- Sep 2024
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moodle.lynchburg.edu moodle.lynchburg.edu
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ascendancy
dk: occupation of a position of dominant power or influence.
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insurrection
DK: a violent uprising against government or authority
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ardor
DK: aka enthusiasm or passion
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kindlier relationsbetween black and white
W: How were the relations between black and white people kinder than other things going on in the world?
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When sticks andstones and beasts form the sole environment of a people, their attitude islargely one of determined opposition to and conquest of natural forces
KP: When people are raised in a violent environment, they are more likely to show resentment and use violence against those who treated them badly.
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what can be more instructive thanthe leadership of a group within a group?
ML: That is why sports teams have certain captains within certain positions on a field
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palpable
DK: so intense as to seem almost tangible
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But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerousthing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence andparalysis of effort, and others toburst into speech so passionatelyand intemperately as to lose listeners.
ML: just like in life today, some people are willing to speak out for what they believe in even if that means losing support from others, and others choose to remain silent in times like that
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are willing to forgive much to honest endeavor which is doingsomething worth the doing
W: This sentence doesn't really make sense to me...are they saying people are willing to give a lot for the cause?
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d even today continuing strong and insistent even thoughlargely silenced in outward expression by the public opinion of thenation.
KP: The civil rights movement was persistent even though people were constantly trying to silence them
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yet the prevailing public opinion of the land has been buttoo willing to deliver the solution of a wearisome problem into his hands,
I: People were trying to give him the solutions to problems -- maybe not necessarily the answers he was looking for, but I'm not entirely sure
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In the South especially has he had to walkwarily to avoid the harshest judgments,
I: It was probably dangerous for him to talk about his ideas so publicly since so many were probably against him and what he stood for
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t is easier to do ill than well in the world
F: I one hundred percent agree, if it were easy to do good things all of the time there would be no bad people.
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Mr. Washington’s cult
W: Why is the author referring to those who believe in his as his cult?
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It is as though Nature must needsmake men narrow in order to give them force
I: I think this is saying that giving men a challenge gives them a driving force to overcome challenge
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And so thoroughly didhe learn the speech and thought of triumphant commercialism, andthe ideals of material prosperity, that the picture of a lone black boyporing over a French grammar amid the weeds and dirt of a neglectedhome soon seemed to him the acme of absurdities
I: Washington was possibly trying to learn like a "man of the North" because they were well educated and well respected
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In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fin-gers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
KP: an individual is just one finger, society working together is like a whole hand. Life would be a whole lot harder with just one hand
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seemed, for a black man, well-nighimpossible
F: It's crazy how little people thought of black people
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t startled the nation to hear a Negro advocating such a programmeafter many decades of bitter complaint
KP: many expected very little of African-Americans, even believed that they were dumber than your average white male
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the nation was a little ashamed of havingbestowed so much sentiment on Negroes, and was concentrating its en-ergies on Dollars
I: The nation focused less on human rights and more on making themselves powerful and rich
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