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    to help someone in need. Ellen DeGeneres‚ a comedian‚ shows people how to help others that need it. She has made many donations‚ and has helped many people in need. She has made many donations to schools in need of school supplies‚ to charity homes‚ so they can find curse to cancer‚ and other illnesses. The military needs the support that they need to fight for us. Finally‚ the homeless needs the most help because they don’t have the money to get what they need‚ so Ellen gives them a 10k donation

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    In Ellen Degeneres’ novel‚ “Seriously I’m Kidding” I had realized that many of people’s view on life does not change the connections of various lessons or morals that they may connect to themselves. On account of living in a world that consists of billions and billions of individuals we also observe how this leads to various understandings on how they live their own lives. To put it another way‚ some individuals may think of life in the present time and be occupied with their current surroundings

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    Mrs. Putnam 2nd Block In 1958‚ DeGeneres was born in Metairie‚ Louisiana. She was born the daughter of an insurance salesmen named Elliot‚ and a working mother‚ Betty‚ who soon divorced when DeGeneres was a teenager (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ U*X*L). After the divorce‚ Degeneres and her mother moved to Atlanta. There‚ DeGeneres found her mother getting sadder and sadder. So she turned to comedy in trying to cheer her mother up (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ U*X*L). As DeGeneres grew older‚ she has waited tables

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    there is one person that makes me laugh everyday. One of my heroes happens to be the well known comedian‚ Ellen DeGeneres. Comedians remind you to never take life too seriously. The average day hero can be a person fighting for our country‚ a well known figure‚ or even a parent. Heroes have the nobility to influence people by doing chastely things. My hero is simply a comedian. Ellen DeGeneres entertains people with her humor in a benign way. Laughter can be the easiest method to access a person’s

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    Oratory Critique: Option One Ellen DeGeneres – “Tulane University Commencement Speech” I chose the option of Ellen DeGeneres’ Commencement Speech to Tulane University in 2009 because I do not know a whole lot about her and felt I could have an advantage on writing about based on not being bias. I am very satisfied with doing so and watching/listening to her speech because the facts and topics she spoke of. The words she spoke really touched me and I was able to discover things about her that

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    “Isn’t it funny”‚ said Robert‚ “how these white folks look down on colored people‚ an’then mix up with them?” – Robert Johnson‚ Iola Leroy p 27 The author: Activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the only child of free African American parents. During Reconstruction she was an activist for civil rights‚ women’s rights‚ and educational opportunities for all .Harper published many collections of poetry and several novels‚ among which Iola Leroy (1892) is one. Iola Leroy was Harper’s most famous

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    split up and dealt among various orphanages. Despite his illicit past as a troubled young adult‚ Malcolm X eventually improved his character into what can be now considered brimming with natural leadership skills‚ improved morale‚ and positive social activist behavior. Malcolm’s leadership attributes were present and crucial in the events that unfolded in his life. It was because of those skills that he was given various opportunities and titles‚ “Intelligent and articulate‚ Malcolm was appointed

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    The Georgia Colony In 1932‚ James Oglethorpe led a group of trustees that chartered to Georgia and made a colony to perform a social experiment on man’s capacity to improve. Not long after the colony began‚ the colonists began to complain and disapprove of the government they were under. The trustees set strict rules and did not give the settlers the same benefits that other colonies got. By the 1950’s‚ all of the trustees gave up on their experiment and Georgia became a royal colony. The

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    The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was growing in the Midwest‚ South‚ and creating areas of influence in other regions like the North and West. This led a handful of progressive white social activists to start talking with African American leaders about change. Prior to the Springfield riots‚ there were attempts to protect and advance African Americans. The Niagara Movement was started four years before the NAACP by about thirty African American professionals most notably‚ Dr. W.E.B DuBois. Their objective

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    Moss Kendrix was born in Atlanta‚ Georgia in 1917. His early education was obtained through the local public schools. He later attended Atlanta’s Morehouse College‚ a respected college for African-American men. Kendrix was a popular college student‚ who became the editor of the Morehouse newspaper The Maroon Tiger‚ and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He was also the co-founder of the Phi Delta Delta Journalism Society‚ the first and only society of its kind for African-American journalism

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