Name: Ngọc Trương Class: 10M Hi everyone today I’m going to tell you one of the most famous American actor in America. He is also a film producer and a screenwriter. His name is George Clooney. He was born in May 6‚ 1961. For his work as an actor‚ he has received three Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award. His latest film was The Ides of March (2011). Clooney’s humanitarian work includes raising funds for the 2010 Haiti earthquake‚ and 2004 Tsunami. Clooney was born in Lexington‚ Kentucky
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were both two very inspiring black men of their time. Washington was born a slave on the Burroughs Tobacco farm. After that he moved multiple times with his family. The only thing that stayed the same each time he moved was the feeling of discrimination. Du Bois on the other hand was born on a “Free-Slave” plantation. Du Bois attended school without working‚ instead of being a slave with no education. When his father died the family of the plantation disowned
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How Would You Get Freedom? As a kid when you get grounded do you just accept your punishment or do you beg your parents to unground you? There was two african american advocates. W.E.B Du Bois who wanted african american equality right away. He focused on three major ideas. Number one he wanted african americans to have the right to vote. The second thing he wanted was that color discrimination was unacceptable. His last idea that he wanted for african americans is that he wanted young african
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Two leaders fighting for the same cause different ways Booker T. and W.E.B Du Bois were both leaders for equal rights of African Americans. These men had the same goal they wanted to reach‚ equal right for African Americans‚ but they approached the situation differently W.E.B Du Bois is a colored man born in 1868 and graduated from the university of Berlin and Harvard becoming the first African American to have a doctorates degree. He was a civil-rights activist which means he fought for the rights
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Many great leaders came from the fight for African-Americans civil rights. Not all these leaders would agree with each other‚ but all of them had a common ground and that was to fight the oppression that blacks have had for many years. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were both civil rights leaders‚ however they had many different views they also had many similarities. Who were these leaders and what made them different but similar in many ways? Booker T. Washington was born in Hales Ford
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The late 1800s and early 1900s found the United States in the midst of a dramatic shift. Not only was race-based discrimination the Consensus theory among whites‚ it was also legally enforced. Institutionalized racism left African Americans without citizenship‚ voting rights‚ civil liberties‚ and access to higher education. It also left them without justice‚ due process‚ and protection. Even though the ownership of humans had been eradicated by the 13th Amendment in 1865‚ the black community was
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Compare and contrast A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Write a brief essay (of approximately 1000 words) to comment on the two female protagonists’ (Nora Helmer and Blanche Duboi’s) relationship with men. A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams are two well-known plays that give rise to discussions over male-female relationships in old society. The female protagonists in the plays are women who are dependent
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Discuss the representations of the various ‘other’ women in the novel: Mrs Reed‚ Miss Temple‚ Céline Varens‚ Blanche Ingram and‚ to a lesser extent‚ Bertha Mason. What does Jane learn from these women? Which are positive role models? Which are negative? Throughout the novel‚ there are female characters who are either positive or negative role models to Jane. Due to the novel being about Jane’s personal development‚ the portrayals of the role models are such as to highlight how they influence Jane’s
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rough childhood or if they grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth? Blanche Dubois past consists of a dead husband‚ her compulsive lying‚ and prostitution. Blanches past is what led to the eventual demise of her character in A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche Dubois had a past that was filled with love. In scene 6‚ while sitting with Mitch‚ Blanche talks about her first husband that she met when she was 16. In the story Blanche talks about coming home one night and finding her husband in bed with
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have the ability to achieve their sexual liberation despite the patriarchal societies in which they live. Two females which have attempted to achieve sexual liberation are Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter and Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar named Desire. Both Hester Prynne and Blanche Dubois’s attempts to achieve sexual liberation were hindered by the patriarchal societies in which they lived in; making only one of them successful. The Scarlet Letter‚ written in 1850‚ takes place in the late 17th
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