Bishop Long's Influence

The fact that Grant considers himself to be better than all of the black residents of Bayonne is one of the many things that holds Grant back from being an effective coach to assist Jefferson in his quest to become a man. Another contributing factor to his ineffective teaching is his lack of self confidence. If Jefferson does not see a worthy example of how to be a man, then he will never effectively become one himself. After a few visits to see Jefferson in his cell, persevering through his own belief that he is not making a difference, being told that he was wasting his time, he realized that he was doing much more than performing a favor for Miss Emma and Tante Lou. He realized that he wasn’t only trying to turn Jefferson into a man. This was Miss Emma and Tante Lou’s way of teaching himself a lesson on how to live his life and who he really is. “I need you,” I told him. “I need you much more than you could ever need me” (Gaines, 193). This quote represents the

Grant, a plantation school teacher, is the only black man in the community with a college education. Compared to Reverend Ambrose, the black community’s spiritual leader, who has knowledge in religion. These very different educational backgrounds make Grant and Reverend Ambrose a foil in the book. Many whites are jealous of Grants college education because many of them failed to receive such an education. During this time period, it was difficult to find a black man that could both read and write. Ambrose and Grant get into a verbal argument in which Ambrose says “I’m the one that’s educated. Gaines (215).” Ambrose’s ignorant comment leads you to believe that he thinks his education is superior to grants. Ambrose feels that his knowledge of religion is more important than a formal education. Grant later exclaims to Ambrose “I don’t owe anybody anything. (Gaines 216)” This leads us to believe that Grant wants nothing to do with his community and would rather just leave. This is conflicting compared to Reverend Ambrose religious feeling of needing to

     In the book, “Manchild in the Promised Land,” Claude Brown makes an incredible transformation from a drug-dealing ringleader in one of the most impoverished places in America during the 1940’s and 1950’s to become a successful, educated young man entering law school. This transformation made him one of the very few in his family and in Harlem to get out of the street life. It is difficult to pin point the change in Claude Brown’s life that separated him from the others. No single event changed Brown’s life and made him choose a new path. It was a combination of influences such as environment, intelligence, family or lack of, and the influence of people and their actions. It is difficult

Unfortunately, Cedric finds out that perhaps he is not MIT material. His SAT scores are too low, and somewhere that affects Cedric. It takes away some of that resolve he had, some of the determination to fight his way out of Ballou High School. Shortly after Cedric is accepted to Brown, he is invited to meet Clarence Thomas, the first and only black Supreme Court Justice. They chat back and forth about their common experiences. Thomas is an amazing role model for any young black man to look up to. He is a man who became famous, not by resisting the "white" establishment, but by understanding the rules. He worked hard to get where he was, and received no free gifts along the way. He does his best to impart

Lou’s family did not have an educational background. His high school football coach, Coach Watts, was the one that spoke to his parents about him going to college. Coach Watts’s idea

John Hill Westbrook was greatly influenced by his father, who urged him to go to Baylor. Westbrook's father, Robert Westbrook, was an All American football player at Paul Quinn. Robert Westbrook played all sports in high school so it was expected that John do the same. John greatly looked up to his father whether it be about sports or the ministry. John’s father helped him greatly while growing up and was very proud of him going to Baylor. His father greatly influenced him in his early years and helped him get started on the right path with sports and the ministry.

He would do anything for the people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. - You could give something to her, to me, to those children, in the quarter”(191). “‘The white people out there are saying that you don't have it-that you're a big, not a man. But I know they are wrong. You have the potentials. We all have, no matter who we are’ ”(191). These quotes are significant to the story because it shows no matter who you are, or where you are, you will always have the ability to make a difference. “‘Yes, I'm youman, Mr. Wiggins. But nobody didn't know that ‘fore now. - You too, Mr. Wiggins. You never thought I was nothing else. I didn't neither. -Now y'all want me to be better than ever’body else. How, Mr. Wiggins? You tell me”(224). “I had come here to tell Vivian that everything had gone well- Jefferson and I were communicating, and he and his nannan were also talking. I was feeling very good, and I wanted to tell it to her before I told anyone else. -Between him and school, I was drained of my energy. -And that was one of the reasons I had come back to see her, to tell her that I had finally reached him and that I would be more relaxed now…”(196-197). This shows

