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Rosa Lee Parks
467 Words - 2 Pages.... After her grandmother’s death she decided to return to school, but her mother got sick so she had to stay at home with her mother. Rosa then married Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932. He supported Rosa’s desire to complete her formal educaton ,and in 1934 she recieved her high school diploma.
The whole boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus when the bus- driver told her to move so a white customer could sit down. She was arrested and put in jail for sitting in the front of the bus. Four days after, the black people of Montgomery and the people from other races organized and promoted a boycott of the city bus line. For 381 days b ....
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Walt Disney
835 Words - 4 Pages.... farm influenced him, he would sit down with no formal schooling and draw animals such as pigs, ducks, dogs, and even mice. This was the beginning of one of the greatest cartoon animators of all time.
One of the most important reasons why Disney succeeded was because of his great personality. "There was undeniably some almost mystic bond between him and the moods and styles and attitudes of the American people" (Bullock 49) . Disney was a true genius for innovation. He became one of the entertainment industry's most prominent and influential figures. "Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of s ....
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Maya Angelou
769 Words - 3 Pages.... In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, 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. 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. lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs ....
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Alice In Wonderland
546 Words - 2 Pages.... to taste it, finding it very nice". Another instant that shows her curiosity when she looks for the white rabbits fan and gloves, she finds a bottle, this time there was no table, "There was no label this time with the words 'Drink Me' ... 'I know something interesting is going to happen' ... ' I'll just see what it does',". Alice is like a little girl that is still exploring the world around her, but she finds that she is more mature than the creatures in Wonderland.
Alice is very well mannered in Victorian ways to the creatures of Wonderland. Alice shows her good manners when she enters the white rabbits house and the rabbit tells Alice to go fetch his gloves and fa ....
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MARGARET ATWOOD
1256 Words - 5 Pages.... of Grace Marks in her 26th book. Alias Grace is the retelling of the events that convicted Grace, at age 16, for a crime about which she claims to have no conscious memory.
Structured in alternating sections told from Grace Marks' point of view as well as that of an omniscient narrator, this blend of fact and fiction is pieced together like a quilt (a deliberate metaphor established from the novel's divisions or chapters, each named for a particular pattern of quilting). The events leading up to the murders are revealed through narrative, letters, newspaper accounts, excerpts from Susanna Moodie's journal, notes by doctors and wardens and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dick ....
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Dantes Views Of Chivalry And Warfare - Cantos Xii And Xxviii
2735 Words - 10 Pages.... regards to his own involvement in war, Dante, in Canto XII, not only passes judgement on other sinners, but he passes judgement on himself as a member of the cavalry.
It is fitting that Dante chooses to use the canto, the "Violent against their Neighbors," as a metaphor that seeks to explain chivalric warfare. Chiron and his men are described as a massive army, the coming of which is described as such, "between it and the base of the embankment / raced files of Centaurs who were armed with arrows, / as, in the world above, they used to hunt." [02]Their numbers are in the "thousands" (XII, 73 ), and it seems appropriate that Dante chooses the centaurs, a mixture of both man ....
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Abraham Lincoln
420 Words - 2 Pages.... Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family
farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by
studying and reading books on his own.
He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible.
In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and
independance? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coats, our
army and our navy . . . Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the
heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have
planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with
the chains of bondage and you prep ....
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Charles Dickens
2027 Words - 8 Pages.... work as an officeboy at a law firm then work as a clerk at Ellis and Blackmore Firm.
· 1832 - Started to work as a Parliamentary reporter at the True Sun for eight months.
· 1833 - First publication of sketches called Dinner at Poplar in Monthly Magazine.
· 1834 - Went to work for Morning Chronicle.
· 1836 - Sketches by Boz are published in volumes. First Installment of Pickwick Papers published. Charles marries Catherine Hogarth, daughter of the editor in Morning Chronicle. In November, Charles begins editing job at Bentley’s Magazine.
· 1837 - Edits a magazine called Master Humphrey’s Clock. First sketch of The Old Curiosity Shop published.
· 1842 - First ....
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