Literary Figure: Sister Souljah

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Sister Souljah
(born 1964)

Sister Souljah is an American hiphop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer.. She is best known for Bill Clinton's criticism of her remarks about race in the U.S. during the 1992 presidential campaign. Clinton's well-known repudiation of her comments led to what is now known in politics as a Sister Souljah movement.

Souljah was born Lisa Williamson in THe Bronx, New York. She recounts in her autobiography that she was born into poverty and raised on welfare. At age 10 she moved with her family to the suburbs of Inglewood, New Jersey, a middle-lower class suburb with a strong African-American presence, a slight change from the big city feel of the Bronx. Inglewood is also home to other famous Black artists such as George Benson, Eddie Murphy, and Regina Belle.

Souljah took a very active and special interest in learning everything she could about African history, which she felt was left out of the education curriculum in the United States purposely: "I supplemented my education in the White American school system by reading African history, which was intentionally left out of the curriculum of American students." While at Dwight Morrow High School, a school that had a relatively even distribution of Black-, Latino-, and Jewish-student enrollment and a majority Black administration during the time of her studies, from 1978 to 1981. She was a legislative intern in the House of Representatives.Souljah was also the recipient of several honors during her teenage years. She won the American Legion's Constitutional Oratory Contest, a scholarship to attend Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program.

In 1995 Sister Souljah published a volume of autobiography titled No Disrespect. In 1999, she made her debut as a novelist with The Coldest Winter Ever. An indirect sequel of the novel, titled Midnight: A Gangster Love Story, originally scheduled for October 14, 2008, was published November 4, 2008, and entered The New York Times bestseller list at #7 its first week out and remained there as of February 2009. Another sequel, Midnight 2: Word is Bond, is to be published in 2010, and another novel, Porsche Santiaga, is due in 2011.

She also does occasional pieces for Essence Magazine and has written for The New Yorker.

Scientific: Hubble Space Telescope

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Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a space shuttle in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although not the first space telescope, Hubble is one of the largest and most versatile, and is well-known as both a vital research tool and a public relations boon for astronomy. The HST is a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, and is one of NASA's Great Observations.

Space telescopes were proposed as early as 1923. Hubble was funded in the 1970s, with a proposed launch in 1983, but the project was beset by technical delays and budget problems.When finally launched in 1990, scientists found that the main mirror had been ground incorrectly, severely compromising the telescope's capabilities. However, after a servicing mission in 1993, the telescope was restored to its intended quality. Hubble's orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely sharp images with almost no background light. Hubble's Ultra Deep Field image, for instance, is the most detailed visible light image ever made of the universe's most distant objects. Many Hubble observations have led to breakthroughs in astrophysics, such as accurately determining the rate of expansion in the universe.

Hubble is the only telescope ever designed to be serviced in space by astronauts. Four servicing missions were performed from 1993–2002, but the fifth was canceled on safety grounds following the space shuttle Columbia disaster.. However, after public discussions, NASA administrator Mike Griffin approved one final servicing mission, completed in 2009. The telescope is now expected to function until at least 2014, when its 'successor', the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is due to be launched.

extra: tupac and biggie by Deownte Abrams

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Tupac Shukur is a famous rapper that grew up in Baltimore Maryland. But he was in a hospital on the eastside of Harlem. He was born june 16,1971. While his friend/enimie Christopher Wallace was born and raised in Brooklyn New York. In the 1990's the both became very popular.

Tupacs rapping career started i the early 1990's. He finally got a hit record and thats what brought him to the spotlight. This hit song was called "Same Song" After he came out with this song he became very well known. But while his music and acting career was getting better he also to have alot of enimies around. Som people say it was because the way he talked and acted towards others that made them dislike him. Tupac also started to hav legal issues november 30 1994 Tupac was scheduled to go to court for rape charges. But he could not make it because he was shot 5 times in a rap studio that Christopher was recording in. This exact incident is what lead to the problems between himself and Biggie smals A.K.A Christopher Wallace.

