Honor, Courage, and Commitment are the United States Marine Corps core values. ... Honor consists of the "qualities of maturity, dedication, trust, and dependability"(Honor, Courage, and Commitment). ... Courage is "the ability to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons". ... Their physical, moral, and mental strength allows a Marine to "do what is right; to adhere to a higher standard of personal conduct; to lead by example; and to make tough decisions under stress and pressure." ... The Hymn tells of honor, courage, and glory among Marines. ...

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We are Our Brothers Keepers It is the moral obligation and duty of the United States to intervene when other countries violate human rights. ... There are many moral issues at stake. ... It is the moral responsibility of the United States to continue intervening in the violation of human rights in other countries. ... These countries had the courage to stand up for what they believed in. ... The most powerful country in the world should be the ones to realize that they, as the most powerful country, have the moral obligation to try and help out any neighbor in need of their support....

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We are Our Brothers Keepers It is the moral obligation and duty of the United States to intervene when other countries violate human rights. ... There are many moral issues at stake. ... It is the moral responsibility of the United States to continue intervening in the violation of human rights in other countries. ... These countries had the courage to stand up for what they believed in. ... The most powerful country in the world should be the ones to realize that they, as the most powerful country, have the moral obligation to try and help out any neighbor in need of their support....

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While in Jail, King didn't waste any time; he wrote a letter to local clergymen, who had criticized him for creating disorder in the city, and argued that individuals had the moral right and responsibility to disobey unjust laws (M, Cooper). ... Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of great ambition, courage and braveness. ...

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Being a ground breaking journalist she reported things that where kept hidden from the public, writing about horrific accounts of lynching and other forms on terrorism on blacks, very few had the courage to tell the truth like she did. ... She challenged racial hierarchy, by inquiring the ideal that white women were moral and chaste and black women weren't she sited instances where the sex between white women and black men were consensual and where white men had raped black women for years. ...

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At the end of his book, Jensen asks the reader a very critical question: "Do we have the courage to stop being Americans and become human beings? ... Emma Goldman states "Patriotism retards our moral development " because "The greater the destructive power of a nation, the greater the potential danger of patriotism " (48). ...

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Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were both presidents of the United States and made many positive historical contributions. Although they were on opposites sides of the Civil War, both men had strong feelings for the protection of their land. While Abraham Lincoln steered the Union, Jefferson ...

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Serving as a chief justice for 34 years, and presiding over 1000 cases, John Marshall was known for his intelligence, his courage in time of war, and his fairness in regard to Constitutional law. ... By the age of 12 Marshall was able to write word for word Pope's moral essays and passages. ...

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Yoruba People An Overview: History, Geography, Ecology, Subsistence, Technology The Yoruba People, of whom there are more than twenty-five million, occupy the southwestern corner of Nigeria along the border with Benin Republic and extends into Benin Republic itself. To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. However ancestral cultures directly related to the Yoruba once flourished well north of the Niger. Portuguese explorers "discovered" (for the Europeans) the Yoruba cities and kingdoms in the fifteenth century, but citie...

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U.S Foreign Policy Toward Jewish Refugees During 1933-1939 PART I HISTORICAL REVIEW AND ANALYSIS In reviewing the events which gave rise to the U.S.'s foreign policy toward Jewish refugees, we must identify the relevant factors upon which such decisions were made. Factors includin...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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