...John Lewis was a small country farm boy from Pike County, Alabama. Throughout John Lewis’ life he experiences many life changing moments, although three had a grand impact in Lewis’ life. These turning points include receiving his first bible which showed him the words of God, being arrested for the first time strengthen him throughout his life, and making the decision to join the freedom riders. Most of John Lewis’ turning points were driven by his religious beliefs. For many on Christmas we expect the gift we’ve been asking for throughout the past months before Christmas day. Although many don’t ask for a simple gift as like Lewis got, John at age four received his first bible from an uncle. His mother read the first words from the bible...
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...events. John Lewis' Walking in the Wind is no different as Lewis, the now Congressman, shares his life in the epicenter of the Civil Rights movement through an eloquent and powerful portrayal. Lewis divulges what he experienced and who he encountered both behind the scenes and on the forefront of some of the most known Civil Right battlefields. It is this rare perspective that offers readers insight into the moments that changed history. In addition to Lewis detailing a number of events and people that aided in the Civil Rights movement, Lewis depicted three significant turning points. The McClellan's lunch counter boycott, the Freedom Rides...
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...Minelik Sisay 11/13/12 Professor Greene Pettus Bridge as a Place of Memory Selma, Alabama became the focus of the Civil Rights Movement as activists, such as John Lewis and Dr. King, worked to register black voters. Martin Luther King’s voter registration movement worked on a city-by-city approach, gathering national attention. Other civil rights leaders, such as John Lewis and William Hosea, worked more locally in the most dangerous areas of the Deep South for African-Americans. While both worked to register voters, King’s method is better characterized as an attempt to change the public discourse about race in this country, while John Lewis’ method attempted to change public action. Led by John Lewis and William Hosea, “Bloody Sunday” occurred as a result of the fight for freedom and equality. In order to make some headway against centuries of legally sanctioned racism and discrimination, the United States government began to promote and support the Civil Rights Movement. The relatively scarce attention the march in US history textbooks is quite disappointing in a sense that it illustrates an event that is not fully depicted. The battle fought on the bridge, in a way, is being fought till this day. Voter registration laws, though not as harsh as Jim Crow literacy tests, create barriers that restrict minorities from having the opportunity to vote. By surveying a few of the patterns of inequality that still prevail in many sectors of American society, this essay will explore...
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...Brenna Thiem Dr. Childs English 1301 31 March 2013 Hereditary blindness and a mother’s dilemma People are mistaken who believe that children are exempt from genetic mutation manifesting at any stage in their life, not all mutations show up at birth. My husband, John and I have now been married for eighteen years; and are blessed with three children all of which have been healthy. Could our lives be impacted by a disease that is listed as “rare” by the National Institutes of Health? A disease that affects 200,000 people in the US population seemed so far from a reality, this life changing event has and continues to shape who I am. This life event is our journey in receiving, learning, coping, and making the choice to accentuate the positive of a form of hereditary blindness; all while being faced with yet another dilemma. It was the spring of 2009, one March afternoon and we anxiously waited for Georgi’s Ophthalmology appointment. Up to this point I was not overly worried that she was sitting 8 inches at best away from the television or sitting in Grant’s car seat to see the television in the car until the resident picked up on something during her exam. I convinced myself as my palms started to sweat and I could feel my heart racing that he was just a resident and in training. My husband isn’t in the medical profession unlike me, so he wasn’t picking up on the non-verbal communication. I didn’t want to alarm him so I kept my thoughts to myself. I was having...
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...“Assassin” implies that John Surratt, a Confederate courier and spy, was one of the more important co-conspirators involved in Booth’s plan. “Without John Surratt, Booth couldn’t have organized the conspiracy” (2009). Indeed, Surratt connected Booth with other Confederate agents. Two of these agents, George Atzerodt and David Herold, would later become co-conspirators with Booth and Surratt. George Atzerodt was a twenty-nine-year-old that transported Confederate agents across the waterways of Southern Maryland. David Herold was only twenty-two years old. Though Herold was dull-witted, he knew the back roads that would serve as the co-conspirators escape route. Other members of the conspiracy included Lewis Powell, Samuel Arnold, Mike O’Laughlen, and Mary Surratt. Lewis Powell, described as tall and powerful, would act as the co-conspirator’s muscle. Samuel Arnold and Mike O’Laughlen were both ex-confederate soldiers and childhood friends of Booth (2009). “Co-Conspirators” mentions that Mary Surratt, John Surratt’s mother, owned a boarding house where the co-conspirators held meetings...