Biggie had been making music since he was a teen on the block. This is also how he became known around his nieborhood. At a young age Biggie had always been into trouble he was selling crack cocaine at the age of 17. After biggie was released from prison he came out with a mixtape that got everybody attention by the name of Biggie smalls. After he became really famous arounf New York he was finally introduced to Sean Combs A.K.A P. Diddy he was the manerger of a big record label at the time. But after a few weeks he was soon fired from his job. So P. Diddy started his own record label and named it bad boys records with Biggie as his first artist. After Biggie made a couple og hit record he was introduced to Tupac. a lot of people thought it would b good for the two rappers to do a song togather so they did and in the makin became close friends. That is until November 30, 1994.

November 30, 1994 Tupac was shot five times. After this he stop trusting A lot of people that he once trusted, Because he felt that it was a set up by Biggie Smalls. This is what made the two become enimies. Tupac soon signed to a new record label by the name of Death Row. AfterTupac wnet to Death Row the problems that Biggie and Tupac had escaladed to a whole different level. Tupac started makin diss songs to Biggie and talking bad in the media. Buth while Tupac was doing all this Biggie started to make some of his own diss music toward Tupac. But really the whole situation was about who can sale more records.

All of this came to an end September 13, 1996 when Tupac shukur was murdered at a Las Vegas stop light. this happend after the main event fight for Mike Tyson. It was a variety of rumors going around that Biggie had something to do wit the death of Tupac Shukar. But Biggie denied all of the rumors. A year later Christopher Wallace was murdered March 9, 1997. At a stop light exactly like Tupac was murdered. The two rappers are commonly looked at as the best rappers in rap history.

Dolly The Sheep by: Abodd Wardak

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Dolly the sheep

Ian Wilmut, 7 July 1944 Warwickshire, England

Keith Campbell 1954 Birmingham,England

5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003

Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland.

This used the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer, where the cell nucleus from an adult cell is transferred into an unfertilized oocyte that has had its nucleus removed. The hybrid cell is then stimulated to divide by an electric shock, and when it develops into a blastocyst it is implanted in a surrogate mother.

The outcomes from this sheep is that now there are may other cloned animals and it allowed other thing to be cloned. From this scientific discovery we now can clone any animal, and we have. We now have horses, sheep,bulls, and even dogs that have been cloned. It opened a new door for in the sciences world and there were movies made about cloned humans. It had a big effect on a lot of people.

This is a very significant discovery b/c I can save the world. I say it can save the world because you can now clone endangered species. One day they can even bring back dinosaurs and let them roam this planet. The only scary thing is that they can also clone humans, though its illegal I bet some scientist are working on it and the thought of fake people is super scary.

Extra: PlayStation 1 by: Abodd Wardak

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Play Station by Sony

December of 1994 in Japan and in September 1995 in America

the play station was the first system to use Cd's in the world. It was estimated that 1 out f 4 houses had a psx in them.

A fun fact about the Play Station is that it was going to be a Nintendo system but Sony left and ow the Play Staion line has became there best selling line of items they offered.

This is my extra report because the play station was my first game console. I remember having tony hawk's pro skater and resident evil 2. The PlayStation outsold all other gaming consoles in the 1900's because Sony was able to fit more memory into a disk,they were able to do more. The games were the most futuristic ever, miles ahead of Nintendo. The play Station famous slogan was “Do Not Underestimate The Power Of The PlayStation” . That was a true statement that I believe lots of people didn't believe it and the psx proved itself.

columbine high school massacre by: Abodd Wardak

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Columbine Tragedy

Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold

4/20/99

it took place in Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado

the two boys were feed up with life and took it out on the kids at there high school.

At 11:10 am. on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold arrived at Columbine High School in separate cars. At 11:19 am., a witness heard Eric Harris yell "Go! Go!" At that moment the gunmen pulled out their shotguns and began shooting at Rachel Scott and Richard Castaldo. At 11:37 am., the shooters moved to the center of the library, 12:08 pm, they moved over to the bookshelves there, they shot themselves, committing suicide.

They killed 12 students and 1 teacher that day.

