Half a Man Half a Man "Half a Man" is a song written by country music singer Willie Nelson. The song was released as the A-side of the single for his second Liberty Records album, "Here's Willie Nelson". Despite it received mixed airplay for its content, the song became a sales success, peaking at number twenty-five on "Billboard's" Hot Country Singles and number twenty on "Cashbox's" country singles. Nelson was inspired to write the song after waking up in the middle of the night to smoke a cigarette. With his arm around a sleeping woman, he could not release it without waking her
A Class Divided identifying collars (Ms. Elliott employed them to easily identify the group being discriminated against) as well as that of elation and superiority when they shed the collars. The now-adults agree, as they had learned after the 1970 experiment, that racism and prejudice are wrong, and that the life-affecting lesson should be experienced by other children, teachers, and adults in the present day as a form of understanding. "A Class Divided" confirms that Ms. Elliott has continued her "blue eyes/brown eyes" experiment in the present day, though there has been little outward reaction from parents or school authorities in Riceville. "A