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    happens to a dream deferred?” Playwright and screenwriter‚ Lorraine Hansberry‚ answers the question for the Youngers and the audience through Raisin in the Sun. The film version of A Raisin in the Sun featured the original Broadway cast‚ including Sidney Poitier as Walter Lee Younger‚ Ruby Dee as his wife Ruth‚ Claudia McNeil as Mama‚ and Diana Sands as his sister Beneatha. Walter Lee dreams of opening a liquor store so that he can quit his job as a chauffeur. Already attending college‚ Beneatha dreams

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    Clifford 517-526. Hansberry‚ Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Vintage Books‚ 1958. Print. Hylton‚ Raymond Pierre. "African Americans." The Fifties in America. Ed. John C. Super. 3 vols. Salem Press‚ 2005. Salem History Web. 21 Apr. 2013. PoitierSidney. “From the Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography.” Schilb and Clifford 526-531. Schilb‚ John‚ and John Clifford‚ eds. Making Literature Matter: An Anthology of Readers and Writers. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2012. 512-531. Print. Tackach

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    Alienation: the 1970s Loner‚ Part II/Challenging Authority: SERPICO (1973)‚ directed by Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino‚ John Randolph‚ Jack Kehoe‚ Biff McGuire‚ Barbara Eda-Young‚ Cornelia Sharpe‚ Tony Roberts Class #3‚ September 10 “Old Hollywood‚” “New Hollywood‚” and Race Issues: GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967)‚ directed by Stanley Kramer. Cast: Spencer Tracy‚ Katharine Hepburn‚ Sidney Poitier‚ Katharine Houghton‚ Cecil Kellaway‚ Beah Richards‚ Roy E. Glenn‚ Isabel Sanford Clip

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    Did you know that Michael Jordan is widely considered to be the best player in basketball history? For example‚ he had 8 MVP awards and he led the NBA in scoring for 8 years. Also‚ he was the second player in the NBA to score 3000 points in a single season. From his childhood to his high school and college years‚ and then to his career in the NBA‚ Michael Jordan’s life has changed a lot. Michael’s childhood was a big part in his life. To begin with‚ Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17

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    strait of Gibraltar in 703 A.D. They conquered the Spanish kingdom and the region that is now called Portugal The army was finally defeated at the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D. The battlefield was located in north central France‚ between Tours and Poitiers. The Muslim defeat caused the spread of Islam to be temporarily halted. The victorious Franks were led by their king‚ Charles Martel. The Muslim army at this time was on a conquest throughout the western world and had already swept through Africa

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    1. Pope St. Gregory The Great I. Brief Biography St. Gregory‚ born at Rome about the year 540‚ was the son of Gordianus‚ a wealthy senator‚ who later renounced the world and became one of the seven deacons of Rome. He is also known as St. Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues. The Pope‚ recognizing his talent‚ was named as one of the seven deacons of Rome and then sent him on a diplomatic mission as papal legate to the imperial city of Constantinople where he

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    happen within the emergency room. Not only should specially trained individuals carefully monitor all areas in the emergency rooms where nurses work‚ but they should be fully prepared to intercede where a situation may turn violent. Johanna Duncan Poitier (Poitier‚ 2003) issued the results of a September‚ 2002 Survey of Professional Nurses which explained that‚ ““the State Education Department (SED) presented the Board of Regents with the first of a two-part presentation‚ providing analysis of a comprehensive

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    Principle of Management Bad Boy Entertainment / CEO Sean Diddy Comb  The CEO and entrepreneur Sean P. Diddy was born on November 4‚ 1969‚ in Harlem to Melvin and Janice Combs. In 1971‚ Sean was hired to model for a Baskin-Robbins print ad at age two‚ in 1973‚ they murder his father when he was just two years old and due to his father tragic death‚ his mother Janice was forced to move Sean to Mount Vernon‚ New York. “Combs proved a sharp businessman even in his early years‚ coming up with ways

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    Racial Profiling Prof. James Wright/CRJS420 By Viktoria Gavre American InterContinental University June 20‚ 2013 Racial Profiling Introduction On April 19‚ 1995‚ around 9 a.m. a yellow Ryder Rental truck pulled up into a parking area outside the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Two minutes later all hell broke loose as the truck’s 4000-pound cargo blasted the government building shattering one-third of the seven-story building. Investigators got it right‚ they said the suspect

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    Martin Luther King Jr. had spoke at a church in Harlem in 1960‚ and after hearing him and being inspired by his message‚ she deiced to help the Southern Christian Leadership Conference raise funds‚ staging a “Cabaret for Freedom.” Sidney Poitier and others were in attendance. The revue had proved high success‚ and Angelou became the northern coordinator for the SCLC’S New York office. Later on she then became friends with Malcolm X‚ who was assassinated in 1965. When Malcolm was assassinated

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