Kirk Douglas Brown is a 53-year-old African American leader from Compton‚ California. Kirk is an honorably discharged combat veteran with 8 years of military service‚ and a non-traditional college student. As a veteran‚ he learned the value of tenacity and determination. Serving your country and attending college is a very challenging experience. In the mist of being a parent Kirk was able to matriculate through the California college system with an Associate’s in Art (A.A.) in graphic Design from
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Your World is a poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson about taking control. Similar to countless poets of the Harlem Renaissance‚ Johnson’s poetry is about is women empowerment. In fact‚ her style used was self-expression‚ it made her readers accept what they are viewing as true. During the Renaissance period‚ women were making strides towards social‚ cultural‚ and artistic change‚ so this poem speak volumes. Johnson uses herself as the subject by writing in 1st person‚ in turn‚ to experience her struggles
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Douglas Haig was ’brilliant to the top of his Army boots’. David Lloyd George’s view sums up the attitude of many people towards Haig and other British generals of World War One. They were‚ supposedly‚ ’donkeys’: moustachioed incompetents who sent the ’lions’ of the Poor Bloody Infantry to their deaths in futile battles. Many popular books‚ films and television programmes echo this belief. The casualty list - one million British Empire dead - and the bloody stalemate of the Western Front seem to
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In schools around the US‚ students are taught that past the civil war‚ slavery became nonexistent. However‚ as I read through Douglas A. Blackmon’s Slavery By Another Name‚ I realized that slavery did not stop in 1865‚ but that it had continued for decades after‚ with arguably worse conditions and restrictions. In his book‚ Blackmon describes the struggles of African Americans after the 13th Amendment’s enactment. He describes the south’s transition from pre civil war legalized slavery to the post
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mother always taught me to be a strong and independent woman. She told me to always strive to reach any goal that I set for myself‚ and she would always stand behind me on everything I ever did… I chose to read the book‚ Where the Girls are by Susan Douglas. I found this whole book interesting‚ mainly because it was the era that my mother grew up in. She grew up in the 1960s‚ a time where life was finally turning around for women. In the chapter‚ Mama Said‚ she actually talks about how her mother took
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Experiences that we have in Common" In "Learning to Read and Write" by Frederick Douglass‚ Douglass describes the hardships of his life. Even though my life experiences are different from Douglass in many ways‚ they are similar in many respects. Frederick Douglas lived through slavery‚ and in my lifetime I lived through the ends of the Cold War‚ Gulf War‚ terrorist attacks‚ and a time in which a person’s right is being more and more protected‚ for example the Civil Rights Act of 1991. In Frederick Douglass’s
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Book Review (1) Gail B. Stewart (2) Victorian England (3) 96 Pages (4) “Victorian England” is a book informing the reader on how Victoria became the queen of Great Britain on June 20‚ 1837 following the death of her uncle‚ King William IV. She was only eighteen years old. Nobody suspected her to ever become Queen because her grandfather‚ King George III had fifteen children in which had all died by this time. The idea of a teenage girl ruling one of the most powerful nations startled everybody
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The independent reading book that I am currently reading is called‚ “The Secret Keepers” by Trenton Lee Stewart. This book is in my opinion directly related to people today in the U.S. who are poor. For example an article from BBC News talks about unemployment and poverty. The book “The Secret Keepers” is about a boy named Reuben who is poor in a place where certain people have unlimited power‚ and are not messed with. He finds an important artifact and goes on an adventure. This article from BBC
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14/03/03 Response on " Diary of Mrs. Amelia Stewart Knight" When I finished this article I started to realize that the life of pioneers was not just one big adventure‚ but they had to face some really difficult problems like dangerous river crossing‚ bad weather‚ different kinds of accidents and diseases along the way without any chance for medical treatment. But first of all I had make a research to answer one question before all the problems along the way. It is how much did pioneers traveling
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desire for more of something that is needed. I am viewed differently amongst people of different social classes. If you could taste me I would of a bad aftertaste. If you were to smell me you would smell oversprayed perfume. You can see me in Martha Stewart and Sheldon Adelson. If you hear me I am an out of tune violin. I am many things‚ but I believe I truly represent entitlement‚ dishonestly‚ and never ending. I have been dated back to much earlier times‚ when I became one of the seven deadly sins
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