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Anne Frank
Number of Words: 1267 / Number of Pages: 5
... called it the "Secret Annex". During these times people they knew like, Miep and Jan Gies and many others, brought the family’s food. You would have to be very brave to take on a job like that because, if you got caught you could be killed.
Life in the Annex was not easy at all. Anne had to wake up at 6:45 A.M. every morning. Nobody could go outside. No one could turn on lights at night. Anne mostly read books or wrote stories. Much of Anne’s diary was written while in hiding. Most of the families got separated, but Anne’s family never was. For this, they were lucky.
In 1944, their hiding ...
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Blaise Pascal
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... coniques (Essay on conic sections),
Pascal temporarily abandoned the study of mathematics due to poor health.
He lived in Paris for a while in a frivolous manner as a break. His
interest in probability theory of the odds in gambling games lead him to
discover the Theory of probability in conjunction with Pierre de Fermat.
This theory dealt with the actuarial, mathematical, social statistics, and
calculations used in today's modern theoretical physics. At the end of
1654, after several months of depression, Pascal had a life altering
religious experience. He entered the Jansenist monastery in Port ...
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Toni Morrison Interview
Number of Words: 440 / Number of Pages: 2
... I was initially shocked when I heard that Beloved was based on a true story, I soon began to sympathize with Morrison's point of view. Margaret Garner was a mother in a desperate situation. Although extreme, her actions were only a reflection of the society that she had been raised in. She was trying to protect her children from the harsh reality of slavery and all that she had endured.
Throughout the interview she stated how difficult is was for her to write a book solely based on slavery since it frightened her so much. Since it is such a disturbing topic to deal with Morrison decided that s ...
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Jon Woo
Number of Words: 948 / Number of Pages: 4
... is definitely fast paced an exciting. Mostly throughout all of his movies his themes are good against evil. It is always the case of a standoff between the good guy and the bad guy, in their last battle, always to the death. Woo’s would often use montages to make time go faster, as in Face/Off when the swat team breaks into the house and where Castor Troy kills the men that he once commanded.
Most of the movie is very dark as the subject matter is. Nicholas Cage is all alone in the movie, but on the other hand in The Big Hit, it has a funny theme to it, as often there were parts where one migh ...
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Dr Daniel J. Boorstin
Number of Words: 785 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the Massachusetts Bar and has
practiced law. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees and has
been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Portugal. In 1989 he
received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to
American Letters by the NationalBook Foundation.
Dr. Boorstin's many books include the trilogy The Americans: The Colonial
Experience, which won the Bancroft Prize, The Americans: The National
Experience, which won the Parkman Prize, and The Americans: The Democratic
Experience, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His 1983 work, The Discoverers, a
best sell ...
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Stephon Marbury
Number of Words: 2096 / Number of Pages: 8
... Mr. Marbury was a Sophomore in high school at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, he had changed his act. He learned to treat everybody with respect and to be a professional person. He had also tattooed a panther onto his right arm. He said:
"A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain...That's where I want to see myself" (Wolff, 62).
Mr. Marbury had great pressures exerted on him to put up big numbers. He was frustrated that very few people could comprehend how much pressure was exerted on him to do this. Mr. Marbury even had i ...
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Theodore Roosevelt
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... with our country Roosevelt was quietly forming a cavalry regiment nicknamed Rough Riders. On July 1,1898 him and his men charged up Kettle Hill and defeated the Cubans. He and the Rough Riders became nationally famous.
Roosevelt also helped out with labor unions. In 1902 members of the United Mine Workers went on strike. Coal started to became low and some hospitals and schools were beginning to run out of fuel. Roosevelt went in and suggested they settle in arbitration's. The miners agreed but mine owners didn’t agree. At Roosevelt’s request JP Morgan was able to reach a compromise with other mi ...
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Florence Nightengale
Number of Words: 929 / Number of Pages: 4
... idea of nursing was associate with working class women and it was not considered a suitable profession for well-educated women.
While the family conflicts over Florence’s future remained unsolved it was decided that Florence would tour Europe. In her travels, Florence undertook months of nursing training, unbeknownst to her family.
Florence returned home, still with the dream to become a working nurse, and again voiced this idea to her parents. Her parrients finally agreed and Florence was allowed to become a nurse.
Florence, now thirty-one went to work at Kaserworth Hospital in Germany, and wa ...
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Crazy Horse
Number of Words: 2516 / Number of Pages: 10
... Kettle, and the Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had differentband. The Hunkpatila was one band of the Oglala's . One of the greatest war chiefs of all times came from thisband. His name was . was not given this name, on his birth date inthe fall of 1841. He was born of his father, anOglala holy man, and his mother a sister of a Brule' warrior,Spotted Tail. As the boy grew older his hair was wavy so his people gave him the nickname of Curly . He was togo by Curly until the summer of 1858, after a battle with theArapaho's. Curly's brave charged against the Arapaho's led hisfather to give Cur ...
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Aristotles Notion Of Body And Soul
Number of Words: 522 / Number of Pages: 2
... Aristotle puts it. Most certainly there are many times when the soul is more important than the body. For example, a man sees a very beautiful, married, woman. His body would tell him to try and have sexual intercourse with this woman. In this case it is good that his soul would tell him that committing this action would be wrong, because, after all, this woman is married. Also, in general, people who listen to their head, heart and soul, and sometimes do certain things they do not like for the greater good, turn out to be much more successful than people who only do what they want to and feel like.
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