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The Development of 1930s Cars - 0 views

  • At the beginning of the Thirties the American 1930s cars had also foot boards, sunshades on the windscreen of the car, separate drum formed headlights and also rear lights attached to the car by connecting rods. American cars appeared with rounded edges, headlights build within the chassis of the car, but also the driving comfort improved. The radiator grille and shell were titled back slightly, which made the 1930s automobiles looking like more speedier. Affordable security glass was used as windscreens. Low pressure inner tube tires and also windscreen wipers appeared on the American cars during the Thirties mostly as safety measures.
  • All through the 1930s, GM engineers and designers made continual improvements in 1930's cars' frames, bodies, engines, and transmissions. In 1933, GM added no-draft ventilation to all its cars and developed independent front-wheel suspension. In 1936, Knee-Action suspension made Chevrolets an even smoother ride. All 1937 GM automobiles of the 1930s makes featured an all-steel body and optional windshield defrosters. In 1938, a car radio was introduced as an option on Buicks, and GM’s Harley Earl designed a historic one-off: the Buick Y-Job.
  • he greatest impact of the streamlined designs was in fact that the 1930's cars became eye catchers. Automobiles of the 1930s became to look like art. Most cars were build on a simple, high, carriage-like chassis rolling on wood-spoke wheels and solid tires. From 1932 on, American cars changed.
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  • nother interesting invention 1930s cars was made by GM . GM introduced the re-styling or face-lift of automobiles. Other automobile producers followed GM with the face-lift strategy. Before this face-lift operation by GM, you already could build your own car together by your own taste and view. But the change in philosophy of car producing throughout the 1930s was in fact that a car should be designed as a whole rather than as a bunch of collected parts. During the 1930s the radiator jacket became more the face of the 1930s cars. Most of the radiator jackets became chromed. Such a chromed radiator jacket looked more attractive and made the car more gloomier. But also other parts of the car, like parts of the wheel protection boards became chromed and also other ornamental strips. The car became to look more and more gloomier throughout the Thirties. The car became a symbol of new prosperity hopes during the depression of the 1930s. The aerodynamic vision also became an important part in designing 1930s cars throughout the Thirties. Aerodynamics and the streamlined design increased as well the volume of the automobiles engine. Streamlining a car also meant that more fuel, which already was cheap in the US, could be saved because of this streamlining.
  • istorically speaking, 1930 was not a very exciting year for Plymouth - or for anyone else in the automobile industry for that matter. 1929 had been a banner year, the best year ever in the industry's history to be exact, despite the fact that the stock market had crashed in October, plunging the world into the worst depression ever known by man. But the real effects of the Depression were just really starting to be felt. Plymouth entered the market with a car that can best be described as "confusing" - it was almost a totally new car, yet it was very much the same old car it had been in years past - Model 30U. It sat on a new frame, it had a completely revised engine, a new wide band radiator and most importantly, an all steel body; yet with the exception of the new radiator shell, it looked almost identical to the cars it was to replace. And as the model year continued, the car changed ever so slightly, in some cases incorporating items that were being developed for the totally new car that was to replace it, the Model PA. Production of the Model 30U enjoyed a 14 month production run, one of the longest in Plymouth's history. But its 1930s cars gave the company some staying power.
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Harper Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Despite being Lee's only published book, it led to Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007.[1] Lee has also been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, but has always declined to make a speech.
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      Can't believe she's still alive.....and she actually got introduced to the president.
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      Harper Lee's birthday and info
  • After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching what they thought would be an article on a small town's response to the murder of a farmer and his family. Capote expanded the material into his best-selling book, In Cold Blood (1966).
  • Lee showed her feistiness in her 1966 letter to the editor in response to the attempts of a Richmond, Virginia area school board to ban To Kill a Mockingbird as "immoral literature": “ Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board's activities, and what I've heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read. Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that “To Kill a Mockingbird” spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is "immoral" has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink. I feel, however, that the problem is one of illiteracy, not Marxism. Therefore I enclose a small contribution to the Beadle Bumble Fund that I hope will be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice.[7]
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  • Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama
