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Guy Fawkes
Words: 978 - Pages: 4.... 14th November of the same year. Two other sisters were born followed by Anne, another Anne, who later married Henry Kilburns in Scotton on 12th October1572, and Elizabeth, who later married William Dickenson also in Scotton on 27th May 1594. Edward Fawkes who was advocate of the consistory court of the Archbishop of York. On his mother’s side, he was descended from the Harrington family who were eminent merchants and Alderman of York.
In 1605, (also known as Guido), and a group of conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament to kill the King, James I and the entire Parliament. The conspirators were angered because King James .....
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Jane Erye
Words: 862 - Pages: 4.... doctor was not of his people. The gate was closed a little and the servant refused to speak in the old language. They never got to speak to the doctor with Kino’s anger. He struck the gate a crushing blow with his fist.
Kino own a canoe which was owned by his Grandpa and give it to his father and passed to Kino it was the one thing of value he owned in the world. Kino found a pearl a silvery pearl he seemed to saw the great oyster for the first time. His wife was so very excited when he saw the pearl and she could not want to hold it. Before he found the pearl he heard the song of the pearl but in the song there was a secret, little i .....
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Shaka Zulu
Words: 691 - Pages: 3.... send Shaka to live with her aunt for fear for his safety. Nandi’s aunt lived with the Mthethwa, a very powerful group. Here he learned many of the skills that later made him a successful warrior.
That was also where he came under the guidance of Dingiswayo, an important factor in the shaping of his thinking.
Dingiswayo introduced age regiments where young men were called up to serve for a part of every year, men from the same households and villages were put in different regiments, their allegiance primarily to the ruler of the chiefdom, Dingiswayo, and secondarily to their local chiefs.
In his early twenties, Shaka was conscripted into th .....
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John Steinbeck
Words: 949 - Pages: 4.... A close friend of John’s father got him a job as an account for the Spreckles Sugar Company. “Although he had a job, John’s father was extremely devastated by the lose of his business”(Stephen)
“Encouraged by his parents John began to develop a love literature”(Morrow). At his ninth birthday John received a copy of the book Morte d’Arthur. This was the first book John ever owned. He later said it was a great influence upon his life. During his years at Salinas High School, John excelled in English. At the end of his Freshman year in High School John had determined that he wanted to become a wr .....
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Emily Dickinson
Words: 1124 - Pages: 5.... tone for the era when he said, "Whoso would be a
[hu]man, must be a non-conformist." Emily Dickinson believed and practiced this
philosophy.
When she was young she was brought up by a stern and austere father. In
her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the
Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in
Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers
such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she
began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted
to Christianity, her family was also .....
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Ernesto Guevara De Serna
Words: 1097 - Pages: 4.... U.S. imperialism. Although his parents, most notably his mother, were anti-Peronist activists, he did not take participate in revolutionary student movements and showed little interest in politics at Buenos Aires University (1947) where he studied medicine. He focused on understanding his own disease, and later became more interested in leprosy.
In 1949 he made the first of his long journeys, exploring northern Argentina on a bicycle. This was the first time Ernesto came into contact with the very poor and the remnants of the Indian tribes. It was during this leave of absence from schooling that Guevara, now nicknamed “Che” .....
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Hofstadter
Words: 2872 - Pages: 11.... as the pre-eminent historian of his time. He had already written one book, Social Darwinism in American Thought; it had been his graduate thesis, under Merle Curti, at Columbia University, and it remains one of the most important books on the subject. After graduating, taught briefly at the University of Maryland but soon returned to Columbia, where he taught for the balance of his career.
There he wrote not only The American Political Tradition but several other provocative and enduring works. Of these perhaps the most notable was his 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Reform, which introduced his idea of "status politics" -- the .....
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Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Comparison
Words: 1325 - Pages: 5.... father was murdered by the Black Legion, a group of white racists belonging to the KKK. He changed his name to Malcolm X while in prison.He went to prison because of a robbery and was serving ten years. Also while in prison he became a follower of Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad was the leader of an organization called the Nation of Islam. During the 1950's, Malcolm became the primary spokesman for the Nation. He also came of the surveillance of the FBI along with Elijah Muhammad. As was Dr. King's, Malcolm's every move was followed and documented.
Malcolm became a powerful speaker in the movement. As King captured the spirit of the Southern B .....
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Anne Frank
Words: 1267 - Pages: 5.... placed on the Jews. One restriction was that Jewish children were only allowed at Jewish schools. Anne went to the Jewish school called The Jewish Lyceum.
In July 1942, Anne’s family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne’s family called it the "Secret Annex". During these times people they knew like, Miep and Jan Gies and many others, brought the family’s food. You would have to be very brave to take on a job like that because, if you got caught you could be killed.
Life in the Annex was not easy at all. Anne had to wake up at 6:45 A.M. every morning. Nobody could go outside. No one could turn on .....
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Shaquille O'neal
Words: 255 - Pages: 1.... about him signing a seven year deal with the LA Lakers. I knew him since
his second year with the Orlando Magic about four years ago.
Shaq is a professional basketball player in the NBA. He has also made
two platinum albums in which he expressed his life story. Movies that he has
been in include Blue Chips and Kazaam. Also, Shaq has contributed a lot of time
and money to donations.
Shaq has affected me in many ways. One thing that he has taught me is
that I can do anything that I want if I put my mind to it. He taught me this by
overcoming a hard childhood, moving from place to place because his step-father
was in the military. He .....
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