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Harriet Tubman
... caught the measles and was sent back to Brodas. When she was well, she was taken in by a woman as a housekeeper and baby-sitter. She was whipped and sent back to Brodas after eating one of the woman’s sugar cubes. (www.teleport.com p.1)
As was the custom on all plantations, when she turned eleven, she started wearing a bright cotton bandana around her head indicating she was no longer a child. She was also no longer known by her “basket name”, Arminta. Now she would be called Harriet, after her mother. (www.teleport.com p.1) By her early teens, Harriet was no longer allowed to work indoors and was hired out as a field hand. Although she was a hard worker, ...
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Ghandi 2
... a religion, and three, the return of India to its roots.
His actions of passive resistance presented a great force upon the British. Although hard to control at times, the idea eventually worked in the end. Gandhi practiced protesting, fasting, and the boycotting of British goods. To accomplish the last he made his own clothes that were simple and made from hand-woven wool. The spinning wheel was one of the symbols used in his fight for India.
Gandhi gave new life to the old idea of nationalism indeed. He helped to spark the fire that once was weak and now burned brightly. By his actions and protests and rallies for nationalism, he helped to try to unite ...
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Abraham Lincoln
... cargo on a flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana. He then returned to
Illinois and settled in New Salem, a short-lived community on the Sangamon River,
where he split rails and clerked in a store. He gained the respect of his fellow
townspeople, including the so-called Clary Grove boys, who had challenged him to
physical combat, and was elected captain of his company in the Black Hawk War
(1832). Returning from the war, he began an unsuccessful venture in shopkeeping
that ended when his partner died. In 1833 he was appointed postmaster but had to
supplement his income with surveying and various other jobs. At the same time he
began to study law. That he gradual ...
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John Lennon
... boundaries between the two. As he explained it, he started trying "to shave off all imagery, pretensions of poetry, illusions of grandeur...Just say what it is, simple English, make it rhyme and put a backbeat on it, and express yourself as simply [and] straightforwardly as possible." His most fully realized statement, as a solo artist was 1970's /Plastic Ono Band. Lennon's first solo album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature of Plastic Ono Band reflected the primal-scream therapy that Lennon and Ono had been undergoing with psychologist Ar ...
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Shoeless Joe
... He first entered professional baseball in 1908 with Greenville in the Carolina Association. It was during this same year that he received the nickname “Shoeless” Joe after he had just bought a new pair of spikes. They wore blisters on his feet and they hurt so badly that he just played in his stocking feet. Although he played only one game without the spikes, he was known as “” from then on (McGee 1).
made his major league debut later that year, in 1908, with the Philadelphia Athletics. He only played there a short time before being transferred to the Cleveland Indians. Finally, in 1915 he was sold to Charles Comiskey and the Chicago White Sox. It ...
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Confucius In The Chinese History
... Few people have read any of his teachings today. Yet the truth and importance of his words resonate when they are heard, because Confucius' teachings developed in reaction to the times in which he lived -- and our times are very much like his.
In the days Confucius lived were, compared to the past, a time of moral chaos, in which common values were widely rejected. Crime was on the rise and murder happened even in the royal court. Government was routinely corrupt or distrusted by the people.
Confucius began a successful political career when he was a young man, but fell out in a short period of time. His personal goal was to restore peace followed the old p ...
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The Life Of A Jamestown Colonist
... when discussing Jamestown because Jamestown was not settled in any way. We had no consistent form of food, we had no consistent leaders, and our relationship with the Algonquians was tenuous.
First of all, my name is Anne Williams. I was one the first people to come to Jamestown. As a child in the mid-1500’s, I remember my parents talking about how nervous they were that Spain seemed to be gaining such a foothold in the New World. No one in England liked the fact that Spain was the most powerful country in Europe. The king decided to explore in an effort to find a northwest passage to Asia without going around Asia. England also wanted to steal some of Spain’s rich ...
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Polygamy
... held sacred and fulfilled. Inasmuch as this Church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication and , we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband, except in case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again. (History of the Church, Vol.2, Ch.18, p.247. Plural marriages, "Spiritual Wives" and rumors of such, including accusation about adultery mixed with secrete marriages, are what prompted the statement on marriage, in an attempt to squash rumors and innuendo. Joseph Smith was conveniently out of town, thus he could be seen as supporting the inclusion of that statement from outsiders, while contin ...
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St. Joan Of Arc
... to their condition."
No contemporary picture exists of Jeanne d'Arc. She denied ever sitting for a portrait. What did this female soldier of the 14th century look like? The Princess of Hungary, Eugelide, led us to believe that 'Joan had a short neck and a little bright red mark behind her right ear.' Jeanne begins to be mentioned in history, as a young girl of 12 – 13 years old. Jeanne was born into a family of healthy parents, she did her housework, worked in the fields, tended the cattle and took part as a member of a country family. With these tasks, one might expect Jeanne to have rough hands, dark skin from spending so much time in the sun, and strong musc ...
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Tiger Woods: The Making Of A Champion
... live in Cypress, California and he stands a tall
6'4 and weighs a lean 155.
Now about his golfing days. Tiger won the 1991, 1992, and 1993 U.S
Junior Amateur championships. When winning his third he brought out a record
attendance of over 15,000 spectators. Woods was also the first African-
American to win the U.S Juniors. He quotes " when I am up at the tee all I
think about is where I want my ball to go". During this whole time Tiger
attended Stanford college and maintained straight A's in his sophomore year. He
had originally planed to graduate from Stanford before going pro, but when Nike
offered him a 42 million dollar deal to wear their clothes f ...
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