While attending a racial integration march organized by his father in Washington, Guevara witnessed his father’s assassination; he was only fifteen at the time. After an investigation by the Washington State police, the murderer was found to be a member of on Arian Political group who advocated white supremacy; the murderer served a year in a county jail and was set free. With the death of Guevara’s father the racial integration movement slowly died off. Later in life Guevara attended The New School University in Manhattan New York, there, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Criminal Justice, and Philosophy; afterwards he continued his studies and received his masters in Sociology and African and Latino studies. With his studies completed, Guevara moved to Venezuela and headed the liberation revolution that overthrew all the political governments of Latin America.
In New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, Malcom was the son of James Earl Little, a Baptist preacher who advocated the black nationalists ideals of Marcus Gravey. Threats from the Ku Klux Klan forced the family to move to Lansing, Michigan, where his father continued to preach his controversial sermons despite continuing threats. In 1931, Malcolm's father was brutally murdered by the white supremacist Black Legion, and Michigan authorities refused to prosecute those responsible. In 1937, Malcolm was taken from his family by welfare caseworkers.
Consequently, Brandeis graduated high school at the young age of 14. He first attended college in Kentucky but later transferred to Germany when his father had to relocate. He went on to study at Harvard Law School and graduated in 1875 as valedictorian at the age of 20. Brandeis started practicing law in St. Louis, Missouri and after a short time, he moved back to Boston to start a law firm with former Harvard classmate, Samuel Warren. The firm of “Warren and Brandeis” spent much of their time arguing against monopolies and large corporations and advocating for free speech.
Lee 1 Black Boy, an autobiography of Richard Wright, contains twenty chapters with two parts, was divided by him arriving in Chicago, described his miserable childhood and life in Memphis from chapter 1 to chapter 14, recording his early adulthood in Chicago from chapter 15 to chapter 20. He composed his own life experiences in this book in chronological order, starting the story with the fire he set accidentally when he was merely four then ended with him being a communist writer getting kicked out of the Communist Party though he was not defeated and still remained strong will. The author used many foreshadowing techniques in this novel, and gave the readers further explanations of consequences of his major early life events. An example was his
Novel Title and Author: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Author’s Background: Kurt Vonnegut Jr., born on November 11, 1922, to a German-American family residing in Indianapolis, established himself as an American author best known for Slaughterhouse-Five. At Shortridge High School, Vonnegut served as the columnist, editor, and reporter of the school newspaper. Attending Cornell University (New York), he became the managing editor of the Cornell Sun before dropping out to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1943. During World War II, Vonnegut was captured by Nazis and was held prisoner in Dresden. During an Allie raid destroying Dresden, he survived by “hiding in an underground meat locker labeled ‘slaughterhouse-five’ along with other Allied prisoners of war.” This experience provided the inspiration for his premier novel.
Background Stanley Milgram (1933-1984) was born to Jewish parents who immigrated to New York from Europe. Milgram studied Psychology at Harvard University and in 1961, inspired by the horrors of the Second World War began work looking at the moral question, ‘what makes people do harm to others’? He devised a unique experiment that put volunteers in a moral dilemma (Banyard 2012). Milgram’s Obedience Study: * Procedure: Milgram advertised for male volunteers aged between 20 and 50, to participate in what they believed to be a scientific memory study at Yale University. * Milgram developed a fake ‘shock generator’ consisting of switches starting at 15volts increasing to a maximum of 450volts.
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh Gang leader for a day is the account of the young sociologist who carried out a study of a Chicago based gang that deals in selling and distributing crack. In this book, Sudhir Venkatesh narrates his experiences while collecting qualitative data for his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Chicago in the 90s. His book details the notes of economic transactions of the drug-dealing gang that Venkatesh studied. The data collected was from the high-rise part of the Robert Taylor Homes that is home to ten thousands of poor and unemployed African Americans. The housing projects were later demolished in 2007.
Andy Pearson a Change of Heart Andy Pearson: A Change of Heart Andy Pearson was born in Chicago on June 3rd, 1925. He and his twin brother graduated from the University of Southern California and immediately joined the Navy at the end of World War II. After serving three years in the U.S. Navy, they enrolled in Harvard Business School where they learned critical skills that would be the foundation for their future business endeavors (Zakomurnaya, p.1). Mr. Andy Pearson had a brief stay at Standard brands before he joined the consulting firm of McKinsey & Co. He quickly rose from associate to senior director and was in charge of the firm’s marketing practice.
EXPRESSIONISTIC TECNIQUES IN THE NOVEL Arthur Millerwas born on October 17, 1915, in New York City, the son of Isidore and Augusta Miller. His father lost his wealth during the Great Depression of the 1920s and the family, like many others, suffered economic hardship and could not afford to send him to college. Miller worked for two years in an automobile parts warehouse, earning enough money to attend the University of Michigan in 1934, where he studied history and economics. He graduated in 1938.Arthur MillerBenefitting from the U.S. Government's Federal Theatre Project, began learning about the craft of the theatre, working with such skilled writers and directors as Clifford Odets(Waiting for Lefty) and Elia Kazan (the famous film and theatre director who later produced Miller's best-known work, Death of a Salesman). His first Broadway production, The Man Who Had All the Luck, opened in 1944 and ran for only four performances.
They helped form one of the first Children’s Court in Chicago that same year. After this reform children were no longer automatically tried as adults. Approximately thirty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson tried to slash juvenile crime through education, opportunities at working and training. He said , “Government should not incarcerate juveniles, but do something about conditions that foster crime”. This didn’t work out.