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    but because most didn 't know have an education, Washington would preach about how the white people are the wrong ones in the race for that we looked like assholes with racism and that the blacks where the sane ones. After Washington graduates from Hampton he wants to further more his education, and goes south to Tuskegee, Alabama where he learned and taught as well, he taught students the same way he was taught by not just being able to have everything isn 't handed to you but you can work…

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    era where education was ingrained to guarantee a better way of life, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from Booker T. Washington High School in the Illustrious Class of 1958. Continuing her quest for knowledge; she received full-ride scholarships to Hampton Institute as well as Purdue University along with the loving support of her father and step-mother, Nealie Johnson Smith. She pledged Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated with her best friend, Sullivan Robinson, who introduced her to her…

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    In the stages of prostate cancer (localized, regional and distant) both conventional and hadron radiation therapy have its benefits when compared to one another; but both offer a different form of treatment. Currently proton therapy is one of the most technologically advanced treatment for cancer. In proton therapy, protons are split form a hydrogen atom and accelerated to roughly two thirds the speed of light; transported along an evacuated tube into the treatment rooms. Then administered to…

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    1. Jean Hampton (1992) argues that instrumental conceptions of reason are “inescapably normative” (p.347). What this means is that theories that rely on instrumental conceptions of reason cannot escape from the normativity that exists in desires. Normativity in this case can refer to the concept of an “ideal” (p.344) human. The idea human is something that can be used to base our conceptions of good, bad, or irrational actions on. On one hand, A Hobbesian would suggest that “we ought to act…

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    The Importance Of Robots

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    is obvious that the innovations in technology enhance people’s abilities of making contact with each other and makes it in an easier way. Keith Hampton, who is a professor in Communication and Public Policy of Rutgers University’s school of Communication and Information, indicates that people are now more addicted to communication and relationships. Hampton also states that in studies with his students and collaborators, they found that cell phone and the Internet users, and especially those who…

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    Yo future me have have you moved out of hampton yet or are you still there if you are how is hampton I’m dieing to know how the future is have we colonized other worlds yet please tell me yes. Okay you can already know what is going to happen so let’s cut to it “life in 8th grade” it’s pretty boring to honest but I can’t to be in high school next year and you know that. Mainly I hope that this year will go a lot better then this year and maybe I can do something about the problem I can only…

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    The readings for this week was dominant and gave many messages for African Americans. I enjoyed Booker T. Washington straightforwardness about his life and the struggles he endured to receive an education which was his fundamental right as a citizen. He had a thirst for knowledge that no amount of fear could stop. He empowered his people to be the best at whatever they chose but stressed education. Washington suggested to his people that the best way to ensure progress and peace in the South…

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    In the film Dark Days, we witnessed how groups of people, who share the same space, support each other both physically and emotionally. The same concept, or sense of community, can be applied to social media and networks created online. In fact, online communities are actually referred to as “new communities,” essentially, a community unburdened by things such as geography. Using social network analysis, which according to Katherine Giuffre (2013), “concentrates on relations among the members of…

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    it. The passage “Up From Slavery” by Lauren Tarshis is about Booker T. Washington and the struggles that he faced because he was a slave. Booker had always wanted an education. He was so determined that he worked as hard as he could to go to the Hampton Institute, which costed seventy dollars per year and allowed former slaves like Booker to attend. Booker felt that he needed to go…

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    The autobiography of Booker T Washington titled Up From Slavery is a rich narrative of his life from slavery to one of the most influential motivational speakers, educators, visionaries’, founder and President of prestigious Institute of his time. He was a man determined to see his race educated and have economic opportunities as well society advancement, he was diligent, to see these tasks were accomplished with honesty and hard- work. On July 1881 Mr. Washington established the second colored…

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