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Ruben Salazar: A Martyr for His People

On August 29, 1970, in the midst of more than 20,000 people, news correspondent Ruben Salazar walked alongside fellow Mexican Americans covering the Chicano Moratorium March in East Los Angeles,...

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Umm What are Bushisms?

Disfluencies are utterances that interrupt the flow of speech that include pauses, mid-phrase interruptions, repeated words, restarted sentences, made-up words, and words with elongated pronunciation.1...

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One Last Serve: Arthur Ashe

Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was born on July 10, 1943 in Richmond, Virginia. Growing up, he didn’t have the “ideal childhood.” At the age of five, his mother died from a...

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Gated Innovation: The Microsoft Monopolization Case

For almost as long as personal computers have been in existence, Microsoft seems to be the company that has dominated the market. The Microsoft Corporation is a company that produces...

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A Love Story : The Obama’s

It all began in 1989, when Michelle Robinson was an associate at Sidley & Austin–the sixth-largest corporate law firm based in the United States. Michelle had just completed her first...

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From rags to riches: The story of Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is an actress, talk show host, philanthropist, producer, and more. One of the major things that she is known for is The Oprah Winfrey Show. This show broke records...

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How Bundy (Almost) Got Away With It

Linda Anne Healy, a stunningly flawless young woman, was a senior at Washington State University approaching her graduation with a degree in Psychology.1 The selfless and youthful Linda spent time...

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The Race For Space: “We choose to go to the Moon”

The United States is the greatest country on the planet. While we don’t always win (Vietnam War), we do always prevail (back to back World War champions). But our venture...

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The Pride and Joy of an American Guitar-slinging Troublemaker: Stevie Ray...

What’s to be said about one of the greatest electric guitar players of all time? He was a great talent? He’s that really good white blues player? He really sounded...

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Did He Do IT? The Story of O.J. Simpson and the Famous Murders of Nicole...

On the night of June 12, 1994, the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson, and Ronald Goldman were found brutally murdered outside Nicole’s town home...

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The Artful Way to Equality: Tattoos and Women

“In the never-ending project of women’s self-transformation, tattoos are both an end and a beginning, a problem and a solution.”1 From the first tattoo, they have been a way express...

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The Stanford Experiment: Scientific Breakthrough or Psychological Torture

It was a quiet Sunday morning on August 14 in 1971 in Palo Alto, California, where a prison was being constructed in the basement of Stanford University in order to...

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Neil Young’s Journey Through Music

Many have heard of the famous and well-known artist Neil Young, who brought us a mixture of soft rock and country music beginning in the mid ‘60’s and running all...

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Kerri Strug and her Journey to Olympic Medals

“God help me out somehow,” whispered Kerri Strug, a two-time Olympian and gold medalist, as she was one perfect vault away from winning the 1996 Olympics.1 Kerri was the youngest...

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The Government Shutdown of 1995-96

The night of November 14, 1995 was supposed to be a victory for the Republican-controlled Congress. After passing a budget that would fund the government and decrease government spending, the...

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Rising Misty: Defying a Ballerina’s Race, Age and Perception

“Et un et deux et trois” (and one, and two, and three), are the countless hymns that a typical ballet dancer hears from the rise of dawn to long after...

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Lurking in the Darkness: Ross Ulbricht’s Criminal Masterpiece

In 2008, Ross Ulbricht was a libertarian with an altruistic attitude, who had a dream of getting rich on his way to doing something meaningful with his life.1 At first,...

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Sid Meier’s Civilization: A Work of Art

Computers were originally developed to get large amounts of data processed faster and more efficiently. However, these large, mainframe computers were very expensive and required lots of space. In the...

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Tupac & Notorious B.I.G: A friendship created & destroyed by Hip-Hop

“Biggie, remember when I use to let ya sleep on my couch, And beg the b**** to let ya sleep in the house. Now it’s all about Versace, you copied...

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The Massacre at Columbine: How Boys Can Become Murderers

It was April 20, 1999 in Littleton Colorado. Seventeen-year-old Eric Harris and his eighteen-year-old friend Dylan Klebold both drove separately on a Tuesday morning to play a couple of frames...

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