This event shook high school students, teachers, and parents. This is the reason why all school should have cameras. Since Eric & Dylan both were trench coats, all the kids who were trench coats were picked on and they were looked at funny. The massacre provoked debate regarding gun control laws, the availability of firearms in the United States, it made parents think twice about the internet.

this event is significant to me because you never know when someone is going to loose it and kill poor people who should have never died. This was the one event that made kids worried in the 90's. That maybe that weird goth kid might attack me or worse take out half the school. Government made it harder to buy guns and internet was looked at twice. This event shook up the nation and to me as a high school student is the saddest thing I have to write about in this project.

fight club by abodd wardak

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Fight Club

Feb. 17, 1996

fight Club is the story of an unnamed narrator, an insomniac yuppie who spends his days helping insurance companies get out of having to pay their claims. He wanders through a meaningless life until he discovers the emotional release of attending therapy groups for people suffering from various deadly diseases, all of which the narrator pretends to have. When the arrival of another "faker" (the wonderfully dark Marla Singer, whose role is far less central in the book than in the film), the narrator finds even the shallow comfort of testicular cancer self-help groups has been taken away from him. Luckily for him, he happens to meet Tyler Durden around this time. And it is Tyler who introduces him to the concept of fighting. What starts as a few rounds in a bar parking lot soon transforms into the nationwide movement known as Fight Club. Every night, yuppies gather together and proceed to beat each other up and get in touch with the pure destructive instinct that society has forced them to suppress. From this violent but relatively benign concept, Tyler sets out to build up an even more extreme movement and our narrator finds his own life suddenly spiraling out of control.

The story takes place in bars and clubs, and parking lots.

A fun face is that the movie did really bad in theaters

The novel won the following awards: the 1997 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award & the 1997 Oregon Book Award for Best Novel

1. You don't talk about fight club.

2.You don't talk about fight club.

3.When someone says stop, or goes limp, even if he's just faking it, the fight is over.

4.Only two guys to a fight.

5.One fight at a time.

6.They fight without shirts or shoes.

7.The fights go on as long as they have to.

8. this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

1.don't mention the fight club

2. don't mention the fight club

3.if your opponent is even faking that he is hurt, its over

4. two people per fight

5.only one fight at a time

6. you have to fight without shirts and shoes.

7. the fight can last as long as it needs to

8. if it's your first night at the club you have to fight

this story is significant to the world because it open a door for more men readers. The book was written for that purpose say Chuck Palahniuk. It was written in the way that show how during that time an age young boys were raised by single mothers and never had father-role models, and how to overcome it. Chuck also said this book is about a guy who is looking to make friends. That is the significant of the book,

the end of the cold war by abodd wardak

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The cold war was 60 years of fear and competition. The cold war started in ’47 and ended ’91. The events took place in the USA, Russia, Vietnam, Korea, and Cuba. It was a race between America and U.S.S.R (Russia).Some events during the cold war are The Berlin Airlift, Forming of NATO, The Korean War, Cuba became a Communist country, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Vietnam War and the Berlin wall falling. From the war we managed to get the first man on the moon, to put satellite into space and overall proved that 2 nations can keep the whole world in fear.

The effects of the cold war have been tremendous. We now can send people up to the moon. We can see what’s going on in the space and even in distant planets. The bombs that were made are now nothing compared to the h-bombs that were created by the cold war. NATO and The Warsaw Pact were formed. America became the sole superpower of the world. The favorite effect from the American side is that Communism collapsed worldwide.

The cold war is one of the most important Wars America has been in. the war lasted 60 years, but in that 60 years we got lots done. There was a two week period America lived in fear of getting wiped of the surface of the earth. I also think that since after the Cold War that communism died down, that made America very happy. America is now and forever the strongest country after the cold war. That is what makes the Cold War very significant.

Historical Event: The Gulf War by Hans Moscoso

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The Persian Gulf War, also known as The Gulf War happened in August 2, 1990 and ended in February 28, 1991. Important people who were involved in the war were the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and U.S. President George H. W. Bush. It was Iraq against the U.S., U.K., Western European Countries, and Middle East countries. The event took place in many places, like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

The U.S. disliked Iraq support for various Arab and Palestinian militant groups, which led to its inclusion on the developing U.S. list of state sponsors of international terrorism on December 29, 1979. By the time the ceasefire with Iran was signed in August 1988, Iraq was virtually bankrupt, with most of its debt owed to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Iraq pressured both nations to forgive the debts, but they refused. Kuwait was also accused by Iraq of exceeding its OPEC quotas and driving down the price of oil, thus further hurting the Iraqi economy.

