Martin Luther King Jr. is one that inspires me through his leadership and achievements. The first reason for why Martin Luther King Jr. has inspired me is because of his leadership that led millions of African-Americans to fight for their rights. He did not support violence as a way to accomplish things‚ but persuaded people with his wise words that violence is never the answer for success. Martin Luther King Jr. is
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ancestors that were slaves and was very aware of segregation. She earned the name of the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in December of 1955 by refusing to give up her seat to a white man as she was told to do by the bus driver. She did this with the intention of a new movement with better rights for all colored people. Parks got arrested and charged for her refusal and the city started a boycott of the bus line called the Montgomery bus boycott. This was the colored people demanding
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Austria and its allies‚ ultimately leading to war on a global scale. Within this political firestorm‚ Imperialism‚ Militarism‚ and Nationalism grew at an astounding rate. European countries came to feel that expanding their territory was vital to winning the war. In addition to the desire for more territory‚ countries used their military might to foster a new sense of Nationalism. World War One ended on November 11‚ 1918. The initial event that sparked this global war was the assassination Archduke
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The First Triumvirate between Gaius Julius Caesar‚ Gnaius Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) and Marcus Licinius Crassus contributed to the fall of the Roman Republic by undermining the Senate‚ which was unable to effectively deal with an expanding and diverse empire. This was affected by the triumvirate appealing directly to popular assemblies‚ because their alliance conflicted directly with the conservative Optimates‚ who refused to change with Rome’s expansion. Though ultimately because each triumvir‚ being
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After dropping out of high school in 1905 at the age of 16‚ Hitler travelled to Vienna to explore all the arts‚ music‚ and old-European culture that the city held. However‚ it was the city’s magnificent architecture that caught his attention and Hitler quickly developed an interest in becoming an architect. A promising artist in high school‚ Hitler decided to enroll in the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in October of 1907. Although he had felt confident about the entrance exams‚ Hitler was soon denied
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The rise and fall of Enron is a company that was lead to its own demise by it’s own leadership and ill business decisions. The motivational theories explained from the readings of Organization Behavior can correlate with the failure of Enron’s internal organization. Even though a company may appear to display successful business practices‚ the influence of leadership through management can ultimately lead the company to fail. Enron’s code of ethics prided itself on four key values; respect‚ integrity
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Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist. She was born February 4‚ 1913. She was raised in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Rosa Parks moved in 1957 to Detroit‚ Michigan. Rosa refused to give up her seat on a greyhound bus. Rosa’s action lead to the bus boycott. Rosa Parks died on October 24‚ 2005. Rosa actions led to the bus boycott. Rosa was symbol of the power of nonviolent protests. Rosa Parks is called the mother of
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alcohol sales in his speakeasies while his other operations earned him another $45 million dollars. Capone insisted that he never forced to enter any of his speakeasies and believed he was a businessman that supplied people with what they wanted‚ but he did force people to further his power on Chicago. He forced the public to vote for certain politicians that were bribed and working for him. The most notable of politicians was Chicago’s major “Big” Bill Thompson‚ who allowed the Capone to function untouched
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Martin Luther King Jr. contributed to the Civil Rights act because he spoke about what was going on. They had the march on washington and that was brought on purpose to bring people there and show a lot of things and blacks and whites were not equal at that time. They had bunch of stuff going on and some people wanted segregation to end because it wasn’t bringing any good to anyone. People were getting treated differently and a lot of bad things were happening. MLK just wanted it to all stop‚ he
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Enrons Fall Kenneth Lay – CEO Auditors – Arthur Anderson Jeffrey Skilling – Consultant‚ Hired as a young consultant‚ as due to deregulation‚ Enron incurred massive debts. Jeffrey skilling was hired to come up with innovative new ideas. His revolutionary idea for Enron was to ‘create a gas bank in which Enron would buy gas from a network of suppliers and sell to a network of consumers‚ contractually guaranteeing both the supply and the price‚ charging fees for the transactions and assuming the
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