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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Nelson Mandela about Mandela's, Mandela, South with the genre: Children's Books, Geography & Cultures.
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conversations.value: Gr 1-5-This picture-story biography matches Mandela's outsize achievements with large, powerful images, resulting in a presentation that will seize and hold readers' attention. The front cover features a portrait of Mandela that fills the space. His pleasant but determined expression immediately projects a sense of strength. The title and author move to the back cover so as not to compete with the opening image. A stark graphic design incorporating black, green, yellow, and red, colors from the South African flag, on the title page helps set the stage for the narrative. the author's paintings range from poignant, when Mandela's mother tells him good-bye as he leaves home for more education at the age of nine, to exuberant, when Mandela and 100 men arrested for protesting apartheid respond by dancing and singing, to inspiring, when people organize rallies demanding his release. When freedom finally comes, "a colorful sea of people" celebrate. Mandela's heroic struggle might be new to many children today, and the author's dynamic treatment provides enough detail to give a sense of the man and to acknowledge his important place inhistory.-Lucinda Snyder Whitehurst, St. Christopher's School, Richmond, VA(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this story.
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conversations.value: Nelson Mandela
  The sun shines brightly on the crowd gathered outside the government's offices. Leaders from all over the world—princes and presidents—are here to celebrate with the people. A man walks onto the stage. The crowd stands and cheers. is here.
  Four years ago, Mandela was in jail. Two weeks ago, he voted for the first time ever. Today, he will become president!
  Mandela raises his right hand and promises to lead his country. At the age of seventy-five, he is sworn in as the first black president of South Africa.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: By 1952, Nelson had earned a diploma and was able to practice law. He and a friend from college opened the first black law firm in South Africa. They represented people who were arrested under the new apartheid laws. Every morning, they'd find a crowd of people waiting to see them. They often worked late into the night.
  After this, the government made life even worse for non-white people. Nelson and other ANC leaders were banned from going to ANC meetings or work and had to stay in their homes.
  In 1955, the ANC and other anti-apartheid groups joined forces. They held a meeting called the Congress of the People. Together, they made a list of rights they wanted, such as voting and owning property. They agreed on it and called it the Freedom Charter. On the second day of meetings, the police broke up the peaceful group.
  Early one morning, the police knocked on Nelson's door. They searched his home. They didn't find anything, but still they arrested him for protesting apartheid. They charged him with treason, which meant he had supposedly betrayed his country. All over South Africa, 156 anti-apartheid leaders were charged with treason.
  The government took four years to prepare for the trial. Luckily, the suspects did not have to stay in prison the whole time. Nelson spent those years with the ANC, preparing for the treason trial. His law firm closed. He never saw his family. He and his wife grew apart and divorced.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: He and his wife grew apart and divorced. He and a friend from college opened the first black law firm in South Africa. They represented people who were arrested under the new apartheid laws. Every morning, they'd find a crowd of people waiting to see them. They often worked late into the night.
  After this, the government made life even worse for non-white people. Nelson and other ANC leaders were banned from going to ANC meetings or work and had to stay in their homes.
  In 1955, the ANC and other anti-apartheid groups joined forces. They held a meeting called the Congress of the People. Together, they made a list of rights they wanted, such as voting and owning property. They agreed on it and called it the Freedom Charter. On the second day of meetings, the police broke up the peaceful group.
  Early one morning, the police knocked on Nelson's door. They searched his home. They didn't find anything, but still they arrested him for protesting apartheid. They charged him with treason, which meant he had supposedly betrayed his country. All over South Africa, 156 anti-apartheid leaders were charged with treason.
  The government took four years to prepare for the trial. Luckily, the suspects did not have to stay in prison the whole time. Nelson spent those years with the ANC, preparing for the treason trial. His law firm closed. He never saw his family.By 1952, Nelson had earned a diploma and was able to practice law.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Nelson and a few friends were moved to a new prison in 1982. They'd been on Robben Island for eighteen years.
  A new president, F. W. de Klerk, was elected in September 1989. Nelson met with him in December, and once again he explained why apartheid must end. This president listened. Less than two months later, de Klerk lifted the ban on groups like the ANC and freed political prisoners.
  FEBRUARY 11, 1990. VICTOR VERSTER PRISON. After twenty-seven years in prison, seventy-one-year-old left as a free man. A car drove him through the prison gates. Nelson and Winnie got out of the car and raised their hands to the hundreds of people cheering. They drove to Cape Town, where more than a hundred thousand people waited to see him. Celebrations were held everywhere!
  When he wasn't traveling the world, Nelson enjoyed getting to know his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He died at home on December 5, 2013.
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conversations.value: Nelson and a few friends were moved to a new prison in 1982. They'd been on Robben Island for eighteen years. 
  A new president, F. W. de Klerk, was elected in September 1989. Nelson met with him in December, and once again he explained why apartheid must end. This president listened. Less than two months later, de Klerk lifted the ban on groups like the ANC and freed political prisoners. Nelson's prison sentence was finally over. 
  FEBRUARY 11, 1990. VICTOR VERSTER PRISON. After twenty-seven years in prison, seventy-one-year-old left as a free man. A car drove him through the prison gates. Nelson and Winnie got out of the car and raised their hands to the hundreds of people cheering. They drove to Cape Town, where more than a hundred thousand people waited to see him. Celebrations were held everywhere!
  When he wasn't traveling the world, Nelson enjoyed getting to know his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He died at home on December 5, 2013.