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As Martin Luther King Jr once said, “we are not makers of history; We are made by history.”. By this he means that we are shaped by our past, everything that has happened, has happened because certain people wanted it to. We can't change the past but we can make the future. And throughout time society has continued to change. We strive to create change so the world will become better. Looking at the past there are many great changes that have influenced who we are today as a society. However…

Introduction Through out my English classes in high school, I lacked the confidence in my writings and group projects. In my written projects, I would dread peer review due to being scared that my classmates would judge my writing. I also would view every critique they gave as insulting me instead of trying to help me better communicate my ideas in my paper. During peer review sessions, I would be so wrapped up in the idea that my peers did not like aspects of my paper, that I would ignore the…

The Berlin Wall was both a force and stigma in Germany because it divided the communist East from the democratic West. The Berlin Wall was also paramount during the Cold War because even though it was intended to divide the Germans, it later united them. From the time that The Wall was erected to the time that it fell there were many radical cultural changes within the country of Germany and revolts from all around the globe. When The Wall fell, it was not only a turning point, but also marked…

are a part of something bigger, and held by a group which has been around for 150 years with the intention of ridding people of color. The Ku Klux Klan has been around since the beginning of the United States Constitution, and their only goal is to tor-ture and rid of all the slaves who attempted to be free or es-cape. Racism and discrimination has been around for many years. U.S. history is built on racism and discrimination some of these are for other people’s cultures, sexuality, or even…

In this historical study, an argument will be made that the Martin Luther King was influenced by Henry Thoreau’s concept of “civil disobedience” in the non-violent opposition to unjust laws. In the Civil Rights Movement, King utilized Thoreau’s concept of civil disobedience to galvanize a peace movement that relied on non-compliance with unjust laws to deescalate the violence that was being used by the police and the military against African-American in the 1950s. Thoreau’s motivation for civil…

The Civil War should always be understood because it represents the struggle against white su-premacy. Although it granted the slaves freedom, its effects led to further racial violence against African Americans down the road. This makes for over three-hundred years of constant oppres-sion against people who withhold the black body. In this case, irony is used to show that even in the late 1900s, racism against black Americans still existed. Hence, it needs to be universally un-derstood that the…

Introduction Many people dream of starting their own companies someday, but the question of capital almost always stands in their way. For successful long term growth of a company is reliant on availability of not only enough capital but the right kind of financing. There are several categories of financing possibilities. Smaller ventures sometimes rely on personal bank loan, crowd funding, loans from friends or family funding. There are a number of sources to deliberate when looking for…

In the movie Spiderman, the protagonist Peter Parker is a geeky, introverted, intelligent high school boy who gets bit by an engineered spider during a field trip to a lab. After the biting of the spider, Parker turns into a stronger and confident person who possesses spider-like qualities. Throughout the movie it is clear Spiderman’s legacy is that he wishes to protect civilians, he can be considered as a superhero vigilante or be considered as a criminal. Parker develops super speed, strength,…

places, for example, Japan's Aokigahara Forest and Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, or imitate others' suicidal behavior or means of suicide which was published by the media, that is, Werther Effect (Liu & Xiao, 2014; Korean Bridge of Life, 2014; Tor, Ng & Ang, 2008). Therefore, over-publicized public service advertisements of Bridge of Life program caused that Mapo bridge be excessively concerned about so that became the hot spot for suicide and people who try to commit suicide attracted…

Wikileaks, an organization that allows whistleblowers to publish “…suppressed documents of diplomatic, ethical, historical or moral significance that reveal illegal or immoral behavior,” (Wikileaks); is being silenced by the media from exposing the Democratic Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. The media is helping cover up the truth because of special interests. Wikileaks has released the deleted Hillary emails, DNC emails, and John Podesta (Hillary’s Chairman of the her presidential…