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    Literature Review Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, an informed educator and one of the nation’s leading providers of high-quality, affordable health care. For over a century millions of woman and men have come to Planned Parenthood for vital health care services, Sex education, and sexuality information. They are one of Americas most trusted provider of reproductive health care. There are more than 38,000 staff members and volunteers working there and have more the 650…

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    both Eli Whitney and Martin Luther King––two non-politicians––greatly influenced the politics of our country. Despite their political influence, each character achieved this influence in different ways. Eli Whitney influenced the workings of our nation through his achievements, specifically the invention of the cotton gin. After graduating from Yale in the late 1700s, Eli Whitney moved to Georgia and took up a job as a tutor to pay off his student debt. After failing as a tutor, Whitney was…

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    helped out and visited many workshops with Whitney. When the war ended many many products became more cheap like Eli's nails. So he became a producer of hat pins for women.…

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    Maximus and Whitney are similar men both being motivated by greed and earning their wealth through illegal means. Whitney manipulating and controlling others, while Maximus offering his skills to people with malicious intents. Neither Whitney or Maximus are guilt free they have done their crimes long enough, not feeling any remorse for their actions. They just see their crimes as a means to an end, their shortcut to wealth. When Whitney is first introduced he is innocent character being…

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    Charlotte Anita Whitney was a daughter of a lawyer George Edwin Whitney and Mary Lewis Whitney. She was born on July 7, 1867 to an affluent family, whose members included Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field, and the multi-millionaire Cyrus W. Field. She grew up in the times of the Reconstruction Era, the times when former slaves experienced yet again tremendous persecutions from whites, and when white southern politicians passed black codes, voter qualifications, and other…

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    Whitney Heichel left for work early on October 16, 2012. She said goodbye to her husband with a kiss not knowing it would be the last time she is seen. She worked as a Starbucks barista and her shift started at 7 am. At 8 am her manager called her husband telling him she did not show up for work. As soon as he was off the phone he knew something was wrong. He tried calling and texting her for the next two hours. He finally called the police at 10 am. As soon as the police arrived so did many…

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    The creation of Eli Whitney revolutionized America and changed the way people valued others. The cotton-gin was a machine that removed the seeds from the cotton about fifty times faster than a slave per day. The cotton-gin mostly affected the eastern-southern part of America because of the large cotton farms. From 1800 to 1820 annual cotton production quadrupled and unfortunately the amount of slaves increased as well. In thirty years (1800 - 1830) the number of slaves doubled being 2 million.…

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    In April, 1992, Los Angeles was a powder keg. Four police officers stood accused of police brutality. A video surfaced showing them beating an unarmed black man named Rodney King. When a jury of 10 whites, one Hispanic, and one Asian decided the police had used justifiable force, (Evening Standard) a crowd of peaceful demonstrations turned violent and lay siege to the city. Those in the streets during the riots witnessed a multiethnic horde commit assault, theft, and arson. However, the millions…

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    Eli Whitney is the best know for the cotton gin.A cotton gin is a simple machine that separates the cotton seeds for the cotton fibers.Eli Whitney was born on December 8, 1765, in Westboro Massachusetts.He grew up on a small frame.Whitney was married to Henrietta Edwards, they were in 1817-1825.He and Henrietta had for children Elizabeth Fay, Susan Edwards, Frances Edwards, and Eli Whitney Jr.Eli invented the cotton gin in 1793. In this time period, slavery was in action.In 1793, there is an act…

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    The New Museum is located in the Lower East Side on Bowery and opened its doors in 2007 after expanding and relocating from its previous home in SoHo. Likewise, the Whitney by Renzo Piano Workshop was the result of a need of expansion that saw the museum vacate its old largely residential neighborhood in the Upper East Side and into the Meatpacking District neighborhood of Lower Manhattan on Gansevoort Street in 2015…

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