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Friday, March 26, 2010

Weeknd Post- Mythology and legends

A myth is a traditional story serving to explain some phenomenon , custom , ect. A legend is a different story. It is a story or body of stories handed down for generations and popularity believed to have a historical basis. From what we know the both of these are simular because they are stories that explain something. One famous type of myth and legends are greek. According to About.com , a greek myth and legend are stories about Greek gods and godesses. Also , it is about the wonderful adventures of heroes in Greek mythology. The greek gods and goddeses are Aphrodite , Apollo , Ares , Artemis , Athena , Dementer , Dionysus , Hades , Haphaestus , Hera , Hermes , Hestia , Poseidon , and Zeus. There are 14 of these gods and they all live on mount olympus. Lets focus on one. Zeus is the king of all 14 gods. He is also the god of the sky , weather , thunder , order , law , and fate. He is the ruler of Mount Olympus. Zeus is married to his sister Hera after he over threw their parents by the names of Kronos and Rhea. No one knows how he really looked but , in art he has a beard and very mature. The thunderbolt and eagle means Zeus.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Weeknd Post-Storytelling and Poetry

Storytelling and poetry are quiet the same except for a story is a story and a poem is a poem. A poem is an arrangement of words , a rhythmical composition , sometimes rhymed in a style more imaginative than ordinary speach or prose. A poem tells a story or explians something. A story is the telling of an event or events. Everyone reads poetry and stories. One example of a book with stories and poems is Chicken Soup for the teenage soul 3. These are a collection of more stories of life , love , and learning. It is the #1 New York Times Bestseller. There are different topics for these stories and poems. Lets go back a few centuries ...... William Skakesphere was a very famous writer and he wrote stories such as Romeo and Juliet. A beautiful childrens book called Anansi the spider was passed on from time to time. It is an african story about a spider to the Ashanti people. It is by Gerald McDermott. Even "A Raisin in the Sun" with the poem dedicated to Langston Hughes was so famous and honored.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career.^[2] He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.

In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the Vietnam War, both from a religious perspective. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986.

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Evelyn Boyd Granville

Evelyn Boyd Granville was born on May 1,1924, in Washington D.C.She attended a segregated school, Dunbar High. She graduated as valedictorian and maintained high academic standards. With the help of a Smith College fellowship, Evelyn began graduate studies at Yale University, for which she recieved financial asistance. She earned an M.A. in mathematics and physics in one year, and began working toward a doctorate. Evelyn Boyd Granville was one of the first Afican American women to recieve her PH.D in mathematics. In 1950,she was offered the position of associate professor of mathematics at Fisk University. Evelyn happily accepted, and noted black college in Nashville, Tennessee. At Fisk,she taught two students, Vivienne Malone Mayes and Etta Zuber Falconer, who would be, respectively, the seventh and eleventh, African American women to receive Ph.D.'s in Mathematics.

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