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...Only a few short hours after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, amateur detectives and conspiracy theorists, questioned and debated the proven fact that the sixteenth president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Booth’s plans for the assassination were detailed, his co-conspirators followed-through on their parts of the plot and the escape route was all mapped out. The successful assassination of President Lincoln and escape of John Wilkes Booth, seemed a sure thing, until Booth was trapped in a barn on Garrett’s farm and ultimately shot dead by a Union soldier. Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, had several reasons to murder the President on the night of April 14, 1865. According to Historynet:...
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...Only a few short hours after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, amateur detectives and conspiracy theorists, questioned and debated the proven fact that the sixteenth president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Booth’s plans for the assassination were detailed, his co-conspirators followed-through on their parts of the plot and the escape route was all mapped out. The successful assassination of President Lincoln and escape of John Wilkes Booth, seemed a sure thing, until Booth was trapped in a barn on Garrett’s farm and ultimately shot dead by a Union soldier. Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, had several reasons to murder the President on the night of April 14, 1865. According to Historynet:...
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...America was being developed. He was the author of the Declaration of independence, 3rd president of the U.S, and was a governor. During the American Revolution War Jefferson served in the Virginia legislature, the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia. Under john Adams presidency term Jefferson was his vice president, which led him to serve for secretory of state. During Jefferson presidency term he wanted the national government to have a limited role in citizens lifes. Jefferson made a huge impact in being able to purchase more land to expand U.S territory. In 1803, the U.S purchased Louisiana and Lewis and Clark explored the new acquisition. It expanded from Canada to the gulf to the Rockies. The Louisiana territory was purchased for only 15 million dollars, which sounds expensive but was cheap....
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...systematic theology at Boston University. King was awarded the Doctor of philosophy on June 5, 1955. Achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. The greatest achievement of King was undoubtedly as a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. He defended the Americans with African descent and fought for their rights. Martin Luther was greatly influenced by Howard Thurman, a civil rights leader, theologian and educator. He was a classmate of Martin Luther's father at Morehouse College. King was also inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence and believed that resistance to non-violence is the only weapon to fight against inequality and injustice. He visited the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1959. This trip was a turning point in his life and deepened his belief in the...
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...Title: Nonsense, Play and Folklore in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll Student: Voskanyan Evgenia Supervisor: Yerevan 2015 Contents * Introduction: Lewis Carroll ………………………………………...………..….….3 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland * Folklore ………………………………………………………………….....….…….5 * Game of Nonsense …………………………………………………….…....……..7 * Wordplay and Quibble …………………………………………………..………..10 * Psychological interpretations of Alice in Wonderland …………………………13 Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There * Folklore …………………………………………………………………..………...15 * Contrariwise! ................................................................................................16 * Philosophical viewpoints in Through the Looking-Glass .……...…….……….19 * Conclusion: On the other side of the chessboard …………………………......21 * References .………………….………………………………………………...…..22 Lewis Carroll Come with us now on a journey to Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, the fairytales created by legendary Lewis Carroll. Being little known under the birth name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll was a famous English writer and one of the founders of literary nonsense. Born in the Victorian Era to a family of a parson, he was raised according to the moral values of those times and expected to become a deacon. Nevertheless, young Lewis Carroll was always interested in theater and art since his childhood. He himself was making...
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...If we go to war, we must have a legitimate reason, such as “protecting innocent human life against an aggressor.” Whatever we do, we should do to glorify God. “God created the world according to His will and design, and deemed it ‘good’” He created the world perfect and without sin, however, the world changed when the serpent tempted Adam and Eve into eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. Thus sin was born. Anger is connected to our own narcissism. “When it comes to injuries and insults to our honor, anger ‘takes it personally.’” We get mad and defensive when someone tries to put us down, or tries to hurt us, or tries to anger us. It can be tough not to get angry and go into a fit of rage, but we need to turn towards Him. As the late Billy Graham wrote, “Though we lift our voices and cry out for help, still...
