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The Life Of George Washington
Number of Words: 620 / Number of Pages: 3
... movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feeling not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution." Washington's task was to organize a government but also create a role for the highest officer of the new nation. Both tasks earned him enemies. One of Washington's first duties of office was establishing a cabinet. He appointed Alexander Hamilton secretary of treasury and Thomas Jefferson secretary of state. Washington allowed Jefferson to pursue a policy of seeking trade with European nations. Hamilton proposed important ideas such as a funded national debt a ...
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Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 707 / Number of Pages: 3
... released him, Caesar borrowed a ship from the governor of a nearby island and hunted down his captors. After keeping his promises, he crucified the whole band of the pirates, leaving them to die of thirst hanging naked on crosses in the hot Mediterranean sun.
's most famous accomplishments might as well be the conquest of Gaul and the invasion of Britain. The civil wars that had plagued the Roman Republic kept going during the reign of , and he was a major player in the struggle for power and leadership. He defeated his major rival Cnaeus Pompey in 48 B.C. at the Battle of Pharsalus. Because he co ...
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Frederick Douglass
Number of Words: 401 / Number of Pages: 2
... slavery. While in Britain he expanded his view of
the struggle for human rights. He spoke in favor of Irish home rule and
eventually would speak on behalf of the landless European peasantry,
women's suffrage, prison reform, free public school education and universal
peace. In 1846 he wrote to Garrison, "I cannot allow myself to be
insensitive to the wrongs and sufferings of any part of the great family of
man."
Douglass would eventually split with Garrison and the largely white
abolitionist movement to work more closely with the Black leaders of the
time. Many of the leading black figures of ...
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Oscar Wilde
Number of Words: 1256 / Number of Pages: 5
... his temperament and talents. As an aesthete, Wilde wore long hair
and velvet knee breeches, and became known for his eccentricity as well as his
academic ability. His rooms were filled with various objets d'art such as
sunflowers, peacock feathers, and blue china. Wilde frequently confided that
his greatest challenge at University was learning to live up to the perfection
of the china. Wilde won numerous academic prizes while studying there,
including the Newdigate Prize, a coveted poetry award, for his poem Ravenna.
In 1879 Wilde moved to London to make himself famous. He set about
establishin ...
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Life Of Hitler
Number of Words: 1112 / Number of Pages: 5
... profound evil of Hitler and Nazism. Adolf Hitler: The Man Behind the Mask! Adlof Hitler was born April 20, 1889 to Alois and Klara Hitler and had a little sister Paula and half-brother Alois J.R. and half-sister Angela. Young Adolf was a good student in elementary. Energetic and smart, leader among children his own age. Loved warlike games. Had an outstanding gift as a speaker. It was also discovered Adolf could draw which encouraged him to want to become an artist. After returning to Vienna in February hoping to gain admission to the Academy of Fine Arts, but had been turned down and later turned d ...
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
Number of Words: 938 / Number of Pages: 4
... at a party, genuinely delighted, delightful, affectionate and happy, and in some strange way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the experience remain with him all his life.
Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, and then left for good. He enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as William Shakespeare, Tobias Smollet, an ...
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Biography Of Frank Zappa
Number of Words: 525 / Number of Pages: 2
... was that when he graduated he left with 20 units less than the rest of the students. They let him graduate because the teachers said they didn't want to see him there next year.
His finished his first recording with Don Van Vliet (friend from school) called Lost in a Whirlpool. Frank married Kay Sherman in 1959, the same year he wrote a score for the movie Run Home Slow. A couple months after he got married he formed a garage band called Boogie Men, and as fast as this band was created it ended. The reason to them breaking up was that they weren't making any money, so he joined another group Joe Perri ...
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Roberto Clemente Walker
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... he scored 1,416 runs for his team. Overall, his career batting average was a .317. On November 14, 1964, he married Vera Cristina Zabala in Carolina, Puerto Rico. They had three sons: Roberto Jr., Luis Roberto and Roberto Enrique. Proud of his heritage Roberto insisted that Vera give birth to all three sons in Puerto Rico. The boys were six, five and two, when their father met his unfortunate death.
New Year's Eve, December 31, 1997 marked the 25th Anniversary of a tragic plane
crash. The plane was taking medical, food and clothing supplies to Nicaragua, to help out after an earthquake. Vera and frie ...
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FDR
Number of Words: 3077 / Number of Pages: 12
... history. Not only did he accept the challenges at hand, he rose to the occasion and took this country to another level. Roosevelt was born on January 30 near New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1904 and attended Law School. Although he didn't get his law degree, he was admitted to the New York bar in 1907. He was elected to the New York senate in 1910 and was appointed by Woodrow Wilson as assistant secretary of the navy, a post he held during World War I. Roosevelt ran for vice-president in 1920 and lost. In 1921, he was stricken with polio, which left his legs paralyzed. Twice he was electe ...
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Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 1403 / Number of Pages: 6
... After these years and Sulla's resignation in 78 BC, Julius decided to return to Rome. There he served as an officer in Crassus's army against Spartacus, Caesar climbed steadily in the government by serving as an official in many provinces (Internet Explorer). After the death of his wife Cornelia, Julius remarried a wealthy wife and allied with Crassus, who was the richest man in Rome at the time (Internet Explorer). Their opponent was Pompeius Magnus (the Great). Caesar wanted to become part of the consulate. The consulate was a governmental position where two consuls, nominated each year, held the ...
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