The Great Debaters is a drama film based on the story of Melvin B. Tolson; Union Activist‚ Communication and English professor of Wiley College. Tolson had a mediocre vision of transitioning four amateur African Americans into master debaters which would allow them to defeat all other African American debate teams. In 1930‚ Mr. Tolson held tryouts for the debate team. He warned all contestants that only four will be left standing‚ however‚ he reminds them that debate is all about the hotspot in which
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Dan Kennedy 3/21/13 AP European History Frederick the Great Frederick the Great (Frederick II)‚ the King of Prussia‚ was the leader necessary to take Prussia to a modern level. Under him‚ his country grew to a level equivalent to that of other top European countries of that time. Through his militaristic skills and his ability to lead‚ Frederick created a great power in Europe. Frederick accomplished establishing Prussia as a power through the acquisition of Silesia‚ creating a valuable silk
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In chapter 1 of the tragic modernist novel The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald introduces Nick Caraway as the narrator-writer of the novel who tells the story in retrospective to inform his experiences of the West Egg and East Egg society and the eponymous character known as Jay Gatsby. The chapter acts as an exposition of the novel as most of the major characters are introduced‚ Tom Buchannan‚ Daisy Buchannan‚ Nick Caraway‚ Jordan Baker and briefly at the end the titular protagonist Gatsby appear in a
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bank panics and depression in the early 1820s‚ 1830s‚ the mid-1870s‚ and the early and mid-1890s. But never it never suffered an economic illness so deep and so long as the Great Depression of the 1930s. The stock market crash‚ farm failures and bank failures caused people to go into a hard crisis of poverty causing the Great Depression. In order to solve this depression the President Hoover issued policies that would impact or change the course of the american economy. Some of those policies are
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The Great Depression The stock market crash of October 29‚ 1929 provided a dramatic end to an era of lopsided prosperity. This disaster had been going on for years. Different historians and economists offer different explanations for the crisis. Some blame the increasingly uneven distribution of wealth and purchasing power in the 1920s‚ while others blame the decade’s agricultural slump or the international instability caused by World War I. In any case‚ the nation was unprepared for the crash
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The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby has a list of ordinary character flaws‚ though Gatsby’s flaws are only revealed through the telling of the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book’s plot revolves around the history of Jay Gatsby and his undying love for Daisy Fay. Did the downfall of Gatsby’s character leave him to be an innocent victim‚ a foolish dreamer‚ or a guilty imposter? The downfall of this main character was destroyed by love and money‚ when Gatsby and his lavish life eventually
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parliament 1. In this Era the parliament and the monarchs communicated amazingly well with each other 2. Then something terrible happened‚ England fell under the Stuart rule so the Stuarts did not follow the same rules as the Tudors did which lead to great conflict between the parliament and the monarchs so the English fought in a civil war 3. Later after the war was over the English had chopped off the kings head and for a short period England became a country without a monarch 4. England then had the
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The Great Gatsby Connecting Device to Meaning Grid Activity [Major Grade] |Ch |Device/ Strategy [2] |Passage/p. # [2] |Connect to Meaning [8] | |1 |Juxtaposition |“There’s a bird on the lawn that I think must be a | | | | |nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line. He’s |
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The period immediately after the Middle Ages is known as the Renaissance. This is when Europe saw its interest to revive ancient Greece and Rome through its classical values and learning. At this time‚ Europe was going through some changes with its growing prosperity and its political stability. There were new technologies developing which included the printing press‚ along with a new astronomy system and new continental exploration. There was the expansion of philosophy and literature
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A great nation is a country that maintains an economy that grows exponentially‚ possesses a government that holds a worldly power‚ and has a population who is given life‚ liberty and the right to pursue happiness. The United States of America is a country like no other. It has encountered numerous conflicts and has found solutions that keep it prospering. It has been at the lowest of lows to come out at the highest of highs. The economy of the United States has transformed in a prodigious fashion
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