Maya Angelou: Still I Rise Maya Angelo was quoted in an article in Essence: African American Politicians Interviews, as saying " The power that I have first comes directly from being a descendent of people whose powerful history makes me humble. ... The power of the poem "Still I Rise" is derived from Maya Angelou's powerful sense of humility (not modesty) of who she is and glorifying in it. ... She began her career in drama and dance and in 1993 she wrote and delivered the presidential inauguration for President Bill Clinton. ... Weakend by my soulful cries", Excerpted from stanza fo...

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Despite the enormous step towards democracy from Myanmar, Suu Kyi's party will not hold great power even if they win all open seats in parliament. ... Additionally, Suu Kyi's age and health might prevent her from joining the presidential campaigns in 2015. ...

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Originally, media power was only vested in the papers, but today radio and television are the more prominent forms of news. ... There are even those who believe that the media chooses our presidents by deciding whether to air the good or bad things they dig up on the presidential candidates. ... Nine times out of ten, when a story hits the headlines, it results in a presidential response to a media decision and not the other way around. ...

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The marriage amendment would withdraw from states the power to permit same-sex marriages even if 100% of the voters and legislators of some state wanted to allow it. ... In October of 1999 the Baptist Press reported that five presidential candidates , including current president George W. ...

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The opportunity for Cap and Trade came along with the 1998 presidential election of George H.W Bush. ... Rather than the bill limiting the amount of emissions, it only limited the rate of emissions, and just in the worst power plants. ... He suggested "getting rid of bureaucratic apparatus" and to mount a device on all power plants to make sure emission numbers match up with allowances at the end of each year. ...

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This came shortly after the debacle of Florida's involvement in the voting irregularities of the Presidential Election of 2000. ... President Bush seems to reassure us that "had [he] known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, [he] would have done everything in [his] power to protect the American people."" ... This attack on America has engraved President Bush in the minds of every soul that could hear, read a paper or magazine, see a television, or feel the shift in power that the United States supposedly possessed alone. ...

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