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Benjamin Franklin 4
Number of Words: 758 / Number of Pages: 3
... apprentice to his older brother James, who was a printer.
Soon Franklin had ambitions to write and by age 16 he had written a series of letters by an imaginary author. The letters were printed in the New England Courant, which was published by his brother. Still pursuing his writing career, he ran away to Philadelphia and continued working in the printing business. He arrived in 1725 with one Dutch dollar and one copper shilling. By 1729, he had bought and published The Pennsylvania Gazette. He then married his landlady’s daughter, Deborah Reed. In the next seventeen years Franklin had three chi ...
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Gandhi
Number of Words: 1175 / Number of Pages: 5
... time he had finished his campaign against
colour prejudice in South Africa, “the three pound tax on farm indentured
labourers was annulled, Hindu, Muslim and Parsi marriages were declared valid;
free Indians and their wives could continue to come into the country from India”
(Pg. 47-48). Gandhi achieved this status for Indians in South Africa by a method
called “Satyagraha” or “passive resistance”. This involved a non-violent means
of refusing to co-operate with the government’s wishes, thus forcing the
government to meet the demands of the resistors. This method of nonco-operation
earned Gandhi a ...
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The Maturing Of Achilles
Number of Words: 842 / Number of Pages: 4
... starts in this fight for one reason, glory. The easiest place to acquire large quantities of glory is in war. Nobody has ever heard of a farmer becoming famous for raising the largest pig. But people have heard of the famous captain that planted the American flag on Hamburger Hill. Achilles was out to become famous and this was the best way.
Achilles was the Argives main fighting force against the Trojans up until Achilles was shamed and refused to fight. The Leader of Men, Agamemnon was forced to return his prize Chryseis to her father. This was done to appease the Lord Apollo who was striking do ...
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Babe Ruth
Number of Words: 866 / Number of Pages: 4
... into a major league baseball prospect. On February 27, 1914, at the age of nineteen, Ruth was signed to his first professional baseball contract by Jack Dunn, manager of the Baltimore Orioles, at the time a minor league franchise in the International League. Because Ruth's parents had signed over custody of the youngster to St. Mary's he was supposed to remain at the school until the age of twenty-one. To get around this, Dunn became Ruth's legal guardian.
When George Ruth, Jr., appeared with Dunn at the ballpark the other players started cracking jokes, and one of the players quipped, "Well ...
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Saint Bernadette Soubirous
Number of Words: 1053 / Number of Pages: 4
... the former Lourdes jail. The
old jail was locally known as "the Cachot". The Soubirous were allowed to remain
there rent-free. Each evening, the family gathered around the old fireplace for
family prayers. This concluded with the recitation of the Rosary - often led by
one of the Soubirous girls, Bernadette.
BERNADETTE
The marriage of Francois Soubirous and Louise Casterot produced six children.
The eldest of these was Bernadette. She was born on 7th January 1844, and was
baptized the next day by Abbé Forgues in the old parish church, being given the
name of Marie Bern ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Number of Words: 1745 / Number of Pages: 7
... against invasion, but long enough time had passed since such a
threat had approached that the defenses had loosened. Houses perched upon
the walls, and Chaucer in fact, lived for a time in a house built over
Aldgate, (one of the gates of the city).
London was a city less than three-quarters of a square mile in size: It
ran east and west along the Thames less than one and a half miles, and
extended northwards less than half a mile. Over 20,000 people were packed
into this small area; the diversity of the inhabitants was overwhelming.
Londoners ranged from wealthy to impoverished, from small ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Number of Words: 294 / Number of Pages: 2
... and Milan.
In 1469 he was apprenticed to Andrea Verrocchio, a leading Renaissance
master. Leonardo acquired a variety of skills while he remained at the workshop
until 1476. He left Florence for Milan in about 1482 to work for Duke Lodovico
Sforza. He stayed in Milan for nearly eighteen years. During his time there he
applied his knowledge of mechanics to his obligations as a civil and military
engineer. He also took up study in anatomy, biology, mathematics, and physics.
During that time he completed his single most important painting, The Last
Supper.
Leonardo returned to Florence in 1500. Thr ...
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Charles Goodyear
Number of Words: 977 / Number of Pages: 4
... health started to decline and both father and son owed tens of thousands of dollars. For the next thirty years was thrown in prison over ten times because he didn’t pay his debts. In 1834 when he was in New York, on a business trip, the Roxbury India Rubber Company caught his eye. He decided to go inside the store and take a look around. While he was in the store he saw an India rubber valve on one of the products in the store. He thought that a better valve on a product of his father’s might help them pay off some of their debt. He decided to make a better valve with Indian rubber. A few days later ...
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Alexander Hamilton
Number of Words: 2889 / Number of Pages: 11
... in life. This is evidenced by a letter written to his friend Edward Stevens at the age of fourteen on Nov. 11, 1769 where he stated, "[m]y ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the groveling condition of a clerk or the like … and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station." During adolescence, Hamilton had few opportunities for regular schooling. However, he possessed a commanding knowledge of French, due to the teaching of his late mother. This was a very rare trait in the English continental colonies. Hamilton was first published in the Royal Danish-Americ ...
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Ulysses S. Grant 2
Number of Words: 1174 / Number of Pages: 5
... where he became a clerk in his father's leather store.
At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Grant was appointed colonel, and soon afterward brigadier general, of the Illinois Volunteers, and in September 1861 he seized Paducah, Kentucky. After an indecisive raid on Belmont, Missouri, he gained fame when in February 1862, in conjunction with the navy; he succeeded in reducing Forts Henry and Donelson, Tennessee, forcing General Simon B. Buckner to accept unconditional surrender. The Confederates surprised Grant at Shiloh, but he held his ground and then moved on to Corinth. In 1863 he establi ...
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