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    advocated for educating adults because she planed to make them literate and through literacy they could move from unskilled labour into skilled labour positions‚ which would improve their social advancement in society. Cooper’s ideas were closely tied to Du Bois’ ideas of a liberal arts education because she believed that a liberal arts education was a tool for self-improvement and social change among the Black community. Cooper believed that when adults pursued a liberal arts education they had potential

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    “A little less complaint and whining‚ and a little more dogged work and manly striving‚ would do us more credit than a thousand civil bills.” This is a quote from W.E.B. Dubois that means everyone is equal and should have to work for their self. Booker T. Washington felt this way too because he hard working black slave. In this essay I will prove to you that Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois have many similarities and differences. Washington was born as a slave in 1856. While Washington was

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    the 19th century there were two black leaders who had completely different opinions on how blacks should accomplish these goals. Booker T Washington urged blacks to uplift themselves through vocational training and economical self-reliance. W.E.B Du Bois‚ on the other hand‚ was an advocate of complete racial equality. More recently‚ a similar dilemma occurred among blacks. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Believed in acquiescence‚ while Malcolm X felt that blacks should attain equal rights ’by any means necessary’

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    success is the feeling of happiness and satisfaction‚ after getting the goal. The purpose is to seek happiness and satisfaction. So‚ the key to success is to keeping on striving for excellence‚ happiness will always follow you. Why should people strive for excellence? Because‚ such a accomplishment is spiritual joy and spiritual satisfaction when people make a progress after achieving the aim. The enjoyment is not a simple with money and power to measure. So‚ strive for wealth‚ power‚ and reputation

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    oppression of black men and woman only increased their struggle to create a new identity. W.E.B Du Bois writes about the struggle of not being able to find a coherent identity in his essay Striving of the Negro People‚ Du Bois talked about how every black child has a moment in which they began to understand they were different and did not have one simple identity like many white children.

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    Diesel’s first engine in Augsburg‚ the 1912 motor vessel Selandia‚ the introduction of turbocharging on two-stroke diesels in 1954‚ and the first SCR (Selective Catalytic NOx Reduction) systems on ships in 1989. This paper will outline how MAN B&W takes advantage of this new technology in its MErange of engines by combining traditional‚ proven technologies with enhanced electronic control so as to design engines which‚ while being both production-friendly and operationally easy to handle

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    ‘In Memory of C. Tallis and R. Turner’ In this essay I will discuss the effects of W. H. Auden’s poem ‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’ upon the tone‚ and the foreshadowing of plot line of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement. The poem and the novel are both elegiac- it is the contribution of the poem to Atonement at the crucial point before the deaths of the characters Robbie and Cecilia that begins to set the tone of elegy within the novel. This acknowledgement of death and mourning brings a sense of impending

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    a few methods of how the Caucasoid race continued to suppress the African Americans. Eventually‚ two influential leaders emerge in the battle to advance the African American race. Their names were Booker T. Washington and William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. Although‚ they were fighting for the same community their beliefs were extremely contradicting to each other. Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1856. However‚ after the civil war‚ he was freed. Booker then attended both‚ Wayland Seminary

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    For example we should become the farmers‚ business owners‚ clerks‚ and cashiers etc and we shop at our own stores then

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    into interaction while a lot of blacks would have probably felt resentment towards having to interact with whites. In the passage preceding this declaration‚ he states‚ "we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach…interlacing our industrial‚ commercial‚ civil and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one." He directly communicates and uses the word civil in an effort to show that he is for equality in facets of society where it is most

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