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- 6121: 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 ... accumulation, but it was northern donations that made Tuskegee Institute by, 1900, the best-supported black educational institution in the country. The Atlanta Compromise Address, delivered before the Cotton States Exposition in 1895, enlarged Washington's influence into the arena of race relations and black leadership. Washington offered black consent in disfranchisement and social segregation if whites would encourage black progress in economic and educational opportunity. Hailed as a sage by ... philanthropic aid to these and other black colleges. His speaking tours and private persuasion tried to equalize public educational opportunities and to reduce racial violence. These efforts were generally unsuccessful, and the year of Washington's death marked the beginning of the Great Migration from the rural South to the urban North. Washington's racial philosophy, pragmatically adjusted to the limiting conditions of his own era, but did not survive ...
- 6122: Ernesto Che Guevara
- ... Serna, two Argentines that were fairly well off at the time. At two years old, Che was diagnosed with asmtha, which could plague him for the rest of his life. His asmtha affected his family s life, forcing them to move until they found a place where his asmtha could be stabilized. Che was home schooled until the age of nine because of his illness. Guevara took after his mother in that he was attracted to danger and he ended up with his father s temper. Guevara did all right in school, but it wasn t until he got to college that he started to shine. At first Che wanted to study engineering at the University. After the death of his grandmother Che decided to study medicines instead of engineering. ...
- 6123: The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter: Proctor and Dimmesdale's Sacrifices
- The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter: Proctor and Dimmesdale's Sacrifices In many works of literature, a character makes a sacrifice that can affect his life in order to achieve something more important. In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the character John Proctor ... he has made, John Proctor sacrificed his life. Before he was hanged, Elizabeth, his wife, was asked to get him to confess that he was practicing witchcraft. During their conversation, John revealed that it wasn't so important for him to lie in order to keep himself alive because he believed that if he died, he wouldn't die saintly. However, when they gave him papers to sign, which stated his confession and the names of people who are accused of witchcraft, it became important to him that he does not lie. ...
- 6124: The Great Gatsby 3
- ... absolute happiness hoping he can relive that state of emotion sometime in the future. F. Scott Fitzgerald published the book in 1925 using the actual time in history, the Roaring Twenties to help create Gatsby's character. Gatsby's participation in the bootlegging business, the extravagant parties he throws, and the wealthy, careless lifestyle the Buchanans represent, are all vivid pictures of that time frame. Fitzgerald's portrayal of the time period creates lifelike characters in the novel. By creating these personable characters, Fitzgerald is allowing the reader to associate himself with Gatsby, and letting him use his imagination, so that ...
- 6125: Babe Ruth Changed The Game Of Baseball
- Babe Ruth Changed The Game Of Baseball George Herman "Babe" Ruth was perhaps the most recognized player in Major League Baseball history. Born on February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ruth attended St. Mary's Industrial School. At St. Mary's, Ruth became a star baseball prospect. But these accomplishments were a mere shadow of what he would later do as Babe Ruth changed the game of baseball. There were many reasons why Babe Ruth changed ... his greatest accomplishments was in 1924 when he won his first Triple Crown (leading the league in batting average, home runs, and RBIs in one season) (Creamer 278). So as you can see, Babe Ruth's baseball performance was legendary. Babe Ruth had started to gain a tremendous following due to his ability and showmanship. In 1920, more than a million people saw the Yankees play. It was the first ...
- 6126: Oppression (native Son)
- ... opportunity to work and make something of himself. All he has to do is chauffeur for a very rich family. But on his first job everything goes wrong and he ends up murdering the family s daughter. Through this novel Bigger meets many other people, which have the same oppression as him but handle it in different ways. Some of these people include his mother, his girlfriend, and Max his lawyer ... of so he takes this oppression to the heart and turns it into fear. The only way that he could express himself was to show the world that they should not oppress what they don t know the power of. Bigger demonstrated that he should be feared and acknowledged by murdering the daughter of a very rich family. At one point after Bigger killed the daughter stated that ...for the first ... blind; yes blind in more ways than one (p. 120) but in his own mind he no longer felt the oppression or fear after he killed the Daughter. The next most oppressed person is Bigger s mother. She can not get a job because she is black and is of the female gender. So the world has oppressed her into poverty and the only way that she can respond to ...
- 6127: To Kill A Mockingbird-racial P
- ... pressuring Atticus to not defend Tom because he was a Negro and they had thought that since Tom was black he was automatically guilty. This strong lawyer takes up the case saying ".. If I didn't I couldn't even hold up my own head in town, I couldn't even represent the legislature,.. every lawyer gets at least one case that affects him personally. This one's mine,"(page 76) and still defends Tom no matter what the town was saying about him ...
- 6128: The Gold Fish And The Fisherman
- ... at all. One morning while Ko was still sleeping Jean yelled at him, "Wake up! Its very late now. You should go fishing. Every day you go fishing and do not become bored. Why don't you build a house in the middle of the ocean?" said Jean said with much criticism. Ko did not reply. "Hey! do you hear me?" asked Jean. "Yes dear," Ko replied. "Then why didn't you answer me? Some day you're going to drive me crazy", said Jean. "I was waiting for you to finish talking. Don't be so angry. I'm leaving right now", said Ko. Ko quickly got dressed and left for the harbour. On his way to the harbour he met his good friend `Sun'. As they were ...
- 6129: Chances
- Chances A single tear fell from her soft brown eyes down to her dejected face; it lingered past her cheek, and softly made its way to the crevice of her fully pouted lips, so she was able to taste its bitterness. She asked herself every night before she lay down and prays, How could love hurt so much? She felt alone in this crazy world. The many supposed friends in her life added their own superficial happiness into her sorrowful solitude. She never accepted their meaningless lifestyle. They didnt understand her, and so she remained an outcast, only brought into the conversation when they felt like being good Samaritans. They thought that putting her into their popular clique was their way of giving back ... Dead wrong. Throughout her life, so far, she was inexperienced with the chaotic game others called love. She seen her friends, one after another end up with broken hearts, but they eventually healed. She didnt take their light-headed attitude when it came to love. She felt it was a privilege to gain the confidence of another, but she couldnt risk falling in love. Nothing last forever and ...
- 6130: The First Amendment: Free of Expression
- ... speech in schools and every time a subject as such came up the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the student declaring the action unconstitutional under the first amendment. As I was reading Nat Hentoff's book The First Freedom I came across a story in which a student wrote a newspaper article criticizing the school administration, soon after he ran for student government and was taken off the ballot for ... the United States Constitution. The freedom of expression in school is marred by society but not completely dissolved by the administration. The 1969 supreme court ruling Tinker v. Des Moins Community Schools defined a student's freedom of speech best. John and Mary Beth Tinker wore black armbands to school as a protest of the Vietnam war. It was a silent protest; the Tinker's never caused one problem, although some students did make threats at them. The school's administrators made them take them off. Their case made it all the way to the US Supreme Court, where ...
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