6.+True+Stories

​   ** True Stories (acts of good citizenship) **  //Click on this Link to watch this video.// []   //Click the following link to watch this trailer.  []  //  
 * **Martin Luther King, Jr.** (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches, A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">A grandmother remembers her childhood Christmas Eve in a home with no heat. On Christmas morning she found a tree, gifts for all the kids... even heat.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">A driver's headlights quit on the highway at night. Another driver slows, turns on his brights, lights her way for over an hour to her exit... then turns around to drive back to his original destination.

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 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Beverly Jordan witnessed an extraordinary act of generosity after Hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida in 1992, leaving a wide path of destruction in its path. Jordan, a nurse, volunteered to go door to door in Miami delivering emergency relief. Her relief van pulled up to a house that was nothing but a shell. She asked the young owners if they needed anything. "They said, 'No, but can you wait a minute here?' They came back out with a case of diapers and four or five bags of food and said, 'Would you please give this to somebody who needs it worse than we do?'" Jordan says she never got the couple's name and wishes that she could thank them for their generosity.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Peter Strupp of Boston remembers being "flat broke" his senior year at the University of Wisconsin. When he could no longer afford the rent at his fraternity, he found refuge in a campus Christian fellowship house. Strupp would sneak into the kitchen to take food bought by his fellow tenants. "Inevitably the month came that I couldn't make the rent..."The night before I was going to tell my housemates I was leaving, one of them stopped me in the kitchen. We were alone... He reached into his pocket and handed me a month's rent, in cash. Before I could say anything, he said, 'Don't pay me back.' Though the rent was less than $100, Strupp writes, "in a dark hour, it was a king's ransom."

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 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Anthony is from the island of Malta, a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. He came to United States of America, like most of us, to look for a better future for his family. He raised eight kids and they live in the United States but none of them live near him in Florida. I visit him once a day to check on him and spend some quality time with him. I even watch stuff with him that I don’t even like, but the point is that he feels someone is there talking to him. When he gets sick, or does not feel well enough to cook, I will cross my fence and start cooking for him. Once in a while I will do some errands for him, for example going to the store to buy groceries. When he has appointment with his doctor, I will drive him too. I’ll fix his remote control when it not working, buy chlorine for his pool, etc… If something breaks or stops working, he calls me because he knows he can count on me anytime.

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Ken Carter gained notoriety in 1999 when coaching the Richmond High School Oilers. He canceled all of his undefeated basketball team's games and practices for eight days -- forfeiting two games (one non-conference game and one alumni game) -- because fifteen team members had unacceptably poor academic performance. This event was known as "the lockout", and his actions were criticized by the school, players' parents, the community, the schools where his team was scheduled to play, and media commentators. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Carter maintained that his athletes must take their studies seriously as good academic performance would give them access to college and other opportunities in life. Public opinion eventually changed, and he was praised for his determined emphasis on encouraging proper life priorities for his team. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

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