Rosa Parks
.... a meeting of black leaders to see what action they should take.
By the end of the meeting, the leaders agreed to call a one-day boycott of all the city buses for Monday Dec.5. On Monday, the buses began their run through the black neighborhood and came back empty. The boycott was a sucess. They set up the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and named Martin Luther King Jr., it's leader. Rosa Parks went to court and was charged with violating a 1947 segregation law. She was found guilty and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs. The Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council started threating the MIA organizers. Leader .....
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George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
.... ways. When he was young, a servant took him to the slums. From that experience he acquired a lifelong hatred of poverty (Collier's 649).
Shaw was a poor student at the Wesleyan Connexional School despite private tutoring (Kunitz 1268). However, most of his education was gained at home through a thorough background in music, art, and extensive reading. He always had the eagerness and determination to write. His writings would be returned often by local newspapers but he kept on sending them in anyways. As a young writer, Shaw once received fifteen shillings for an article which was all he got from journalism in nine years. "The .....
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Saint Francis Of Assisi
.... the brothers of the First Order of Franciscans, with Francis as their superior. Francis later accepted a young woman, Clare, into The Franciscan Order. She went on to establish the Order of the Poor Ladies, which later became known as the Second Order of Franciscans. Francis attempted to travel to the Holy Land in 1212, but did not make it. His missionary work in the late 1210's was anything but successful. He was able to reach the Holy Land in 1220. He wanted to become a martyr and was proud to hear that five Franciscan friars were murdered while carrying out their duties. He returned to Assisi to find dissension in th .....
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Igor Stravinsky
.... to say that he is smart, that he comes with resourceful ideas. Since Stravinsky was Russian, that is what he probably meant. Therefore in his first sentence, Stravinsky says that, more or less, almost all conductors are stupid.
The whole passage is more of an insult to all conductors, rather than an informative text. Secondly, Stravinsky uses comparisons to politicians in order condemn the conductors. "Conducting, like politics, rarely attracts original minds … His [the conductor's] first skill has to be power politics," he says in the first paragraph. Politicians are always thought to be corrupt, dishonest, and insidious. In fa .....
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Sojourner Truth
.... her double bondage as an African American and a woman in a society dominated by whites and men. Female slaves, for example, often did both men's and women's work. One master boasted of Isabella that she was "better to me than a man -- for she will do a good family's washing in the night, and be ready in the morning to go into the field, where she will do as much at raking and binding as my best hands." Once she gained her freedom, Truth labored as a domestic servant but remained poor, as related in her Narrative: "she toiled hard, working early and late, doing a great deal for a little money, and turning her hand to almost an .....
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