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Harper Lee
Number of Words: 388 / Number of Pages: 2
... 2 years in the rewriting and revising the book, which was eventually published in July, 1960.
Later that year, the book that was originally rejected for publication, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished fiction by an American author. This marked the first time in nearly twenty years that a female author recieved the award. The book also recieved the Paperback of the Year Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood award. The screenplay adaptation of the book recieved an Oscar.
Lee based the book on some of the experiences of her life. She based the charact ...
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Peter The Great 3
Number of Words: 1975 / Number of Pages: 8
... (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobrazhenskoe outside Moscow. They returned to the Kremlin infrequently, where Peter and Ivan sat on their double throne, flanked by 12 giant guards with battle-axes. Warily Peter listened as his clever and relentlessly ambitious older half-sister Sophia ...
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Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Comparison
Number of Words: 1325 / Number of Pages: 5
... Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad was the leader of an organization called the Nation of Islam. During the 1950's, Malcolm became the primary spokesman for the Nation. He also came of the surveillance of the FBI along with Elijah Muhammad. As was Dr. King's, Malcolm's every move was followed and documented.
Malcolm became a powerful speaker in the movement. As King captured the spirit of the Southern Black, Malcolm became the messiah of the ghettos of Harlem, Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Initially a small group, the Nation grew rapidly under Malcolm's leadership. He not only spoke the words of the Kora ...
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Terry Fox
Number of Words: 1236 / Number of Pages: 5
... up. A week later Terry found out that it was not just an ache he had a malignant tumor; his leg would have to be cut off six inches above the knee. Terry’s doctor told him that he had a chance of living but the odds were fifty to seventy percent. He also said that he should be glad it happened now fore just 2 years ago the chance of living was fifteen percent. The night before his operation a former coach brought Terry a magazine featuring a man who ran a marathon after a similar operation. Terry didn’t want to do something small if he was going to do something he was going to do it big. "I am ...
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Malcolm X
Number of Words: 774 / Number of Pages: 3
... a burglary ring, which consisted of friend named Shorty, a pretty boy type of fellow named Rudy, a woman that Malcolm dealt with named Sophia and one of her friends (Alex Haley 168). He soon found out that crime does not pay, when he soon got arrested and stolen items were found in his possession. The Negroes of that group was sentenced to eight years, while the whites of the group were sentenced to only two. This put an image in Malcolm’s head on how the justice system was ran. While in prison. Malcolm was well known to the guards. One time he was asked to state his number, but instead he said he ...
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Nathan McCall
Number of Words: 498 / Number of Pages: 2
... the hatred that others in society have for them. They end up
hating themselves.
"I learned to hate myself by the time I was 12 years old," he said. McCall
said he and his friends did not believe they had a future. Self-
destructive behavior was the result. He credits his 12 year prison sentence
for changing his attitude. His fellow inmates told him "don't do what
we've done," and encouraged him to change his lifestyle. He read books as
part of the prison programming and was influenced by authors that wrote
about being Black.
In February '94 he landed a contract with Random House; the hard-back ...
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Ben Franklin
Number of Words: 1942 / Number of Pages: 8
... duties, but also his investigations as a scientist or philosopher. He made some of the most famous and certainly the most practical discoveries of his time. "For my own part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favours, but as paying debts. In my travels, and since my settlement, I have received much kindness from men, to whom I shall never have any opportunity of making the least direct return . . . I can therefore only return on their fellow men; and I can only show my gratitude for these mercies from God, by a readiness to help his other children and my Bret ...
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Dorothy Parker
Number of Words: 935 / Number of Pages: 4
... (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker's verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play that she "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." The same could almost be applied to the author herself (Bloom 2537). Her more bitter verses become brief ballads of animosity. This aspect is quite well demonstrated by the imagined injury of others in "Frustration:"
'If I had a shiny gun,
I could have a world of fun
Speeding ...
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The Life Of Booker T. Washington
Number of Words: 767 / Number of Pages: 3
... For these beliefs that Booker believed in
is why he was called "The Great Compromiser." Many white ex-slave owners
began to respect Bookers notions. Not only was he becoming acknowledged by
the Blacks but now also by the whites. Booker T. Washington was being
secretly funded by great industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D.
Rockefeller. The love approached racism in a nonthreatening way. The only
thing that was a problem to him is not all people liked his belief. WEB Du
Bois did not like Booker T. Washington's statements. He believed that gave
the Ok to continue with racial segregation. ...
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Benjamin Franklin 3
Number of Words: 437 / Number of Pages: 2
... Franklin knows he can not relive his life so decides that writing a book would be the next best thing. In Franklin’s autobiography, which he writes to his son, he tries to retell his mistakes so others will not do the same. One of Franklin’s strongest beliefs includes his religion. Franklin did not believe in organized religion and believed strongly in Deism. This shows his concern for other Americans.
One of Franklin’s most contributive works to America besides his diplomacy was the Declaration of Independence. Not only did Franklin help write this document, but he was also th ...
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