  • On November 5, 2007, Lee was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush at a White House Ceremony. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States and recognizes individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."[15][16]
  • After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching what they thought would be an article on a small town's response to the murder of a farmer and his family. Capote expanded the material into his best-selling book, In Cold Blood (1966).
  • Lee, Harper (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: J. B. Lippincott.
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      Her real name is Nelle... lol
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      Umm... How is everyones day going? (:
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  • Having written several long stories, Harper Lee located an agent in November 1956. The following month at the East 50th townhouse of her friends Michael Brown and Joy Williams Brown, she received a gift of a year's wages with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.
  • Transferring to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Lee was known for being a loner and an individualist. She did make a greater attempt at a social life there, joining a sorority for a while.
  • Many details of To Kill a Mockingbird are apparently autobiographical. Like Lee, the tomboy (Scout) is the daughter of a respected small-town Alabama attorney. The plot involves a legal case, the workings of which would have been familiar to Lee, who studied law. Scout's friend Dill was inspired by Lee's childhood friend and neighbor, Truman Capote,[7] while Lee is the model for a character in Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.
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  • When Lee attended the 1983 Alabama History and Heritage Festival in Eufaula, Alabama, she presented the essay "Romance and High Adventure."
  • In 1944, Lee graduated from Monroe County High School in Monroeville,[2] and enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for one year, and pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, pledging the Chi Omega sorority.
  • In 1949, a 23-year-old Lee arrived in New York City. She struggled for several years, working as a ticket agent for Eastern Airlines and for the British Overseas Air Corp (BOAC). While in the city, Lee was reunited with old friend Truman Capote, one of the literary rising stars of the time. She also befriended Broadway composer and lyricist Michael Martin Brown and his wife Joy. In 1956, the Browns gave Lee an impressive Christmas present—to support her for a year so that she could write full time. She quit her job and devoted herself to her craft. The Browns also helped her find an agent, Maurice Crain. He, in turn, was able to get the publishing firm interested in her first novel, which was first titled Go Set a Watchman, then Atticus, and later To Kill a Mockingbird. Working with editor Tay Hohoff, Lee finished the manuscript in 1959.
  • Lee, Harper (1961) "Love — In Other Words". Vogue Magazine. Lee, Harper (1961) "Christmas to Me". McCall's Magazine. Lee, Harper (1965) "When Children Discover America". McCall's Magazine.
  • r Lippincott in 1960 — to receive the inaugural ATTY Award for positive depictions of attorneys in the arts from the Spector Gadon & Rosen Foundation. At the urging of Peck's widow Veronique, Lee traveled by train from Monroeville to Los Angeles in 2005 to accept the Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award. She has also attended luncheons for students who have wri
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  • President George W. Bush presents Harper Lee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on November 5, 2007 Born April 28, 1926 (1926-04-28) (age 84) Monroeville, Alabama Occupation Novelist Nationality American Subjects Literature Literary movement Southern Gothic
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  • bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by the Library Journal. In high school, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduatin
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Music of Haiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The music of Haiti is influenced mostly by European colonial ties and African migration through slavery
  • Starting in the late 1970s (with discontent surrounding the increasing oppulence of the Duvalier dictatorship), youth from Port-au-Prince (and to a lesser extent Cape Haitien and other urban areas) began experimenting with new types of life. Francois Duvalier's appropriation of Vodou images as a terror technique, the increase in US assembly and large-scale export agriculture, the popularity of disco, and Jean-Claude Duvalier's appreciation of konpa and chanson francaise disillusioned many youthand love.
  • Rara music is a Lenten processional music with strong ties to the Vodou religious tradition. It has been commonly confused with Haitian Carnival since both celebrations involve large groups of dancing revelers in the streets.
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  • The local homegrown Haitian hip hop movement is rising in popularity in Haiti and other Haitian communities. It is becoming more and more popular with Haitian youth, often communicating social and political topics as well as materialism. Compas as well as other popular local music beats are used frequently with urban sounds. Popular Haitian hip hop artists are Black Alex from King Posse, Original Rap Staff, Top Adlerman, Masters. Recent years have seen a rise in popularity for Haitian Hip-Hop artists
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Personal Learning Environment (PLE) - a new learning concept or a new learning system? ... - 0 views

