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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
Words: 536 - Pages: 2.... training. In 1931,
Mother Teresa took her name of Teresa from Therese Martin, a French nun.
Six years later she took her vows. Mother Teresa 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 congreg .....
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Woman Of The Year: 1953-Queen Elizabeth II
Words: 954 - Pages: 4.... and her sister were homed schooled. She was taught by Miss
Marion Crawford, a young Scottish woman. At the age of 5, she usually woke up
at 6 a.m. and went out for riding lessons. After that, they had lunch, lessons
in French, voice and piano. In the afternoon she would play in the garden,
usually with her sister and Miss Crawford. She became heiress to the throne at
the age of ten. She had to learn court etiquette and diplomatic practice from
her grandmother, Queen Mary. She studied the geography and history of the
Commonwealth countries and the U.S. Elizabeth went to Eton College for private
lessons in law. She was training fo .....
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Agatha Christie
Words: 1345 - Pages: 5.... in Torquay, Devon, England. She was taught at home by her mother and several tutors and governesses, never attending a real school. As a child, Miller kept herself occupied by inventing games to play with her siblings. Not being around other children besides her siblings made Miller a shy child. She was not outspoken in her thoughts, so she expressed her feelings in music. Later in life, she would turn to writing as a means of expression (Yaffe BKYaffe@nltl.columbia.edu). Agatha Miller’s first husband was Archibald Christie, who was a World War I fighter pilot. The newlywed Mrs. Christie worked as a nurse while her husband was off at war. .....
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The Life Of Anne Frank
Words: 646 - Pages: 3.... most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--
innocent people—are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo
can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up
against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper,
where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.'"--October 9, 1942
"All college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the
effect that they 'sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New
Order." Eighty percent have decided to obay the dictates of their
conscience, but the penalty will be severe. Any student refusing to sign
will be sent .....
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Terry Fox
Words: 2106 - Pages: 8.... his son, as well did his mother, Betty. Little did his parent's know their son was a true hero (Brown 12).
One March morning in 1977, Terry awoke with a striking pain in his right knee. Terry had no idea that what he had thought to be a cartilage problem from playing sports was actually a fatal tumor. Terry received the test results, and sadly, he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma: a rare bone cancer. With his parents by his side, Terry cried. This marked the beginning of the battle for his life, yet the start of a new hope. Eventually, since the cancer had spread, Terry was forced to have his leg amputated. The night before his .....
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Life Of Shakespear
Words: 333 - Pages: 2.... Company built the Globe Theater. In the year 1608 the Lord Chamberlains Company acquired control of the Blackfriars, which at that time was the only theater within the limits of London. Shakespeare was a shareholder in both of these theaters. This suggests that Shakespeare might have been a businessman as well as an actor and playwright. In Shakespeare began to write plays for his troop Lord Chamberlains Company. In writing his plays he had to take several things into account. Some examples are the skills of the actors in his troop, and also that all of the actors were men, because of the fact that no women were allowed to perform at .....
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Roberto Baggio
Words: 566 - Pages: 3.... in six league matches and he got one goal, the first professional goal of his career. On the 15th of February 1984 Roberto was called to make his first under 16 national game. On the ninth of January Roberto played his first national juniors game. On the third day in May of 1985 Vicenza sold Roberto to Fiorentina of the serie A. The world famous ponytail was first seen on the pitch in 1987. The following year Roberto really got noticed. With such a great year, he was called up in November 1988 for his first international match. At the end of the season Roberto married Andreina, his long time girlfriend, in their hometown of Caldogno. At th .....
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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X Comparison
Words: 1911 - Pages: 7.... on, hatred and a desire for revenge drove him. The early backgrounds of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were largely responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both men ultimately became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday, achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral consci .....
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Antonin Scalia
Words: 641 - Pages: 3.... at the Virginia Law School until 1974. In 1971, Scalia became General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy for the White House, and from 1972 to 1974, he was the chairman of the Administrative Conference of the US. Scalia was then appointed the assistant attorney general of the Office of Legal Counsel for the Department of Justice. In 1977, Scalia returned to teaching after 6 months serving as the resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in DC. Him and his family picked up and moved again to Chicago, Illinois. While In Chicago, Scalia taught at the University of Chicago’s law school (he was also a visiting pro .....
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
Words: 2060 - Pages: 8.... Joe, Sr., was given the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and later the prestigious position of United States ambassador to Great Britain(Anderson 98). His mother, Rose, was a loving housewife and took young John on frequent trips around historic Boston learning about American revolutionary history. Both parents impressed on their children that their country had been good to the Kennedys. Whatever benefits the family received from the country they were told, must be returned by performing some service for the country(Anderson 12). The Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby, Ted and their sisters, Eunice, Jean, Patricia, Ro .....
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