How does a person become a leader?
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Title
Dr. Bethune’s Last Will & Testament
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Reading
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Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, was born on a South Carolina farm in 1875. The child of former slaves, she went on to become…
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The Odyssey, Book X
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Reading
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Originally recited by the bard Homer in towns and villages all over Greece, The Odyssey was finally written down in the 8th century BCE. Ulysses, or Odysseus', adventures on the…
Title
Islands of Decency
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Reading
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Tennessee-native Myles Horton was a social activist who co-founded the Highlander Research and Education Center whose faculty and student community included Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and…
Title
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
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Reading
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Patrick Kavanagh was born and buried in Inniskeen, Ireland, where he had planned to become a farmer until one of his early poems was published in The Irish Weekly Independent.…
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Reflections on Gandhi
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Reading
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British author George Orwell was born in India in 1903 and wrote many essays and stories about that country. He is best known now for his two novels of political…