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    Ruby Bridges

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    future generations in educational forums. Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8‚ 1954‚ in Tylertown‚ Mississippi‚ and grew up on the farm her parents and grandparents sharecropped in Mississippi. When she was 4 years old‚ her parents‚ Abon and Lucille Bridges‚ moved to New Orleans‚ hoping for a better life in a bigger city. Her father got a job as a gas station attendant and her mother took night jobs to help support their growing family. Soon‚ young Ruby had two younger brothers and a younger

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    University of Saint Anthony (Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial) City of Iriga NAME: Joerine A. Yamar. YEAR: BEED – 4 TEACHER: Dr. Arlene O. Monsalve RATING: TITLE: MENTORS TOWARDS NEW DIRECTION REFLECTION Teachers possess enormous responsibility inside their classrooms. We are entrusted with the job of teaching children skills that we will need for their futures. In order to do our job well and with success‚ we must be prepared to teach in all kinds of environments

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    was a fight of any kind‚ the prisoners were out working out doors on the road when they all saw a temptress. Whom Dragline liked to call Lucille‚ a voluptuous blonde washing a car. All the men were hot and bothered by her‚ except Luke‚ and that brings us to how the fight would begin. Back at the prison‚ Dragline started reminiscing and rambling on about how Lucille put on a show for them. Luke told him to forget it and "Stop beatin’ it into the ground. It ain’t doin’ nobody no good." Then Dragline

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    flew open and he walked in with Lucille over his shoulder "Dude Back off the lady" and the guy did so and when Negan saw my face and that it was bleeding he got pissed. "Know what rules did you just break? Hmm lets see Don’t touch what belongs to me check that one is broke and lets see Ah yes we don’t rape women." I just layed in the floor crying. Then Negan said "So you need your punishment" All I heard was the cracking of the guys skull as Negan Brought Lucille down over and over again. Then

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    every shot. The use of camera angles‚ such as oblique angles and extreme close-ups‚ also play up the tensions brought out by the heat in the film. One example in which camera angles heighten those tensions is the confrontation between Buggin’ Out and Clifton the white bicyclist who steps on and ruins Buggin’ Out’s new pair of Air Jordans. At the start of the scene‚ when Buggin’ Out and the

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    Destiny Rides Again (1939) Director and Lead Actress Director George Marshall was born on December 29‚ 1891 in Chicago‚ Illinois. He was one of America’s earlier directors and is most well known for directing comedies. He worked closely with Lucille Ball on many different projects‚ leading her to ask him to direct her show Here’s Lucy (1968-1974). Some of his most famous projects include: How the West Was Won (1962)‚ Destiny Rides Again (1939)‚ and The Blue Dahlia (1946). As the New York

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    a while. Eliza’s two nephews and Nell become infected with yellow fever. Matilda and Eliza take them to the Cook Coffeehouse‚ but available medicines have little effect. Frost kills the mosquitoes and ends the epidemic. Near the end of the book‚ Lucille comes back with the President. She is well but needs to take naps and take care of her health. At the end of the book‚ Matilda decides to take up a new job‚ as owner of the coffeehouse with Eliza‚ and life returns to

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    About The Author Stephanie Tolan is an artist and a writer. In addition to "Surviving The Applewhites"‚ she authored "Who’s There?"‚ "A Face In The Mirror"‚ and "Flight of The Raven". "Surviving The Applewhites" received the Newbery Award. She lives with her husband in Charlotte‚ North Carolina. About the Book Have you ever thought what would happen to you if you where kicked out of every school around and burnt down one.Well the main charcter in Surviving The Applewhites does.This book

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    AP English: Literature and Composition  Name: Christine Corcoran  Major Works Data Sheet        Title:Invisible Man   Author:Ralph Ellison                                                                      Date of Publication:_______________        Plot summary:Summary­Chapter 4 Zoe Dittmann  In the beginning we are introduced to the narrator’s claim of personal invisibility. He describes living in a  secret underground hole and freeloading off a local power company. Recounting past experiences

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    Ruby Bridges

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    parents were sharecroppers‚ people who rented land and instead of paying with money‚ they paid with crops. "Sharecropping is hard work. On the day before Ruby was born‚ I carried 90 pounds of cotton on my back. I wanted a better life for Ruby." ( Lucille Bridges) Both sets of Ruby’s grandparents were sharecroppers and she would spend very hot summers helping them. In 1958‚ Ruby’s family moved to New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ and lived on a heavily populated African-American block. Her mother did various

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