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Peter The Great
Number of Words: 1972 / Number of Pages: 8
... Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobrazhenskoe outside Moscow. They returned to the Kremlin infrequently, where Peter and Ivan sat on their double throne, flanked by 12 giant guards with battle-axes. Warily Peter listened as his clever and relentlessly ambitious older half-sister Sophia (also daughter ...
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John Keats
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... apprentice. Then in 1815, he became a student at Guy’s Hospital. He registered for a six- month course to become a licensed surgeon. Soon after he decided he was going to be a doctor he realized his true passion was in poetry. So he decided he would try to excel in poetry also. His poetry that he wrote six years before his death was not very good. As his life progressed his poetry became more mature and amazing. He looked up to Shakespeare and Milton. He studied a lot of there poetry and imitated these two writers. His work resembled Shakespeare.
Soon after medical school ...
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Henry VIII
Number of Words: 1044 / Number of Pages: 4
... early reign, Henry relied on Thomas Cardinal Wosley to do much of the political and religious activities. Henry soon got tired of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon, so he decides that he doesn't want to be married to her anymore, so he tells Thomas Wosley to talk to the pope so he can divorce Catherine. But, Cardinal Wosley wasn't able to convince the pope, so in 1529 Henry took Wosley's authority away from him. Henry then appointed Sir Thomas More. Henry then got that divorce through Thomas Cramner, that he wanted with Catherine of Aragon and then married Anne Boleyn. Cramner now the Arch Bisho ...
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Martin Luther King & Malcom X
Number of Words: 678 / Number of Pages: 3
... believing, and making it happen of the equality of blacks and
whites on the same level. There were a lot of whites out there that
believed whites were superior now, and always should be. So when King and
X seemed to be making progress in equality, that's when they were both
brought to their death. They were both fatally shot in front of people.
King, heading outside being met by a lot of followers. And X during one of
his public speeches.
On the other hand these two men were very different. King was a
peaceful man, and wanted results in a peaceful manner. X,
however, bel ...
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Donald Trump
Number of Words: 1276 / Number of Pages: 5
... were always teaching them the value of money. Even though they did not have to, all of the children worked. The girls worked in banks and the boys worked with their father on various construction sites. Donald was not the best student and was a handful for teachers. At the age of thirteen, Donald was not meeting his parent’s expectations so he was sent away to military school. He did
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well at the military academy, both socially and academically. Trump had become a star baseball player while in school and had also become a student leader for his graduating class. In 1964 Donald gradua ...
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Lewis Carroll
Number of Words: 2116 / Number of Pages: 8
... with mostly his sisters, he was the "master of their ceremonies, inventor of games, magician, marionette theater manager, and editor of family journals" (DLB v. 163 45). A great deal of Carroll’s childhood was spent taking care of his little sisters, and his imagination was constantly being exercised in order to entertain them (Green 18). A childhood trouble that Carroll possessed and persisted throughout his life was stammering severely. It is suggested that his stammer may have arisen from his parent’s attempts to correct his left-handedness. This attempt early in his life may have ca ...
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The Writings Of Pat Conroy
Number of Words: 1281 / Number of Pages: 5
... While he was attending the
Citadel, he learned many important lessons of life (Burns 5).
Pat Conroy gained a lot of inspiration for his writing while attending
college. His first book, The Boo, was published in 1970. It is based on a
relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Nugent Courvoise, Assistant
Commandant of Cadets, nicknamed Boo (Burns 1). It was a kind account of
the Citadel (Disc. Auth. 2). Conroy once said The Boo was his longest
letter to the world. In 1980, Conroy decided to write another book with
influence from his alma mater. The Lords of Discipline was a story about
the ...
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Rubens
Number of Words: 946 / Number of Pages: 4
... Prince William I of Orange (William the Silent). On the death of Jan in 1587, his widow returned the family to Antwerp, where they again became Catholics. After studying the classics in a Latin school and serving as a court page, Peter Paul decided to become a painter. He apprenticed in turn with Tobias Verhaecht, Adam van Noort, and Otto van Veen, called Vaenius, three minor Flemish painters influenced by 16th-century Mannerist artists of the Florentine-Roman school. The young was as precocious a painter as he had earlier been a scholar of modern European languages and of classical antiquity. In 1 ...
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Martin Luther King
Number of Words: 1567 / Number of Pages: 6
... on
December 1st. Two Patrolmen took her away to the police station where she
was booked. He and 50 other ministered held a meeting and agreed to start a
boycott on December 5th, the day of Rosa Parks's hearing. This boycott
would probably be successful since 70% of the riders were black. The bus
company did not take them seriously, because if there was bad weather, they
would have to take the bus. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
was established to co-ordinate the boycott. They had a special agreement
with black cab companies, in which they were allowed to get a ride for a
much cheaper pr ...
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Mother Teresa
Number of Words: 794 / Number of Pages: 3
... homeless people on the streets of Calcutta. There lives were horrible, living on other peoples scraps and letting babies that they couldn’t support die in trash bins. She decided to ask the archbishop if she could stop her teaching and dedicate her life to helping the "less fortunate." When received a written consent that it was okay, she began her work.
In 1948 Pope Pius XII gave permission to be a totally independant nun, so she became an Indian citizen. After studying about nursing, she founded the "Missionaries of Charity." This was a group of nuns who go around and help the sick and dying. Al ...
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