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Fray Junipero Serra
Number of Words: 2329 / Number of Pages: 9
... His dream was to become as missionary and in 1749 he responded to the call for Franciscan missionaries to the New World. His dream became a reality. He left his family and friends and sailed off to a "New World."
Nearly 200 years earlier, Spain had established a colony called New Spain, the region known today as Mexico. Successful colonization was the result of collaboration by Spanish imperial staff and the Catholic Church. Acting as partners in efforts of exploration and settlement, both their purposes were achieved: Spain claimed a new territory and the Catholic Church claimed new members.
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 1678 / Number of Pages: 7
... sense of curiosity had already begun to stir. A
favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marveled at his
uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by
certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure
to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to
believe he was disabled.
Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when
he was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through
the school's strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of
teachi ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 1595 / Number of Pages: 6
... the German spirit through the school's
strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of teaching led to
his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these differences that caused
Einstein to search for knowledge at home. He began not with science, but with
religion. He avidly studied the Bible seeking truth, but this religious fervor
soon died down when he discovered the intrigue of science and math. To him,
these seemed much more realistic than ancient stories. With this new knowledge
he disliked class even more, and was eventually expelled from Luitpold Gymnasium
being considered a disru ...
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Biography Of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Number of Words: 892 / Number of Pages: 4
... year he joined the communal society at Brook Farm near Boston, hoping to be able to live in such comfort that he could marry and still have time to devote to his writing. The demands of the farm were too great, however, and Hawthorne was unable to continue his writing while doing farm chores, and after six months he withdrew from the community. In 1842 he married Sophia Amelia Peabody of Salem and settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in a house called the Old Manse. During the four years he lived in Concord, Hawthorne wrote a number of tales that were later published as Mosses from an Old Manse, pu ...
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Zora Neale Hurston
Number of Words: 1895 / Number of Pages: 7
... other women often left his family home alone for months out of a time (Lyons 1). Zora's mother, Lucy Potts Hurston was the "hard-driving force in the family."(Lyons 2) Lucy was a country schoolteacher, who taught all her children how to read and write, which lead to six out of her seven children earning a college degree (Lyons 2-3). Unfortunately, Lucy Hurston died when Zora was nine years of age (Otfinoski 46). Zora was the seventh child out of a family of eight (Otfinoski 45). During her childhood she felt unloved by her father and thus was seen as the odd on out (Lyons 2).
Zora's education was co ...
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Robert Frost
Number of Words: 1041 / Number of Pages: 4
... Will and North Of Boston, Frost began his quest.
In the book A Boy’s Will, Frost writes poems of hope and beauty. “Love and a Question,” illustrates the optimistic view of a bridegroom trying to help a poor man. He thinks that he should help him, but not knowing if he can. His heart shows compassion but his minds shows logic. The conclusion of this poem shows not true ending, but leaves the reader in a state of imagining what was to happen to the poor man.
So much of the true Frost can be seen in his poem, “The Vantage Point” (A Boy’s Will). In these verse ...
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Olaudah Equiano
Number of Words: 519 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the Narrative. The first person to “own” Equiano was a Quaker named Robert King. He did most of his business in the West Indies. Equiano was eventually traded for sugar cane and was forced to go on a slave ship. The conditions were horrible.
Equiano was transported on a slave ship called the “Zong.” The British Republic owned the Zong. Equiano, as well as the other slaves were stuffed under the cargo area. There was so many slaves that they could hardly breathe. They were always hungry because of the little amount of food and the large amount of slaves. Diseas ...
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Mahatma Gandhi: Man Of Peace
Number of Words: 2145 / Number of Pages: 8
... child, the only exemption is that Gandhi always felt a sense of
responsibility and duty. When Gandhi was seven years old his father got a new job as
prime minister of Rajkot. Gandhi continued his education and his life as if nothing had
ever changed, until he was married at the age of thirteen in 1882.
Kastura Makinji was Gandhi’s first wife. They were both the same age, and just
like Gandhi’s’ mother Kastura could not read or write. She was the daughter of a
merchant and like Gandhi lived a rather comfortable life. The two lived apart more than
they did together, spendi ...
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Alexander Graham Bell
Number of Words: 1325 / Number of Pages: 5
... to Canada he decided that this glove was not enough. Soon he opened schools meant specifically for the deaf people to learn and there are still some schools to this day that have been founded by Bell just for deaf people. During one of his many visits to one of his school he met a young student by the name of Mabel Hubbard “I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil… has ripened into a far deeper feeling” (always inventing, 28) this caused some controversy between the two families because of the significant age difference and the fact the she was deaf, also they didn’t ...
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Benjamin Banneker
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... didn’t think it was possible for a black man-free or slave-to be smart enough to calculate the movements of the stars the way Banneker did. Banneker was determined to create an almanac that would be the first of its kind. Therefore, he spent close to a year observing the sky every night. He plotted the cycles of the moon and made careful notes. He began publishing the ‘Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac and Ephemeris’ in 1791, and continued doing so until 1802.
Bannekar also knew that many people would use and learn from his almanac. However, he wondered what ...
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