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De Tocqueville
Words: 1234 - Pages: 5.... as did the aristocracy when families intermarried beyond their genes capacity, as well as becoming corrupted.
’s second point is that the aristocracy have great lineage and pay homage to their ancestors, “A man almost always knows his forefathers and respects them;”. This is quite true, however does not mention that because of the family “blood”, wars have been fought, and many lives lost. continues to say, “He willingly imposes duties on himself towards the former and latter [ancestors and descendants], and he will frequently sacrifice his personal gratifications . . .”. It is a nice sen .....
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The Life And Work Of Frederick Douglass
Words: 1989 - Pages: 8.... a regiment of former slaves to
fight in the Civil War for the Union army. Due to the Fugitive Slave Laws,
Douglass became in danger of being captured and returned to slavery. He
left America, and stayed in the British Isles. There he lectured on
slavery, and gained the respect of many people, who raised money to
purchase his freedom. In 1847, Douglass relocated to Rochester, New York,
and became the person in charge of the Underground Railroad. Here he also
began the abolitionist newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860.
In this time period, Douglass became friends with another well
known American abolitionist, John Bro .....
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Pocahontas
Words: 551 - Pages: 3.... or not, it doesn’t change the rest of her story. After the "saved’ him, Smith and the Indians became friendly for the following year. Smith stayed in Jamestown, and visited him frequently. She carried messages from her father, and other Indians carried food, fur, and then traded hatchets and trinkets.
After a while, Smith’s relationship with the Powhatas worsened. ’s visits started to lessen, and in 1806, Smith was injured, and had to go back to England.
went on with her life though, she married an Indian "Pryvate Captyne" named Kocoum in 1610. Although in 1614, she fell in love with an Englishman, John Rolfe. T .....
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Selena
Words: 793 - Pages: 3.... to her, so he decided to teach her some Spanish songs, but one problem, only knew how to speak English, so went on with most of her life not even knowing what the words meant that she was singing. Well in order to start the band they would need more then so Abraham made Abraham III (nicknamed A.B.) her older brother, and Suzette, her older sister. A.B. already knowing the drums, Suzette already knowing the drum, and having an awesome voice started their band, " Y Los Dinos". They started practicing together and performer a little. In 1980, Abraham and Marcella opened up a Mexican restaurant. At first business was booming, A .....
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Lincoln - The Truth
Words: 1717 - Pages: 7.... at falling apart. Many of the financial happenings that were and are regarded as questionable have lead back to people working under him, but not a single one could be traced back to him. Some historians claim that a few of his actions were unconstitutional, however, all of his actions were later upheld by the Congress. Lincoln did what needed to be done.
Lincoln was an honest man. Especially when dealing with personal money matters. For example, at one point during his administration, Congress granted him twenty thousand dollars to fix up and refurbish the White House. In doing so, Mrs. Lincoln exceeded the allowed dollar amount by si .....
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John Hancock
Words: 1545 - Pages: 6.... sent him to a local dame school. Later he was sent to another school, in which he might have met John Adams, with whom he struck up a casual acquaintance. Like all the other children in town, he learned the basics of reading, writing, and figuring.All things seemed to go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of the reason that they would have to move. Mary’s parents were both dead and a very difficult decision would have to be made by Mary.
Her anxiety to make that decision was lessened by the invitation from the
bishop and his .....
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Siddhartha Gautama
Words: 982 - Pages: 4.... not to use extremes in
their life. He called this The Middle Way. That night Siddhartha sat under
the bodhi tree, and meditated till dawn. He cleared his mind of all worldly
things and claimed to get enlightenment at the age of thirty-five, thus earning
the title Buddha, or "Enlightened One." For the remainder of his eighty years,
the Buddha preached the dharma in an effort to help other people reach
enlightenment. When Siddhartha is a Brahmin, he believes in the existence of
many gods, and performs sacrifices to them. After a while he realizes this is
meaningless and decides to leave his family and community and become a Samana.
As a .....
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Napoleon 4
Words: 1042 - Pages: 4.... under the rubric of Code Napoleon. These codes were later exported to the places he conquered in battle. Napoleon's domestic affairs are reflected in his statements below:
Education:
"...Of all political questions this is perhaps the most important. There will be no stability in the state until there is a body of teachers with fixed principles. Till children are taught whether they ought to be Republicans or Monarchists, Catholics or Unbelievers, and so on, there may indeed be a state, but it cannot become a nation. It will rest on vague uncertain foundations. It will be constantly exposed to changes and disorders...."
Religion: .....
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Vincent Van Gogh
Words: 677 - Pages: 3.... branch of the art dealer. There is not much for him Paris so within a year he returns to London. Even though he is back in London, he is still very distracted in his work. At the same time, he becomes obsessed with bible studies. Van Gogh resigns from his position in 1876 and leaves for Ramsgate, England. There, he takes a job as a teacher and curates with the local minister. The more obsessive his interest in religion gets, the worse his physical and mental state get. He leaves England a year later to take up religious studies in Amsterdam. He soon comes to an end of his formal religious studies, and travels to a small coal-mining .....
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Pablo Casals
Words: 565 - Pages: 3.... he thought of simply
as "necessary to my performance", Pablo Casals was widely acclaimed as a
master. He received even more acclaim just after his first performance in
Paris on 1898, this sparked his long and monuments career.
Soon Casals began a great deal of touring across Europe and the
Americas, making his fresh, new style increasingly more and more popular.
Because of his popularity, at the time, the solo cellist performer became a
very highly thought of occupation. After his long tour, Casals met and then
joined up with two other famous and acclaimed French performers. These
were the violinist Jacques Thibaud and the pianist A .....
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