The Gulf War started with an extensive aerial bombing campaign. The coalition flew over 100,000 sorties, dropping 88,500 tons of bombs and widely destroying military and civilian infrastructure. Then Iraq launched eight Iraq Modified Scud missiles into Israel. The Scud missiles were relatively ineffective. Iraq moved their forces into the Saudi city of Khafji with tanks and infantry. It lasted for 2 days. One hundred hours after the ground campaign started, on February 28, President Bush declared a cease-fire, and he also declared that Kuwait had been liberated.

Scientist: William French Anderson

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William French Anderson
(born December 31, 1936)

William French Anderson is a is a U.S. physician, geneticists, and molecular biologist. He is considered a pioneer of gene therapy. He graduated from Harvard University in 1958 and from Harvard Medical School in 1963. In 1990, he claimed to be the first person ever to succeed in gene therapy of a 4-year-old girl suffering fro SCID (a form of an immuno-deficiency disorder called "bubble boy disease"). His claims may have been exaggerated. In 2006, he was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, the daughter of an employee, and in 2007 was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Anderson was born in Tulsa Oklahoma. His father was a civil engineer and his mother was a journalist, writer and university professor. According to his biography, he stuttered. He eventually overcame his impediment and was recognized for his performance in track, theater, and debate. Anderson was a 1954 graduate of Tulsa Central High School.

He entered Harvard University, where he excelled, becoming a track star and publishing several papers, including one outlining a method for arithmetic operations using Roman numerals. Following a year abroad in Cambridge, where he met his future wife Kathy Duncan, he returned to Harvard, to the Medical School, accompanied by Kathy. They married in 1961 and both graduated a few years later.

Dr. Anderson was employed by the National Institutes of Health, beginning a search to find ways to repair defective genes. Using microinjection methods, the approach was slow and inefficient. After abandoning this approach, his contributions to this field were non-existent until, in 1984, Richard Mulligan of MIT published a method to insert genes by using a retrovirus. Dr. Anderson wanted to test this theory with a human disease. In 1988 his proposal to the Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee was denied, however his request for a hearing before the full committee proceeded, and the trial was approved.

In May 1989 he conducted the first human safety test for gene therapy, a harmless marker injected into a 53 year old man. A year later a therapeutic trial was begun, to replace a defective ADA gene in a 4-year old girl. In 2007, at the age of 21, she was stable, but still had to take regular medication. The scientific consensus on this gene therapy trial was mixed, but there is no question that his work had great impact on the emerging field.

He joined the University of Southern California faculty in 1992 and was the director of the Gene Therapy Laboratories at the Keck School of Medicine and was a professor of biochemistry and pediatrics.

He was the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Human Gene Therapy.

Historical Event: Yahoo! Inc.

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Yahoo! is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA that provides internet services worldwide, Yahoo! is most popular for its search engine, mail, Directory, and maps. As of January, 2010, Yahoo held the world's largest market share in online display advertising.

Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.

In January 1994, David Filo and Jerry Yang were Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford University. In April 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!", for which the official backcronym is "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". Filo and Yang said that they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition.

The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive business potential, and on March 1, 1995, Yahoo! was incorporated. On April 5, 1995, Michael Moritz provided Yahoo! with two rounds of venture capital, raising approximately $3 million.On April 12, 1996, Yahoo! had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 million, by selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each.

Like many web search engines, Yahoo! diversified into a web portal. In the late 1990s, Yahoo! and other Web portals were growing rapidly. Web portal providers rushed to acquire companies to expand their range of services, in the hope of increasing the time a user stayed at the portal.

Yahoo! is known across the world with its multi-lingual interface. The site is available in over 20 languages, including English. The official directory for all of the Yahoo! International sites is world.yahoo.com. 2008, Darren Petterson, business development director for Yahoo! Europe confirmed that Yahoo! was going to launch a Romanian version of their website by the end of the year,however, due to the financial crisis at that time, those plans were frozen. In February 2010, new reports appeared in the Romanian media claiming that the portal will finally launch by June the same year, as some services like Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Mobile are already translated into Romanian.

Historical Figure: Bill Gates

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William Henry "Bill" Gates III
(born October 28, 1955)
Married Melinda French on January 1, 1994 and have 3 children.

Bill Gates is an American business magnate and the chairman of Microsoft, a software company he found with Paul Allen. He's ranked one of the wealthiest people in the world. During his career at Microsoft, he held the positions CEO, and chief software architect. He remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock. Gates also authored and co-authored several books.

