Day: June 22, 2008
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The Great Dream of a Great Person
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his infamous “I Have a Dream” speech that forever changed America’s perception of the black people. Up until then, the blacks were segregated in almost every aspect of life and had very few rights. It can be said today, some 35 years after his death that…
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Comparing Hemingway’s War Poems
In Ernest Hemingway’s, “A Soldier’s Home”, it tells the story of a soldier that comes home from war and finds that no one believes true war stories that the only ones that people would believe were the ones that you lied about, the ones that have yet to be told. In Tim O’Brien’s, “How to…