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“This is a story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free… The other will spend every day until his death behind bars...” (Moore, XI) In The Other Wes Moore, the author, Wes Moore, and the other Wes Moore both grew up in similar, yet different, circumstances and had completely different outcomes. This captivating narrative demonstrates how the choices you make, make you. In the introduction, the author Wes Moore validates this statement

John Hope Franklin born on January 02, 1915 and died March 25, 2009. He was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947. The world has been characterized with inferiority and superiority complexes with ever individual seeking to be superior over the other.

Fisk University is a privately historical black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee. The 47- acres campus street from 17th Avenue North to DB Todd Blvd encompassing Jefferson street. Just six months after the end of the Civil War and two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, John Ogden, Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath and Reverend Edward P Smith established the Fisk Free Colored School in Nashville, named in honor of General Clinton B Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmen’s Bureau. In

most popular (Encarta). The first social sorority started in 1851 by women at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The women founded the Adelphean Society, which later became a Greek-letter sorority, Alpha Delta Pi. Other early Greek-letter sororities for women included Pi Beta Phi, established in 1867 at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois, and Kappa Alpha Theta, established in 1870 at DePauw University (formally Indiana Asbury College) in Greencastle, Indiana (Encarta).      Social

Effort, and Intelligence Among every modern and historical society, there will always stand a division among the people, whether it be for social, political, or economic reasons. The author of “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” Mike Rose, is a professor of education and information studies at the University of California Los Angeles. In addition, this article was published in 2009 in the American Scholar, a magazine sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. While Rose revolves the story of his article around the

“To him who in the love of nature holds / communication with her visible forms….” (Bryant 1-2). Nature was thought to be the most beautiful thing in the world in the Romanticism Era. William Cullen Bryant wrote many short stories, books and poems. He wrote some in his early childhood and some in his later ages. His most famous poem, “Thanatopsis”, was written when he was only seventeen years old. Because he was so young when he initially composed the work, it had to be edited many times throughout

name Countee Porter then Countee P. Cullen and eventually stayed at Countee Cullen. Cullen began writing poetry while he attended DeWitt Clinton High School. Cullen’s poem “I have a Rendezvous with Life” won him his first contest. Cullen attended Phi Beta Kappa from New York University, then earned a master’s degree in English and French from Harvard. Cullen died on January 9, 1946 from high blood pressure and uremic

Paul Robeson was a famous African American athlete, singer, actor and advocate for the civil rights of people around the world.  He rose to prominence in a time when segregation was legal in America and black people were being lynched by white mobs, especially in the South. Born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, Paul Robeson was the youngest of five children.  His father was a runaway slave who went on to graduate from Lincoln University, and his mother came from a family of Quakers

Paul Robeson was a famous African American athlete, singer, actor and advocate for the civil rights of people around the world.  He rose to prominence in a time when segregation was legal in America and black people were being lynched by white mobs, especially in the South. Born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, Paul Robeson was the youngest of five children.  His father was a runaway slave who went on to graduate from Lincoln University, and his mother came from a family of Quakers

view. When he writes of the man he killed, he wants the reader to imagine themselves in his shoes, as he imagined himself in the enemies’. As he carefully studies the dead man, he imagines how the boy found himself in the war. By relating American society to the boy’s village of My Khe, he bridges similarities connecting the two by a culture that promotes defending one’s land and ways of life. By saying, “he would have been taught that to defend the land was a man’s highest duty and highest privilege