Joe Louis had a disadvantage of being black, at a time when it was difficult for African Americans to get opportunities for education and employment. ... Louis grew up to be a generous boy who accepted others. ... Louis was a large boy at age 12. ... When Joe Louis began his career John Roxborough sponsored him, who was the king of illegal betting in Detroit's black ghettos. ... Louis was the only black boxer in the white world. ...

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As Nayan, the wonder boy from the story "Nayan Rahasya" by Satyajit Ray comes out safe and sound in the climax, Feluda, the iconic private detective smiles slightly since it is he who has ensured the safety of the boy, while the audience heaved sighs of relief and cries of joy. Nevertheless leaving the world of Feluda and entering Tintin's does not really alter the feeling of anticipation since Tintin almost does something similar in the story "Land of the Black Gold". ... However 'Land of the Black Gold" can be accepted as an exception. ... Here he is depic...

• Word Count: 1962
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Began writing creatively while still a boy 1. ... Encouraged black Americans to support the United States in its goals abroad VI. ... Involved with Williams Grant Still, the first black composer in the U.S. 1. ...

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The civil rights movement happened as a result of racial discrimination towards black Americans and it was for black Americans to oppose against it. ... For example the Montgomery bus boycott and black power made a huge impact as it helped reduced segregation for black Americans. ... Most black Americans had accepted racial discrimination, but the War made a huge impact as most black Americans wanted change. ... In order for black Americans to travel they rode bicycles, walked. ... That Montgomery bus boy cut was an event that could arguably be the key Turing point in the civil right movement...

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He appropriately named the recurrence of this his "black dog". ... His black dog was a constant struggle within himself. ... It was up to himself alone to fight off this black dog. ... This black dog that he had fought for so long proved to be a useful tool in fighting another black dog who was trying to conquer the world, Adolf Hitler. ... As a boy, he saw his father as a villain who would torment innocent women and countrymen. ...

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The bombs dropped were given the names of "little boy" for Hiroshima and "fatman" for Nagasaki. ... Hiroshima's bomb, "little boy" had the equivalent to 12.5 kilotons of TNT. ... "Black rain" was reported over both cities which fell for over an hour which contained heavy radioactive debris. This was caused by the massive cloud of fallout that consisted of radioactive particles, weapon debris, fission products, and irradiated soil; most of the materials fall back down to ground zero within minutes after the explosion which is where "black rain&q...

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In 1913 he was named art editor for Boy's Life at just 19 years old. ... Rockwell also illustrated the Boy Scout calendars from 1925 to 1976. ... This was in part due to the Post editor who would not publish a drawing if it showed a black person as something other than a servant. When Rockwell left the Post in 1963 he began to drift away from that idea and began exploring black and white race relations. ...

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He was very non-athletic, skinny, and clumsy as a boy. ... When Rockwell was just eighteen he began to do illustrations for a Boy Scouts magazine named Boys" Life. ... The Problem We All Live With is one of Rockwell's most famous illustrations concerning civil rights; it embodies the hardships that black children went through during the period of desegregation in schools. He shows a young, black girl walking to school surrounded by U.S. marshals, and a tomato is smashed on the wall behind her. ...

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Filmed in black and white, with deliberate lack of Hollywood' gloss, it earned Spielberg the greatest accolades of his career. ... Janine Basinger, author of The World War Two Combat Film: Anatomy Of Genre', reveals among other details how Hollywood invented the squad or other military team which was supposed to reflect American ethnic and regional diversity; the wise cracker from Brooklyn to drawling Southerner and the Midwestern farm boy, the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jewish American. ... However, black people were not represented. On both occasions Spielberg took a re...

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The two African American children, a young boy and his younger sister, look at three white children dressed in their play clothes consisting of baseball mitts, caps, shorts, and dirty shirts. ... The looks on all the children, Black and White, reflect interest exemplifying that the children share the same innate emotions that link the two races closer together. The Black children's faces hold an innocence causing the viewer to ask the question, " How could these innocent children be a threat to the White World?" In another picture, Rockwell exhibits the innocence of the Black children an...

• Word Count: 1928
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Pope uses emotional black mail in the third line, "Your country is up to her neck in a fight" Pope compares the country to a helpless woman. ... The young boy sits in the park watching children play - reminding him of his youth, that wasn't that long ago. ... Evening time blossomed with enjoyment "when glow lamps budded" this is a contrast from stanza one as evening now means "waiting for dark" As all young men, women are very important to them, "girls glanced lovelier " shows sadness as this young man would have looked forward to a normal relation ship with a women but now, "He w...

