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- 151: Mein Ghetto: Black Racism And Louis Farrakhan
- ... Islam of the time). That was a turning point that saw him convert to the Nation of Islam (NOI). His natural gifts allowed him to rise steadily in the NOI, from being an assistant to Malcolm X to becoming the national representative for Elijah Muhammad. His popularity spread, even outside of NOI, with blacks from the around the country listening him, promoting his message of black rage. (Alexander, Pp. 132- 135) However ... the Roanoke (Virginia) Times, believes that "Some of Farrakhan's appeal can be attributed to youthful experimentation by these young adults, and to their somewhat narrow embrace of 1960s-style black nationalism as expressed by Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)." Nixon tells us that "shown side by side in ads attacking gangsta rap and Time-Warner, Tucker and Bennett compared gangsta ...
- 152: Personal Writing: A Path Seldom Chosen - Solving Problems Without Violence
- ... out on his own quest to free his people of the unjust rules of white America . Unlike King, this man thought the only way to achieve his people's desires was in a violent manner. Malcolm X was this man. Although he was a great leader, he did not achieve King's results. The point that this historical example proves is that, two men equally great in leadership abilities took two different ... of the observers. Eventually he lost interest and went along his way, just in time for me to sharpen my basketball skills before the bell rang. Much like the example of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, I too had the choice of taking one of two roads. I knew that taking a violent stand would only lead to a dead end. I chose the road in which many of ...
- 153: Who We Are
- ... This paper will identify the primary economic, political, and social needs of African Americans at the turn of the century and determine if the philosophies of Booker T. Washington, WEB DuBois, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X can eliminate some of these issues. The number one problem in for Black societies is the lack of economical development. True, there are Black owned business, but the businesses do not provide longevity in the ... should be to have power or all that is destructive. I am not suggesting that Black American should go out as vigilantes, but I am recommending that Black American use the ideas of Leaders as Malcolm x, Martin, Washington and Du Bois to excel ourselves. Martin Luther King has also was believed that Black American should fight back in none violent way (Dolan 45). Unfortunately, he has lost his life ...
- 154: Frederick Douglass
- ... hand accounts of slavery as powerful and representative as his exist, in light of the magnitude of the crime, and few voices have been as far-reaching. More recent heirs of this 'office' such as Malcolm X have carried the torch further, just as America's racial sickness still clings to our collective consciousness. Frederick Douglass has been described as 'bicultural'. In other words, he occupied a middleground shared by blacks and ... 1944) With the duality of perspective came also one of language, a fact to which we owe his writings and abolitionist activism. This is seen in Douglass' reflection on slave-songs (above). Men such as Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass do not occupy the niche of translator accidentally; they each earned the title of spokesman because it takes a certain kind of man to bridge the gap between the two ...
- 155: Black Holes
- ... dwarf or a neutron star may form. If the core mass exceeds about 1. 7 solar masses, however, neither electron nor neutron pressure is sufficient to prevent collapse to a black hole. Astronomers have discovered X-ray emissions from a binary star system, Cygnus X-1, in which the primary is a normal star of about 30 solar masses. Doppler shifts in its spectrum show that a companion object of 10 to 15 solar masses must be in orbit around it; evidence exists that the X rays originate near the companion. Normally such X rays are produced by an "accretion disk," a dense, hot disk of gas that forms as the gas from a normal star spirals into a compact ...
- 156: Math Model
- ... country's reactions being don only one time. First-Order means nothing is squared, cubed, etc., and a difference equation adds or subtracts certain levels of need. 2.) DX(n) = b1 Y(n-1) - a1 X(n-1) + c DY(n) = b2 X(n-1) - a2 Y(n-1) + d Use these equations to represent the change in billions of dollars spent on national arms where 1£ n £10 and a1 a2 b1 b2 c d X(0) Y(0) a) .4 .4 0 0 .7 3.0 6.0 2.0 b) 1.0 1.0 .5 1.0 1.0 -1.0 20.0 10.0 4.) The graph ...
- 157: Intergrating Technology And Le
- ... conference in Kansas City, Montana. The company pays for all of the expenses. Consider the following expenses (estimated and specific costs provided by airlinetickets.com). Expense Total Airfare: (round trip) American West Airlines Coach @$350 X 20 $ 7000.00 Hotel: (3 days) Hyatt Regency Crown Center ($89 X 20) $ 1780.00 Room Reservation: (2 days) $500 day X 3 $ 1500.00 Car Rental: (3 days) Hertz Rent-A-Car 54.99 day $54.99 X 3 X 20 $ 3299.40 Food Expenses (3 days) Various Restaurants @$30 X 3 X 20 $ 1800. ...
- 158: Alternative Medicine
- ... scans or thermography Exams or treatment of strictly non-neuromusculoskeletal disorders Hypotherapy, behavioral training, sleep therapy, weight programs, educational programs, nonmedical self-help or self-care, or any self-help physical exercise training Lab tests, X-rays, adjustments, physical therapy or other services not chiropractically necessary or classified as experimental Pre-employment physical or vocational rehabilitation arising from employment or covered under any public liability insurance Treatment for temporalmandibular joint syndrome ... leave benefits and the costs of providing substitute employees. The more traditional treatment would be for the employee to seek treatment from an urgent care facility or from a family physician. Treatment would generally require X-rays, an MRI or a CAT scan to assist the physician in diagnosing the source of the injury. Depending on the nature and severity of the injury, surgery and rehabilitation through physical therapy may be ... the cost of most forms of treatment with the exception of those considered to be experimental. A third alternative may be acupuncture treatment. The acupuncturist may or may not be licensed to provide or order X- ray, MRI or CAT scans. If not, the treatment may be the traditional acupuncture treatment. Rest is generally recommended. Generally, the cost of acupuncture is covered, subject to deductibles and co-payments, by most ...
- 159: Plus (computer Program)
- ... necessary to be on the mailing list if you read the Sather newsgroup. 1.4.1 How do I ask questions? If it appears to be a problem that others would have encountered (on platform 'X', I tried to install it but the it failed to link with the error 'Y'), then the newsgroup is a good place to ask. If you have problems with the compiler or questions that are ... of positive and negative zero are specifically not required. The Sather treatment of NaNs is particularly tricky; IEEE wants NaN to be neither equal nor unequal to anything else, including other NaNs. Because Sather defines 'x /= y' as 'x.is_eq(y).not' (page 116), to get the IEEE notion of unequal is necessary to write 'x=x and y=y and x/=y'. Other comparison operators present similar difficulties. 1.5.9 ...
- 160: Plato Republic The Noble Lie
- ... Republic of Plato,” the section in which he discusses the myths of the metals or the “noble lie” is layered with questioning and potential symbolism, possible contradiction, and a significant measure of allusion. In Chapter X of “The Republic,” Plato presents “The Selection of Rulers: The Guardians’ Manner of Living.” In it, he discusses the necessities of education as they apply to the appropriate selection of and reparation for the community ... of concern that is felt for something so closely bound up with oneself that its interests and fortunes, for good or ill, are held to be identical with one’s own” (The Republic of Plato X:III-412) Socrates tells Glaucon who naturally agrees. Socrates goes on to emphasize that the men that are chosen from among the Guardians must be those who are filled with enthusiasm and the determination to ... way of those convenient fictions we spoke of earlier, a single bold flight of invention, which we may induce the community in general, and if possible the Rulers themselves, to accept?” (The Republic of Plato X:III-414). Such a tongue-in-cheek question, the reference to “a single bold flight of invention” is what has come to be known as commonly rendered by “noble lie,” a self-contradictory expression ...
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