetoro Ng,was born in 1970.When Obama moved…

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    in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1947. Adams began composing at the age of ten and first heard his music performed around the age of 13 or 14. After he matriculated at Harvard University in 1965 he studied composition under Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, Earl Kim, and David Del Tredici. He earned two degrees from Harvard University (BA 1969, MA 1972). His piece "American Standard" was recorded and released on Obscure Records in 1975. He taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1972…

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    President Barack Obama has released a proposal of making community college free but it’s very controversial because its just limited to the community colleges. Overall a community college is not that expensive as a CSU, UC, or private. Thus making a community college free would be pointless if the student has to move on to a university where they have to pay. In the article “As He Promotes It, Some Question Obama’s Free Community College Idea” by Joanne Jacobs published in February 23, 2015…

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    requiring various government officials to work with select groups to determine the best course of action in implementing and evaluating the policies put in place. While public policy is influenced here in the United States, it also requires our President, government officials and agencies to form foreign relations to help solve international problems. Foreign involvement and policies influence peace, human rights, allies, and international trade to name a few (Ushistory.org, 2015). Nevertheless…

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    Lucretia Mott, advocate of women’s rights and a strong opponent of slavery. Davis earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Harvard. From 1870 to 1873 he worked in meteorological observatory in Argentina and then returned to Harvard to study geology and physical geography. In 1878, he was appointed as an instructor in physical geography at Harvard and by 1885 became a full professor (Daly 1944). Davis contributed in the field of physical geography and geomorphology, not…

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    attended Harvard University, believed that racism was still a problem in society and not all races were treated equally. After this incident, there had been protests about the killing and saying that he was shot only because he was a black male. This led up to the media, creating a saying called “#BlackLivesMatter.” Individuals felt that the African race has not been getting treated fairly recently. With this saying, they are trying to…

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    Last week, 591 out of 609 workers from the Harvard University Dining Service (HUDS) voted to go on strike if the school refused to come to an agreement regarding their salary demands by Friday, Sept. 30. The proposition suggested a yearly salary of $35,000 for full-time employees, as well as affordable health care. Among the total 750 members of HUDS, 48 percent receive less than what is considered a “living wage.” Even with the average HUDS employee earning $21.89 per hour, as well as…

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    Antonin Scalia was a Supreme Court Justice who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan. He was a well-rounded judge who stood for the Constitution, and the way the founders intended the constitution to be conceived. He was a conservative judge who stood his ground for what he believed was the correct thing to do. Leaning to the conservative side, Scalia made a decision to uphold the constitution. He believed the constitution was not to make change easier but delay or prevent change. Scalia…

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    George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the United States of America who served from 2001 to 2009. He was the son of George Herbert Walker Bush who was the 41st president. Before George W. Bush ran for president he was the two-term Governor of Texas. George W. Bush also graduated from Yale University and Harvard Business School. He also owned the Texas Rangers baseball team. .George W. Bush was the oldest of six children of George H. W. Bush. was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven Connecticut.…

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 was the president number 32 of the united states led the united states in one of the hardest stages which was during the second world war he was in the government for 12 years which was from March 4, 1933 until his death in 1945, which is in a wheelchair for much of his adult life because he had polio terminal illness. A whole generation of Americans grew up without knowing any other president, since FDR served four unprecedented terms in…

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