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- 551: Black Boy
- ... including that of society. Richard saw the breakdown of character by pressures in Don, a worker at the optical company whose, "position was not much better than offhand, bantering way." (289) Therefore the whites' identity crisis as a result of the perceived great expectations and the individual's weakness combine to further ware away the individual to racism. At early childhood, Richard remained blocked from the molding of society, and so ...
- 552: To Sir With Love - Change
- ... are the total opposites of his of his initial ideas. This is gradually shown through their actions, such as such as the students all going to visit the house of their black friend during his crisis, or their learning to treat each other with respect;they learned to address each other as their last names, inthe case of the boys, and "Miss", for the girls. For the students,they learned to ...
- 553: Summary: Jurassic Park
- ... dinosaurs in the jungles. Jurassic Park starts off with a brief history ofbiotechnology, and first introduces the International GeneticTechnologies, Inc., known in the story as InGen. Here, itexplains what happened to InGen and their genetic crisis, andthen using a flashback method, it presents the rest of the story.The boo
- 554: Mary Shelley: Bride of Frankenstein
- ... 1823, received reviews with modern critics that were not as highly ranked as the others. Shelley first began Valperga in 1817, however, she completed the novella in 1821, during which Shelley went through a marriage crisis with her husband Percy Shelley and mourned over the loss of two children (Walling 52). Walling observes that Shelleys other novelettes were Matilda, completed in 1819, Perkin Warbeck, published in 1830, Lodore, published in ...
- 555: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... the presidency, chose Roosevelt as his running mate because of his family name, but the Cox-Roosevelt ticket proved to be no match for the Republicans under Warren G. Harding. Roosevelt faced the greatest personal crisis of his life when he was stricken by poliomyelitis at his Canadian summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, in 1921. He veiled his deep physical agony with a cheerful demeanor and rejected his mother ...
- 556: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issues. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored
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- 557: Jean Toomer
- ... He showed strength early - when faced with adversity, rather than wring his hands and retreat further into himself, Toomer searched for a plan of action, an intellectual scheme and method to cope with a personal crisis. Toomer writes in Wayward and Seeking, "I had an attitude towards myself that I was superior to wrong-doing and above criticism and reproach ... I seemed to induce, in the grownups, an attitude which made ...
- 558: Robert Kennedy
- ... in 1952 and for the presidency in 1960.Kennedy wrote The Enemy Within (1960), Just Friends and Brave Enemies (1962), To Seek a Never World (1967), and Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969) Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Virginia Law School. His son Joesph Kennedy of Massachusetts became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives ...
- 559: Langston Hughes
- ... best fiction is in his "Simple" series. In his lifetime, Langston Hughes won several awards. In 1925 he won his first prize for poetry in the Opportunity contest and third prize for essay in the Crisis contest. In 1926 he published his first volume of poems, The Weary Blues. In 1953 he won the Anisfeld-Wolfe Award. Hughes also won the Witter Bynner Prize for undergraduate poetry while attending Lincoln University ...
- 560: Christopher Columbus
- ... 1496, and this settlement, named Santo Domingo, became the first permanent European settlement in the New World. Columbus reached Cadiz in June 1496. He was coolly received at court. He had not found the rich Asian mainland, and his efforts to get gold from the Indians on Hispaniola had been only moderately successful. The Spanish settlers were unruly and would not work, and some had returned to Spain with complaints about ...
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