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    The Views Behind One Simple Color Imagine being hung on a rope with your life crashing down right in front of your eyes. You don’t know what you did wrong besides speaking up for your rights. You think to yourself, how could people really be this evil and kill me for the color of my skin? In the 1900s, lynching was a common public form of execution used when African-Americans spoke up for their rights and equalities they deserved to have. There were many people that fought for equality using different

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    Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, both early advocates of the civil rights movement, offered solutions to the discrimination experienced by black men and women in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Despite having that in common, the two men had polar approaches to that goal. Washington, a man condoning economic efficiency had a more gradual approach as opposed to Du Bois, whose course involved immediate and total equality both politically and economically. For the time period, Washington

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    Prior to these advancements, fame was mostly limited to politicians, royalty and live performers such as Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley and Harry Houdini. In 1895, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi created the first successful radio transmission system. Human speech via radio waves was then first transmitted by American scientist R. A. Fessenden five years later. In 1906, Fessenden broadcasted the first voice

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    Why Do We Use X-Rays?

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    The exploration of using x-rays in different situations began with a simple encounter in a dark room when Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen gazed at a Crookes tube in Remscheid, Germany on November 8, 1895. He discovered a mysterious ray and named it the x-ray because of the lack of knowledge on it. X-rays were immediately explored and implemented into the field of medicine and introduced the field of radiology. This new technology supports our general population at hospitals on the battlefield and at home

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    annual match being played in Scotland in the early 1790s, but the first match was recorded by the Scottish Football Association which took place in 1892 in Glasgow. In England, the first recorded match of football played between women took place in 1895. Throughout the years, women football has become more civilised, The Football Association has documented early involvement of Women in Europe. They say in 12th century French Women have been playing football as part of the era’s folk games, also in

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    What do cancer, radiation, and technology have in common? The links between the three are quite extraordinary. Cancer is a disease that accounts for 13% of all deaths in the world (Delfino and Day 1). The disease has an impact on patients, friends and their love ones. According to WebMD, radiation is energy that travels in the form of waves through radiation therapy. Through radiation therapy, radiation is used to stop, slow or cure the growth of cancer. With technology, radiologists can treat

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    The Rev. Charles Richard

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    The Rev. Charles Richard became the third pastor of the parish in 1895, coming to Sacred Heart from Gibson, Louisiana. He was a familiar figure riding on horseback on one of his three horses, “Fanny,” “Dolly” and “Charley,” as he traveled through the parish. The French-Canadian Richard offered all the services in French, although he did present some of the homilies in English beginning in 1906 . On March 23, 1896, the Francois Viguerie property was transferred to Sacred Heart of Jesus Church. The

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    The Optoma HD25e Projector A Technical Description Written by: Jacob Schmitz March 4, 2017 Using Visual Aids in the Classroom: Description of Optoma HD25e Projector Figure 1: Optoma HD25e The optoma HD25e is (Figure 1) a projection device that functions as a visual aid for an audience. The HD25e is not the same as an overhead projector, as it can project clear and colorful images and also can be connected to a computer and project the screen while

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    California Drought Crisis

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    Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Division data, the sixth driest for the state of California as a whole that has occurred since records begin in 1895. The previous two winter precipitation seasons were also dry, and the same data show that the 2011–14 three-winter average precipitation for California was the second driest that has occurred since 1895” (Wang 6997). California is in crisis

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    The Impacts of European Colonization The Impacts of European Colonization Jarrett Levins Dr. Seela Aladuwaka Instructor Geography 206.03 Introduction Cambodia holds an affluent and alluring history. Throughout this paper the writer will discuss different topics impacting Cambodia’s history, positive and negative impact of colonization, economic, political, cultural and social legacies, and to answer if western countries or colonizer are responsible to help solve some

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