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Gangs

Introduction I. -A Los Angeles family takes a wrong turn into gang territory and is fired upon. A 3-year-old is killed and her 2-year-old brother wounded. -A Chinese immigrant in Brooklyn is kidnapped by a Chinatown gang which demands ransom payments from her family. She is murdered when the ...

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Charles W. Chesnutt

Though born in Cleveland in 1858, the grandson of a white man and the son of free blacks, grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina where his family, having left the South originally in 1856, returned after the Civil War. Chesnutt who had little formal education taught himself and also received ...

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Elie Wiesel Biography

Eliezer Wiesel was born in 1928, a native of Sighet, Transylvania (Romania) which is near the Ukrainian border; He grew up experiencing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust, this started when at fifteen years old Wiesel and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and ...

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Antonin Scalia

Supreme Court Justice was born on March 11, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey to a Sicilian immigrant father and an Italian-American mother and was raised in Queens. He attended Catholic schools in New York City as a child and teen. Scalia then attended Georgetown University, spending his junior year ...

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Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909

Theodore Roosevelt was the second of four children. He was born in New York City on October 27, 1858 of Dutch, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French and German heritage. Partially due to poor health, he suffered from Asthma and bad vision, he was educated by tutors until he entered Harvard ...

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Carl Sandburg

Author-poet Carl Sandburg was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg on January 6, 1878. The modest house, which is maintained by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, reflects the typical living conditions of a late nineteenth century working-class family. Many ...

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Huck Finn: An Argument For its Place in the Classroom

Huck Finn: An Argument For its Place in the Classroom The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is perhaps one of the most widely misinterpreted and censured books. Since its publication in 1885, a multitude of controversies have risen. Some bear the idea that the book is highly offensive and contains ...

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The Speech of Moses Bon Saam

“The Speech of Moses Bon Saam” is a revolutionary speech addressed to enslaved natives of the West Indies. Throughout the speech, Moses intends to invoke a sense of pride, purpose, and identity among a group of revolted slaves. Three prominent themes are omnipresent throughout his speech – the ...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Rosa Gallardo May 14,2011 Research Paper Mr. R. Finalayson PM Monday Class African American Literature Their Eyes Were Watching God According to Gale Cenage "Zora Neale Hurston was born Jan. 7, 1903, Eatonville, Florida and later died Jan. 28, 1960, Fort Pierce, Florida. She was an ...

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Approaches To Modern Literary Theories

APPROACHES TO MODERN LITERARY THEORIES BY JIDE BALOGUN, Ph.D Jidebalogun2001@yahoo.com 1. Introduction The history of literature is the history of literary criticism. The latter as an ally of the former makes creative writing more complementary and helps to conceptualise the ...

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Nat Turner

Nat Turner Nat(Nathanial) Turner was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and blacks back in the early 1800’s. Nat Turner was born on 0ctober 2, 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia he was born into slavery. As a child, he was bought and sold as a slave, sold three times ...

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Cloning

In many controversial topics around the world, such as abortion, gun control, legalized drugs, the death penalty, and (to name a few), we can find differing positions, and opinions. Many of these arguments, can be narrowed down to two different views, or constructs: individualistic and ...

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Destroying Waco

E-mail: phatty69_98@yahoo.com November 28, 1999 I was one of only nine survivors of the Waco blaze -- 74 men, women and children died -- and I've devoted the last six years to understanding what happened there. Back in 1990 I had been drumming in a stagnant Los Angeles rock band when I met and ...

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Slaves Of The White God

Colin A. Palmer. : Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. In the introduction to , Colin A. Palmer noted that his research on blacks in colonial Mexico was inspired by the protests of the Black Consciousness movement of the late 1960s, which demanded the ...

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The Olympics

have come a long way and have evolved into a whole new sport since the first ancient Olympics. For example, the events and the people that compete in the events have changed. The reason for taking place has also changed. Yet another aspect of how have changed, is that in the ancient Olympics, ...

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Assassination Of Gaius Julius Caesar

Caius Julius Caesar, a Roman consul, was a great leader and a terrible dictator. Many of his reforms were excellent, but he also was hungry for the power of Roman Dictator, which would give him absolute power for as long as he required it. Throughout his life he did many things including ...

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John Harlan

John Marshall Harlan II was born on May 20, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois. He was born to John Maynard Harlan, an attorney, and Elizabeth Flagg Harlan. John Marshall Harlan II came from a long line of political servants, of whom his grandfather is probably most notable. John Marshall Harlan I, whom ...

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Emily Dickinson: Individuality

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, to Edward Dickinson, a well-respected lawyer, and his wife Emily Norcross Dickinson, whom she was named after. She lived her whole life in the same house with her sister Lavina including after her parent’s death in her ...

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A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin

When one takes a look at the world in which he currently lives, he sees it as being normal since it is so slow in changing. When an historian looks at the present, he sees the effects of many events and many profound people. Benjamin Franklin is one of these people. His participation in so many ...

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Helen Keller

In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark - she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear she also found it very difficult to speak. So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to become a ...

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