Gates was born in Seattle, Washington to an upper middle class family. At 13, he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. There, he took an interest in computers. He also met longtime friend and business partner, Paul Allen. Gates graduted from Lakeside in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on SAT ad enrolled at Harvard College. He didn't have a definite study plan at Harvard and spent most of his time using the school's computers. He remained in contact with Paul Allen, joining him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company. He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics. They consider it anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

Iceman Glacier; Historical scientific event by deownte abrams

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A carbon dating tests show that there is a frozen body found by a prehistoric human hunter found an frozen body in an Alpine glacier last year he said which almost was 5,000 to 5,500 old, scientists reported February 22, 1992.

The very first scientific established age for the frozen corpse is more than 1,000 years older than original ones. It means the man lived and presumably froze to death way before the Bronze Age was replaced with the late Stone Age in far East .

When this first happened believed the man was not from the Bronze Age but also a lot older said “Dr. Werner Platzer” head of the anatomy department at Innsbruck University in Austria, And he his directing research on the mummy corpse. This the only corpse that we got from that age.

The Lion King (Personal)

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Simba, Mufasa, Rafiki, Sarabi, Timon and, Pumba do these characters sound familiar to you? Yep, they are from “The Lion King”. If you’ve never heard of that movie and you have no idea what I’m talking about, Well, The Lion King was a movie about Simba the lion prince and his friend named Sarabi. Then there is his evil uncle Mufasa (Who killed Simba’s father to get the throne). Mufasa takes over, Simba runs away. Then he meets Timon and Pumba (A Cooky duo) who raise him. After living some time with Timon and Pumba, Simba goes home to defeat Mufasa and claim his throne. Which he does, that’s The Lion King in a nutshell.

The Lion King was released into the theaters June 5, 1994 by Walt Disney Pictures. It had the highest grossing for a 2D animation movie until “Finding Nemo” was released. It made over $783 Million dollars worldwide. It was the best movie in 1994. It won 2 Academy Awards for its Music and a Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. It did really well.

Personally, I think that The Lion King has to be the ORIGINAL therefore the best animation movie ever. I can say that I think that it is important to the 1990’s because, honestly, it is the first cartoon movie that I remember seeing. I remember knowing every word to every song. Actually everyone did. I think that this movie was kind of a way to connect everyone together. I bet a lot of kids made new friends just because they both liked The Lion King. I know I have.

Literary Work - Chicken Soup for the Soul

Posted by Elisha Horton On Tuesday, May 25, 2010 0 comments

Chicken soup for the Soul, a book created by Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, used to help people with their lives by telling true life stories. The title was chosen because of Mark’s grandmother, He said that his grandmother always told him that chicken soup can cure anything. He used it because it is supposed to heal the soul the way that soup heals a sickness.

After finalizing on the title, it was released on June 28, 1993. Then became a widely used Christmas present. It was said that after anyone read one, they would go back to the bookstores and buy five to ten more books. By 1994, Chicken Soup for the Soul was on every bestseller list in the U.S. and Canada.

In the next coming years, the book did wonderfully and it even won some awards.
· 1995, The ABBY Award (American Booksellers’ Book of the Year)
· 1996, The Non-Fiction Literary Award
· 1998, Favorite Book of the Year
Then in the 2000s they won many more awards, which I’m not going to talk about because my group is only doing the 1990s.

I think that Chicken Soup for the Soul is a very cool book. Especially because I found out that the publicity for the book was done by word of mouth. I wasn’t promoted in the media until after it sold many books. I haven’t actually read a Chicken Soup book before but after reading about the history of the book and reading some of the titles, I’m honestly think that I will try reading one of the books.

Historical Figure: Bill Clinton by Hans Moscoso

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Bill Clinton, born as William Jefferson Blythe III, was born in Hope, Arkansas on August 19, 1946. Bill’s father died in a car accident before he was born. In order for his mom to study nursing, she had left him in her parents care. Clinton attended St. John’s Catholic Elementary School, Ramble Elementary School and Hot Springs High School and he was an avid reader and a musician. He was also in chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state’s band saxophone. He considered music in his life, but changed his mind after. He then won a Rhodes scholarship to UC Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

After graduating from Law school, he returned to Arkansas to become a professor, and then he ran for House of Representatives a year later. He lost to John Paul Hammerschmidt, 52% to 48%. In 1976, he was elected Arkansas Attorney General and by 1978 he was elected Governor of Arkansas and was the youngest governor in the country by age 32. He changed Arkansas economy and improved the state’s educational system and made economic growth, job creation and educational improvement high priorities.

