............................................. 254 5 H. G . Wells AN ENGLISH- MAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contempo... ...ses of the gen- try, was going meticulously at four miles an hour behind a man with a red flag. Over there, where the prosperous classes have some reg... ...terprise come—or, in our own case, do not come. He makes a better class of man than we do. His science is better than ours. His training is better tha... ...or war, as she is at present, and hold her and own her and defend her as a prize, or we may arm her and assist her development into a group of quasi-i... ... who makes public speeches about education and reading, and who gives away prizes and opens educational institutions, there seems to be little else bu... ...the ten million of coloured people come just two or three platform voices, Booker Washington, Dubois, Mrs. Church Terrell, mere protests at specific w...

...33 Sweeney calmly reported on her line that the plane had been hijacked; a man in first class had his throat slashed; two flight attendants had been s... ...successfully try- ing to contact it. 44 At 8:52, in Easton, Connecticut, a man named Lee Hanson received a phone call from his son Peter, a passenger ... ...sts who hijacked three other commercial flights on 9/11 oper- ated in five-man teams.They initiated their cockpit takeover within 30 min- utes of take... ... Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and t... ...pe, the Pacific, the Center, and the South. Posts in these commands became prized assignments for ambitious officers, and the voices of their five com... ... see Education Channel videotape,“Raw Footage of President Bush at Emma E. Booker Elementary School,” Sept. 11, 2001 (remaining in classroom); Deborah... ...but also more sensitive social indicators recently identified by the Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen. It says little, however, about the pol...

...UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication U... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Universit... ...lectronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Class... ...ashington him- self, perhaps, does not as clearly understand it as another man might. The truth is he had a training during the most impressionable pe... ...nt. Every student does not profit by a great teacher; but perhaps no young man ever came under the influence of Dr. Hopkins, whose whole nature was so... ...ead of an important coloured school who was not a preacher. “A new kind of man in the coloured world,” I said to myself—”a new kind of man surely if h... ...ng in various parts of the state. Charleston was successful in winning the prize, and is now the permanent seat of government. The reputation that I m... ...te, and is in good and regular standing.” 70 UP FROM SLAVERY The students prized these certificates highly, and they added greatly to the popularity ...

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