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    My speech on why I support and defend my document for human rights! Good morning/afternoon classmates‚ Ahead of time I would like to let you know that my book is The Civil Rights Movement People Who Changed America By:Kevin Supples. This book’s genre is Expository. It is a National Geographic book. It is about very important leaders and what they accomplished and how they accomplished and overcame their goals. I defend this document because I know it is it is truthful. I know it is truthful because

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    I will describe and evaluate four such events: Montgomery bus boycott 1955‚ little rock Arkansas 1951‚ Greensboro North Carolina sits INS 1960‚ Selma to Montgomery march 1963 Rosa parks was on the bus on her way home from a day at work as a seamstress at a department store ‚she sat in the fifth row which was the first row for the black people All the buses were segregated and when the white section was full the bus driver needed Rosa’s seat for a white person so he told her to move. Rosa

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    Miss Pross showed her love towards Lucie in many different ways‚ and her love leads to her sacrifice and reward in the final chapter. The ever faithful Miss Pross barrels into the room after hearing that her “ladybird” (71) has fainted and throws Mr. Lorry against a wall to get to her Lucie. In the first encounter with Miss Pross‚ Dickens shows that she would do anything to protect Lucie by showing her “laying a brawny hand upon his chest‚ and sending him flying back against the nearest wall” (Dickens

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    negatively because of her refusal to obey the law‚ but to me‚ it was for a good cause. Rosa Parks is known as the “First Lady of Civil Rights” and the “Mother of the Freedom Movement”. Before she became so well known‚ she was labeled as an unknown seamstress in Montgomery‚ Alabama. The reason she became “famous” was for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. She initiated a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality. Back in those days‚ the Whites and African Americans

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    to find her own identity apart from being the only voice for her Deaf parents. Margaret Ryder was one of two hearing children born to her Deaf parents‚ Abel and Janice. Abel works on the printing press at a newspaper company while Janice is a seamstress. Tragedy strikes the family immediately in the film when Margaret’s younger brother Bradley unexpectedly dies. Margaret feels now more than ever that she needs to be the bridge for her parents and the hearing world. The only friend Margaret has

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    How did the English defeat everyone they came into contact with? How were they able to steal land without any consequences? The English not only felt they were the superior race‚ but they often had the law on their side due to them being white and of the English race. Many of the white men that had powerful authority had the mindset that all English men had‚ they deserve it all. In A Different Mirror written by Ronald Takaki‚ he explains how the English were able to acquire all they land and how

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    refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man 1983- Put into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame 2000- Awarded the Alabama Academy Award 2006-Statue of Rosa Parks placed in National Statuary Hall in Washington‚ D.C. Facts Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress and then at Virginia University Rosa married Raymond Parks‚ a barber‚ at the age of 19 Organizations NAACP - (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Its mission is to ensure the political‚ educational‚ social‚ and economic

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    sexism in the Hebrew bible. Her first argument addressing sexism brings into question the use of language. Pieces from Isaiah Genesis‚ Psalm‚ and Jon that distinctly uses gendered (if not obvious) language to speak of Yahweh: God was a midwife‚ seamstress‚ housekeeper‚ nurse‚ mother” (Trible‚ 1973)‚ a caretaker‚ which Trible points out are all feminize images used to describe God and what he did for his people‚ in the words of the Old Testament. She also argues that a masculine God was a societal

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    liquor‚and conducting other illegal activities such as prostitution‚in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931. Early life: Al Capone was born in the district of Brooklyn in New York on January 17‚1899.His father was a barber and his mother was a seamstress‚were both immigrants from Italy.He dropped out of school at the age of 14‚after being kick out for hitting a female teacher in the face.And then after that‚Capone joined in the Brooklyn Rippers and then the Powerful Five Points Gang based in Lower

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    coerced into being financially independent when Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillilngsworth would not help support Hester and her child Pearl financially (Hawthorne‚ 47). She then discovers one of her talents and that supports her family by becoming seamstress (Hawthorne‚ 60). I feel this shows that she does not need a man to support her and depend on.

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