Birth Of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the encouraging leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement. He was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. He was a Baptist minister and that was one of the least leader ship role a Black person could get back then. Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Boycott (1955-1956) and he became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership conference which he helped build. His achievements led to the March on Washington in 1963 where he said his “I Have a Dream” speech. In 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. received the Noble Peace Prize being the youngest person to receive the prize.The March on Washington in 1963 was led by Martin Luther King Jr. where he said his “I Have a Dream” speech. People say that the speech was one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory. Through his career Martin Luther King wrote and spoke frequently. He was the youngest to receive the Noble Prize for his efforts to end segregation and Racial discrimination throughout parts of the U.S.In March 1968 Martin Luther King went to Memphis in support of the Black Sanitary public work employees. King’s flight to Memphis around April 3rd had been delayed by a bomb threat against his plane. Since his flight was delayed he had stayed in a motel in room 306.
While Martin Luther King was standing on the motel’s 2nd floor balcony, James Earl Ray, shot him at 6:01 p.m. April 4, 1968 The bullet hit him in his cheek smashing his jaw where it had traveled down his spinal cord before lodging his shoulder. Martin Luther King was announced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital at 7:05. Marin Luther King Jr. was a b very successful person. He was considered a saint among several Protestant churches. He even had more that 730 cities in the United States had streets named after him as of 2006. The city named Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is the only city hall named after the Kings honor. In 1965 King was given the Pacem in Terris Award. In 1966, He was given the Margaret Sanger Award for being Courageous and for Social Justice and Human dignity. In 1968 he was given a Marcus Garvey Prize for Human Rights by the Jamaican government. He was even given a Grammy Award for best Spoken Word. He was given more awards. Martin Luther King Jr. did a lot of good deeds in his time of life. That is why he was considered what he was to some churches and that he was a hero to some people.

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Youth now have more mental health issues

A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era.Overall, an average of five times as many students in 2007 surpassed thresholds in one or more mental health categories, compared with those who did so in 1938. A few individual categories increased at an even greater rate.The study also showed increases in "psychopathic deviation," which is loosely related to psychopathic behavior in a much milder form and is defined as having trouble with authority and feeling as though the rules don't apply to you. The percentage of young people who scored high in that category increased from 5 percent in 1938 to 24 percent in 2007. Click

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Learning about Factoring

In higher math levels the basics will naturally be factoring. Not knowing how to factor will mess you up as you get higher in math. Factoring means simplifying into smaller or simplest form. when you multply and divide you would have the factoring rules in there from Monomials Binomials and Polynomial. When you want to factor a quadratic equation like x²+4x+4 you would find two factors of 4 that can be multiplied into 4 as well as sdd up to 4x when finding the two you would be able to have your answer. The factors of 4 is 1,2,4 and the numbers that is able to go into both is 2. the formation would be (x+2)(x+2). To solve and see if its correct you would have to do FOIL method. its First Outter Inner Last. you so x multiplied by x and x multiplied by 2 which will equal x²+2x. then you would multiply 2 by x and 2 by 2 which will equal 2x+4. when you put them together is till be x²+2x+2x+4. You are only able to combind like terms so it will then equal the quadratic of x²+4x+4. thats the basic of Triganometry and geometry.

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