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Amerigo Vespucci
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 493.... Amerigo was older, but still a young man, his father Antastagio
Vespucci sent him to the Monestary of San Marco to study with his uncle Giorgio.
In his new school, Amerigo along with the other European boys learned Latin,
math, grammar, history, Italian and Greek Literature, geography and astronomy.
Amerigo learned to love astronomy, because he was fascinated about all of the
shapes the stars made, that his uncle called constellations. Amerigo thought
about traveling about the Earth, but he thought it to be impossible, because he
was tought in school that the equ .....
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 327.... thing, and hit it hard,
Mother; there's no such thing as one people better than another. The Lord
created us all equal , and I'm going to see to that."
Over the years King was involved in many famous boycotts and marches, but
none of them matched his famous march in Washington. He gave a speech that
showed bigotry in the government. Now, just 20 years later, our country is
changing, and helping to change South Africa.
The key to all this success was Martin Luther King Jr. who showed us that
one man, nonviolently, could make a difference. Most of all he made us
realize that .....
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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 536.... then decided to begin her
teaching. She taught for twenty years in Saint Mary's High School in
Calcutta, India.
On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa said she received another call
from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon
granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun
to fulfill her calling. So she began to share her life with the poor, sick
and the hungry in Calcutta. Mother Teresa with her new positon established
a congregation called Missionaries of Charity. She began her work by
teaching the children of .....
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2104.... comprehend what kinds of human activities and behaviors were acceptable
and how Bradstreet deviated from these behaviors.
Bradstreet was not truly unorthodox in that she did not dissent
from accepted beliefs and doctrine. She was a woman of the 17th Century
and lived in a male dominated, intensely religious society. She lived
within the limitations not only of the beliefs and standards of her society,
but of her sex. A woman's place was definitely in the home in Colonial
America. The experiences of women were considered narrow and trivial in
comparison with men's.
Purita .....
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Woodrow Wilson And His Ability To Be An Effective President
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1322.... college and studied American and British political history, public
speaking, and law. After college he set up a law practice with Edward Renick.
Because he had not learned the field of law thorough while in school, he showed
a poor ability to be a lawyer. During this time he was in and out of sickness.
Wilson did not really want to be a lawyer. His main area of interest was
in politics. His first taste of politics was during his term as Governor of New
Jersey. He took this seat in office with sites of presidency two years later.
He let this be known in a letter h .....
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Zeno Of Elea
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 427.... the runner can
never reach the end of the course, as it would be infinitely long, much as the
semester would be infinitely long if we completed half, and then half the
remainder, ad infinitum. This interval will shrink infinitely, but never quite
disappear. This type of argument may be called the antinonomy of infinite
divisibilty, and was part of the dialectic which Zeno invented.
These are only a small part of Zeno's arguments, however. He is believed
to have devised at least forty arguments, eight of which have survived until the
present. While these arguments seem .....
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Alexander The Great, King Of Macedonia
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 709.... highlands where he met and defeated the Persian army under Darius the third at Issus(near modern day Turkey). He then occupied Syria and after a long siege of Tyre, then Phoenicia and then he marched into Egypt,were he was accepted as pharaoh. From there he visited the famous Libyan oracle or amon. The oracle certainly haled him as amon's son and probably promised him that he would become a god.
He then organized Egypt and founded the city of Alexandria, next he crossed the Easter Desert and the Tigris an Euphrates Rivers. Then, in the autumn of 331 B.C. he defeated Dari .....
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Hitler
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2006.... of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907, he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he faileor to all and was destined to rule the world. The paper blamed Communists and Jews for all their problems and agreed with those views. agreed with most of the points made in the news paper. He continued to live a poor life in Vienna and then eventually in 1913 decided to move to Munich. Still living in Vienna and being Austrian by birth, showed more loyalty to Germany. He thought that the Aryan rac .....
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