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Genghis Khan
Number of Words: 1537 / Number of Pages: 6
... lived in poverty, owning only a few sheep and other livestock and digging up roots for food. Temujin, however, managed to somehow preserve a considerable fund of prestige among certain members of the tribe that had rejected him. Soon, Temujin began to attract followers, form important alliances with other tribes, and was able to build his own army. He employed rigorous training and strict discipline to create a supreme fighting force. He also made sure that they were well equipped and that they did not hesitate to adopt new tactics and weapons. He appointed the officers in his army based on their ...
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Luis Gutierrez
Number of Words: 1128 / Number of Pages: 5
... General Overnight and Investigations; Housing and Community
opportunity; Veteran Affairs and Hospital and Health Care. Mr. Gutierrez's
addresses in Washington and in Chicago are: 408 Longworth House office Building,
Washington Dc 20515; 3181 North Elston Avenue, Chicago 60618; 1715 west 47th
street, Chicago 60609; 3659 Halsted Chicago 60609; and 2132 West 21st street
Chicago 60608.
Luis Gutierrez start the road to politics by being a strong supporter on
our former late mayor Harold Washington. With the backing of Washington,
Gutierrez won the race for Alderman in 1986. After the death of W ...
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Thomas Paine And Samuel Adams Contributing To "Selling The Revolution"
Number of Words: 682 / Number of Pages: 3
... stated in the American Crisis,
...God Almighty will not give up
a people to military destruction, or leave them
unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and
so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war,
by every decent method which wisdom could
invent.
Here Paine is persuading the people to continue the fight because
it is willed by the power of God and that man in himself should fight for
what is right. He convinces the fearful society of what they should do. By
these ...
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Peter The Great 2
Number of Words: 2489 / Number of Pages: 10
... eyes of his contemporaries and of modern historians.
In order to understand the image of Peter the Great and his significance it is necessary to know his background and the influences that shaped his life. Peter the Great was the fourteenth child of Alexei Mikhailovich, born in Moscow on May 30, 1672. Tsar Alexis died when Peter was four years old. His mother raised Peter. Tsars' Alexis son from his first marriage, Feodor Alekseevich succeeded to the throne but his reign did not last long. On April 27, 1682, Tsar Feodor died. In line to succeed him were, his brother Ivan and Peter who was hi ...
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William Buffalo Bill Cody
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... appeared on stage for the first time in 1872. He played himself in a play titled “Scouts of the Prairie”. Following this, he kept acting in the winter and he worked for the army in the summer. The Wild West show began in 1883 in Omaha. When this began, real cowboys and real Indians showing how life really was in the west. Cody’s show spent ten out of its thirty years in Europe. “Buffalo Bill was a featured attraction at Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Only Egypt’s fame opposed the Wild West as the talk of Chicago at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1 ...
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Edward Gein
Number of Words: 1533 / Number of Pages: 6
... a series of strokes. Eddies foundations were shaken upon her death, he lost his one true friend. It was after his mothers death that Eddie began to immerse himself in his bizarre hobbies that included nightly visits to the graveyard. ( In the Beginning )
It was from the obituaries that Eddie would learn of the recent deaths of local women. Having never enjoyed the company of the opposite sex, he would quench his lust by visiting graves at night. Although he later swore to police that he never had sexual intercourse with any of the bodies ( they smelled to bad), he did take a particular pleasure in ...
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Virginia Woolf
Number of Words: 1892 / Number of Pages: 7
... of Virginia may have been the paradigm of her failure to meet her own standards" (Bond 39). With the death of her mother Woolf used her novel, To the Lighthouse to "reconstruct and preserve" the memories that still remained. According to Woolf, "the character of Mrs. Ramsey in To the Lighthouse was modeled entirely upon that of her mother" (Bond 27). This helped Virginia in her closure when dealing with the loss and obsession with her mother.
Although Virginia clung to the relationship with her mother, she favored her father, Leslie Stephen. Virginia resembled her father uncannily in character ...
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Sister Helen Prejean
Number of Words: 831 / Number of Pages: 4
... [they are] vulnerable to the first young man who looks at them (7-8).
As she talks about this she seems surprised that things like this actually occur. She then meets Patrick Sonnier, a death row inmate. Through him she is once again thrown into a world that she is unfamiliar with but she quickly learns all about the legal system and all of its inequities. She would probably agree with the saying, “Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment.” Taking what she has learned, she actively gets involved with the rights of the death row inmates.
She has been praised for ...
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Biography Of Pocahontas
Number of Words: 1527 / Number of Pages: 6
... to death in a public ceremony, it was no more savage than the English customs of public disembowelment of thieves and the burning of women accused of being witches.
In May of 1607, English colonists arrived on the Virginia shoreline with hopes of great riches. They established a settlement that they named Jamestown. Little Pocahontas watched as these strangers built forts and searched for food. She eventually became quite familiar with them and brought the near starving settlement food from time to time.
In December of 1607, Captain John Smith led an expedition and was taken captive by the In ...
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Mohandas Ghandi
Number of Words: 496 / Number of Pages: 2
... cotton market. Ghandi hand-spun his own cloth and inspired others to do as well. By making and using their own cotton the Indian people were protesting the British way of doing things. Ghandi, and his followers, rejected Western style clothing because they had strong feelings of nationalism and proclaimed they were not westerners, thus they would not wear their style of clothing.
The Western style of clothing was just one of many things Ghandi rejected while he was developing into the man that we remember. Had Ghandi accepted the traditional Western style clothing he would not have been able to ...
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