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      PLE's give students free rein. It helps them manage their goals, and therby control their educational destiny! It's pretty fascinating really.
  • “the heart of the concept of the PLE is that it is a tool that allows a learner (or anyone) to engage in a distributed environment consisting of a network of people, services and resources. It is not just Web 2.0, but it is certainly Web 2.0 in the sense that it is (in the broadest sense possible) a read-write application.”
  • the integration of both formal and informal learning episodes
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  • is that it offers a portal to the world through which learners can explore and create, according to their own interests and directions, interacting as they choose, with their friends and learning community.
  • “Learning becomes as much social as cognitive, as much concrete as abstract, and becomes intertwined with judgement and exploration.”
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1930s Cars - Great Innovation Despite Tough Times | The 1930s - The Finer Times - - 0 views

  • When we think of the 1930s, the images of the Great Depression leave the impression that nothing good happened because the entire country was focused simply on survival.  But in the area of automobile development, car designs of the 1930s developed some of the most significant new features for automobiles despite economic hard times. As is demonstrated by the popularity of vintage 1930s cars, some of the automobile designs of this period in history were exceptionally artistic and sophisticated.  It is phenomenal that such forward movement in the 1930s car industry occurred in light of how few in this era were privileged enough to be able to buy any kind of transportation at all, much less a new model that had ground breaking design innovation as part of its feature package. 
  • The result was that 1930s cars not only saw a leap forward in technical design but the styles that were created for this era of car manufacturing were distinctive and imaginative.  At the beginning of the 1930s cars almost universally were made to a four square design that was nothing if not boring.  But as the decade unfolded, some unique designs that we still identify with classic 1930s cars began to become popular. 
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AFP: Clinton hails cholera progress in Haiti - 0 views

  • Touring a cholera clinic, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday hailed the news that the wave of cholera that has killed more than 4,000 Haitians since October is receding.
  • The number of new patients at the Cholera Treatment Center, managed by US government grantee Partners in Health, has been reduced by half to about 40 per day since the start of the epidemic, a State Department official said.
  • The death toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic is 4,030, the Haitian health ministry said Thursday, while the number of cholera cases totaled 209,034 as of January 24.
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Cholera under control in parts of Haiti - 0 views

  • Three Haitian provinces were able to contain a cholera epidemic that has claimed almost 4,000 lives in the Caribbean island nation since October, the government said Tuesday.
  • The number of cholera patients has been reduced in the provinces of North, Northeast and Artibonite, although there were still a few new cases reported in some other parts of the nation, according to Public Health Minister Alex Larsen.
  • Latest official statistics showed that cholera had killed 3,927 people and affected 199,497 others, of whom 112,656 were hospitalized.
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Haitian Tent Camps Hope Tomas Misses Capital - World - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 -... - 0 views

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Haiti: Cholera Treatment, Prevention, and Vigilance Continue | Doctors Without Borders - 0 views

  • till significant numbers of patients arriving at the MSF-supported St. Nicholas Hospital in the town of St. Ma
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The Future Of Outsourcing - 0 views

