"Without struggle, there is no progress". ... Chesnutt was the first African American invited to write for this series and Frederick Douglass was the first African American biography included. ... These works were Followed by the novels: One House Behind The Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, and The Colonel's Dream. ... He met William Lloyd Garrison, was hired by the Massachusetts Abolitionist Society and became one of their stair chest representative. ... Nevertheless, Douglass went on to become a required statesmen holding positions (that were presidential appointments) such...

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However, some critics found Sense and Sensibility to be one of her least successful novels. ... She tells no one of her feelings. ... Marriage is one the larger themes that Austen displays. ... One belongs to Marianne and the other to Elinor. ... Her heart sank when no sign of Willoughby was seen and no voice of his was heard, yet Marianne continued to write him letters. ...

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He received a fellowship for fiction from the New York Foundation for the arts, and has had much of his work published in a diverse range of publications such as Harper's Magazine, Columbia, Manoa, International Quarterly, as well as several anthologies, such as In My Life: encounters with the Beatles, Returning to a Borrowed Tongue, Brown River, White Ocean, and Flippin": Filipinos on America, which he co-edited. ... Instead, Aquino was one of the first to be jailed when martial law was imposed. ... Such a tumultuous turn of events, one moment they are hailed and then the next moment h...

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