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    Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928. Maya grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou is a female that is a black American American that liked to experience. At a very young age Maya parents had split up. At the age of 7, during a visit with her mother, Maya was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Growing up as a teenager Maya had a baby at the age of 16 as a teenage mom that also dropped out of high school. She had a son name Guy Johnson. Maya Angelou…

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    1947 (“Jackie Robinson”). Also in 1947 he was named the Rookie of the year and national League MVP in 1949 (“Jackie Robinson”). In 1955 he took the Brooklyn Dodgers to the World Series and won (“Jackie Robinson”). Jackie was born January 31,1919, in Cairo Georgia. Jackie was the youngest of the five children (“Jackie Robinson”). Jackie attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College. Jackie played football, basketball, track, and baseball (“Jackie Robinson”). Jackie continued his…

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    On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson’s groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over…

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    The number 42 was Jackie Robinson’s jersey for the Dodgers which is now retired. Jackie Robinson was a great athlete. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball during his time in major league baseball completely changing the way people looked at the game. Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. He was born into a family of five kids, he was raised in a relative poverty by his mom who was single. Matthew Robinson, his brother, inspired…

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    In Cairo, Egypt, Maya worked as the editor of a newspaper called The Arab Observer. They later moved to Ghana where she served as an instructor and assistant administrator at the University of Ghana's School of Music and Drama. She also worked for two other newspapers called The African Review and wrote for The Ghanaian Times. She returned to America…

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    world of sports. Jackie Robinson was mostly known for breaking the color barrier not only in Professional Baseball, but in all sports. He was one of the only men who took a stand for what he believed in. On January 31, 1919 Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia (Robinson 3) to Mallie and Jerry Robinson ten years after they were married (Robinson 3). Robinsons grandfather was born into slave trade (Robinson 3).When he was six months old Jackie’s father left him and his mother and ran away…

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    Nobel Prize. Yasser Arafat was the president of Palestine during the Palestinian and Israeli conflict in the 1960’s. He is known for his efforts to make peace between the two countries. Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt, on August 24, 1929. He had seven siblings including himself. Yasser was the second youngest. His father was Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al- Hussein. He was a spice, incense, and a grocery merchant. His mom, Zahwa Al-saud, died from a bad…

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    Jackie Robinson was the very first African American baseball player to play major league baseball. Jackie Robinson was a fine fellow, showed stellar character, and could get the job done! His legacy Personally Civilly, and Athletically changed his Country and the lives within it. Jackie had a very rough early life from neighborhood kids to rude opposing teams. Jack Roosevelt Robinson better known as “Jackie” Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia to Millie and Jerry Robinson.…

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    Impacts of Experimental Service-Learning Course Service-learning course’s goal is to improve students’ academic success by involving them into work in the community, which have to improve their language skills, leadership skills and increase their civic engagement concept. The service-learning course’s value is being ambivalent by its impact on providers and receivers of the service. Different studies has shown different positive impacts of the service-learning course, such as solving issues…

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    knowledge of oneself and the world that cannot be seen, heard, or touched. Transcendentalists cultivated many new philosophies relating to this knowledge. Although Transcendentalism reached its peak in the 19th-century, it is still relevant to current American culture through its principles of living in the present, independence from technology and material objects, and Civil Disobedience. One vital tenet of Transcendentalism is of living life in the present. Henry David Thoreau, a…

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