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    Dorothy Dandridge

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    Abstract This paper reflects Dorothy Dandridge the first African American actress to achieve a leading-role status. Mrs. Dandridge also had a deeply troubled life, marked by the scars of a miserable childhood, a string of failed personal relationships, numerous career setbacks, and ongoing struggles with drug and alcohol abuse. Racism was also one of the demons with which she had to deal with. The terms race, ethnicity and culture have no generally agreed upon definitions. There’s a growing

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    Scarecrow before meeting and after meeting Dorothy is quite large. Upon meeting Dorothy, the Scarecrow agrees to continue with Dorothy to Emerald City where he hopes the wizard would grant him a brain. The impact Dorothy has on the Scarecrow instantly is enough to motivate him to step outside his comfort zone and seek a new future. Notwithstanding, Dorothy also is able to influence the Tin Man she meets along the way to seek a new commodity. When Dorothy and the Scarecrow stumble upon the rusted Tin

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    I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.' *** Dorothy Parker became popular shortly after the first world war with her light verse and short stories. Although her works may not seem harsh and unwomanly today, they were labeled in this manner at the height of her popularity. Her cynical verses developed

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    Dorothy Parker An Inspiration Dorothy Parker was a famous poet who lived from August twenty-second, 1893 to June first, 1967. From the feminist movement in 1848, to the modernist movement and the jazz age in the twentieth century, Dorothy Parker made a long lasting impact, and was also an inspiration to both movements. Dorothy parker’s common themes were anxiety and female passivity which shined through many of her poems. Dorothy Parker was born two months premature to Jacob Henry and Eliza Annie

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    determination, courage, dedication?To all, Dorothy Day is the greater part of the above. To many she is a holy person. A lady of genuine magnanimity, who sympathetically put the lives of the broken before her own. She is the symbol of the sort of person that everyone can be, not by changing other individuals but rather by evolving themselves. For the duration of her life, Dorothy Day was a pioneer to the state, and a promoter for poor people. Dorothy Day was born on November 8, 1897, in New York

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    Dorothy Day is one of the most significant activists of Catholic teaching known in American history. It is important to recognize why people congregated to the Catholic religion during the depression in America. Also, how Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin’s The Catholic Worker, promoted peace among the religions and people of America. American Catholics in the 19th century were looking to get along with other Americans and affirm their “Americanness.” Immigrants arriving in America wanted to show that

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    gone at war Penelope shows her faithful and loyalness by doing tasks like weaving during the day a shurod and as soon as night comes she unweaves it just so the suitors will keep waiting for her affection. Painter John Williams Waterhouse and poet Dorothy Parker portray to different sides of Penelope. While Waterhouse uses the myth of Penelope to show that people might try to pressure others into making bad decisions but we must stay patient and determined for the good that is ahead, where as in the

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    Dorothy Dandridge may seem to be like a beautiful and strong African American woman on the outside, but on the inside she held in a lot of pain. Dorothy Dandridge is an actress, singer, and entertainer, who no longer walk this green Earth, but when she did, she made history. Dorothy was the first African American actress to achieve a leading-role status. Dorothy also had a deeply troubled life and racism didn’t make her life any easier especially when it came to achieving her dreams, but she got

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    gale can be defined as a strong wind, possibly blowing a vessel or person off course. In the “Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy Gale is the main character, the protagonist. Throughout the moving picture, Dorothy is repeatedly distracted during her quest, trailing off of the yellow brick road. Dorothy Gale inevitably blows off course, distracted by wants, friends, and misdemeanor. Soon after Dorothy meets The Scarecrow, she spots apples off to the side of the yellow brick road. Without a second thought, she

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    1. For my biography, I choose Dorothy Day, who was a journalist and social activist born on November 8, 1897, in Brooklyn, NY. Dorothy Day was known for being a significant figure for her revolutionary vision and her passion for doing work for poor people and representing what she believes a Catholic worker should do as Catholic. 2. My reason for picking Dorothy Day is mainly because I loved the passion she had for wanting to help poor people and how much she wanted Catholic people to get out and

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