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Yasir Arafat
Number of Words: 1048 / Number of Pages: 4
... Bur in 1988,
Arafat persuaded the PLO it accept Israel's rights to exist along side an
independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had
occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip
and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected
Arafat it's president. But Israel continued to occupy and in effect govern
the area. In 1993, the PLO-under Arafat's leadership, signed an agreement
with Isreal for the star of a plan for Palestinian self-government for and
Israel's withdrawals from the Gaza strip and the west bank. In 1994, this ...
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Joseph Stalin
Number of Words: 936 / Number of Pages: 4
... innocent men, women, and children for more than 20 years.” Millions of people were sent to the Gulag camps from 1939 through 1953, for the crime of doing absolutely nothing. There were “...eight million souls (a conservative estimate) who languished in Soviet concentration camps every year between 1939 and 1953.” under the horrible conditions at the Gulags. Every year Stalin, in his paranoia sent millions of people off to their deaths.
“Russia’s War - Blood Upon the Snow” brought into view a more detailed, personal account of Stalin’s atrocities. People rec ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 1593 / Number of Pages: 6
... curiosity had already begun to stir. A
favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marveled at his
uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by
certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure
to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to
believe he was disabled.
Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when
he was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through
the school's strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of
teaching led to his r ...
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Life And Times Of Fredrick Douglas
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... the foundation principles of the slaveholders Christianity were built on a false premise- the misinterpretation of an obscure passage of the Bible. Douglass continues to support the claim when he describes his experience with the Aulds concerning learning to read. Those "who proclaim it a religious duty to read the Bible" denied him "the right of learning to read the name of the God who made" him. Mr. Auld stopped his wife from teaching Douglass to read because it would "spoil" him, make him "discontented and unhappy", make him "unmanageable" and "unfit to be a slave." Despite his motive, Mr. Auld unk ...
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Henry David Thoreau
Number of Words: 2069 / Number of Pages: 8
... to teach, and his aunts offered to help. With the assistance of his family and the beneficiary funds of Harvard he went to Cambridge in August 1833 and entered Harvard on September first. "He [Thoreau] stood close to the top of his class, but he went his own way too much to reach the top" (5).
In December 1835, Thoreau decided to leave Harvard and attempt to earn a living by teaching, but that only lasted about a month and a half (8). He returned to college in the fall of 1836 and graduated on August 16, 1837 (12). Thoreau's years at Harvard University gave him one great gift, an introduction to t ...
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... coats, our
army and our navy . . . Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the
heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have
planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with
the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book
Encyclopedia).
He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during the debates with his
opponent Stephen Douglas, he became well known for his opposotion to slavery.
The southern states, which believed they depended upon slavery to remain
prosperous in the cotton, tobacco, and rice i ...
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Examples Of Charles Dickens Chthonic Journeys
Number of Words: 655 / Number of Pages: 3
... left the family with no money to pay their rent. Their father/husband borrowed money from people and never repaid them. Back in the
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1800’s if you owed people money and couldn’t pay them back you would go to jail. With no house to live in everybody but Charles Dickens goes to live in jail with their father
because they have no place to live. On the other hand Charles Dickens goes to live with friend. With all of this happening, including his family living in jail and his living away from them with a friend just crushed Dickens hopes and feelings.
Another chthonic journey that C ...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Number of Words: 1713 / Number of Pages: 7
... the Groton School in Massachusetts, where the headmaster, Endicott Peabody (1857-1944), stressed to his wealthy young students their obligation toward those who were less fortunate in society. After graduation from Harvard University in 1904, Roosevelt attended Columbia University Law School without taking a degree and was admitted to the New York State bar in 1907. In 1905, despite his widowed mother's objections, he married a distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, in a gala society wedding at which President Theodore Roosevelt gave the bride away.
The Beginning of Roosevelt's Political Career
Fr ...
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The Time Period And People Of
Number of Words: 695 / Number of Pages: 3
... if she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding. And she had little dogs she would be feeding.” The Monk was also not a typical Monk. He wore gold jewelry and had classy attire. The Host “saw his sleeves were garnished at the hand With fine gray fur, the finest in the land.” The three rioters in the Pardoner’s Tale were also condemned. They became greedy stopped and were willing to stop at nothing to get the ‘florins’. This caused their death. They caused their own death
There were also a few people who were commended. The Parson and the Plowman are two examples. The Parson always w ...
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Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years Of Movie Magic
Number of Words: 2466 / Number of Pages: 9
... Hitchcock led
a long and prosperous life in the movie industry, starting as a teenager
and making movies up until his death in 1980, while working on the 54th of
his career (Sterrit 3).
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1889 in London,
England. As a child his parents were very strict with him and they imposed
severe and unusual punishments upon him, as what they considered to be
discipline. One of these incidents scarred him for life. As punishment
for arriving home late one night, young Alfred's father had a policeman
friend lock the boy up in a cell for five minutes, "in order t ...
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