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    Joe Louis Research Paper

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    Alabama. My father, a sharecropper, was committed to a state mental hospital when I was two years old. My early life was shaped by financial struggles. When I was a teenager, I was the best boxer of my group of five boxers. I won 50 of 54 amateur boxing matches, 43 by knockouts. I won the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union 175-pound championship in 1934 and also was a Golden gloves titleholder. When I won that the next day I walked…

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    a man with big heart and a man who showed great compassion for the beloved sport of boxing. Thesis: Muhammad Ali made a positive impact on society by breaking many records during his boxing career, not letting his childhood predict what he wanted to do, and by changing the ways of boxing throughout his life. Body Paragraphs: Muhammad Ali made a positive impact on society by breaking many records during his boxing career. In 1978 Ali lost his title to Leon Spinks, but later regained in a rematch…

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    What is wrong with getting a nice pair of shoes every once in a while? Eddie wants to spend his money buying new sneakers called Adidas NMD, and I think he definitely should. Eddie saved up his money for months to buy these Adidas, he worked up enough money to be able to get the sneakers, therefor he has every right to buy them because it is what he worked for. Eddie explains the sneakers would make him very delighted and would also save his mom plenty of money since they are such good worth.…

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    Muhammad Ali born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born on January 17 , 1942 In Louisville , Kentucky. Known all over the world for being a professional boxer and an activist. Muhammad started training amaturally at the age of 12. At the age of 18 he won his first gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics and then later that year started boxing professionally. He then went on to win the WBA, WBC, and Lineal Heavyweight titles from Sonny Liston. Mahammad then changed…

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    the son of Cassius Marcellus Jr and Odessa Grady Clay. His father made a living painting signs and murals, and his mother worked as a domestic servant. Clay contributed to his family’s finance by working as a janitor at a nearby college. He took up boxing at the age of 12, when he found out when his bicycle got stolen. Young Clay then reported a bike theft to Joe Elsby Martin, a Louisville police officer who ran a youth program teaching boys how to box. From there, Joe Martin invited Clay to his…

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    his childhood passion for boxing. Upon being showed the boxing ring by a town police officer, Clay worked long and hard as an early teen to be an outstanding athlete. Soon enough, he began to train full time and earned multiple titles. Throughout his early experience as a boxer, Cassius Clay turned into a champion, he soon changed his name to Muhammad Ali, a name that would be known forever. Today when most people hear the name, Muhammad Ali, they think about a world famous boxer, however,…

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    Council Of Vocation Dbq

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    I believe that the Council of Vocations assigned Equality the job of street sweeper because he was already smarter, taller, and more curious about things than everyone else. The Council of Vocations fears that if they were to assign Equality to be a scholar he would be to interested in the work he is doing. His wanting to learn more about science would lead him to find the way that his society and councils run the city, and how they have ran the people for all of these years. Equality would soon…

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    School Observation

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    refreshingly cool; the inside was presented in a sophisticated manner. I could not help but feel out of place in my messy school uniform while men and women dressed in clothing that reminded me of a funeral. The council meeting room had wooden like walls and chairs facing the places where the council members would take their place. Our first mission was to acquire a signature from one of the members. Awkwardly, me and my fellow students stumbled about the room timidly looking for a member who…

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    could not see barley hear or feel his own body because he was so beaten at that time. Things began to get worse the nine other guys start punching him all at once. He wanted to give up but he’s now starting to understand his grandfather’s word “our world is a war" these white men have no regard for the feelings or emotions of these young blacks’ men. These young black men have fought this war if they are ever wanted to leave this battlefield. He felt the other nine black men didn’t really have a…

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    fight it. Compassion was disappearing. I didn 't want what was happening to grow. But as I watched the bum squirm like an amoeba under a microscope, I felt a pinch in the back of my neck. Gloves appeared on his hands, boxing gloves. The back wall disappeared and turned into a boxing ring. And the bum was no longer a bum, but the bastard who beat me in my professional debut. “Go get him kid!” But it 's not Linus ' voice: it 's my fathers, from the side rope. My left jab hit him right in the…

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