Nate Perry Perry 1 Dr. Robert Stevenson 1/17/11 AAA 201-02 Melvin Tolson Born in Moberly, Missouri, on February 6, 1898, Melvin Beaunorus Tolson was one of the most important African American educators and modernist poets of the 20th century. Tolson’s prowess as an educator was so great in fact, that it led Langston Hughes to declare him “the most famous Negro Professor in the Southwest.” After beginning his college career at Fisk University, Tolson later transferred and completed his bachelor’s degree at Lincoln University in 1924. Following graduation, Tolson moved to Marshall, Texas where he accepted a position as an English and Speech instructor at Wiley College. Tolson also served as the football coach and play director, but is most noted for his work as the speech and debate coach. He led Wiley’s speech and debate team through a ten year period between 1929 and 1939 in which it never lost a single competition.
He received his Bachelors of Arts from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1888. And in 1891 Du Bois received his master of arts and in 1895 his Doctorate in history from Harvard College. [] [] The rivalry between W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington started early on. Mark Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University talked about this in an article he wrote titled “The Origins of a Bitter Intellectual Battle ”. On July 27, 1894, W.E.B.
In 2011, Cohen received a Prince of Asturias Award for literature. The critic Bruce Eder assessed Cohen's overall career in popular music by asserting that "[he is] one of the most fascinating and enigmatic … singer/songwriters of the late '60s … [and] has retained an audience across four decades of music-making … Second only to Bob Dylan (and perhaps Paul Simon) [in terms of influence], he commands the attention of critics and younger musicians more firmly than any other musical figure from the 1960s who is still working at the outset of the 21st century. "[2]
March 2, 1981 is declared Dr. Seuss Day in honor to Theodor Geisel and all his published works. Dr. Seuss wrote forty-seven books and all sold more than 200 million copies altogether. (Ford p. 98). Dedicated to him, were many museum exhibits, art shows, amusement park rides, movies, and television shows (Timeline). Geisel was, and still is, remembered for his books about fairness, discrimination, peace, the environment, consumerism, and humanity (Schulman p.7).
Wouldn’t he teach others about what he had accomplished? I believe that he would, and I believe that he has. There are a lot of historians that have come and gone through out our written history. The Indiana Jones ‘character’ that I am writing about is one of those special historians that stands out. These stand out characteristics include: over 50 published books, winning the Pulitzer Prize by the age of 41, donating over
He has given some of the greatest speeches, like “I Have a Dream” and many more. King use Thoreau and his ideas as an example to explain his acts and its importance for civil right movement, in his letter from Birmingham Jail. Even though King and Thoreau are from different time, they share the same thought about civil right and civil disobedience. Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther king Jr. both illustrate that civil disobedience is necessity if there is social injustice present in a society. Thoreau had idealistic thought about government system.
Ohanian 1 Christopher Ohanian Mrs. Stephens English 11B 24 March 2013 Langston Hughes In the 1920s American Culture changed from whites only authors to include African Americans of the Harlem Renaissance. One of these was Langston Hughes who wrote to rate about the African American experience in American short and long stories. Langston Hughes was born in February 1st, 1902 and died in New York, May 22nd, 1967. He introduced himself to become a American writer and poet. By time he graduated from High school, he attended to the Columbia University and Lincoln University where he got his bachelors degree in 1929.
Thanks to the liberal policy of University president Robert Hutchins, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a tuition scholarship, at the age of 15. In 1947 Watson left the University of Chicago to become a graduate student at Indiana University, attracted by the presence at Bloomington of the 1946 Nobel Prize winner Hermann Joseph Muller, who in crucial papers published in 1922, 1929, and in the 1930s had laid out all the basic properties of the heredity molecule that presented in his 1944 book. He received his PhD degree from Indiana University in 1950. Watson married Elizabeth Lewis in 1968. They have two sons, Rufus Robert Watson and Duncan James Watson.
He was a prolific writer, with 40 books to his credit, as well as a number of hymns. One of his greatest works for the Social Gospel movement
Everything in the world has a Personal Legend, and by reaching one's Personal Legend, they add to the Soul of the World. Paulo Coelho essentially created all these ideas. Paulo was born in Rio de Janiero in 1947 and has a career as a best-selling author, theatre director, hippie, and songwriter for some of Brazil's best top pop artists. One of his books “The Alchemist” was one of the top ten international best sellers. Paulo’s work has been published in more than 100 countries and is translated into 42 different languages.