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    Out of all of the notable women that Mr. West served as Chief Usher, Jackie Kennedy intrigued me the most. I would be interested in learning extra about her since she was, out of all the first ladies I read about, the one I found to be superbly admirable . In my opinion, Mr. West was closer to Jackie-O than any of the other First Ladies, and consequently she became considerably more humanized, making her more likable. Unlike some of the other first ladies, she didn’t put an impenetrable exterior…

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    What is your interest in the National Trails System, specifically the national scenic trails? • As our society becomes ever more modernized we as a populous are losing our connection with essential characteristics that underlie the greatness of the United States. There exists three main characteristics, and they are the historical, cultural, and natural aspects of the United States. In order for our society to preserve this connection we must provide generations to come effective mediums of…

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    Minnesota Lynx

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    Kenai Holien Mrs. Mar English … The Minnesota Lynx are a WNBA team that is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and plays in the Western Conference of the league. They play mainly at Target Center, and their team colors are navy, blue, green, and grey. Their franchise is owned by Glen Taylor, and has been ever since they were founded in 1998. The first WNBA game ever played was in 1997. The Lynx played their first game over a year later, because no NBA teams were looking to manage a WNBA team at…

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    The paramount cause of the rift between the Native Americans and Americans was America’s denial of the Native Americans’ right to their natural rights: the continuous demands the American government imposed without the consent of the Native Americans infuriated and caused the latter to instigate riots. From a seemingly contradictory perspective, Americans’ failure in instituting an absolute monarchy over the Native Americans resulted in the calamitous American Indian Wars. John Locke affirmed…

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    Many people will recognize the Electoral College from previous presidential elections, however studies show only 57% of people know what it is. The Electoral College is a system that is used in electing the president. People cast their votes in their state and then all the votes are counted. Officials then look at the percentage of voters for each candidate and the candidate with the larger percent gets that state. Each state has a panel of electors, the amount they have depending on population.…

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    Electoral College is a body of people representing the United States who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president. The federal system picks "trusted" men nominated to be elected. The number of electors is determined by federal representation for each state. Each state gets a minimum of 3 electors, for a total of 538 electoral votes, 535 members of Congress, 3 for the District of Columbia. Electoral College is like saying a black person commits a crime and now that…

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    What Freedom Means To Me. What freedom means to me, is that everyone is able to speak for themselves, and show how they feel, and think, and do the way they want to, because freedom means that ¨The power or right to act, speak, or think, as one wants without resistance or being controlled.” When I think of freedom, or hear freedom, I think that I'm able to do what I want, or think what I want, without anyone telling me to stop, because I have rights, just like you, and like everyone else.…

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    This is an analysis of Martin Luther King Jr’s speech famously known as “I have a dream”. It was given on August 28 1963, at the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Which was a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country (History). There was a time in our history when this…

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    Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father and the third President of the United States between 1801 and 1809. He worked in the Continental Congress, as Virginia representative and as wartime Governor of Virginia at the start of American Revolution (1779–1781). He was voted as the U. S Minister to France in May 1785 and later the first U. S Secretary of State in 1790 and served up to 1793 under President George Washington’s rule. Jefferson and Madison opposed Hamilton’s ideology by…

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    Autozone Case Summary

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    AutoZone is a company operating in the retail auto parts industry. AutoZone has two different focuses, one being the do-it-yourself customer and one being for commercial repair businesses (Parnell, 2014; Abbott, 2016). AutoZone currently has the largest market share of the retail auto parts industry (Abbott, 2016). AutoZone sees an opportunity for growth in providing parts to commercial repair businesses, and has established an online presence to focus on this commercial market. AutoZone faces…

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