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There were many African American influencer as time passed by, one who stands out the most is, Booker T. Washington. He was the founder of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881, now called Tuskegee University in Alabama. Booker T. Washington was known for his intelligences. He has influencer many African Americans and wanted to protect his people from the abused they suffered. He led many important movements that helped African Americans gain rights and be equal. His way of taking…

Melissa Wong
March 11, 2015
Andrew Forrester
DISC 1313
 Escaping Heartland America
 Pawhuska, Oklahoma, a town of a little less than four thousand people, is where Tracy Lett’s play turned movie August: Osage County is set. Beverly Weston, the patriarch and a heavy alcoholic, has disappeared and eventually commits suicide, leaving behind his psychotic wife, Violet, in the care of a newly hired caretaker, a Native American named Johnna. After their father’s disappearance, Beverly’s adult…

Within the memoir of the book Up from Slavery tells the life story of Booker T. Washington, from childhood throughout the height and low points of his career. This book is written in first person, supplemented with excerpts from letters and newspaper editorials that are all information about his work. Mr. Washington was born as a slave on a plantation in Virginia. He had an intensive sweltering hunger for edification and, once freedom arose, he trained himself to read. He spent much of his…

Intro Humanity’s lack of confidence dominates TS Eliot’s poetry, as he desperately attempts to find some sense of meaning in the unstructured and fragmented modernist milieu of the post-World War I era. Manifested in the constant tensions experienced by his personae, as they struggle to bring together the disparate elements of their meaningless lives, Eliot’s dramatic monologues , “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock,” (1925) and “Hollow Men” (1925) reflect the changing ideologies during the…

T.S Eliot and Langston Hughes were working poets in the early 1900’s. They project their personal thoughts and fears into their work and construct poems that defy definition. Their technique is alike and both are key figures in the history of poetry, yet they focus on very contrasting themes and motifs. When attempting to understand the meaning of a poets work many aspects of the poets lives is analysed to gain a greater understanding. How significant is a poets race when understanding their…

Americans were forced to deal with great discrimination. At the same time, two of the most influential black leaders of the time, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, attempted to improve African Americans’ situations in two very different ways. Though these men had very different philosophies, they shared a mutual goal: gaining equality and civil rights for blacks. Booker T. Washington was born a slave and emancipated at nine years old. He attended Hampton Institute in Virginia, a school run…

Repress, often viewed as the ability to restrain, prevent, or inhibit. Booker T. Washington had the ability to repress and he definitely used it to his full potential. Washington was born on April 5th, 1856 in Virginia and unfortunately died at the young age of 59 on November 14, 1915. As an African-American educator, author, and orator Washington faced great amounts of scrutiny for his race. Washington graduated college from Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute where he attended while working…

The messages of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois could not have been more diverse. The philosophical rivalry between Washington and DuBois has deep historical roots. To be on the same side fighting for the same purpose, progress, and uplifting of the Black race, these two Black intellectuals harbored radically divergent views on how to assist African Americans to free themselves from their often subhuman conditions. Both men were aware that technological advancement was of foremost…

critic might say it's ‘A celebration of humanity’,”. The movie shows what P.T Barnum was able to do things that were viewed very odd. According to the article “The Phineas T. Barnum Freak Show”, “The circus has one of the most diverse workforces in the world, including Asians, Eastern Europeans, Latin Americans,”( The Phineas T. Barnum Freak Show 8). This shows that in both the movie and in real life, P.T Barnum is a reason that there is diversity in the circus. He was one of the first people to…

Throughout “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, T.S. Eliot’s main goal is to show us the harsh reality of the world we live in. As we read the poem, we are brought on a journey that opens our eyes to make us realize how empty modern life really is and how we are wasting our lives away. As we go on with our journey with J. Alfred Prufrock we are forced to realize that we live a dull, unimaginative existence that is strictly run by routine and habits. In the poem we follow the narrator, J.…