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George Johnston portrays this time in his novel "My Brother Jack", through the eyes of Davy Meredith, a young boy, (who in turn is portrayed unmistakably as a young Johnston), who develops into a young man. The cultural influences of this era shaped the men that both the young boy and his older brother, Jack, developed into. ... The Depression in Australia, as described by Davy, came slowly at first, but then hit with all the ferocity of a "slide of earth". " It was like a great river flooding or changing its course, the way the depression came-the insidious creeping movement of dark, strong...

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Pope uses emotional black mail in the third line, "Your country is up to her neck in a fight" Pope compares the country to a helpless woman. ... The young boy sits in the park watching children play - reminding him of his youth, that wasn't that long ago. ... Evening time blossomed with enjoyment "when glow lamps budded" this is a contrast from stanza one as evening now means "waiting for dark" As all young men, women are very important to them, "girls glanced lovelier " shows sadness as this young man would have looked forward to a normal relation ship with a women but now, "He w...

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Often pictures of boy scouts helping out in the war were used, which was an attempt to involve the whole population in the war. ... The young boy on the floor is suggesting the correct male attitude to war. ... A lot of this propaganda was proved to be false or "black". ... After all the criticism of black propaganda in the first world war Britain was reluctant to be seen using any form of propaganda again, and it waited until 1939, when the outbreak of war was once again upon them. ...

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The stereotype that depicted the traditional American teenager as a "clean cut, well mannered" boy or girl encouraged many to express their individualism. ... Due to his sexy moves and black-influenced sound, the condemnation and controversy continued along with his ever-growing popularity. ...

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The frontline for research and construction was the Los Alamos Laboratory, formerly a boy's ranch school that was purchased by Oppenheimer. ... Meanwhile, Los Alamos was finalizing the Uranium bomb, "Little Boy," named for its 9000 pound thin-cigar shaped body, and the Plutonium bomb, named "Fat Man" for its large 10, 800 pound egg shaped body.3 The modification of B-29 bombers that could carry the bomb, as well as the training for pilots that may have been involved on this mission, was to take place at Tinian, located in the Marianas Group of islands in the South Pacific. 29-year-old ...

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First of all, the father physically has typical characteristics of Japanese ancestry such as black hair, slanted eyes, thick glasses, thin lips and high cheekbones, and also he represents a symbolic person of Japanese-American who are from Japan living and working on west coast at that time. ... Moreover, in the section "When the Emperor was Divine", the mother traces back to her memories right after her husband is detained that she burns the frame portrait boy's uncle who had once served the Emperor's army, and all of the letters from Kagoshima, which indicates a sensitive...

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"They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing but earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation - This quote shows Conrad's sympathy for those who are being exploited for the benefit of others. ...

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Hemingway witnessed a man and a boy in a small boat being dragged by a fish that the man had hooked. ... Hemingway watched the struggle for half the day, finally pulling his own boat close enough to throw some provisions into the boat of the embattled fisherman and boy. ...

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Extreme trauma was imposed on Jews who were victims of the most massive executions in history, known as the Holocaust. Yet half a century after the war, the Holocausts still manages to make its' existence felt on survivors and their families. World War II ended on May 8th of 1945 in Europe, but those who survived found it difficult to go back to a normal life, as they did not even remember what that life had even been like, and some did not even find a reason to move on or a point to living itself. By then, 6 million of the Jewish population had been wiped out, and only 200,000 survived. ...

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As scheduled, the Enola Gay took off of the Tinian runway at 2:45 am, sharp, and began its course over the Black Sea. ... Exactly 60 seconds after the activation, the world's first atomic bomb, ironically nicknamed Little Boy, began its fall towards the ground. ...

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In 1927, Earl joined General Motors as chief stylist, but with the depression and subsequently the war, Earl's creativity "was temporarily stifled" as automakers, reflecting the mood of the nation, "painted most cars in drab colors: black, brown, dark green, and occasionally navy blue. ...

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Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. ... This movie puts a positive twist to war in that the blacks took up arms too to support a cause, which is something they had never done before. ... The Serbs responsible for it were members of Black Hand, a Serb terrorist orga...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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