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    Jesse Owens was one of the fastest runners of his time. Jesse won the 1936 Olympic Games, which became a very famous event. Jesse Owens’ real name was James Cleveland Owens. He was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama to a poor family. From the time he was a child, he was able to run very fast. However, even though Jesse was recognized for his athletic ability, he attracted world attention for other reasons, both political and racial. Jesse had to overcome many obstacles both in…

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    Before the Olympics, Jesse Owens, a student at Ohio State University, was diligently working to support himself financially and achieve his full potential in track and field. Having nine siblings with little money, Jesse Owens had been forced to get jobs after school at a young age to help provide for the family (Schaap 1; “Jesse” 1). Even as a freshman in college in 1935, Owens was not provided with a scholarship, so he worked many odd jobs to pay the tuition (“Jesse” 1). Along with financial…

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    into what they are today. Jesse Owens the son of a sharecropper was born in September of 1913 in Alabama. He was born into a poor family, with slaves for his grandparents. Jesse was sick a lot as a kid with pneumonia and bronchitis. Even though he was a sickly child. He had to learn to work hard at a young age. At the age of seven, Jesse picked one hundred pounds of cotton a day to help provide food for his family, during the Great Depression. In high school, Owens quickly became…

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    The picture chosen for this report, as seen to the right, is that of Jesse Owens winning the gold medal for the long jump during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Owens, arguably the most famous track and field athlete, went on to win 3 other gold medals amidst the highly controversial status of the Olympics and himself. Owens was born the son of a sharecropper and grandson of slaves on September 13, 1913. Initially a weak child due to constant bouts of pneumonia and chronic bronchial congestion, he…

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    journey to college began, Jesse said goodbye to close family members and headed off to the bus to go to Ohio State with his friend Dave. Once they arrived, Dave and Jesse began working out on the track when Larry Snyder, the track coach, starts timing the boys. After working out, the boys go into the locker room when the all-white football team comes in and this is when the racism starts. The football team uses racial slurs and forces Dave and Jesse to let them shower first. Jesse thinks that…

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    This is seen when Rudy pretends to be Jesse Owens, striving to be just like his hero, he smeared charcoal all over his body. Covered in black, he ran around the track, commentating as he ran “Owens is looking good, this could be his greatest victory ever”, he then continued to shake the hands of the other imaginary athletes. When his father finds him and asks wha this behaviour was about, Rudy innocently replies “I just wish I was like Jesse Owens, Papa” (60). It is also seen when Death says…

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    Outlaws have always been a problem and always will be. Some of the most well-known outlaws were Jesse James and Clyde Barrow. These outlaws murdered and killed many people. These two outlaws lived in different time periods one being during the 1800’s and the other in the 1930’s but there are many similarities between the two. In fact Clyde Barrow said that he would like to think of himself as the young Jesse James. One of the main similarities is that they both killed many people. It is not…

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    The Story of Jesse James “Jesse, are you ready to saddle up?” asks Frank James, Jesse’s brother “Yeah, go get Cole and the rest of them to get out here. They’re taking forever in there.” Jesse replies as he saddles up on his horse. Frank goes into the house to get the other four men. I saddle up onto my horse,. The snowflakes get stuck into my horse’s hair. It’s pitch black outside, only light is the faint light coming out of the Younger’s house. Jesse looks at me, “ So this is your first…

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    Jesse James: A True Hero

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    Jesse James was a hero and a villain of the wild west. He was born on September 5, 1847 and his dad was a preacher in Missouri. ‘‘Jesse’s dad went to California for the gold rush and that was the last time Jesse James saw his dad’’. Jesse was only a teen when the civil war started in 1861. Jesse and his brother took part in the outlaw soldier battles between the Confederate and Union soldiers.(Hamilton) Jesse James found himself a new career, him and his gang strolled into Clay County Savings…

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    Jesse Robin Hood

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    This university paper written by Stephanie A. Coon provided a lot of useful and applicable information to develop my thesis. The main investigation of this paper was to find out whether the legend of Jesse James corresponded to the real man, or if his actions were twisted and ignored his actions in order to form this Southern Hero. The paper starts off with a song that has been passed down the generations of Americans about the mourning of Jesse’s death and the hatred of Robert Ford, his…

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