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    Alexander Hamilton was a more influential American than the other choices. That’s not to say that the other options are not influential. However Alexander Hamilton is simply the most influential of the handful. To start off with we have Henry Ford. Technically Ford never invented the assembly line‚ but he was a sponsor who used it to the point where it became important. A car was a luxury for America before Ford came along‚ his company soon started to develop cars the average middle-class American

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    and‚ eventually‚ the U.S. Supreme Court would use to strike down segregation on buses. Probably the most well-known of the four plaintiffs was Claudette Colvin. A 15-year old student at Booker T. Washington High School‚ she boarded a bus on March 2‚ 1955. After refusing to give up her seat to a white man‚ Colvin was handcuffed‚ arrested and forcibly removed from the bus‚ as she screamed that her Constitutional rights were being violated. Claudette Colvin after being arrested said “ Mrs. Parks said

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    FAMILY LAW – I PART – A 1. Muta marriage. 2. Marriage formalities under Special Marriage Act. 3. Grounds of divorce for Christian wife. 4. Iddat. 5. Objectives for establishing Family Courts. 6. Who is a Testamentary guardian? 7. Difference between void and voidable marriage. 8. Doctrine of Relation Back. 9. Doctrine of factum valet. 10. What are the differences between coparcenary and Joint family? 11. Who can be a ‘Karta’ of a Hindu Joint Family? 12. Enumerate the various modes of effecting partition

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    Infoplease (2000). Demographic Statistics Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/virginia/demographic.html. Foxnews (2013). 2012 was worst year for whooping cough since 1955. Retrieved from http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/20505024/2013/01/04/2012-was-worst-year-for-whooping-cough-since-1955. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/features/pertussis/. Healthypeople (2012). 2020 Topics & Objectives: Immunization and Infectious Diseases

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    Jade Alexie Scott-Barria Ms.Fama September24‚ 2012 Timeline (February 24 1955 – October 5 2011) February 24‚ 1955 - Steven Paul was born in San Francisco. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Summer 1968 – When Steve Jobs was 13-years-old he got a summer job at the HP factory. 1969 – 1972 – Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak at the HP factory

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    THE POLIO VACCINE Amber Metoxen In 1952‚ The Polio epidemic happened‚ each of the 48 states at the time had rampant cases of Polio. The un-curable disease had taken over America. Poliomyelitis is an infectious viral disease that attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system; it is caused by the destruction of nerve cells in the spinal cord. Polio often causes muscle wasting‚ paralysis‚ and even death.1 In surveys of what Americans feared most‚ Polio came in second to the

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    Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her mother’s name was Leona McCauley and her father’s name was James McCauley. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a rural school teacher. Soon after Rosa’s little brother‚ Sylvester Edwards‚ was born‚ her parents separated in 1915. While her father went north‚ her mother‚ brother‚ and she moved to Pine Level‚ Alabama to live with her mother’s parents (Notable Black American Women). Rosa McCauley did not have all

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    “How bad are things in Darfur? Ask the villagers who saw their neighbors trussed with chains and burned alive. Ask the 1.2 million people who have been terrorized into fleeing the embers of their homes” (Sudan Can’t Wait). According to the Gale encyclopedia‚ Genocide is the intent to destroy a national‚ ethic‚ racial or religious group. The perpetrator does this by killing‚ removing civilians from their homes or doing serious mental or bodily harm to someone (Rothenburg). In Darfur‚ Sudan a civil

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    _Board_of_Education>. "African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)." Wikipedia. Wikipedia. 29 Jan 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955-1968)>. "Brief Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement (1954 – 1965)." Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement. 29 Jan 2007 <http://www.ags.uci.edu/~skaufman/teaching/win2001ch4.htm>. King‚ Martin Luther. "Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Defends Seamstress Rosa Parks‚ 1955." Major Problems in American History Volume II. Edited

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    Copland: The life and Work of an Uncommon Man. New York: Henry Holt and Company‚ 1999. Smith‚ Julia. Aaron Copland: His Work and Contribution of American Music New York: E.P.Dutton Company‚ 1955. [ 2 ]. Julia Smith‚ Aaron Copland: His Work and Contribution of American Music‚ (New York: E.P. Dutton Company‚ 1955)‚ 165. [ 4 ]. Howard Pollack‚ Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man‚ (New York: Henry Holt and Company‚ 1990)‚ 400. [ 6 ]. Aaron Copland‚ “Appalachian Spring”‚ in Norton Anthology

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