Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress. She served seven terms as a representative from New York's 12th district, from 1969 until her retirement in 1982. Chisholm grew up in Barbados and also in New York City, where she earned a graduate degree from Columbia University in 1952. She taught school before entering the New York state assembly in 1964 and then easily winning election to Congress in 1968. She ran for the Democratic
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when Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and refused to give up her seat to a Caucasian individual sparking a civil rights movement that was experienced around the U.S. I find this to be a more powerful event above others events in the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s do to the fact that this changed many laws and brought the American people together in hopes for change. As Rosa Parks entered the bus and found her seat, a Caucasian individual eventually boarded the bus and tried to practice the
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“I Have A Dream” Introduction by Rosa Parks I met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the first time in August 1955. He had been invited to be the guest speaker at Montgomery branch NAACP Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929, MLK Sr. who was called Mike, worked extremely hard to become part of the middle class. The first child born to Alberta and MLK Sr. was a daughter named Christine, the following year Martin Jr. was born. The year after the Kings had another son named Arthur
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Famous Thinkers Paper Bill Gates Bill Gates, formally known as William Henry Gates III, was the co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation in 1975. It was not until the 19080s when this company really became a known corporation. Bill Gates was known for being an aggressive person that went after his ideas and did think twice about what his peers opinions were of him. Bill Gates found himself in the middle of a lawsuit and parted from the company in 2008 [ (Oxford World Encyclopedia, 2012) ]. Bill
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Civil Rights Movement 1 The Civil Rights Movement Reche Clark Albany High School The civil rights movement was the time in America in which Blacks and other minorities started getting more independence
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10/13/06 American History Essence Harden 5/2/00 African-American Civil Rights “Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.” –Coretta Scott King, page666 The 1960’s were a time of great turmoil in America and throughout the world. One of the main topics that arouse was black civil rights. In my essay I plan to compare the difference of opinion between these particular writers and directors, towards racism and the civil rights movement
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They were black men who had a dream, but never lived to see it fulfilled. One was a man who spoke out to all humanity, but the world was not yet ready for his peaceful words. "I have a dream, a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed... that all men are created equal." (Martin Luther King) The other, a man who spoke of a violent revolution, which would bring about radical change for the black race. "Anything you can think of that you want to change right
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Papino Loyd Comparing Motherboards Specifications: Part Number: - BOXDZ68BC Form Factor: - ATX $204.99 CPU: Type - Intel Core i7 -K processors series Socket - 1155 Memory: Slots - 4 Chipset: - Intel Z68 Express Chipset Speed - Support for DDR3 1600 to 1066 MHz DIMMs Capacity - Support for up to 32 GB of system memory Ethernet: Chipset -Intel 82579V Speed - Gigabit Ethernet Quantity - 1 Audio: Chipset - Realtek ALC892 Channels - 10-channel (7.1 + 2 independent multi-streaming)
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In clip 1.06-1.08 the video summers talked about Hardware device connections, Connections including IO ports and RAM (Random Access Memory). • 1.06 discussed PATA, SATA, SCSI, USB and Firewire and connections to and from the motherboard. • 1.07 discussed Io ports including USB, VGA, DVI Parallel ports, Game ports, and as well as IO for monitors, keyboards and mouse. • 1.08 discussed different types of RAM also known as (Random Access Memory) and their different kind of significant including
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4/7/2012 Learning Objectives Chapter FOUR S y s t e m U n i t Reference: Shelly Cashman, Discovering Computers 2011, Living In Digital World, International Thompson Publishing, •Identify and describes components of system unit. •Describes the function of ALU and control unit. •Describes the machine cycle. •Describes types of RAM, Ports, Connectors of computer system. The System Unit The System Unit What is System Unit? Processor chips The hardware unit that houses a computer’s
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