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- 9221: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... There were three main tenets to the Civil Rights Movement, the Post Civil War Period, the Educational Period, and the Social Movement. Following the Civil War, the 13th 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution were passed. The 13th amendment made all blacks citizens of the United States. The 14th amendment granted them equal protection under the law. The 15th amendment gave black citizens the right to vote. After ... amendment Marshall eventually argued the case before the Supreme Court. In very unusual fashion all 9 judges voted unanimously in favor of Brown. In his ruling, Chief Justice Earl Warren elated that the school board's actions had been unconstitutional and immoral. He went on to say that the practice of cross-town bussing and "Separate, but equal" caused psychological damage leading black people to feel they were inferior. He would ... In show of his opposition, in 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus defied a federal court order, and with the aid of national guardsmen, attempted to prevent the admittance of nine black students to Little Rock's Central High school. President Dwight Eisenhower sent 1,000 federal paratroopers to enforce the desegregation and protect the "Little Rock Nine" for the entire school year. The national media event dramatized the seriousness of ...
- 9222: Perceptions of Leadership
- ... that many leaders act on an “inner voice” or gut feeling. I assumed that most leaders made decisions based on lots of thought and analyzation. Curiosity is also a quality of leaders that I wouldn’t have thought of. However, it does make good sense. In order for a leader to take his or her followers into new terrain, he or she is going to have to be curious about what ... of past behavior. This idea makes complete sense, but it is one that I’ve never given much thought too. Now, I think that as a leader a person must make sure that they don’t react to a situation strictly from a feeling stance. The feeling may be based on a past experience that failed. If a leader reacts to a similar situation in the same way because they are ... In many instances, such as qualities of a leader, I think that my answers were correct but that Bennis took the ideas further. He analyzed the questions deeper and thought of aspects that I didn’t. I also found that I changed by mind on some instances as well. For instance, as I mentioned earlier, I thought that leaders were out to prove themselves. I thought that they existed to ...
- 9223: Ethan Frome Book By Edith Whar
- ... flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." Albert Schweitzer. Ethan Frome who takes care of his ill wife becomes very attracted with his wife's sister and must choose whether or not to express his feelings. Individual responsibility is the obstacle when dealing with ones free will. This will be shown by analyzing, Ethan's choices of individual responsibility and free will. Ethan, from Starkfield New England is a poor farmer who is taking care of his ill wife Zeena. "Zeena had always been what Starkfield had called "sickly" " (pg ... for his wife to re-cooperate from her illness and return to a normal life. While Ethan was taking care of Zeena, it was suggested that they should acquire more assistance due to his wife's health. "Mattie Silver came from Stamford, and when she entered the Fromes' household to act as her cousin Zeena's aid it was thought best, as she came without pay" (pg 32). Ethan "had ...
- 9224: The Playground of The Gods
- The Playground of The Gods Cathy Spellman's, The Playground of The Gods is an exuberant novel which deals with murder in a remote tropical paradise but can further be read as an illustration of man's ignorance and invasion of nature. "Do it big, or stay in bed."( Larry Kelly). These are words that Thoros Gagarian lives by. He is one of the wealthiest men in the world and when picking ... as an indestructible god. Her descriptions of his haste purchase of his Island paradise shows a man for whom their is no boundaries. His arrogance is further displayed in his building of his compound. Spellman's voice of reason comes from a spiritual Mexican couple who are Thoros's servants. They not only warn but predict of many consequences to the ignorance to which nature is being shown. “Nature will ...
- 9225: The Generation Gap in The Joy Luck Club
- ... to be for a lot of minority groups, was, "Neither, I'm Chinese-American." So, besides his American accent and a hyphenated ending on his answer to the SAT questionnaire about his ethnic background, what's the difference? In Amy Tan's captivating novel, The Joy Luck Club, I found out the answer to that question. Through the relationships and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I was able to see a massive ... between their corresponding lifestyles. The generation gap of the women born during the first quarter of the century in China, and their daughters born in the American atmosphere of California, is a quality that doesn't exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, we hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War ...
