The Great Debaters offers a fictionalized and limited account of the exploits of the award-winning Wiley College debate team headed by Melvin B. Tolson‚ an African-American English professor‚ during the Depression years. Beyond his academic duties‚ Tolson was an accomplished poet‚ journalist and social activist. Before this film was produced‚ very little was generally known about Wiley‚ a small college with only 400 students‚ or its debating team. The team had a remarkable record‚ going 10 straight
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The ‘International Thief Thief” is a song written by Afrobeat Fela Kuti who was born in the upper middle class. This song view a challenge people faced in Moshood Abiola. The I.T.T. song is a deliberate attack on the corrupt leadership of the country and the fight against dictatorship and colonialism like mentioned in class. He uses hard to beat and powerful‚ strong lyrics with the aim of reflecting manipulation of African people‚ and the struggles of African economies to overseas capitalist exaltations
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History tends to repeat itself and while the context may differ‚ the causative factors are most likely the same. One repetitive action throughout history is religious persecution‚ two examples include; Nazi Germany and the Salem witch trials. While the groups being persecuted had almost nothing in common the causes of the persecution were very similar: mob mentality. The responsibility is shared and thus responsibility is diluted. Being in a mob alleviates people’s sense of morality because they
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Maya Angelou’s "Champion of the World" and Amy Tan’s "Fish Cheeks" similarly portray the struggles of minorities growing up in America. One concerns the outcome of a boxing match‚ while the other concerns the outcome of a dinner party. In both cases‚ their pride and confidence are brought into question and affected by the outcome. Both narrator’s vary between feeling insecure and feeling confident in their ethnicity throughout their stories. In "Champion of the World"‚ Joe Louis’s defense of
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Our topic was about the murder of Emmett Till. Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy from Chicago. He went to Money‚ Mississippi to visit his uncle and cousins. While in Money‚ Emmett Till and one of his cousins went to Bryant’s grocery and meat market to buy some bubble gum. While his cousin was away‚ Emmett supposedly sexually harassed her and went behind the counter to touch her. His cousin claimed later that this was untrue. They left the store when Carolyn Bryant went to her car to get a gun. Emmett
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streets broke down as rumours arose of suspicious foreigners setting fires. The fears of the homeless focused on the French and Dutch‚ England’s enemies in the ongoing Second Anglo-Dutch War; these substantial immigrant groups became victims of lynchings and street violence. On Tuesday‚ the fire spread over most of the City‚ destroying St. Paul’s Cathedral and leaping the River Fleet to
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were many reasons why America was unfit to become an imperialistic nation such as‚ America not being able to control what horrific events were occurring on American soil. In the political cartoon‚ "Civilization begins at Home"‚ the great issue of lynching in the south is being depicted. As a woman draws back a curtain to reveal the horrors President McKinley turns a blind eye and focuses on the map of the Philippines. The cartoon strongly demonstrates one of the issues occurring on American soil and
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Social Movement The death of Trayvon Martin sparked a fire. It caused individuals not only in the Florida community but throughout the land to ask for social change within the legal system. An innocent boy’s murdering has been compared to the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955. Trayvon Martin’s death has moved societal groups in a way that has not been seen in over forty years. Many individuals across the nation are angered that a young man who supposedly was just minding his business has been
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1800’s‚ a time of great racial tension in the South‚ set the stage for Booker T. Washington’s famous address. During this time of crisis in the United States‚ blacks were the victims of unspeakable crimes such as torture‚ castration‚ hanging and lynching at the hands of white Americans (Retrieving the American Past 7). A new strategy needed to be developed to assist the blacks in America. The organizers of the Atlanta Exposition invited Booker T. Washington to speak at their event because he was
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White people thoroughly believed that if they were out of work.‚ then blacks were not allowed have jobs. In the south‚ lynchings had become popular; whether it was legal or not‚ people would hang others from trees to make statements‚ or prove a point . Most of these people would be from the Ku Klux Klan‚ or KKK‚ and they would illegally kidnap someone who they felt was guilty
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