TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: At a time when so many young Americans are ineligible to even be considered for the military  extending protections for "Dreamers" also would have a positive impact on the armed forces  former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in a column for The New York Times.
"That is why we need legislation that will provide a pathway to citizenship for those immigrants who  among other attributes  are serving or have served in the military  whether they are in America legally or were brought here illegally as children "  Gates  wrote for the NYT.
"That kind of policy will help the military recruit new service members and improve readiness "  Gates  wrote.
"In light of the service and sacrifice of those immigrants — legal or not — it is also the right thing to do "  Gates  wrote.

SOLUTION: Robert Gates

PROBLEM: WNBA star Breana Stewart  is now sharing a story of  her  own in light of the #MeToo movement.
In an essay called "Me Too" on The Players' Tribune   Stewart  revealed that  she  was sexually abused as a child by a man who lived in one of the houses of  her  relatives.  She  said the man was a construction worker and smoked cigarettes but did not identify  her  abuser.
 Stewart  said  she  turned to basketball during this time because it "became a sort of safe space" for the current Seattle Storm forward.
"In some ways  I'm still the same 11-year-old who just wanted to go to practice  " Stewart  wrote. "I've never been to therapy. I didn't want to talk about it. I didn't want to relive it. It's something I've tried to tuck away as far back on the shelf as I could. But that only works to an extent. I've cried. I cry most after I tell someone who's important to me. Talking about what I went through  explaining all of it -- it guts me. I'm forced to relive it. That's when it hits that what happened is real. It wasn't just an awful nightmare. It wasn't some other life I lived at another time."
The 23-year-old said  she  told  her  parents about the abuse when  she  was 11 years old and the man was later arrested and confessed his crimes.  Stewart  said  she  wishes  she  could forget the memories of  her  experience.
"I'm angry he took advantage of me as a child. I'll never get that time back. And what memories I still have  I'll never be able to erase them. Sometimes I wish for a few more black holes "  Stewart  said.
 Breanna Stewart  said basketball became a safe space for  her  as child. (Jessica Hill/AP)
 Stewart  said  she  decided to come forward with  her  story because the movement is something bigger than  her .
 Stewart  was a basketball star for the UConn women's basketball team.  She  won the NCAA national championship four times and was given the Naismith Award for college basketball's most outstanding player on three occasions.
So far  she  has seamlessly transitioned to the WNBA and was given the Rookie of the Year award in 2016.

SOLUTION: Breana Stewart

PROBLEM: A white student  dressed as a plantation owner  said to a 10-year-old black classmate  "You are my slave " said  the black child's parent  Corrie Davis .
"What I want  them  to understand is the pain it caused my son "  Davis  said of her child  who did not dress up that day. "This is bringing  them  back to a time when people were murdered  when people died  when people owned people."
 Davis  recorded an emotional video in which  she  explains how  she  was affected by what happened to  her  son. It has attracted about 70 000 views on Facebook.  The distraught mother  said  she  met with school officials  but was dismayed when they refused to promise that they would never conduct a class in that way again. The issue could come to a head in a couple of weeks  when  Davis  plans to bring it up at a regularly scheduled school board meeting.
Its suggestions included overalls â which  Davis  believes could have been meant to represent the clothing worn by slaves â and dark pants and white button-down shirts. White button-down shirts have become synonymous with demonstrators protesting the removal of Confederate statues in recent months. They were worn  for example  by some of the white nationalists who staged a rally in Charlottesville  Virginia  that led to violent clashes in August.
 Davis  said she won't back down in her effort to stop the dress-up aspect of the school's Civil War Day. She said she doesn't want other students going through what her son did.
"What they can do is say  'We're not going to do this anymore ' " Davis  said. "It is mind-boggling to  me  that no one will say that."

SOLUTION:
Corrie Davis