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Tony Horwitz, the author of the Novel “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War”, was born in Washington D.C. and graduated from Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Horwitz was an award winning national reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he covered foreign wars and conflicts. He has won countless awards for his books, including “Midnight Rising”, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and won the 2012…

Then after serving three terms, he was elected to the Senate after defeating Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., in November, 1952. Ten months later, on September 12, 1953, JFK married Jacqueline Bouvier. Jacqueline, or “Jackie,” graduated from George Washington University and met Senator John Kennedy at a dinner party in Georgetown while working as a journalist and photographer. Their first child, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, was born on November 27, 1957. Also during the year of 1957, Kennedy was awarded the…

New York, is considered one of the best basketball players of all time. Jordan’s love for basketball developed in North Carolina. Ironically, Michael kicked off the Laney High team because the coach thought he was too small. Jordan attended the University of North Carolina as a freshman, and was the young layer to watch. Jordan’s college coach, Dean Smith, was known as a teaching coach who stressed basketball fundamentals and a team concept that encouraged each player to sacrifice for the great…

Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001 Thesis: Blight argues that in terms of the American Civil War memory "romance triumphed over reality, (and) sentimental remembrance won over ideological memory (5)" Themes: One of the first themes that appears is rituals and symbolism. Parades, statues, and speeches all came about as a way to remember the war for both sides and for both the black and white race.…

rights as any other human being and should be born. Besides having their life ended, children go through a lot of pain during an abortion. In her article, “Previability Abortion and the Pain of the Unborn,” Teresa Collett, a Law Professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, effectively explains that a fetus feels pain during an abortion. Since the 20th century, there has been debates to whether they can experience pain during abortion. She states, “When the lives of the unborn are…

Mount St. Helen's is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range in Skamania County, Washington and is part of the Ring of Fire centered around the Pacific Ocean. Mount St. Helen's was created when the oceanic Jean de Fuca plate subducted beneath the North American Plate and has a long history of eruptive periods followed lengthy dormancies. Her volcanic activity was marked by thousands of years of lava and pyroclastic flows only to fall silent and then reawaken to begin her destructive cycle…

changed the CIA for the better. His brilliant ideas are noted throughout the book and are enjoyable to read. Another quote from the book is, “Angleton’s third mole hunt in 1963 targeted the CIA’s station in Mexico City, and it involved the defector Lee Oswald. It, too, ended badly.” Morley writes about Angleton’s successes and failures. He was a very smart and powerful person, but no one was…

In the article that I have read on unemployment, it gave knowledge about how the U.S. economy (2015) was expected to continue on its previous growth path and on into at least the first quarter of next year (2016). The GDP growth rate is expected to remain somewhat consistent in the 2.25 percentage range. There has been a decline in the unemployment rate (now at 5.5 percent). There is also minimal improvement in disposable income that have raised spending. Simultaneously, GDP growth has also…

Political Courage Vs. Political Conformity According to a report by Kevin R. Binning and other researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California, and Stanford University, researchers have demonstrated that political conformity does not allow for individual goals (Binning, 2016). Kevin R. Binning's report affirms why political conformity is a pessimistic aspect; politicians tend to go for more favorable goals instead of their individual goals. In addition, according to a…

Weighted Down: Obesity Is Not A Choice Obesity has become a leading cause of death and disease in America. Despite years of efforts to reduce obesity in America, Federal health officials reported that although years spent working to reduce obesity in America has not affected this epidemic. The portion of obese Americans had a slight increase in numbers (Tavernise). Sixty-eight percent of adults and eighteen percent of children living in America are either overweight or obese. Our nation…