During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality in America than the previous 350 years had produced. Dr. King is widely regarded as America’s pre-eminent advocate of nonviolence and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in world history. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mate
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s less than thirteen years of nonviolent leadership ended abruptly and tragically on April 4th, 1968, when he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King’s body was returned to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, where his funeral ceremony was attended by high-level leaders of all races and political stripes.
- Later in 1968, Dr. King’s wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, officially founded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, which she dedicated to being a “living memorial” aimed at continuing Dr. King’s work on important social ills around the world
cancer sticks
the issue that inspired the picture is the name cancer sticks ,the names saying that smoking is bad for you so dont do it . In this picture its show a skeleton camel, the skeleton camel is telling you dont smoke, or this will happend to you. the three thing that infer from the picture is that you can get cancer ,cancer is a bad thing you can die from it ,when you smoke you can have black lungs,loss of teeth,yellow nails and teeth,and many more. at th top of the picture that have a little message ,the message say ashes to ashes , tink about that. the people make the cigarettes and smoke the cigarettes ,will disagree because the people that smoke th cigarettes is addictive to them , and people that make the cigarettes will losse there bussiness.
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
Chimamanda Adichie delivered this speech in 2009 to a crowd at the Ted Global 200- Conference in Oxford, the quote that i pick is "All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, to me it really funny,but crazy because it just don't make any since to me." this is just not a white world, like white people is not special because of us black people ,really didn't make money back in the day.
"When we reject a single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.""Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."
"When we reject a single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.""Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."