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- 1001: Gulliver's Travels
- ... bestopwed upon him by the people that bound him to their home. Also, Gulliver explains the rediculous manner in which one becomes accredited in their society. "For as to that infamous practice of acquiring great Employment by dancing on the Ropes, or Badges of Favor and Distinction by leaping over sticks, and creeping under them; the reader is to observe, that they were first introduced by the Grand father or the ...
- 1002: Everyone in A Man For All Seasons is Pursuing Their Own Ends. What Makes More Different?
- ... of need, his steward Matthew deserts him because he is not satisfied with taking a cut in his salary, regardless of how good an employer More had been to him. For the duration of his employment, More always exhibited tolerance of Matthew's actions, even when he sneaked a drink of More's wine or gave out information to Cromwell and Chapuys. Therefore the final remark he makes, "You never had ...
- 1003: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby - Shattered Dreams
- ... amount of response it [draws] from her well loved eyes” (96). Inevitably, the two of them draw closer, but this in no way deters Gatsby from trying to make Daisy happy. He even terminates the employment of most of his servants because Daisy is afraid that they will begin gossiping about the afternoons she shares with Gatsby. “The whole caravansary [falls] in like a card house at the disapproval in her ...
- 1004: Bartleby: "I prefer not to,"
- ... isolate Bartleby, becomes affected by it, so much so that he appears almost human. Instead of dismissing him on the spot for refusing to copy, proofread or leave the premises, he tries to find other employment for him, and even considers inviting him to live in his residence as his guest. The narrator develops before our eyes into a caring person, very different from the cold, unsympathetic person at the beginning ...
- 1005: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... national opinion and resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, authorizing the federal government to enforce desegregation of public accommodations and outlawing discrimination in publicly owned facilities, as well as in employment. That eventful year was climaxed by the award to King of the Noble Prize for Peace at Oslo in December. King had planned a Poor People's March to Washington, but it was interrupted in ...
- 1006: Malcolm X
- ... and used endless quantities of cocaine and marijuana, sinking, in his own words, to the very bottom of the American White Man's society. He and many other blacks, denied the opportunity to get decent employment and respect from white society and the capitalist system, tumed to crime as a means of survival. However, by 1945 luck was running out for the Harlem hustler and he was forced back to Boston ...
- 1007: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... Have a Dream” speech expressed hopes on the civil rights movement. All of this resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited segregation in public facilities as well as discrimination in education and employment. In 1964, King won the Noble Peace Prize for peace. In 1965, the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was a league of churches and ministers who aimed to challenge segregation) joined a voting-rights ...
- 1008: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- ... marked the beginning of Paul Dunbar's national reputation. In 1897 Dunbar was sponsored by the Savage Club in London, England, to give a series of readings and, after his return to America, he obtained employment at the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. Dunbar married Alice Ruth Moore on March 8, 1898. She was a teacher and writer from New Orleans. They separated in 1902. Dunbar to suffer emotional ...
- 1009: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- ... also founded the Black Student Union in 1971 at Holy Cross. He also states he believes in the American dream, “because he has seen it in his life. While serving as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Thomas gave speeches accusing the Republican party of “blatant indifference” toward Black voters and chastised President Reagan in particular, for letting Bob Jones University get away with racial discrimination, and for “foot ...
- 1010: Louise Brooks
- ... tantrums did not ease with age. She was fired from Dinishawn in 1924 for “lack of direction”. In 1924, she sailed with a friend, Barbara Bennet to Europe at the age of 17. She gains employment at a leading London nightclub, the “Café de Paris,” where her appearance as a dancer is a stunning success. Brooks is the first person to dance the Charleston in London. Later in 1925, she returns ...
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