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Ella Baker
Words: 347 / Pages: 2 .... the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most powerful student-activist movements formed in U.S. history. She also helped to found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964, which helped to give African Americans in Mississippi more political power.
Ella continued to serve as the "godmother" and mentor of SNCC as it moved into other human rights issues. Her greatest asset was her ability to organize and mobilize people of all generations. Although her name was not publicized as much as other male leaders, the civil rights movement would not have been the same without her.
Shortly before her dea .....
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Biography Of Pocahontas
Words: 1527 / Pages: 6 .... stream between two hills.”
The Powhatans, were not savages as John Smith would later claim in his General Historie of Virginia...&c. Instead, they were a ceremonious people who greeted important visitors in a formal manner with a large feast and festive dancing. Although they did occasionally put prisoners to death in a public ceremony, it was no more savage than the English customs of public disembowelment of thieves and the burning of women accused of being witches.
In May of 1607, English colonists arrived on the Virginia shoreline with hopes of great riches. They established a settlement that they named Jamestown. Little Pocahontas watche .....
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Nikita Sergeyevich
Words: 667 / Pages: 3 .... political commissar. He was now a dedicated communist.
After the war, Khrushchev was given a series of political assignments and received his first formal training in Marxism at a Technical College. After graduation he was appointed to a political post in Ukraine, where Lazar Kaganovich, a protege of Joseph Stalin, was head of the Communist Party. Khrushchev joined Kaganovich in supporting Stalin in his power struggles against Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin. With Stalin's success, Khrushchev's career soared. In the 1930s Khrushchev was promoted from one political position to the next, until finally, in 1935, he became second in command of the Mos .....
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Cicero
Words: 743 / Pages: 3 .... the single word vixerunt ("they are dead"), received a tremendous ovation from all classes. He was hailed by Catulus as pater patriae, "father of his country". This was the climax of his career.
At the end of 60, declined Caesar's invitation to join the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, and also Caesar's offer in 59 of a place on his staff in Gaul. When Publius Clodius, whom had antagonized, became tribune in 58, was in danger, and in March fled Rome. In 57, thanks to the activity of Pompey and particularly the tribune Milo, he was recalled on August 4. landed at Brundisium on that day and was acclaimed all along his route to Rom .....
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Maya Angelou
Words: 780 / Pages: 3 .... who had remarried. She
gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a
high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of
Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set
out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent her formative
years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked
as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published
Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under
the black nationalist regime of Karane Nkrumah she taught music, dance,
and studied cinematography in Sweden. In the 1960's, .....
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George Bizek
Words: 1438 / Pages: 6 .... was confident
that his son would become a great musician. His father was actually too
supportive of his musical education. He had been known to hide young Georges'
other school books so he would not be distracted from his musical studies. He
received his first music lesson from his mother when he was just four years old.
She was teaching him to read music at the same time she was teaching him his
alphabet.
Bizet was enrolled in the Paris Conservatory when he was nine years old.
This was a special exception arranged by his uncle who taught at the
Conservatory, since Bizet was still a year younger than the minimum age
requirement. Here he stu .....
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Martin Luther The Great Reformer
Words: 585 / Pages: 3 .... older, he became a monk in the Catholic Church and earned his way up in rank through devotions, prayer, and hard work. Martin soon became a priest within the Catholic Church. Martin was a firm believer in God's word and soon began teaching others in the classroom.
As Martin continued to read and study his Bible, he started questioning some of his Church's beliefs and practices. As he continued to read the Bible he started to see certain descrepancies between God's written Word and the Catholic Church's practices. He started to see the truth that was written in God's Word. Martin began telling friends about these discrepancies in beliefs, but his .....
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David Guterson And His Use Of The Theme Of Nature
Words: 1544 / Pages: 6 .... importantly Guterson uses nature to convey substantial and
symbolic meaning in the lives of the characters in his stories.
One of the elements of nature that Guterson uses as a tool to
develop the conflicts in Snow Falling on Cedars are the strawberry fields
on the island. These fields represent an important source of income for
the community. Traditionally the Japanese laborers worked the fields and
the white Americans owned the fields. The question of the ownership of
seven acres of strawberry fields serves as the apparent motive for the
murder of Carl Heine. To a local Japanese fisherman, Kabuo (accused of
murdering Carl Heine), the owners .....
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Henry Ford: A Life In Brief
Words: 1442 / Pages: 6 .... horse's once did.
Shortly after Henry turned thirteen, his mother died. Henry became
very discontent with living on the farm but he stayed for another three
years. When he was sixteen he finished his studies at the district school.
Against his father's will, Henry moved to Detroit, ten miles away.
In Detroit, Henry worked eleven hours a day at James Flower &
Brothers' Machine Shop for only $2.50 a week. As this was not enough to
pay for board and room, Henry got an evening job at Magill's Jewelry Shop
for $2 each week, at first only cleaning and winding the shop's large stock
of clocks. Soon though, he was repairing them also.
A .....
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Louis Armstrong
Words: 301 / Pages: 2 .... after this he was called to Chicago by King Oliver to join his orchestra at Lincoln Gardens.
A particularly important accomplishment of Armstrong's during the '20's was his development of "scat singing," a type of wordless singing derived from folk and blues music. He continued touring with his own groups, generally consisting of six to eight- musician groups ( Hot Five, Six, & Seven) through the thirties and forties, his fame only hampered by the fact that the best venues were generally reserved for white musicians.
In his later years, Armstrong remained a good trumpet player. As his health declined, he began to rely more upon his singing than hi .....
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