Rebecca Lee Crumpler Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African-American woman to recieve a M.D. degree. She was born in 1831 in Delaware‚ to Absolum Davis and Matilda Webber. Crumpler’s main inspiration to become a doctor came from her Aunt who spent alot of her time caring for the sick in her community. In Crumpler’s book published in 1883‚ she stated “...having been reared by a kind aunt in Pennsylvania‚ whose usefulness with the sick was continually sought‚ I early conceived a liking
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Lee Iacocca is a transformational leader who took over Chrysler when it was on the brink of bankruptcy in 1978 and transformed the corporation’s culture to turn it into a profitable venture. The first turnaround With a vision of turning around Chrysler‚ Iacocca started by focusing on the three pillars of people‚ product and profits. His trait of promoting intellectual stimulation led him to first deal with Chrysler’s inefficient management. He fired a huge number of people‚ replacing them by
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Forefathers Harry Lee Kuan Yew Mr Lee is a fourth-generation Singaporean. His Hakka great-grandfather‚ Lee Bok Boon who was born in 1846‚ emigrated from the Dapu county of Guangdong province in China to the Straits Settlements in 1862. Harry Lee Kuan Yew was born on 16 September 1923‚ at 92 Kampong Java Road in Singapore‚ a large and airy bungalow. Mr Lee was the eldest child of Lee Chin Koon and Chua Jim Neo. Mr Lee had three other brothers‚ Lee Suan Yew‚ Dennis Lee and Freddy Lee and a sister; Monica
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Robert E. Lee was a Confederate General in the American Civil War. He was born January 19‚ 1807 in Stratford‚ Westmoreland County‚ Virginia. He was the youngest son of the Revolutionary War hero general Henry Lee‚ who was also known as “Light-Horse Harry Lee”. He married Mary; daughter of G. W. P. Custis‚ the adopted son of Washington. My Thesis is that Robert E. Lee was a great general in the Civil War. He proved he was great even though his resources usually were not. In 1825 he entered West
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Flat Broke with children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform is a book that talks about the person struggles of women in the welfare system. The author Sharon Hays‚ she is a professor in the Department of Sociology and at the University of Virginia. She wrote different books including‚ Inside Welfare: Gender‚ Family Values‚ and the Work Ethic‚ the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood‚ and‚ The Changing Face of Fifty: Women at the Halfway Point. I chose his book because of the title‚ I felt like
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Introduction The following information was obtained from the movie‚ Precious‚ by Lee Daniels. The information was obtained to conduct a biopsychosocial assessment of the character‚ Precious‚ to utilize the Monmouth University’s empowering‚ strength-based‚ psychosocial assessment‚ and intervention outline. The writer is a graduate student social worker and assessment is aimed towards providing understanding of the presenting problem to promote human rights and economic justice. 1. Identifying information
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Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen’s College at Oxford University‚ England‚ 1976. Whilst there he built his first computer with a soldering iron‚ TTL gates‚ an M6800 processor and an old television. He spent two years with Plessey Telecommunications Ltd (Poole‚ Dorset‚ UK) a major UK Telecom equipment manufacturer‚ working on distributed transaction systems‚ message relays‚ and bar code technology. In 1978 Tim left Plessey to join D.G Nash Ltd (Ferndown‚ Dorset‚ UK)‚ where he wrote among
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GIRAFFES - Lee Downie “Four Eyes!” “Giraffe Neck!” “You stink” “You look like a boy” “Shut up ugly‚ I hate you‚ I hate you!” Kayla shouts to the boy living in the house on the opposite side of the street. Every morning just before lunchtime the kids would come out of their houses onto their porches and hurl insults at each other‚ making them hate each other more and more each day. A few weeks ago Kayla and Kyle were playmates but that all changed when Kyle threw Kayla’s cabbage patch doll onto
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Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing Cultural Mediation Criticism. “Works of ethnic literature -‐ written by‚ about or for persons who perceived themselves‚ or were perceived by others as members of ethnic groups -‐ may thus be read not only as expressions of mediation between cultures but also as handbooks
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year the civil rights movement‚ in 1968. Maybe Hansberry wanted this line said in the way Pearl Bailey would say it. “You remember how we used to talk when Travis was born … about the way we were going to live … the kind of house … (She is stroking his head) Well‚ it’s all starting to slip away from us” In this scene‚ as usual‚ Ruth and Walter Lee are bickering but I now see where the root of the problem lies. It is like they have become accustomed to the life they live but do not want to accept;
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