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Deng Xiaopeng
Number of Words: 517 / Number of Pages: 2
... because China has the highest population in the world. If Deng could not put food on the table then chances are the people are not going to really like him or trust him. So he increased farming technology and with the increase in technology the military grew stronger as well. Now Deng had the ability to protect his country from foreigners and he could also now enforce laws. With the military increasing then the economy increased significantly. Now Deng could say that he wields the ability to feed, protect, pay, and give useful technology to his people but Deng was missing one very important thing. ...
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Stonewall Jackson
Number of Words: 518 / Number of Pages: 2
... Institute where he taught for ten years. He was not a very good teacher of math. Many students mocked him and made fun of how religious he was. In 1853, he married Elinor Junkin, who died a year later. In 1857, he married Mary Anna Morrison.
Jackson joined the Confederacy and soon made his reputation as at the First Battle of Bull Run, also called Manassas. When his men were retreating he stood still while enemy soldiers were firing at him. His troops saw him and one of them shouted "There is Jackson standing like a stonewall." Only then did his men have the courage to fight on and eventually ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson And Henry David Thoreau
Number of Words: 1247 / Number of Pages: 5
... the bustling city of Boston to a completely foreign setting: the Massachusetts countryside.
It was after that move that Thoreau realized what had been missing in his life. "That woodland vision for a long time made the drapery of my dreams...Somehow or other it at once gave the preference to this recess among the pines...over that tumultuous and varied city, as if it (my spirit) had found its proper nursery" (Thoreau 252). About 23 years later, Thoreau moved into the forest to live alone in a small shack, and cut himself off from the rest of the world. It is here that he wrote "Walden" and many o ...
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The Biography Of Bob Marley
Number of Words: 343 / Number of Pages: 2
... he passed away in the presence of family and friends. He
did not leave this world without leaving something. To his oldest son,
Ziggy, he said, "On the way up, bring me up. On the way down, don't let me
down." And to Stephen he said, "Money can't buy life." He didn't leave
unnoticed, either. At the moment of his death, Judy Mowatt, a close friend
of Bob's, was in her home in Kingston. Suddenly, from a clear sky, a bolt
of lightening came through her window "and lodged" she said "for a moment
on the metal frame of a picture of Bob on the mantle." It was a signal,
she insists, "that one of the g ...
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FDR
Number of Words: 2985 / Number of Pages: 11
... a governess of Archibald and Edmund Rogers. It was here that Roosevelt learned to speak German and received the opportunity to study abroad the next year. While abroad, however, he contracted a mild case of typhoid fever, the first of a multitude of illnesses that he would battle during his life. He returned to Hyde Park in 1890, and was tutored by Miss Riensberg. On September 28 of the same year, Roosevelt began studies under a Swiss governess, Jeanne Sardoz, which lasted for two years. Sardoz taught him some of the ins and outs of the British lifestyle in addition to teaching him the French language ...
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Francisco Pizarro
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... and
other Spaniards were migrating to Cuzco and inconspicuously taking over the
Inca Empire.
The complete takeover of the Inca's was a very big accomplishment
because the Incas had the most formidable and successful military societies
of the Americas, served by generals, with inexhaustible supplies and more
than 50'000 armed soldiers8. Pizarro only had 180 men. The downfall of
the mighty empire was on August 28, 1533 when, on display in the center of
the mighty Incan capitol city, the ruler of all Incas, Atahualpa, was
strangled to death by a Spanish public executioner9.
Then Lima, Peru is fo ...
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Biography On Mario Lemieux
Number of Words: 393 / Number of Pages: 2
... his amazing moves. I talk about how Mario wanted to spend more time with family and watch his kids grow. I talk about what Mario did off the ice including meeting with celebrities and even the president. Also I mention Mario's last game and some of his feelings.
My fourth, longest and last chapter is "The Memories". In this section I use a lot of statistics and quotations describing some of Mario's most memorable moments, and his amazing skill, from his rookie season to his last game. In my final chapter I don't just talk about what he did on the ice but off the ice also. I talk about things like how ...
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Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
Number of Words: 412 / Number of Pages: 2
... hospitalized for
a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that Cobain committed
suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne and
tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his
father's uncles committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of
dysfunctional marriages and alcoholism present. During a concert, Kurt would
jerk around as if he was being electrocuted. After his death, the sale of
Nirvana memorabilia increased dramatically.
As you can see, both Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain have some
characteristi ...
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Symbols In Poe's Writing
Number of Words: 1057 / Number of Pages: 4
... on his foster father for
any financial needs. John Allan refused to pay for any of Edgar's debts,
therefore he had to withdrawal from the University.
In May of 1827, Poe enlisted in the army as a common soldier. Poe
enlisted under the name of Edgar A. Perry. He was stationed on Sullivan's
Island in the Charleston Harbor for a little over one year. Poe adapted to
military life and discipline and rose quickly to the rank of sergeant major.
After a while Poe became tired of the same daily routine of military life.
Poe wrote several letters to his foster father, quite regularly. After the
death of Fr ...
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Steve Jobs
Number of Words: 971 / Number of Pages: 4
... a job as a video game designer at Atari, Inc., a pioneer in electronic arcade recreation. After a few months he saved enough money to go to India where he traveled in search of spiritual enlightenment with Dan Kottke, a friend from Reed College.
In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and started attending meetings of “Woz’s” “Homebrew Computer Club”. Woz like most of the clubs members, was happy with the creation of electronics. Steve wasn’t nearly the engineer as Woz and persuaded him to start work on a home computer.
Woz and Jobs designed the Apple I in Steve’s bedroom and bu ...
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