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Category: /History
…, they expanded the network of black colleges and institutions into an important educational system Booker T. Washington, born into slavery had worked his own way out of poverty by acquiring an education. He as the founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…, are both peasant wine-makers. In response to the poverty and injustice characteristic of that class, they conspire to overthrow and take revenge upon the upper classes. " 'One must stop somewhere. After all, the question is still where?' 'At extermination…
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…up in the “hood” and having to resort to crime like robbing and drug dealing to make a living because of the poverty stricken environment he lived in. There are also many…
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…in poverty by his grandmother and mother. He was forced to end his studies and limit his life in theatre as a playwright, director, and actor due to tuberculosis. He then turned his interest to politics and, after briefly being a member of the Communist party, he…
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…Charlie Chaplin Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in Walworth, London, and lived a Dickensian childhood, shared with his brother, Sydney, that included extreme poverty, workhouses and seeing his mother's mental decline put her…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…of poverty. The Pardoner is a person who says prayer for dead people so that the sins they had committed in life would be forgiven. The Pardoner of The Canterbury Tales abused his position by selling some papers which he claimed if people bought…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…of identity, race, and poverty.…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…but genteel English family, having lived in a "decayed house of gray stone, with a poverty stricken aspect, but retaining a half-obliterated sheild of arms over the portal, in token of antique gentility." But even without that specific indication of her high birth…
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…his own Socialist newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia. At this time he wrote a novel, then translated into English as the Cardinal’s Mistress. During World War I he served for nearly 2 years as private in the infantry. After the war there was much poverty
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…"on a silver platter" however. He endured many hardships and was plagued with great illness in his short life. Camus is a great role model and idol for us all. Camus was born into poverty on November 2, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria (a former French colony in Africa…
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