White House Millennium Council Essays

  • Elie Wiesel Night And Indifference Analysis

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    dedicated his life to speaking against injustice and indifference, things which weighed heavily on his heart. On April 12th, 1999, he was invited to speak at the White House Millennium Lecture series on the exigency of indifference. The Millennium Lecture series were a series of lectures given over multiple evenings in the wake of a new millennium. They were intended to bring out the creativity and inventiveness

  • Culture in Samalian Life

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    men and older boys tend camels, cattle, and valued animals -Girls and young boys tend the sheep and goats. -when a man is killed, his life is usually worth 100 camels while a womans’ is around 50 -Grown Somali men usually serve their clan-family council -An urban man usually works as a businessman, blacksmith, craftsman, fisherman, or factory worker -Women in nomadic clans care for the children, cook, and moving the family aqal -Women in farming clans plant, harvest, care for children, and cook -Women

  • Killing Reagan Book Report

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    Killing Reagan is a book written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The book’s focus is to take readers behind the scenes, through the life and times of Ronald Reagan. From his Hollywood days to his days in presidency, near-death experience, and the nearly impossible obstacles he had to overcome in order to carry out the duties as a man and as President of the United States. The authors wanted to create a portrait of a “great man operating in violent times”, and that they did. In this fifth book

  • Pyrmont Decline

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    renewal and consolidation, which has encouraged high-income, high-density living. However this has created a widening social gap between the rich and the poor. Introducing Pyrmont: Pyrmont is a component of the City of Sydney, which is a capital council that is accountable for the commercial, financial,

  • The Bush Dectrine: The Three Perspectives Of The Bush Doctrine

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    valuation for the week. As a response to these September 11 attacks, many countries, including Middle Eastern countries (with the exception of Iraq), criticized the attacks offering support and unity to the United States. The United Nations Security Council also criticized these attacks and claimed that it is necessary to take all the steps which are needed to response and fight against all types of terrorism in accordance with the United Nations Security Council’s Charter. (US News Center) The United

  • Cultural Revolution

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    Bella Abzug. http://www.tolerance.org/activity/bella-abzug The American Presidency Project. Equal Rights Amendment Remarks at a Fundraising Dinner. June 18, 1980. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44610 U.S. History: Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium. Shaping a New America: The Equal Rights Amendment. http://www.ushistory.org/us/57c.asp Tchen, Tina. Supporting the Equal Rights Amendment. June 22, 2011. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/06/22/supporting-equal-rights-amendment

  • The Holy Virgin Mary

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    What a sensation was made about the Sensation exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The focus of Mayor Giuliani’s outcry was the piece “The Holy Virgin Mary” by Chris Ofili. Funny, he didn’t give attention to some of the other outrageous works including the pubescent female mannequins studded with erect penises, vaginas, and anuses, fused together in various postures of sexual coupling, or the portrait of a child molester and murder made from what appears like child hand prints or bisected animals

  • Comparitive Flood Stories

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    Comparitive Flood Stories Most comparisons between Genesis and ancient Creation or Flood stories can be classified as comparative religious studies. They generally involve one text isolated from its original historical context (e.g., the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish or the Flood tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic) and one related biblical narrative. On the basis of currently available evidence, their earliest-known written form can be dated only to the first half of the first millenium B

  • Disadvantages of Being Muslim Women

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    LUCKNOW: M R Syeda Hameed's report on the status of Muslim women in India, entitled ``Voice of the Voiceless'', is a bold initiative, documentating in no uncertain terms the double disadvantage of being women and Muslim in India. As member of the National Commission for Women, Dr Hameed conducted public hearings from Kerala to Kashmir, Calcutta to Surat. Everywhere, it was the same story, as women spoke of community objections to sending girls to school after puberty, the dangling threat of triple