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...most appropriate in achieving organization. Since individuals are different, it is accepted that each employee behave in different ways. The key for companies is meeting individual diversity as a real opportunity and moving it into an advantage. There are three main important individual differences that organisations should focus on, values, personality and attitudes. Values: According to Howard (1988), values are the basic structures of culture. However, values can be applied in management to develop relationships with people. Values can be defined as the beliefs of individual or a group which they have an emotional investment (clegg S. et.al, 2011). Schwartz (1992) describes some values as ‘trans-situational’. These values in one’s life without considering the situation in which you find yourself, they do not change and stay with you. Schwartz (1992; 1996) defines ten important values which are: achievement, benevolence, conformity, hedonism, power, security, self-direction, stimulation, tradition, and universalism. Personality: Psychologists have defined personality as a combination of stable characteristics which clarify the behaviour...
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...Andrea Adams @02717441 HIST 0100 Prof. Tolbert April 21, 2017 The Life, Work, and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist from the 1950 to 1968 with a strong religious background. A strong advocator for all minorities, King did all in his power to end barriers of community, poverty, racism and militarism. The principle he focused more on, however, was racism. King defined racism as prejudice, apartheid, ethnic conflict, anti-Semitism, sexism, colonialism, homophobia, ageism, or discrimination against disabled groups and stereotypes (Haskins). Later turning his efforts to poverty, King believed that the United States should have equal rights for all men, women and children. Martin Luther King Jr. had a strong philosophy of non-violent protests, called civil disobedience, to which he gained supporters, changing the jurisdictions of racism and poverty to create the American Dream for all. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, to Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Born as Michael King Jr., King lived in Atlanta, Georgia (How Did Martin). However, in honor of minister and civil-rights activist Martin Luther Baptist, his parents gave him the name Martin. In 1931, King’s father became the lead pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, a very successful minister as his father and grandfather had been. A very intelligent man, King skipped ninth and eleventh grades, graduating from Booker T. Washington...
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...by Ellen Lewis. Production Design by Dante Ferreti. Art Direction by Jack G. Taylor. Set Decoration by Rick Simpson. Costume Design by Rita Ryack and John Dunn. Running Time: 178 minutes. Cast: Robert De Niro (Sam “Ace” Rothstein), Sharon Stone (Ginger McKenna), Joe Pesci (Nicky Santoro), James Woods (Lester Diamond), Don Rickles (Billy Sherbert), Alan King (Andy Stone), Kevin Pollack (Phillip Green), L.Q. Jones (Dick Webb), Dick Smothers (Senator), Frank Vincent (Frank Marino), John Bloom (Don Ward), Pasquale Cajano (Remo Gaggi), Melissa Prophet (Jennifer Santoro), Bill Allison (John Nance), Vinny Vella (Artie Piscano) “This is a fictional story with fictional characters adapted from a true story.” This disclaimer which appears during the ending credits to Martin Scorsese’s 1995 film Casino seems to epitomize this Postmodern gangster film’s tenuous relationship to reality. Although based on the actual lives of gangsters Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and Tony “The Ant” Spilotro, screenwriters Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi opted to take enormous liberties with the historical data on the two men. The resulting disclaimer, confusing and seemingly selfcontradictory, reflects Postmodernism’s lack of faith in objective models of reality. As such, Postmodern filmmakers often construct subjective, unrealistic worlds for their pictures – even when, as in Scorsese’s case, they are trying to get at deeper philosophical truths. Casino demonstrates its subjectivity through the dual points of view...
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...Paradise Lost -John Milton- John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse. Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica (1644)—written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship—is among history's most influential and impassioned defenses of free speech and freedom of the press. William Hayley's 1796 biography called him the "greatest English author," and he remains generally regarded "as one of the preeminent writers in the English language," though critical reception has oscillated in the centuries since his death (often on account of his republicanism). Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as "a poem which...with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind," though he described Milton's politics as those of an "acrimonious and surly republican". Because of his republicanism, Milton has been the subject of centuries of British partisanship. The phases...
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