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Robert E Lee
Number of Words: 629 / Number of Pages: 3
... They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie, Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all attended episcopal Church where he was raised.
On May 13, 1846 the United States declared was on their southern neighbor. When Lee was 39, he headed for Mexico. Lee's will said that he was worth about $38,750 with few depts. He only had few slaves: Nancy and her children. And they were to be freed "soon as it can be done to their advantage and that of others. On Christmas, Lee wrote to his wife that he hoped this woul.d be the last time he would be away from her. While they were at ...
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Bootleggers Boy
Number of Words: 1475 / Number of Pages: 6
... a few cases of whiskey. He brought the cases back to the dry county of Crossett and made a good profit. After this he became a bootlegger. Barry grew up as a poor kid and didn’t have electricity or running water until his senior in college. He attended the University of Arkansas to play football. He was more homesick than he thought he would, but quickly adjusted. He played for four years and often said he was never good enough player to play for one of his teams at Oklahoma.
At the beginning of his senior year, he met his future wife. He was talking to one of his teammates when she wa ...
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Winston Churchill
Number of Words: 1204 / Number of Pages: 5
... he spoke and through his idea of forming the "Grand Alliance". When his speeches were broadcasted over the radio during wartime, Britain stopped. Every citizen listened to each word he said with great attentiveness. Churchill’s Blood, Sweat and Tears speech is a fine example of his beautiful art of speaking as it filled the people of Britain with much needed hope and bountiful courage:
You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny ...
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Napoleon's Career
Number of Words: 1098 / Number of Pages: 4
... feed the large army, Napoleon's plan was simple: bring about a battle,
defeat the Russian army, and dictate a settlement. Apparently neither he
nor his soldiers, who cheerfully began crossing the Nieman River, thought
beyond the immediate goal.
Already 300 miles into Russia, Napoleon had not yet found a way to
exploit his advantage. In the Emperor's programming the resources
necessary to achieve his objective, he had anticipated fighting a battle
within a month after crossing the Nieman. Toward the end of that month
Napoleon began to realize that events were disproving the validity of his ...
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Pocahontas
Number of Words: 551 / Number of Pages: 3
... carried food, fur, and then traded hatchets and trinkets.
After a while, Smith’s relationship with the Powhatas worsened. ’s visits started to lessen, and in 1806, Smith was injured, and had to go back to England.
went on with her life though, she married an Indian "Pryvate Captyne" named Kocoum in 1610. Although in 1614, she fell in love with an Englishman, John Rolfe. They married and she got baptized. They went to London with a man named Sir Thomas Dale, and a dozen other Indians. She was presented to King James I, and all of the royal family. John Smith, the man who she had not seen ...
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Chuck Close
Number of Words: 561 / Number of Pages: 3
... the canvas square by square, proceeding from the top left to the bottom right. Some of the largest canvases contain thousands of squares; Close completes all of his paintings by hand. Given the painstaking nature of this work, some of the earlier large-scale paintings took up to fourteen months to complete. Close's work falls into two periods, the early and the middle, in which he is now fruitfully engaged. It is easy to divide the two periods on either side of Close's 1988 stroke that left him unable to hold a brush. (He paints with his brush tied to his hand by a metal and Velcro device.) Close st ...
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Ann Hutchinson
Number of Words: 624 / Number of Pages: 3
... freedom. In 1634, took her family and followed him to Massachusetts. To her surprise, New England turned out to be more strict religiously than England. She was not welcome in New England because of her unorthodox views.
Ann was told not to speak publicly about her views. She only expressed them in her own
home where she sometimes invited women to share her ideas. The governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony was John Winthrop. John did not like because of her religious views and her conferences with women. He made a law that didn't allow female conferences. Anne Hutchinson was arrested for violating ...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
Number of Words: 1183 / Number of Pages: 5
... and used the free passage that was available on his uncle's stagecoach line to make summer excursions around New England; Hawthorne even went as far west as Detroit. Hawthorne published his first novel, Fanshaw: A Tale, at his own expense in 1828. However, he later recalled it and destroyed all the copies he could find. Then, in 1830, the Salem Gazette published his first story, "The Hollow of the Three Hills". With the publication of Twice-Told Tales in 1837, his name was finally recognized by the public. By the year 1838, (at the age of 34) he had written over two-thirds of the tales and sketches ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... very had for people to get themselves out of this phase of conformity, but as Emerson says, "whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist." For years only great men have been able to break away from society's grasp to form their own ideas and live their own lives. These few examples are the ones people need to follow (149).
Much of the reason people conform to society is that they do not know themselves enough to listen to what's in their own heads. People need to learn how to trust themselves. They need to accept the place, events, and virtues that are naturally found for them. The only thing w ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... University of Zurich. By 1909, Einstein was recognized throughout
Europe as a leading scientific thinker. In 1909 the fame that resulted from his
theories got Einstein a job at the University of Prague, and in 1913 he was
appointed director of a new research institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser
Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper that extended
his theories. He put forth new views on the nature of gravitation. Newton's
theories he said were not accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to
explain the slow rotation of the entire orbit of the pla ...
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