Banned Books in America
Banned Books in American Public High Schools In America, most banned books are considered to be racist, powerful, or dangerous. That is why most school districts report them to the school board and ban them because they might seem to be too inappropriate to be read in public schools. I believe th....

Cancer: When You Think It Couldnt Happen To You
Martha Ann Jones Professor Stafford English 101 26 September 24, 2007 When You Think It Couldnt Happen To You No, I screamed as I was crying and tearing the hospitals towels. My momma was dying after struggling with cancer for some years. She was finally givin....

Ernie Barnes: Research of the Football Artist
Ernie Barnes was and still is one of the most popular and well-respected black artists today. Born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, in 1938, during the time the south as segregated, Ernie Barnes was not expected to become a famous artist. However, as a young boy, Barnes would, “often [a....

Glee: A Structural-Functionalist Perspective
Television programs impact the way we view ourselves and each other. Often producers and writers draw from their own personal experiences to create programs we can relate to. The experiences created are often how we function in everyday life. The structural functionalism perspective addresses thes....

Is a unified monetary policy the right way ahead?
The European Union is the largest single currency region since the Roman Empire. Over a period of 3 years, starting from Jan 1999, all financial transactions in the Euro area were systematically converted into a single currency regime. It began with financial institutions converting all their trans....

Ivan the Terrible
I’m doing my report on Ivan the Terrible. Ivan Vasiljevich the Terrible was born in 1530 and died in 1584. He was the son of the Grand Duke Vasili III. His mother Helena Glinsky was the daughter of a Luthuanian refugee who had found asylum in Russia. She was young, vivacious, intelligent, an....

Pele the King of Soccer
In the late 1880s to early 1890s Steve Bloomer was the top dog in soccer. That is until Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele` came around. He dominated the sport for over 20 years. Pele` is the king of soccer and effected many countries like America and Brazil. Pele` grew up in a ....

Residential Schooling
One of the most acrimonious issues in Canadian history is the disturbing period of the residential schooling system. In the beginning, both the federal government and the Treaty 8 leaders of First Nations wanted to provide schooling to educate aboriginal children, though for different reasons. Abo....

Rosa Parks
The laws against segregation in the South were changed in the early 1960s and progress was made but some white peoples hearts have not. These are the thoughts of Rosa Parks, a catalyst of the civil rights movement. There is a history behind Rosa Parks well before the Montgomery Bus Boycott that b....

steriods
Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone has been charged with importing a banned human growth hormone in Australia.() This is just one of many articles you may have read about in the news recently. Another steroid scandal you may have heard about is the Barry Bonds and BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-op....

Sylvester Pat Weaver president of NBC
Sylvester Pat Weaver was born in 1908 in Los Angeles. He lived to be 93 years old, passing away on March 15th, 2002. He aided in the development of radio and television. In 1949 Weaver went to work for NBC as head of TV programming and soon after became President of the network. (Hart, 20....

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