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- 141: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... French. Her junior year she spent at the Sorbonne in Paris, studying French and learning more about the French culture. She then returned to the United States and earned a degree in French literature from George Washington University and graduated in 1951. Jackie’s favorite interest as a child and young adult were reading, sketching, writing poems and short stories, riding horses, ballet and studying the French culture and language (23). Jackie’s first job was the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times-Herald. She would spend her working day walking around the city with her camera capturing citizens’ reactions to issues of the day. At a Georgetown dinner party, Jackie was first introduced to John ...
- 142: Of Mice and Men: Lennie and George
- Of Mice and Men: Lennie and George Lennie and George, migratory workers in the California fields, cherish the dream of having a little farm of their own where as Lennie's refrain has it, they can "Live of the fatta o' the land." George yearns for his own place where he could bring in his own crops instead of working for another. A place where he could get what comes up from the ground for himself. He wants ...
- 143: Open Arms
- George Eliot George Eliot, pseudonym of Marian Evans (1819-1880) This article appeared in The Times Literary Supplement of 20 November 1919, and was reprinted in The Common Reader: First Series. Virginia Woolf also wrote on George Eliot in the Daily Herald of 9 March 1921 and the Nation and Athenaeum of 30 October 1926. To read George Eliot attentively is to become aware how little one knows about her. It ...
- 144: Of Mice And Men 3
- ... unpleasant feeling in the back of my mind. I can t see how an author could write a book with such a short and sudden ending. The last images he leaves the reader with is George and Slim walking off as Curly says Now what in the hell is eating them? thus the book ends on a harsh, cruel note, topped off by the lack of understanding and compassion of an ... powerful sense of the world s immorality. In this book there were several characters, but only a few had significant roles. I would have to say Lennie is the protagonist of the book even though George is an extremely critical character as well. Lennie Small is described as being a monstrous man with the mind of a child, a shapeless face, big pale eyes, sloping shoulders, and big feet that dragged a bit when he walked, much like a bear. George has taken Lennie under his wing and thus Lennie depends solely on George for everything. Ever since Lennie has been with George, he has told Lennie stories of a great place, with a cabin ...
- 145: Booker T. Washington
- By: melly E-mail: barspenz@erol.com BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educator of the later 19th and early 20th centuries. He also had a major influence on the southern race relations and was the dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 ... study of law and the ministry, but a teaching position at Hampton decided his future career. In 1881 he founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial on the Hampton model in the Black Belt of Alabama. Though Washington offered little that was innovative in industrial education, which both northern philanthropic foundations and southern leaders were already promoting, he became its chief black exemplar and spokesman. In his advocacy of Tuskegee Institute and ...
- 146: Of Mice And Men
- ... unpleasant feeling in the back of my mind. I can’t see how an author could write a book with such a short and sudden ending. The last images he leaves the reader with is George and Slim walking off as Curly says “ Now what in the hell is eating them?” thus the book ends on a harsh, cruel note, topped off by the lack of understanding and compassion of an ... powerful sense of the world’s immorality. In this book there were several characters, but only a few had significant roles. I would have to say Lennie is the protagonist of the book even though George is an extremely critical character as well. Lennie Small is described as being a monstrous man with the mind of a child, a shapeless face, big pale eyes, sloping shoulders, and big feet that dragged a bit when he walked, much like a bear. George has taken Lennie under his wing and thus Lennie depends solely on George for everything. Ever since Lennie has been with George, he has told Lennie stories of a great place, with a cabin ...
- 147: Of Mice And Men
- ... unpleasant feeling in the back of my mind. I can’t see how an author could write a book with such a short and sudden ending. The last images he leaves the reader with is George and Slim walking off as Curly says " Now what in the hell is eating them?" thus the book ends on a harsh, cruel note, topped off by the lack of understanding and compassion of an ... powerful sense of the world’s immorality. In this book there were several characters, but only a few had significant roles. I would have to say Lennie is the protagonist of the book even though George is an extremely critical character as well. Lennie Small is described as being a monstrous man with the mind of a child, a shapeless face, big pale eyes, sloping shoulders, and big feet that dragged a bit when he walked, much like a bear. George has taken Lennie under his wing and thus Lennie depends solely on George for everything. Ever since Lennie has been with George, he has told Lennie stories of a great place, with a cabin ...
- 148: George Meade
- ... of Bull Run? Everyone knows what the Second Battle of Bull Run is but who was the general? Some people even know that the North won that battle. Most people do not know that General George Meade defeated General Lee at that battle. General George Mead accomplished much during wartime. General George Meade had many accomplishments during wartime. First of all, he defeated General Lee at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Why would not General Meade crush General Lee at this battle and end the ...
- 149: General George Custer
- General George Custer George Custer was a main part in the United States’ fighting against the Indians. George Custer and many other people fought against the Indians for their lands in the west. One of the campaigns in which George Custer was involved was the Little Big Horn campaign. George Custer made ...
- 150: Booker T. Washington 2
- ... reason. Blacks were also not treated equally because they did not possess the intelligence and skills of whites. A great man decided to fight for equality between blacks and whites. His name was Booker Taliaferro Washington. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on James Burrough s Virginia Plantation in 1856. When he was 9 he was gathered with the other slaves and was told he could go freely due to the Emancipation Proclamation. After he was freed, his mother and him moved to West Virginia where he worked in the coalmines. Then, he decided that he needed to go to college. Booker T. Washington enrolled at the all-black Hampton University in the early 1870 s. He studied various subjects and earned his diploma. After graduation he taught at various schools and the founder of Hampton University was ...
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