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    desegregating the educational system despite being reluctant to enforce integration in the south. One of the key events at the time was the Little Rock Nine‚ where nine black students tried to join Little Rock High School and were met with threats of lynching and abuse from the locals. This event attracted wide-spread media coverage that went all over the world and appalled everyone. This forced Eisenhower to step in‚ to protect America’s name as the ‘Protector of Freedom’‚ and get the students to school

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    Apr 24‚ 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) is proud to announce four founding members of its VentureTech Network (VTN) partner community have been named to the IT Hall of Fame by CompTIA. The honorees include Jane Cage of Heartland Technology Solutions; Steven Harper of Network Management Group‚ Inc.; Ted Warner of Connecting Point; and retired IT reseller Myles Schacter. All four were inducted into this prestigious group during CompTIA’s Annual Member Meeting‚ held in Chicago

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    Putting one foot in front of the other‚ trekking through the beauty and diversity of nature with land beneath your feet is one of the most liberating experiences. For those whose wanderlust needs to be satisfied‚ stretching across America are many awe-inspiring trails. Best of all‚ hikes can take you through national parks or national scenic trails‚ and give you plenty of trekking ground in nature. Here are some of the top through hikes in the United States. Appalachian Trail‚ 14 States If 2‚185

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    American Ballet Theatre: This theatre began in 1939 and was managed by Richard Pleasant. By 1939‚ former Hollywood agent‚ Richard Pleasant‚ came to New York to manage the company. By the summer of 1939‚ Pleasant and Chase developed big ideas to turn the company into a full-fledged ballet company and to base it on “a gallery of dance rather than the vision of a single choreographer" and a "living museum of

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    lives. The secondary audience of males and females within the Normal community will provide consistent business for the bar throughout holiday and summer breaks when the primary market of college students from Illinois State‚ Illinois Wesleyan‚ and Heartland

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    represent southern rebellion or resistance to the developments of reconstruction such as the 14th and 15th Amendments which try to promote equality regardless of race. This image counters the revolution by promoting terrorist-like activities such as lynching and the targeting of helpless victims like the degraded race the freedmen were during this time. The Jim Crow laws created in 1877‚ which enforced racial segregation‚ along with the horrific acts as seen in Document I by the KKK demonstrates the

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    In the period following 1865‚ the understanding and recognition of being accepted into a newly forming just society was becoming the base on expressing and citing beliefs for others to agree upon in terms of racial theories. Both individual and social groups like Booker T. Washington‚ W.E.B. DuBoise‚ Ida B. Wells‚ and the Ku Klux Klan were expressing what they thought a just society should look like and were in hopes that their actions and theories of these beliefs would assist society toward agreeing

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    The Initial Incident Response ithin minutes of the blast‚ a massive search-and-rescue effort commenced that included fire‚ emergency‚ medical‚ and law enforcement personnel‚ as well as a large number of citizens. Citizens and emergency personnel joined together and entered the bombed structure‚ forming human chains to locate and remove trapped survivors and victims. In fact‚ throughout this rescue effort‚ the large outpouring of citizens and agency volunteers astonished veteran rescue workers

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    expiration/ These fruitful trees are rooted in bloody soil and torment/ Things haven’t really changed” (The Killing Season” 42-46). “Strangefruit” is in reference to Billy Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit‚” which was written as a protest against the lynching of African-Americans

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    following the Civil War was the beginning to a new face in such a head strong racist’s community. Slavery was only the beginning to the issues and derogatory mishaps in African American history. As if slavery wasn’t enough‚ blacks were subject to lynching‚ segregation‚ minimal to non-paying jobs‚ as well as simply being put down for having a darker skin tone than “the man”. Although things of this sort occurred‚ it never brought an end to hope‚ and now the horrific past has become a promising future

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