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    Critical Synthesis of Historical Contexts of Leadership Martin Luther King‚ Jr. (1929-1968) • Leader during the civil rights movement • Fundamental in ending racial segregation • Non-violent protests - Influenced by Gandhi • Awarded Nobel Peace Price “I have a dream!” (Glass‚ 2012) Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ cont’d Leadership Actions - Communication - Goal setting - Challenge status quo - Support http://www.americaslibrary.gov http://www.americaslibrary Leadership Concepts -Group Management

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    Shakespeare has produced an incredibly large library of work‚ including 38 plays and countless sonnets. His plays are divided into four main sections: the Histories‚ the Tragedies‚ the Comedies‚ and the Romances. Othello falls under Tragedy‚ as it ends with the death of numerous characters‚ including the principals. Shakespeare’s work has been produced since the Renaissance in all artistic mediums from the original theater to opera‚ symphony‚ film‚ and ballet. It has also been consistently revisited

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    goes on to sing the praises of hard work. I grew up in a blue-collar working class family where my values about work were set at a very young age. Both my parents worked long hours and held down multiple jobs. My father was a welder‚ my mother a seamstress. All six of us children had numerous responsibilities to keep our family intact; additionally‚ we were expected to earn our own money by the time we became double digits at the age of 10. My parents instilled a strong work ethic in us‚ for which

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    Lynn Nottage Authors are advised regularly to "show not tell;" however in theater‚ one needs to show on the grounds that their gathering audience won’t have the capacity to peruse script immediately afterward. Reading play that is meant to be seen is altogether another experience‚ in this case‚ the playwright must ‘tell’ for it to be seen by the reader. Dialect and punctuation must be utilized particularly‚ so the readers can translate and decipher motives or personalities of character in the

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    continuing with his or her education are clearly pointed out. In the movie Real Women Have Curves there is Ana‚ a character in the movie that has the opportunity to continue her education after high school by attending a university but‚ has to work as a seamstress with her mother and sister. The one issue that I can relate to is that like Ana I have had to go to work with my father. In a home were the parents are the head they have complete authority and roles which include providing food to sustains ones

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    The Great Pharaoh & His Lost Children In the video “The Great Pharaoh & His Lost Children’’ we learn of his dedication to his family at his funerary temple‚ the outstanding Ramesseum‚ where we can see how he depicted his children on various temple walls and reliefs. It was stated that Ramesses had over 100 children by his principal wives and consorts. Unlike many other Pharaohs‚ his family attested to with numerous monuments including Nefertari’s temple at Abu Simbel and her great tomb in the

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    Gianna De Rosa Emilie Davis Paper October 2017 Emilie Davis was an African-American woman residing in the city of Philadelphia during the U.S Civil War. Still living with her family‚ Emilie worked as a seamstress while she attended the Institute of Colored Youth. Although she did not differ too much from the other free black women in her community‚ one thing that made Davis different was her diary. Emily kept a diary from the years of 1863 to 1865‚ and because of her entries‚ we today can get the

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    Intimate Apparel was directed by Janice Capuana. She is an adjunct assistant prof. of Theatre at York College. The play takes place on the lower east side of New York City in 1905. The story revolves around Esther‚ a lonely African American seamstress living in a boarding house for single women run by Mrs. Dickson. Esther spends her days and nights sewing beautiful lingerie and corsets for New York’s high society ladies and ladies of the night. The only pleasure Esther finds in her lovely life is

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    conscription. She meets with a friend who leads her to a girl named Farley. For Mare to save her friend she must give Farley two crowns. Mare is used to stealing so she goes with her gifted sister to work where Gisa‚ her sister‚ works as a apprenticed seamstress. She is interrupted when a terrorist attack by the Red Guard strikes. The area is filled of chaos and silvers are hurting reds. Mare finds the face of the leader of the attack and sees Farley. Visas tries to help Mare and attempts to steal from

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    A must read for any New Yorker or for those with a taste for the deeper and darker parts of urban history. Anbinder does a spectacular job in vividly portraying the Five Points neighborhood of lower Manhattan‚ now the heart of Chinatown. The story is told by individual accounts of the residents and their experiences in the filthy‚ back alley slum filled with wretchedly poor European immigrants‚ as well as Chinese‚ who lived in densely packed tenements sandwiched among dance halls‚ gambling joints

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