Was Jane long really the mother of Texas?I think not . It all started on july 23 1798 , when Jane Herbert wilkinson was born. When Jane was born the doctors thought that she was dead and then proceeded to shoved her in a night stand drawer while they saved her mother's life.When the doctors opened the nightstand drawer they discovered Jane Herbert Wilkinson alive and well. Jane was the tenth child in her family.Sadly,Jane’s father died when jane was only one years old .Jane later became an orphan at the age of fourteen. After jane's mom died she moved in with her aunt .Jane’s family was very wealthy, so wealthy that Jane got her own slave named Kian , they were really good friends and when Jane was sixteen she was on her way to school and Kian told her about a very handsome man that was a doctor and persuaded her to skip school and meet him ,she then proceeded to introduced her to James long ,her future husband. Jane later got married to James long in may of 1815 and had her first child when she was only eighteen years old .In September of 1821 jane was expecting her second child and stayed behind at a post while james,her husband left ,she vowed to not leave till he returned but , he never did. She had her child in a very harsh winter,on the Bolivar peninsula in december of 1821. Jane and her slave,Kian fought starvation for over two weeks.She claimed to be the first english-speaking woman to give birth in Texas but, we know now that she wasn't.Soon after she found out that she was a widow in 1822 at the age of twenty four .

In days long when many non-whites were racially segregated , and/or discriminated, making a colored community was unthinkable.That was until one man named James Clemens, a freed slave, broke that barrier, and established Longtown Ohio.The uniqueness of the community, though, was that it was a sanctuary for many different races that were unfit for other communities. This was a place where many different races could interact with each other peacefully. If Riverside, or even our country as a whole had this type of ideology, then there is a likelihood that we would all live in harmony, and safety. It's time we take some ideas from Longtown, and apply them to our country/Riverside. An article published by The Washington Post, “ Ohio Town holds rare history: Races

The article Higher Education by Gary Smith is about a basketball coach who changed the lives of a whole community. Perry Reese Jr. was a black basketball coach in Berlin, Ohio which used to be one of the most Amish settlements in America. Many in the town wrote him off because of their racist views. What they didn’t know was that one day he was going to be the man that created magic in that small community. He was not only a coach but someone who genuinely cared for all of these people, breaking the traditional views of segregation and life all together.

Ernest endured the hatred from the students and despite threats and requests aimed at preventing him from graduating; he became the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School. Ernest’s accomplishment did in fact give the world one more example that African-American’s were just as intelligent as white people were. As Ernest reminisced about how far integration had come, he said that,” What we had accomplished had a huge impact on the progress of integration, but we are nowhere near the point we should be. I’ll continue to do everything I can to promote integration to this day.”

Has anyone here ever stopped and wondered why LSU is the size it is today or why there never seems to be a shortage of schools wherever you go in the state. Whether you have or not, these are both causes of Huey Long’s bills affecting our state, also known as the reign of the Kingfish. Huey Pierce Long was born on August 30, 1893, in the town of Winnfield located in Winn Parish to Mrs. Caledonia Long and Mr. Huey Long, Sr. The young Huey was the seventh of nine children (his younger siblings being named Earl and Lucille), and he lived the life of a farmer’s child. Although he lived in an environment that offered little time for leisure or even education, Huey’s parents emphasized education in each of their children’s lives along with individual expression and competition. The family was also a group of astute Christians with their daily Bible studies, attending church twice a week, and frequent attendance to gospel revivals.

Bishop Gadsden is a nursing home located in Charleston, South Carolina. More specifically on James Island, where I am from. I have been at this facility plenty of times. Because of its loving and caring nature it is a great place for the elderly.

In chapter 8, Grant recalls his own teacher Matthew Antoine. Mr. Antoine hated teaching and his own students. To Mr. Antoine education is only good for making new teachers which sustain the cycle of uselessness. As Mr. Antoine becomes older he sees no evidence that education can lead to an improvement in the real word. Mr. Antoine describes to Grant that you can teach a black child but they won’t do any good for themselves with what you taught them. He says that blacks are just meant to run away. Mr. Antoine hates himself for the color he bears. ‘When you see that those five and a half months you spend in that church each year are just a waste of your time, you will. You will. You’ll see that it’ll take more than five and a half months

What happens when people start to break away from the entity that bound an entire civilization together for over a thousand years? How does one go from unparalleled devotion to God to the exploration of what man could do? From absolute acceptance to intense scrutiny? Sheeple to independent thinkers? Like all revolutions preceding it, the Protestant Reformation did not happen overnight. Catholics had begun to lose faith in the once infallible Church ever since the Great Schism, when there were two popes, each declaring that the other was the antichrist. Two things in particular can be identified as the final catalyst: a new philosophy and simple disgust. The expanding influence of humanism and the corruption of the Catholic Church