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Sophocles
... competition, had the honor of competing against the great Aeschylus himself and defeated him taking first place. There would be many more plays to follow this accomplishment and would walk home with nothing less than a second place.
, noted as being a talented actor, performed in many of his own plays. In one of his plays called, "The Woman Washing Clothes," he performed a juggling act that was talked about all over town for many years because the audience was so fascinated. But before you knew it was to take another route and end his acting career to venture elsewhere. For many years served as a dictated priest in the service of two heroes named Alcon ...
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Derek Morris: A Personal Bio
... pros. It probably won't
come true but who knows. Being a student at Shrewsbury I have had much success.
I have been on the honor roll many times and a few months ago I was accepted to
Bryant College. On the baseball field I have also received various honors and
awards. I was captain of the baseball team in my junior and senior year and was
named most valuable player in my junior year.
Shrewsbury is not were I've always lived. I was born in Natick, lived
there for a few months then moved to Framingham. I lived in Framingham for
eleven years then moved to this town I never heard of, Shrewsbury. I have now
lived here for seven years.
I have two great parents Geor ...
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Cicero
... him of being truly a unique and bold political philosopher. This is not to say however some of his doctrines are untrue, just that he is somewhat blinded by his roman beliefs and assumptions.
The assumptions of can be noticed when one inspects his view of the ideal governing body, which he expresses through Scipio (in the commonwealth). Although presents very convincing arguments for a Composite government, clearly his view is possibly only due towards his belief in the roman structure of government.1 was limited to roman borders of experience, and this point was best illustrated by his disagreement with Aristotle's writings on the decay of states. was unabl ...
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King Arthur
... B.C. to
689 A.D. Geoffrey includes many sources of information with his work but
most scholars believe it to be a fictional bibliography added only to give
his book some credibility. Therefore his work is considered to be
literature not factual history. Geoffrey is the one responsible for the
portrayal of Arthur as a splendid King who conquered the British Isles and
much of Europe Introduced by Geoffrey are Guenevere, Merlin, information
about Arthur's strange birth and death and the concept of chivalry. Due to
the tremendous popularity of Geoffrey's book, authors like Robert Wace and
Chretien de Troyes continued on with the development of King Arthur and ...
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Frederick Douglass
... of his speaking ability, Douglass soon became the major
drawing card at meetings of the abolitionist society. A deep melodious
voice, grace and a flair for the dramatic would allow Douglass to mesmerize
his listeners at the abolitionist meetings.
From 1845 to 1847, Douglas would travel in Great Britain speaking
for the elimination of 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 my ...
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Leonardo Da Vinnci
... up his own business and was famous for being a painter and a man of science. As a scientist, he observed everything he could in nature. Leonardo used what he learned from nature and science to make his paintings look real. He drew and took many notes of what he observed. His notes were written backwards, probably because he didn't want people to read about his discoveries and observations. In order to read Leonardo's notes, one has to hold them up to a mirror. In 1472 he entered a painters' guild. His earliest extensive works date back to this time. In 1482 Da Vinci worked for Duke Lodovico Sforza in Milan for 18 years. He fulfilled the position as court artist, ...
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Thomas Paine And Samuel Adams Contributing To "Selling The Revolution"
... way he
denounced King George the 3rd (1689-1702) as a “royal brute”, a murderer
and a thief, and stated that we should not be a continent that is
attached to an island.
In 1776 while Paine was on the road with the continental army he
wrote a series of pamphlets called the American Crisis where he persuaded
people not to give up their fight. As best stated in the American Crisis,
...God Almighty will not give up
a people to military destruction, or leave them
unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and
so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war,
by ever ...
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Samuel Adams - American Patrio
... United States.
As a young child, Samuel spent his elementary school days at Boston Latin. Academics quickly became his forte and at age fourteen he enrolled in Harvard College. Four years later, a member of the Class of 1743, Samuel Adams graduated from Harvard College with a Master of Arts degree. After college he entered private business, and throughout this period was an outspoken participant in Boston town meetings. When his business failed in 1764 Adams entered politics full-time, and was elected to the Massachusetts State legislature.
Adams led the effort to establish a committee of correspondence that published a Declaration of Colonial Rights that he h ...
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A.A. Milne
... Marie and John Van Milne. (Collier, Nakamura 1685) A. A. and his two older brothers Davis Barrett (Barry) and Kenneth John (Ken) grew up in the Henley House. This was a school for boys that his father ran. (WWW) As Milne grew up, he and his brother Ken became very close although he showed no affection for Barry. This is how things stayed for the rest of their lives. (WWW) Alan Alexander once said he and Ken shared “ ‘Equally all belief, all knowledge, all ambition, all hope and all fears’ ”. (WWW) While this statement symbolizes how close a bond there was between them he went on to say this about Barry and his relationship, “ ‘ Whoever heard … of two frogs assumin ...
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Carlos Santana
... 1955 the drastic change of moving from the small, quiet town of Autlan to the humming, thriving boom town of Tijuana brought a renewed hope and opportunity for a new life. Both for Carlos and his family. The eight-year old Carlos quickly left the violin for the guitar, studying and emulating the sounds of B.B. King, T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker. Soon he was being asked to join local bands like the T.J.'s, where he added a unique touch and feel to his own renditions of all the great songs of the 1950's. As he continued to play with different bands along the busy Tijuana Strip, he not Page Two only started to perfect his style and sound, but actually started b ...
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