Jane Elliott. Eye color idea instead of moccasins for shoes[edit] On the evening of April 4, 1968, Elliott turned on her television and learned of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. She says she vividly remembers a scene in which a white reporter with the microphone pointed it toward a local black leader and asked, "When our leader [John F. Kennedy] was killed several years ago, his widow held us together. Who's going to control your people? " The following day, she had a class discussion about the lesson and racism in general. The first exercise using brown collars[edit] Steven Armstrong was the first child to arrive in Elliott's classroom,[3] asking why "that King" (referring to Martin Luther King Jr.) was murdered. On that first day of the exercise, she designated the blue-eyed children as the superior group.
Fazle Hasan Abed. Early life[edit] Abed was born into the esteemed Hasan family in Baniachong, British India (now Habiganj, Sylhet, Bangladesh).
He passed the matriculation exam from Pabna Zilla School and went on to complete his higher secondary education from Dhaka College. In 1954, he left home at the age of 18 to attend University of Glasgow, where, in an effort to break away from tradition and do something radically different, he studied naval architecture.
He realized there was little work in ship building in East Pakistan and a career in Naval Architecture would make returning home difficult. With that in mind, Abed joined the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in London, completing his professional education in 1962. Abed returned to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to join Shell Oil Company and quickly rose to head its finance division. Soon after, Bangladesh's own struggle for independence from Pakistan began and circumstances forced Abed to leave the country.
Muhammad Yunus. Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladesh social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.
These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. In 2006, Yunus and the Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below". The Norwegian Nobel Committee said that "lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty" and that "across cultures and civilizations, Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development".[1] Yunus has received several other national and international honours.
He received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010.[2] Randy Pausch. Inspirational Speech by Dr Randy Pausch On the Oprah Winfrey Show The Last Lecture Dr Pausch Pa. Hrant Dink: Istanbul march as verdict anger continues. 19 January 2012Last updated at 17:36 Marchers carried placards reading "We are all Hrant, we are all Armenian" At least 20,000 people have marched in Istanbul to mark five years since the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
Some of the demonstrators were driven by anger over verdicts delivered this week in the latest trial of people linked to his killing. Three people were jailed but allegations of official negligence or state collusion were rejected. Dink's actual killer, Ogun Samast, was jailed earlier for 22 years. The journalist, shot dead outside the Istanbul offices of Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, had angered Turkish nationalists by describing the mass killing of Armenians a century ago as genocide.
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Revolutionaries. Dina Al-Sabah. Dina Ali Fahad Al-Salim Al-Sabah (born February 28, 1974) is a professional figure competitor from Kuwait. She stands out from the rest of the Figure competitors for being the only female Arab athlete to achieve pro card status as of 2006; as well as the first female Arab athlete to ever stand on the Olympia stage. Hardbody Exclusive with Dina Al-Sabah - Part One of Three. Rachel Maddow. Rachel Anne Maddow ( Early life and education[edit] A graduate of Castro Valley High School[19] in Castro Valley, California, she attended Stanford University.
While a freshman, she was outed by the college newspaper when an interview with her was published by the student newspaper before she could tell her parents.[20] Maddow earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.[21] At graduation she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.[22] She was also the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. This made her the first openly gay or lesbian American to win an international Rhodes Scholarship.[23] In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in politics at Oxford University.[24] Her thesis is titled HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons and her supervisor was Dr. Lucia Zedner. Radio career[edit] Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962)[6] is an American political satirist, writer, director, television host, actor, media critic, and stand-up comedian.
He is the host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central. Stewart started as a stand-up comedian, but branched into television as host of Short Attention Span Theater for Comedy Central. Heath Ledger.