Dr. Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul was born in 20th August, 1935 and was raised in his town of birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While in high school, where he served as the president of the student council, he met and married, in his last year in Gettysburg College, his wife Carol. Upon his graduation in 1957, the young couple moved to Durham, North Carolina, and while there, Ron attended the Duke University School of Medicine, where he pursued a medical degree and attained it in 1961.Paul and his family
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After the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, black soldiers were allowed to enlist in the army. However, black soldiers were not entirely equal to their fellow white counterparts, since they were paid less minimum wage. Gooding then wrote a letter to address this payment issue, in hopes that he and his fellow freed black soldiers may get equal pay. This particular source details a specific “right” given to African American’s after the Emancipation Proclamation was proposed in 1863. While African
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CURRICULUM VITAE John Robinson Present Position: Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney. Degrees: University of Queensland, B.Sc. (1961) University of Queensland, B.Sc. (Hons II, 1, Mathematics)(1963). University of Sydney, Ph.D. (Mathematical Statistics)(1969). Thesis title: ”Mixtures of Distributions”. Honours: 1984: Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. 1990: Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. 2008: Awarded the Pitman
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Benjamin Franklin David Duron AP Psychology 5th Hour Mr. Compton April 12, 2013 Benjamin Franklin was a very astonishing man who accomplished many things not only for America as a politician and Founding Father, but for all of humanity. Our father of electricity is known and remembered for many things, poet, for being and inventor, a mediator, and probably best known for flying a kite with a key tied on during a lightning storm. Franklin was the son of a Bostonian soap boiler, born on
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Ryan Boudreaux 1517 South Morgan Ave. Broussard, LA, 70518 (337) 552-8898 rboudreaux31@yahoo.com April 1, 2014 Internship Review Committee Letter of Interest LHS Health Academy 3000 W Congress St. Lafayette, LA, 70506 Dear Internship Review Committee, I am interested in participating in the internship program at Lafayette High next year. The main health care career I am intent on following is nursing. My mother, Charlene Boudreaux, who works at UHC, has inspired me to become an
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Problem Solving GS1140 No Child Left Behind The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was originally called the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESES); it was debated in congress in 1964 and passed into law in 1966 by President L.B. Johnson. In 2001 president G.W. Bush revised the ESEA and called it the No Child Left Behind, and passed it into law in 2002. The NCLB was passed into law and is in effect in all fifty states in the U.S. NCLB requires all public schools receiving federal funding
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prestigious of being president. Evidence One: George Washington was first recognized at the age of twenty one. He was messenger on a dangerous mission across the region of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Ohio Country. On this mission he was to carried a letter from the governor of Virginia, to lead a group across Blue Ridge, and to meet up with an Indian chief at Allegheny Mountains. Then Washington would continued
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Two hundred-forty-one years and one day ago, the Second Continental Congress met at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Hailed as a federal and national holiday in the United States, the Fourth of July commemorates America’s fight for freedom to be an independent and self-governed nation. Taking arms to free themselves from under monarch control, the thirteen established American colonies sought to overthrow Great Britain and become
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the evenings, and in 1942 he received his university degree. Mandela has been politically involved since he was a teenager, nad already as a twentysix year old he started his political career in the African National congress - ANC (Black people established the African National Congress in 1912 to fight against apartheid and for civil disobedience). Nelson early became one of the most important leaders in the party because ofhis strong opposition against aparheid. Mandela was jailed for the first time
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The cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union was the direct effect of gaining supremacy and power after WWII. United States being a capitalist nation was economically, socially and politically heading in the right direction while the Soviet Union was trying to stamp it communist authority on the world. This showed that both these nations had different post war agendas. While the United States wanted to move on and establish itself as a powerful democratic leader, Soviets were more
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