1. Success, to me, is having a fulfilling job, preferably in the medical or biomedical industries, my intelligence, a healthy lifestyle, and enough money to live comfortably while taking occasional vacations.
2. Due to my "dream" job, I've given up a lot of social life. I don't have a choice other than work as hard as I can and learn everything I need to know. I also need to manage my time well since I have other extra-curriculars in addition to school, so I don't have much free time.
3. Parks gave up social life as well, needing quiet and solitude in order to develop his skill and talent in visual arts. Because of his dedication to his job, he lost Elizabeth as a wife.
4. Genevieve's stepfather was Ambassador V.K. Wellington Koo, who was one of the founders of the United Nations.
5. Parks was given $10K in advance for his first book. He turned down offers of $5K and $7.5K.
6. Muhammad offered Parks half a million dollars to write and produce a book and movie on the black Muslim movement.
7. He refused because he wanted to remain impartial to his supporters and sponsors.
8. His choice of weapons: photography, writing, and music.
9. Shaft was a black superhero who wasn't afraid of anything and inspired a generation of young black people.
10. The Learning Tree was extremely significant because it was the first Hollywood picture written and directed by a black man. Later, it was preserved in the US National Film Industry by the Library of Congress as being historically, culturally, and aesthetically significant.
11. Genevieve Young asked for a divorce because his lifestyle was too much for her with its lack of a schedule and spontaneity.
12. "12 Years a Slave" told a similar story to Solomon Northrup's "Odyssey".
13. Gordon Parks Jr. was an incredible filmmaker who debuted with "Superfly".
14. My favorite Gordon Parks photo is Normal Fontelle Sr. taken in Harlem, New York in 1967 because of the incredible sadness in his expression, yet his display of his dignity in the face of such oppression.
15. I will remember Gordon Parks as an extremely influential, non-violent figure who stood as a figurehead for the sadly underrepresented, misrepresented black population. In a way, his work was his protest against the stigma against African Americans.
Okay. That's good.
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