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Who Is Malala Yousafzai?
According to Biography.com, "Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. As a child, she became an advocate for girls' education, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived, and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. In 2014, she was nominated again and won, becoming the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize." Click the button below to navigate to Nobelprize.org and read Malala's full Nobel Peace Prize speech. |
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
"Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among his many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through his activism and inspirational speeches he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. He was assassinated in April 1968, and continues to be remembered as one of the most influential and inspirational African-American leaders in history." -Biography.com
Download Martin Luther King JR's I have a Dream speech by clicking the file link seen above.
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Who Was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
According to Biography.com, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 to April 12, 1945) was the 32nd American president who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, greatly expanding the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. Stricken with polio in 1921, Roosevelt (commonly known as FDR) spent much of his adult life in a wheelchair. A whole generation of Americans grew up knowing no other president, as FDR served an unprecedented four terms in office. Roosevelt’s social programs reinvented the role of government in Americans' lives, while his presidency during World War II established the United States' leadership on the world stage. |
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On March 24th, 2018,
Eleven-year-old Naomi Wadler stunned many with her March for Our Lives speech honouring black girls whose stories don’t make the news, with some calling her their president and “our future”. The fifth grader from Alexandria, Virginia was chosen to speak at the main event in Washington after she organised a walkout at her elementary school to protest gun violence and honour the 17 lives lost during a shooting last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. “I am here to acknowledge and represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper, whose stories don’t lead on the evening news,” Ms Wadler said. “I represent the African-American women who are victims of gun violence, who are simply statistics instead of vibrant, beautiful girls full of potential.” “We also know that we stand in the shadow of the Capitol, and we know that we have seven short years until we too have the right to vote,” Ms Wadler added. The fifth grader has made waves on Twitter. Now This News wrote that “this brilliant 11-year-old girl is doing more to address gun violence and systemic racism than most adults.” (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/march-for-our-lives-speech-protest-gun-controls-black-girls-naomi-wadler-a8272501.html) |
Survival Speech Assignment
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Main Elements of a News Article
There are certain elements that are common to almost all articles that you will read in the newspaper or find on the Internet. The following list explains the five major components, or parts, of a news article. • Headline (Heading) The headline is the title of the news article. The headline should be short, does not include a lot of detail, and should catch the readers’ attentions. It is normally not a complete sentence, and tries to summarize the main idea or subject of the article. It is often printed in larger letters than the rest of the article, and the major words are capitalized. • Byline This line tells who is writing the article. It may also include the address of the author and the publication or news source for which he or she writes. • Location This is usually placed at the beginning of the article in bold print. If the city or location is well-known, the name can be written alone, but if the city is less famous, more information is included. For example, the byline of an article written in Atlanta, Georgia would read ‘Atlanta’ , while an article from Leary, Georgia would have to include the name of the state. • Lead Paragraph(s) The lead paragraph is found at the beginning of the article. The lead briefly answers the questions “who”, “what”, “when”, “why”, “where”, and “how”. The ‘skeleton’ of the story can be found here. • Supporting Paragraph(s) These are the paragraphs which follow the lead. They develop the ideas introduced by the lead, and give more information in the form of explanations, details, or quotes. In many newspapers, these paragraphs are found on subsequent pages. |