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    During the 1960 's, United States of America was undergoing a struggle for racial equality. During this movement numerous people, especially African-Americans, dreamed of equal rights, equal living conditions, and overall equality between the races. Some people like Martin Luther King Jr. adopted an integrationist stance, while others like Malcolm X adopted a separatist stance. But one famous baseball player we all know as Jackie Robinson, found himself a little in between these two stances.…

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    Chi Square Case Study

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    consumers’ attitudes toward credibility of health products ads | |Your profession: |Total | | |Physician |Other |Physician | |Do you find these ads |Yes |14 |16 |30 | |credible? | | | | | | |No |27 |25 |52…

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    jars of proppant samples on the desk. I pull out my notebook and pencil and turn on my recorder as he jokingly tells me that he is setting his timer and will charge me for his time at the end of the interview. Dr. Kamel attended Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt where he earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Petroleum Engineering. He then began his career in the petroleum industry in Egypt, where he worked as a drilling engineer. When I ask him how long he worked in industry before…

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    learning process, especially in English language because I did not learn how to pronounce the words correctly and how to speak and communicate with foreigners and after my graduation I went immediately to the British council and the American University here in Cairo and I took many courses in conversations and phonetics to improve my…

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    "Dashiell Hammett: Themes and Techniques." Essays on American Literature: In Honor of Jay B. Hubbell. (1967): 295-306. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 187. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Dec. 2016. Walter’s article…

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    who defended his right to play in the Major Leagues. Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler, Jewish baseball star Hank Greenberg and All-Star teammate and Dodger team captain Pee Wee Reese outwardly showed fans that they welcomed the first African-American professional baseball…

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    accolades, but where would they be without Jackie Robinson. He changed the world in a positive way. He broke the color barrier in 1947 and helped in the Civil Rights movement. Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. He was a star athlete at the University of California Los Angeles in four different sports, and he became UCLA’s first four letterman for his multisport skills. Robinson served as a second Lieutenant in the United States army from 1942 to 1944. Robinson finally…

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    Iran Strained Relationship

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    be elected the next president, he would meet with anyone wanting to mend relations with Iran. This included Iran’s president at the time, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On June 2, 2009, President Obama called for “a new beginning” during his speech at Cairo University. When there, he addressed the fact that “Iran has played a role in several acts of violence against U.S. troops and civilians.” After stating this, he insisted that the U.S. was “prepared to move forward” if Iran was willing to reciprocate.…

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    Hollow Earth Myths

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    For centuries, scientists have searched for life beyond the Earth, looking for extraterrestrials. The mystery of Hollow Earth is where the Earth is made up of a hollow shell with mystical creatures living inside, some stories suggest this world is where UFOs come from. Theories about the Earth’s core are ever changing, and while there is no concrete proof about what is hidden beneath the ground with such a world existing, many theories have passed along through the generations such as, the inner…

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    Immi Waris Arab Women Writers Class, Love, and Sexuality: A Look into Arab Women Writers To start with, it would make the most sense to address the basic definition of each of the terms in the title of this paper. A person’s “class” is in reference to their social class. Social class is defined as a group of people within a society who possess the same socioeconomic status (Winkleby). Socioeconomic status is most often determined by education, income and occupation (Winkleby). Therefore, the…

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