The Great Debaters: Melvin Tolson, James Farmer R.

First: His willingness to negotiate with terrorist in seeking the release of American hostages. He felt that it was his duty to achieve this goal and it seemed he was willing to cross the line to accomplish their release. Under his administration weapons were sold to Iran or what is known as the Iran- Contra Affair. Although he was considered a great communicator he could not get the hostages released without violating his own policy of not cooperating with terrorist. Even though the president denied any knowledge of the transactions of selling weapons to Iran, his trust with the public was tarnished. In spite of whether he truly knew of the weapons

In 1948 he got married with a woman named Helen Fabela. In their time together they had eight kids in the city of San Jose. In the time around 1950 they traveled together all around the country teaching migrant workers to read and to also write, so they could officially become U.S.

a laid back manner which many people seemed to like. He was well respected in his village, but

Joseph McCarthy was born November 14, 1908 in Grand Chute, Wisconsin to dairy farmers, lived an average life until the age of sixteen. At this point in time, McCarthy dropped out of school until 1929, when he decided to go back and finish high school. After completing the general education requirements, McCarthy applied to practice law at Marquette University. After receiving a law degree, he practiced law in the Wisconsin area

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911 to Nelle Wilson and John Edward Reagan. His father, also known as Jack Reagan, came from an Irish background, while his mother was a Scottish and English mix. Reagan had only one sibling, his brother, Neil Reagan. He attended a high school nearby what he considers his hometown, Dixon. At Dixon high school, he served as student body president and participated in football,basketball, track, and school plays. After graduating from Dixon High, he proceeded to attend Eureka College, a small liberal arts institution and majored in economics and sociology. While he attended college, he eventually became interested in drama. He attended a screen test in 1937, this won him a contract in Hollywood. In the next two decades, he had appeared in 50 films. Reagan was married twice, first to Jane Wyman, and second to Nancy Davis. Reagan had two children with each of his wives.

Jackson was born on 1938, in Dallas, Texas. His family valued education and politics. His mother Irene graduated from Spelman College, she was a Professor of French. His father Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Sr. was a civil rights leader. He was a founder of Democratic Progressive Voter’s League in 1936. When Jackson was seven his family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where his father became a pastor of the Friendship Baptist

In school, they made it seem like coming to The New World and taking over multiple different independent nations was something that should be easy and was decided over dinner. At home, my great grandmother would tell me “Christopher Columbus and his Pilgrims were no friends to us. They killed, raped and pillaged our people.”. Of course, being a young child and hearing

The two speeches that were discussed in Germany about the berlin wall are similar but also different from each other. John f. Kennedy’s speech focuses on how he has never heard of a wall being put up to keep the people of Germany a divided continent. He also states that his people in his country take pride in being able to meet the people of West Berlin. To add on he also says “I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the city of West Berlin”. With that statement it lets people know that berlin is a strong and determined country. John demands freedom and in one of the lines from his speech he says “Freedom is indivisible, and

The movie The Great Debaters has many aspects to it that presents a biased point of view and reality. This movie helps show how determined African Americans are and that they are just like everyone else trying to play their part in this world. They have to work even harder for their chance in life than the average white man. There are multiple characteristics to this movie that you have to keep watching to see all the things they incorporate to keep the audience interested. This movie shows many literary elements and different types of biases opinions along with overcoming the typical biased thoughts in the films we watch.

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico Illinois on February 6, 1911 to John "Jack" and Nellie Wilson Reagan. During Reagan 's early childhood his family lived in a series of towns and finally settled in Dixon, Illinois in 1920 where his father opened a shoe store. Reagan went to Dixon High school and graduated in 1928. He was an athlete, student body president, and performed in many school plays. During summer vacation he worked as a lifeguard. After high school, Reagan enrolled at Eureka College in Illinois on an athletic scholarship. At Eureka he majored in economics and sociology. Outside the classroom Reagan ran track, played football, and was captain of his swim team. He was elected as student council president and acted in school productions. He graduated in 1932 and then worked as a sports announcer for a radio station in Illinois.

Jimmie Cates is a forty-four-year-old first felony offender who is requesting a pardon with restoration of firearms for his conviction of Simple Burglary. He was sentenced to serve two years hard labor in the Louisiana Department of Corrections. Mr. Cates has one arrest for the instant offense and was placed on supervised probation. He completed his term of probation successfully and has no probation or parole revocations.

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 to Jack and Nelle Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. The Reagan family moved to Dixon in 1920, where Ronald excelled in high school, earning an athletic scholarship to Eureka College. Ronald majored in economics and sociology without knowing how useful this decision would be in 1981. After graduating from Eureka in 1932 he got

To fight the school on this issue, Bill Foster could argue that his actions were covered by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The first amendment states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Richard Burrs background, Richard Burr was born on November 30th 1955 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He's the son of Rev. David Horace White Burr & Martha an elementary school teacher. Richard attended public schools in Winston-Salem & also began his pursuit of a football career there. He moved on to play at Wake Forest University while also earning a degree in communications. After getting his degree Richard met his wife Brooke and eventually they had 2 kids together and currently have a grandson.

Tolson looks to get his debaters to comprehend that they are not going up against anyone, but to simply understand that they are going up against a more elevated amount of argumentation that rises above their adversary. While doing this, Tolson is also attempting to get his debaters to comprehend that they should be arguing on an a much higher level, one that allures the inherent natures of rhetoricians, argumentation, and investigation. Tolson tries to grant to his understudies/rhetoricians that their opponent is not as important as the larger scale of debate, and, maybe, not even as important as each other. This mindset enables them to not be overpowered by debating at Harvard and confronting the individuals from that debate