These are human beings that have stood out as a superstar in every level of their sports career (Middle School‚ High School‚ College‚ etc.) The average size of a NFL athlete in the 1940s was 5’11 and 198 pounds‚ which is close to the measurements of todays league’s smallest players. The players in 2012 had an average size of 6’5 and weighed in at 225 pounds‚ so as you can see there has been a sufficient increase in size and weight
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career when she dropped out of school to join the chorus line at the Harlem Club. It did not take long for others to realize her talent‚ either. Before she knew it she had become the leading vocalist on NBC’s Jazz Series “The Chamber Music Society” in 1940. Horne went on to take many singing and acting roles and was acknowledged by winning many prestigious
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the subject of many of her works. Her lithographs and other prints also celebrate the contributions of black women‚ such as Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman‚ to African American history. Catlett’s style has remained consistent since the 1940s. The smooth‚ curving forms of her figurative sculptures remind many viewers of the works of British sculptor Henry Moore or Romanian-born French sculptor Constantin Brancusi. In the black marble sculpture Maternity (1980‚ private collection)‚ a child
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Adler was a man who loves books! In his 1940 essay‚ “How to Mark a Book‚” Adler defines how reading is more than just reading. It is the act of active reading- a skill- that requires using certain strategies in order to remember and understand what you read by highlighting‚ underlining‚ and make annotations in the book to help you remember and understand what you’ve read. Adler states‚ “Marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.” (Adler‚ 1940) Adler’s form of reading requires putting
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Winston Churchill was a strong and effective leader who became the prime minister of England in 1940. He was known for his enthusiasm‚ optimism and ability to inspire people. Churchill’s wisdom and strategic foresight in addition to his passion and desire for strong efficiency in Britain’s warfare‚ lead him to become a great leader. If I were a British citizen‚ I would have been excited to support Churchill just based on his personality because he had charisma that previous leaders of Britain didn’t
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American people in the 1940’s and what little they had back then and how hard they had to work to achieve their goals.There is more than one movie of Raisin in the sun but the black and white is the best. All the others movie they take out some of the important scene and then they don’t portray what Lorraine Hansberry’s vision was of her experience in Chicago.The black and white movie best portrays Lorraine Hansberry’s vision of her experience in Chicago during the 1940s because it
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Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940) and Edwards v. South Carolina (1963) are significant to the trials involving the First Amendment. In the case Cantwell v. Connecticut‚ Newton Cantwell and his to sons‚ Jesse and Russell‚ were arrested in New Haven‚ Connecticut for going door to door to solicit donations for their religion (Jehovah’s Witness). They were soliciting on a predominately known Roman Catholic street. They were charged for
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Meursault‚ and the encounters that he faces with the Arabic ethnicity. Throughout the novel Camus portrays Arabs as an inferior race with demeaning morals and values‚ correlated heavily with the time period that this novel was initially written in‚ the 1940s. This essay will prove how the Arabs were represented in inferior negative connotations‚ and the overall purposes behind this plot using the following points: Factual evidence of the characters within the novel such as Raymond?s mistress and her identity
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The Axis and Allied powers in the European theater fought between the years of 1939 and 1945 in World War II. The Axis powers were Germany‚ Japan‚ and Italy. The Axis powers wanted more land and resources for their own countries so they began to invade other nations to achieve their goals. The Allied powers were France‚ Great Britain‚ the United States‚ and the Soviet Union. The allied powers fought to stop the axis powers from invading other countries‚ and to protect their homelands. In the
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If you were born right now‚ this instant‚ at you’re present age without any knowledge about how women used to be treated‚ the assumption could be made that men and women are basically equal. Yes‚ men are a little stronger physically‚ but overall the two sexes are both equal. Things weren’t always so picturesque‚ though. Since people first settled here‚ on what is now the United States of America‚ women were thought of as inferior. Ever so slowly though‚ the men’s view on women began to change
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