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of their writings on their cultural heritage. Their stories are different because Walker’s characters struggle due to their heritage while Tan’scharacter benefits from it. Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, GA. The youngest of eight children,…

Berger makes a bold statement in saying “ No other relic or text from the past can offer such a direct testimony about the world which surrounded other people at other times. In this respect images are more precise and richer than literature,” (Ways…

1835. His father, Will, was a weaver and a follower of Chartism, a popular movement of the British working class that called for the masses to vote and to run for Parliament in order to help improve conditions for workers. The exposure to such political…

Carnegie: villain or hero? In order to aptly answer that question one must first clarify what definition of “hero” and “villain” are to be used. Webster defines hero as: “and person, especially a man admired for courage, nobility, or exploits,…

His father, William Carnegie was a master handloom weaver like his father and grandfather before him. He was a weaver who made fine damask linen with elaborate designs. {Aside – damask linen means a linen fabric with a woven design. Linen thread…

radically changed democracy in U.S. to what it is today. Although he was the first president to active role in the government doesn’t mean he was an effective president. His actions and policies may have been successful short term, but his actions…

on January 21, 1824 at Clarksburg, Virginia(which is now West Virginia). His father, Jonathan Jackson was an attorney(1790-1826). His mother was Julia Beckwith Neale(1790-1831). He had an older brother, Warren Jackson(1821-1841), an older sister…

He was in fact a combination of the two. Because he came into popularity on the frontier and was not of aristocratic decent he is often considered to be a common man. However, many facts about his life do not coincide with this stereotype.…

1808. He was the 17th president of the United States. Johnson had been born into extreme poverty and had no formal education. Yet with determination and hard work, he had risen rapidly through politics, to state government and on to national office.…

60's. Dubbed, the founding father of the movement, Andy Warhol brought forward society's obsession with mass culture and allowed it to become the subject of art itself. Using many techniques such as isolation, repetition and colour placement,…