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    While Shonda Rhimes has had a big impact on the entertainment business, there is less information accessible about her personal life. She is considered to be a quiet person and wants to keep her matters out of the public eye. However, here is what we do know about her personal life.Shonda Rhimes was born on January 13, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois, to a family of intellectuals. Her parents are Vera P. Rhimes, a university administrator, and Ilee Rhimes, a college professor. She grew up in Park…

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    Valentina Possú Cox Lang. B4 4 Mar. 2016 Assertion #1 The effectiveness of nonviolence in the Civil Rights movement is evident in its success to gain public support and inspire government intervention. The importance of publicity to the movement can be seen in the 1964 campaign “Freedom Summer”. During the 1960s, activists began working in Mississippi, “Essentially a closed society on racial issues…[that] fought tenaciously, often violently, to maintain a way of life based on white supremacy”…

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    Marine POYLO Redesigning Marketing – Carole ZIBI Sciences Po – Fall 2017 HBS Cases A/ ACCOR HOTEL CASE 1) Describe the customer journey and identify the problem they are trying to solve with Room Key The customer journey used to be exclusively handled by the hotel itself. Clients used to pick a destination and call the hotel to book a room. Today new entrants step in the customer journey. The customer journey is the following: • Dream: the future client thinks about travelling. He/she is…

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    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President, I campaigned and advocated for voting rights and political literacy particularly for students and underprivileged communities in the surrounding area. This was done through voter registration drives, workshops, community gatherings etc. I also focused on women’s rights as it relates to bringing awareness to sexual assault on college campus through programs such as Take Back The Night which encouraged students to take a pledge…

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    It is common knowledge that in the 1960s it was the peak time of racial injustice in the country. During this time a well known civil rights activist, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was doing everything that was in his hands in order to end this racial injustice in a nonviolent way. The document shown in the previous page speaks about all of King’s efforts and how people reacted to his actions, including those who attempted to kill him and his family. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a very…

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    #1 The Supreme Court is an appellate court and the highest court in the United States (Cheeseman, 2013, p. 41). The jurisdiction or legal ability for the Supreme Court to hear a case is established by Article III, Section II of the Constitution of the United States of America (“About,” n.d.). As established by the Constitution, the Supreme Court has both original jurisdiction (legal ability to hear a case) and appellate jurisdiction which means, it can hear appeals from the highest state courts…

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    her interests in mythology and psychology and persuaded these areas into her pieces (“The Secret”). An event that strongly played a part in Sue Monk Kidd’s writing is the Civil Rights Acts of 1964. She still can picture the boiling tensions at voter registration drives and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. That terrible summer of injustice and racial unjust she felt was mandatory as serving as a backdrop when writing The Secret Life of Bees…

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    Advance voting is available for those who work or go to school and registration is not needed in order to vote. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, the 10th, 9th, 8th and 7th days before election day are designated for advance voting. On Day 28, general voting is held and it is the day when most people vote. Subsequently…

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    thought was to change how Mexican and Latin Americans/natives were to be treated in the workplace. The CSO, Community Services Organization in California offered him the training. “Chávez spent the next ten years building CSO chapters, leading voter registration drives, and aiding dispossessed Mexicans and Mexican Americans on issues of immigration, welfare, and police abuse.”(Gale). Crossing the Threshold is another element of Campbell’s Heroic Cycle. It describes the hero’s transition between…

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    The House of Commons is made by Members of State (MPs). The public elects the members every five years. The House of Commons debates important issues, makes and reviews laws, represents the public and holds the Government to account. Inside the House of Commons, there are two sides: on one side, there is The Government, which runs the country, and the other side is called The Opposition who keeps an eye on what the Government is doing. The chamber has 437 seats for over 650 members. The Commons…

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