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Angela Perez Baraquio Grey (born June 1, 1976), [2] known professionally by her birth name of Angela Perez Baraquio, [3] is an American educator. She was crowned Miss America 2001 on October 14, 2000, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, becoming the first Asian American, first Filipino American, and first teacher ever to win the pageant.
The talented tenth is a term that designated a leadership class of African Americans in the early 20th century. Although the term was created by white Northern philanthropists, it is primarily associated with W. E. B. Du Bois, who used it as the title of an influential essay, published in 1903.
As the book's primary incidents begin, the family has "two children and about five thousand books" when they are abruptly given notice to vacate their city apartment. After a frantic last-minute search, they come upon the perfect home in the country and prepare to adjust to their new quiet but quirky life as newcomers to a small, insular New ...
William Saroyan [2] (/ s ə ˈ r ɔɪ ə n /; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy.
Norwegian local history books have usually been published under the auspices of or in collaboration with the municipality. [5] Such local history books began being published in Norway around 1910 starting with the work of Lorens Berg, [9] [10] but one can trace the roots of the phenomenon back to the topographic literature of the Enlightenment.
A local community has been defined as a group of interacting people living in a common location. The word is often used to refer to a group that is organized around common values and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household.
The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society is a 1997 study of the sense of place, by American author and 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship winner Lucy Lippard. The phrase, coined by Lippard, in this study refers to a sense of place that an individual can have about where she lives, or where he lived in his childhood.
As of 1995, The Year of Living Dangerously was considered Koch's finest work. [8] The novel was not widely reviewed in the U.S. at the time of its publication. In one of the few reviews, Kirkus Reviews was less than laudatory, concluding that the political story required too much historical knowledge on the reader's part and dominated the story ...