  • COVER STORY PODCAST Globalization has been brutal to midwestern manufacturers like the Pap
  • factory, its oiled wooden factory floors worn smooth by work boots, thrived by making ever-more-complex equipment to weave, fold, and print packaging for everything from potato chips to baby wipes.
  • Slide Show >> But now, Compton says, he is "probably the most optimistic I've been in five years." Hope is coming from an unusual source. As part of its turnaround strategy, Barry-Wehmiller plans to shift some design work to its 160-engineer center in Chennai, India. By having U.S. and Indian designers collaborate 24/7, explains Vasant Bennett, president of Barry-Wehmiller's engineering services unit, PCMC hopes to slash development costs and time, win orders
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  • The changes can be harsh and deep. But a more enlightened, strategic view of global sourcing is starting to emerge as managers get a better fix on its potential. The new buzzword is "transformational outsourcing." Many executives are discovering offshoring is really about corporate growth, making better use of skilled U.S. staff, and even job creation in the U.S., not just cheap wages abroad.
  • Show me how we can grow by 40% without increasing our capacity in the U.S.,"' says Atul Vashistha, CEO of outsourcing consultant neoIT and co-author of the book The Offshore Nation.
  • n theory, it is becoming possible to buy, off the shelf, practically any function you need to run a company. Want to start a budget airline but don't want to invest in a huge back office? Accenture's Navitaire unit can manage reservations, plan routes, assign crew, and calculate optimal prices for each seat.
  • Few big companies have tried all these options yet. But some, like Procter & Gamble, are showing that the ideas are not far-fetched. Over the past three years the $57 billion consumer-products company has outsourced everything from IT infrastructure and human resources to management of its offices from Cincinnati to Moscow. CEO Alan G. Lafley also has announced he wants half of all new P&G products to come from outside by 2010, vs. 20% now.
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Brave new wired world: Earthquake tsunami in Japan trigger social networking avalanche ... - 0 views

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      Social Networking helps people; and helps Japan get over a disaster that will affect them for generations to come.
  • Social networks open their cyber-doors to help rescue people in distress and disseminate information in these critical times when most other means of communication have broken down
  • t was a Friday that Japan will always dread. On 11 March 2011, nature unleashed a furious attack on the busy islanders, a 9.0 magnitude quake that sent tremors through the islands, just after lunch time. The quake set off a devastating tsunami that washed over north-east Japan, leaving everything in shambles in a few minutes.
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  • The immediacy and intensity with which social networks responded to the situation enabled the world to learn about the disaster and the people in the eye of the storm, at a pace that was unfathomable just a decade or so ago.
  • housands of netizens took to the social networks and online forums to share information, communicate with friends and family, reach out to people and express solidarity with those affected by the situation.
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      Social Networking could have saved countless numbers of lives. Many people may have Facebook and Twitter to thank for their lives.
  • In fact, Twitter posted a guide in Japanese and English to assist people under duress with tips and resources to help them survive through the situation. It also offered a list of the most widely used hashtags to tweet about the disaster, helping users search for tweets from friends and family. According to Poynter, the hashtags #tsunami and #prayforjapan were trending thousands of tweets per second in the immediate aftermath.
  • Facebook too had its share of conversation, but then it does not enjoy the scale of success in Japan which it does elsewhere in the world. While a lot of international conversation was being written on the walls of Facebook, the Japanese themselves were flocking to Mixi, the leading social networking site in Japan. Mixi has over 20 million users in Japan and it was the first place where the devastated people rushed to, looking for messages from people living around the epicentre of the earthquake and in the path of the gigantic tsunami waves.
  • Skype became the preferred tool for voice and visual communication between people inside Japan and to communicate with families living overseas.
  • Google, the world's most recognisable entity on the Internet, probably had the most significant response among the various online communities working to alleviate and share the pain of the Japanese.
  • At last count, the site was tracking about 326,300 records.
  • Google took it a step further by launching a crisis response page, consolidating all the tools and resources related to the crisis on one page.
  • Google collected these details manually into the person finder app, helping to grow the database and connect an ever-increasing number of people.
  • No matter the form of the response, it is becoming clear that a wired universe is weaving itself into the fabric of our evolution. If the means with which we communicate with each other in the moments that truly define our existence are any indication, social networking is undoubtedly the primary tool of long-distance communication for the current generation.
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BBC NEWS | Business | Mobile phone lifeline for world's poor | Diigo - 0 views

