E. R. Braithwaite was a Guyanese-British-American novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat known for his stories about racial discrimination against black people. Some of his most famous works included the 1959 novel To Sir, With Love, which was adapted into a 1967 film, and Honorary White, which documented his experiences as a black man granted "honorary white" status in apartheid South Africa. Braithwaite had an international career working for organizations like the UN and serving as Guyana's ambassador to Venezuela, and he continued writing until his death in the U.S. at age 104 in 2016.
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Este es mi trabajo de inglés de "Across The Universe" de 4ºA ,me costo mucho hacerlo pero con trabajo y esfuerzo salió, lo comparto con vosotros para ver si os puedo salvar a alguno de vosotros como algunos me salvais a mi :).P.D.:Espero que os guste.
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Samples pages of a title that I performed the layout and design on. Published by the University of North Texas Press.
Contact me through my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeparenteau1
Samples pages of a title that I performed the layout and design on. Published by the University of North Texas Press.
Contact me through my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeparenteau1
Samples pages of a title that I performed the layout and design on. Published by the University of North Texas Press.
Contact me through my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeparenteau1
Samples pages of a title that I performed the layout and design on. Published by the University of North Texas Press.
Contact me through my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeparenteau1
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Edwidge Danticat
The History and Story behind the Author of Farming of Bones
Early Life
Mrs. Danticat was born on January 19, 1969 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
When she was only four years old, in 1973, her mother and father moved to the United States and left her and her brother with an aunt and uncle.
Eventually, in 1981, Mrs. Danticat joined her parents but, with only being familiar with the Creole language and the Haitian style of dress and mannerism, she found adapting to life in the United States difficult.
As a way to escape unpleasant situations, she began to write stories.
Meanwhile, in 1970, thousands of Haitians began to flee poverty and repression under the Dictatorship of the Duvalier family.
On April 22, 1971 Jean-Claude Duvalier, became the new Dictator of Haiti after his Father’s, Francois Duvalier, death.
1977, on the 15 of August, U.S. ambassador, William B Jones arrives in Haiti to meets with Jean Claude to discuss civil rights in Haiti
Jean Claude Duvalier
Born on July 3, 1951, Port-au-Prince, Haïti
The only son of François Duvalier, he succeeded his father as president for life in April 22 1971, becoming the youngest named president at 19.
Due to pressure from the USA, Jean began to “moderate” the tyrannical and corrupt rulings that came from his father by easing press censorship and replacing a few of his father’s old cabinet members with a few of his own.
Nevertheless, Haiti continued to be semi-isolationist when dealing with foreign relations and any political opposition was met with death or torture
Due to the increase in Social unrest from the people of Haiti, Jean Claude fled in February 1986 and left the country under military rule until his return in 2011
He died on October 4, 2014 in Port-au-Prince
Rising through Adversity
Although her Parent’s wanted her to become a doctor, Mrs. Danticat graduated from Barnard College in New York City in 1990 with a B.A. in French Literature.
Then in 1993 she received a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Brown University
Her first published work, Breath, Eyes, Memory(1994), was actually her master’s thesis and was a autobiographical account on the relationships between several generations of Haitian women.
Acclaimed Fame
Danticat has received numerous honors, including the Pushcart Short Story Prize and awards from magazines like The Caribbean Writer and Essence.
In 1998, Breath, Eyes, Memory was picked by the famous talk-show host Oprah Winfrey for her book club and granted Danticat even greater success.
She wrote her second novel, the Farming of Bones, in 1998 and explained that the meaning behind the title was a Haitian term for harvesting sugar cane.
The story background was related to the massacre of Haitian emigrants by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1937.
Through her stories, Danticat continues to explore the struggles of power, women, social injustice and fighting poverty
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1. Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, publishing
as E. R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-
American novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat,
best known for his stories of social conditions
and racial discrimination against black people. He
was the author of the 1959 novel To Sir, With Love,
which was made into a 1967 British drama film of
the same title, starring Sidney Poitier and Lulu.
Braithwaite was born in Georgetown, Guyana, on
June 27, 1912. He had a privileged beginning in life;
both of his parents went to Oxford University and he described
growing up with education, achievement, and parental pride
surrounding him. His father was a gold and diamond miner and his
mother was a homemaker. He attended Queen's College, Guyana, a
high school, and then City College of New York (1940). During World
War II, he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot – he would later
describe this experience as one where he had felt no discrimination
based on his skin color or ethnicity. He went on to attend
the University of Cambridge (1949), from which he earned a
bachelor's degree and a doctorate in physics.
After the war, despite his extensive training, Braithwaite could not
find work in his field and, disillusioned, reluctantly took up a job as a
2. schoolteacher in the East End of London. The book To Sir, With
Love (1959) was based on his experiences there. It won an Anisfield-
Wolf Book Award. To Sir with Love was adapted into a film version,
starring Sidney Poitier. Although the film was a box-office success,
critical opinion and Braithwaite himself considered it too sentimental
and he also objected to his mixed-race romance being given lower
prominence.
While writing his book about the school, Braithwaite turned to social
work and it became his job to find foster homes for non-white
children for the London County Council. His experiences resulted
in Paid Servant: a Report about Welfare Work in London published in
the UK in 1962. Braithwaite's numerous writings primarily deal with
the difficulties of being an educated black man, a black social worker,
a black teacher, and simply a human being who find them self in a set
of inhumane circumstances.
In 1973, the South African ban on Braithwaite's books was lifted and
he reluctantly applied to visit the country. He was granted a visa and
the status "honorary white" which gave him significantly more
privileges than the indigenous black population, but less than the
whites. He recorded the experiences and horror he witnessed during
the six weeks he spent in South Africa in his book Honorary
White (London: The Bodley Head, 1975).
Braithwaite continued to write novels and short stories throughout
his long international career as an educational consultant and
lecturer for UNESCO, the first permanent Guyana representative to
the United Nations (1967–69), and later Guyana's ambassador
to Venezuela. He taught English studies at New York University and
in 2002, was a writer-in-residence at Howard University, Washington,
D.C.. He associated himself with Manchester Community College
(Connecticut), during the 2005–06 academic year as a visiting
professor. Therein he slso served as the aforementioned educational
3. institution's commencement speaker for that year and received an
honorary degree.
He turned 100 in 2012 and on a visit to Guyana in his capacity as the
patron of the Inter-Guiana Cultural festival he was conferred on
August 23 that year with a national award, the Cacique Crown of
Honour, by then-President Donald Ramotar. Braithwaite lived
in Washington, D.C..
Brathwaite died at the Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical
Center in Rockville, Maryland, on December 12, 2016, at the age of
104.
Selected bibliographies of E. R. Braithwaite are as follows:
1) To Sir, With Love (1959)
2) Paid Servant (1962)
3) A Kind of Homecoming (1962)
4) Choice of Straws (1965)
5) Reluctant Neighbors (1972)