In 1987, Clinton was going to run for democratic presidential race, but then decided to stay as the Governor of Arkansas. By 1990-1991 he headed the moderate Democratic Leadership Council, and by 1992, he started a presidential campaign. Due to his youthful appearance, he was often called as the “Boy Governor”, but that didn’t stop him from winning the election. By winning this election, he ended 12 years of Republican rule of the white house, and gave Democrats full control of the U.S. Congress.

Scientific Discovery - Stem Cell Research

Posted by Elisha Horton On Thursday, May 20, 2010 0 comments

Stem Cell research started because doctors needed to find a way the regenerate cells in people with anemia and leukemia. Stem cells are from embryos that are made by in vitro which fertilizing outside of the womb. They are widely needed because they have the ability to develop into many different types of cells and they help with internal repair.

In the 1900s, they first tried to administer it by mouth which proved unsuccessful. So they started doing bone marrow transplants, which only worked on identical twins at first. Because your body knows that the transplant isn't part of your part so body so it rejects it.

In the 1998, James Thompson got cells from embryos in their early stages. The he developed the first embryonic cell lines. Then funding was banned by George Bush. But was later lifted by President Bill Clinton and ultimately banned again because it was a huge controversy. Because the use of babies.

It wasn’t until the 2000s that there was actually funding for stem cell research. I honestly have no problem with it. I think that it was a great idea because, it helps save lives and it isn’t hurting anyone. I think that if I had the chance in the future I would donate some of my eggs to stem cell research.

Historical Figure - Carol Moseley Braun

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Carol Moseley Braun was born August 16, 1947, Chicago, Illinois. Her mother (Edna Moseley) was a medical technician and her father (Joseph Moseley) was a police officer. She went to the University of Chicago and got her Juris Degree in 1972. She became a persecutor for the United States Attorney’s office in Chicago. She mainly worked in civil and appellate law areas.

In 1978, she was elected as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. While she was a representative, she was strong about helping African Americans and Hispanic Citizens. She also felt really strongly about abortions, She was Pro-Choice and she believed that women had the right to decide whether they want to keep the child or not. In 1991, she went up against Alan Dixon for the Senator. On November 3, 1992, she won. That meant that she was the first African American woman to be elected into the United States Senate.

But in 1993, she was investigated for a Federal Elections Commission, because there was $249,000 unaccounted for in Campaign Funds. She was clean, so they let it got. Later, she left the country and went to Nigeria to talk to the dictator Sani Abacha. And it was said that she defended the dictators actions.

1991, She was accused of being corrupted by George Will. He wrote a column explaining why he thought she was corrupted. She responded with comparing him to a Ku Klux Klansman in this quote from her, "I mean this very sincerely from the bottom of my heart: He can take his hood and put it back on again, as far as I'm concerned." She later apologized for her response.

And right now, she’s not doing much. I just wanted to point out how weird it is that. She was mugged by a man named Joseph Dixon and she won an election against an Alan Dixon. I wonder if there is any relation. At first I thought that I would be cool to write a report about the first female African American Senator. But now after learning about her, I think that she was corrupt in some way. She just doesn’t seem right. I don’t know what she would meet with a dictator for.

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FAME '10 Decades Project - 1990's

Literary Figure: Sister Souljah

Scientific: Hubble Space Telescope

extra: tupac and biggie by Deownte Abrams

Dolly The Sheep by: Abodd Wardak

Dolly the sheep

Extra: PlayStation 1 by: Abodd Wardak

columbine high school massacre by: Abodd Wardak

fight club by abodd wardak

the end of the cold war by abodd wardak

Historical Event: The Gulf War by Hans Moscoso

Scientist: William French Anderson

Historical Event: Yahoo! Inc.

Historical Figure: Bill Gates

Iceman Glacier; Historical scientific event by deownte abrams

The Lion King (Personal)

Literary Work - Chicken Soup for the Soul

Historical Figure: Bill Clinton by Hans Moscoso

Scientific Discovery - Stem Cell Research

Historical Figure - Carol Moseley Braun

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