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U.S. companies step up on Haitian relief efforts - Jan. 15, 2010 - 0 views

  • Corporate America has already pledged more than $40 million in donations to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.
  • U.S. companies had already pledged $1 million or more apiece to international relief organizations working in Haiti.
  • They include Amgen (AMGN, Fortune 500), Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500), and Coca-Cola (KO, Fortune 500). Time Warner (TWX, Fortune 500), the parent company of Fortune and CNNMoney, is also raising funds for the relief effort.
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  • Wal-mart (WMT, Fortune 500), the world's largest retailer, has pledged $600,000 to support Red Cross emergency relief efforts in Haiti. The company also announced that it is sending $100,000 in pre-packaged food kits to Haiti at the request of the Red Cross.
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Harper Lee Biography - Biography.com - 1 views

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      One of her real friends was inspired by a charcter
  • Born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller
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  • her one and only novel.
  • she grew up as a tomboy in a small town.
  • he youngest of four children
  • her mother suffered from mental illness
  • rarely leaving the house
  • Lee often stepped up to serve as Truman’s protector
  • who shared few interests with boys his age
  • both shared in having difficult home lives.
  • l, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating in 1944,
  • she could have cared less about fashion, makeup, or dating.
  • Lee was known for being a loner and an individualist.
  • Lee began expressing to her family that writing—not the law—was her true calling
  • She went to Oxford University in England
  • which was first titled Go Set a Watchman, then Atticus, and later To Kill a Mockingbird. Working with editor Tay Hohoff, Lee finished the manuscript in 1959.
  • Born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama .
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)—  her one and only novel. T  he youngest of four children ,  she grew up as a tomboy in a small town. Her father was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature, and also owned part of the local newspaper.
  • her mother suffered from mental illness ,  rarely leaving the house
  •  her mother suffered from mental illness ,   rarely leaving the house .
  •  her mother suffered from mental illness ,   rarely leaving the house
  • her mother suffered from mental illness , rarely leaving the house .
  • Lee often stepped up to serve as Truman’s protector . Truman,  who shared few interests with boys his age
  • Lee often stepped up to serve as Truman’s protector . Truman, who shared few interests with boys his age
  • In high schoo  l, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating in 1944, she went to the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery
  • Transferring to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa,  Lee was known for being a loner and an individualist.
  • In her junior year, Lee was accepted into the university’s law school, which allowed students to work on law degrees while still undergraduates.
  • After her first year in the law program,  Lee began expressing to her family that writing—not the law—was her true calling .
  •  She went to Oxford University in England
  •  She went to Oxford University in England
  • In 1949, a 23-year-old Lee arrived in New York City.
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Harper Lee - Information, Facts, and Links - 1 views

  • She has published only one book
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      Wow..she is a one time wonder(:
  • Born in Monroeville, Alabama, in 1926, Nelle Harper Lee still lives there with her sister, and she spends time in New York City as well.
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      I would love to live there(:
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  • she has fought fiercely to stay out of the public eye.
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      Smart!!!
  • A rough-and-tumble child, Harper Lee frequently defended her less rambunctious friend Truman Capote in the schoolyard. She later did the research for his acclaimed novel In Cold Blood.
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      Shes like me
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      hahah
  • Harper Lee Gregory Peck in the film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Harper Lee’s mother was Frances Cunningham Finch. Lee uses all three of her mother’s names for characters in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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      Thats of her(:
  • Lee received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize in Literature for To Kill a Mockingbird.
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      Congratulations!
  • To Kill a Mockingbird was made into a major motion picture starring Gregory Peck in 1962. Peck won an Oscar for his performance in the film.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird was banned by Virginia’s Hanover County School Board in 1966 because it deals with the subject of rape. Harper Lee defended her book as espousing a Christian ethic and an honorable code of conduct, and she scathingly questioned whether the school board members, in grossly misjudging her novel’s content, were illiterate.
  • and witty
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