- 9226: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... book, the main character, Holden Caultfield, tells us a story about what happened during his Christmas vacation. Holden is a sixteen-year-old boy who has flunked out of a private prep school. He doesn't want his parents to find it out, so he goes to a hotel in New York City instead of going home before the Christmas holidays start. In New York many things happen to him within ... though he tries to be nice to her. He also has a date with an old girlfriend, and asks her to flee from this corrupt world and live in the woods with him. She doesn't share the same opinion. Holden meets some more people, but non of them can solve his problems. He feels more depressed and lonely. He walks around in the rain soaking wet, he is sure he ... false. Maybe he is in the opinion that children loose their innocence as they grow up. Holden is an amusing character, the talks to everyone without the respect others would use. (Especially in the 1950`s) Even though Holden believes in innocence or honesty, he is very pessimistic and he seems to find something depressing in almost everyone and everything. He feels alone most of the time, and he seldom ...
- 9227: Creative Writing: Apocalypse at the Nuclear Plant
- ... was any plutonium to be expected, he was damn sure he would be the one to inspect it. He walked past George the security guard, asked him how he was doing even though he didn't really give a rat's ass how he was, he was just a friendly person. As he strolled down the corridor to the area in which he worked, he noticed something strange. There was not as many people buzzing around ... in large meetings but decided to give Pete the thrill of hearing now. One of the experimental pieces of plutonium had become so unstable that it had actually began changing form. It had undergone it's daily blast of gamma radiation when something went wrong. Like the incredible hulk, it was growing larger at, what would seem not that bad to the person uneducated in nuclear physics, but to the ...
- 9228: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... by erich maria remarque, shows some very powerful views toward the Great War. The main character , Paul Baumer, goes through an incredible metamorphsis from an innocent dreamer to a hardened and somewhat cynical veteran. Paul's views started out as being slightly against the war, but not very strongly against it. He didn't seem to mind staying at base camp and hanging out iwth his friends very much. However, after some time fighting the war, he comes to realize that most pre-war society doesn't understand the Great War for what it was. They don't understand the suffering and misery that went witgh wars, and especially trench warfare like that in the Great War. paul disassociates himself from ...
- 9229: Of Mice And Men
- ... and men is a novel about two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, who go to work on a ranch in California together. Lennie is a massive man with incredible strength but has a child's mind. George is a fairly sized man who is not incredibly brilliant but has good common sense. The two men travel from town to town and job to job to just get by and survive. But they dream of saving up enough money to someday get a place of their own where they "won't have to answer to no one" and "live off the fatta the land" Lennie dreams of having rabbits of his own that he can take care of all by himself. The ranch they go to ... with but Lennie, feebleminded and sweet attempts to love even the gentlest of creatures, but, as he only has a childlike understanding of his enormous strength, the results are often tragic. Curly is the boss's son, and sensing Lennie's simple mind, he attempts to intimidate and antagonize him not anticipating his strength. He hits Lennie because he thinks Lennie is teasing him. Lennie tries to resist fighting as ...
- 9230: Personal Writing: Devon
- ... mall. He caught my eye because he was wearing a pink fuzzy sweater, a pair of army pants, and a pair of combat boots. I looked for Devon at the coffee shop but he wasn't there. I was 20 minutes early so I took a seat next to a small round table. The only thing on the table was an ashtray. I could see the smoke lingering from the top ... Devon is well known in the coffee shop. He goes to the coffee shop about 3 times a week and tries to meet someone new every time he goes. He is really nice and it's not hard for him to make friends. Almost everyone in the shop know who he is. If he sees someone he doesn't know he'll go up and talk to them. Devon told me why he dressed the way he does, "I do it to show people that everyone is different and to like them for ...
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