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The Diary Of Anne Frank By Anne Frank
Words: 371 - Pages: 2.... never being able to step outside. Such repression and life of fear would make almost any teenager completely depressed and more miserable that words could express. However, Anne managed to keep hope for a better tomorrow and her respect for the human race.
Anne made a very powerful statement in her last words. To truly believe such a thing after being abused by the Nazis is quite remarkable indeed. I am very sure that most people, including myself, would have thought that the world was a completely corrupt and humans are naturally cruel if they’d have gone through such times. I believe that Anne has the ability to say such a th .....
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Lizzie Borden
Words: 2713 - Pages: 10.... in real estate and banks and became quite a wealthy man by the standards of his time(Crimelibrary, 1998). Many self-made men prefer to keep a firm grip on their hard-won riches. However; Andrew took this particular tendency to such an extreme that he was a local legend, and not a very popular one.
According to one Fall River legend, "When he was an undertaker, he cut the feet off the corpses so that he could cram them into undersized coffins that he got cheap"(Meganet, 1998 ).
Even though Andrew Borden was wealthy, the Borden family lived quite modestly in a narrow little house on Second Street.
's actual mother had died when Lizzie was .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Words: 947 - Pages: 4.... his parents died when he was only ten years old. He went to go stay with his older brother, Johann Christoph, who was a professional organist at Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph continued his younger brother’s education on the organ, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother’s care.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of eighteen as a “lackey and violinist” in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job as organist at a ch .....
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Abraham Of Chaldea
Words: 3051 - Pages: 12.... before he lived in Haran, and said to him, "Depart
from your country and your relatives, and come into the land that I will
show you." 2
While in Haran, Abram's father died and God spoke to him again saying, "Go
forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father's
house, to the land which I will show you." 3 He obeyed and left Haran
with his brother Nahor's family and his Nephew Lot without really knowing
where he was going. At this time, God did not reveal to him he was going
to Canaan. God only told him "the land which I will show you." 4 When he
did arrive in Canaan, he camped in the plains of Moreh, between the
mo .....
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Theodore Roosevelt And Saddam Hussein Comparison
Words: 347 - Pages: 2.... actions with similar reasons are viewed in totally different lights.
Their personal habits are equally suspect. Roosevelt gathered about himself a group of friends and associates who while not elected into decision making positions were often party to the creation of US policy. Hussein is known to have done much the same however his friends have been dubbed co-conspirators. These practices are fairly common thorough the world, however when someone other than the US has one of these circles then they are an evil aristocracy which is oppressing the populace.
Thus with these examples it is shown that they are similar men with similarly a .....
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Biography Of Moshe Dayan
Words: 599 - Pages: 3.... supervised the Sinai campaign of 1956. Leaving the army in 1958,
he was elected to the Israeli Parliament in 1959 and served (1959-64) as
minister of agriculture in the government of David Ben-Gurion.
By popular demand, Dayan was made defense minister just before the
Six-Day War of 1967, which greatly enhanced his reputation. He was, however,
blamed for Israel's unpreparedness in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, and he
subsequently resigned (1974). Named foreign minister in Menachem Begin's
government in 1977, he played an important role in negotiating the peace
treaty with Egypt signed in 1979. Later that year he resigned in protest .....
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Costly Mistake
Words: 1190 - Pages: 5.... Still I proceeded to push the limits to prove something meaningless and dumb. We had many hours before the nights events started. I remember thinking to myself that I was going to be in trouble If I didn't slow down on the liquid courage, a feeling that I was very accustomed to, but something wasn't right to night I felt a foreign feeling that I quickly dismissed and chased with another drink.
Finally 10:30p.m. rolled around, A little over seven hours since we had started drinking. Like drunken fools we wandered out the door of the house and figured out the driving situation to the bowling ally. I didn't volunteer, refusing to drive knowi .....
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Columbus 2
Words: 739 - Pages: 3.... as far south as La Mina (Present day Elmaina , Ghana) and as far north as England. Columbus also made a voyage to Iceland in 1477.
In 1479 Columbus married the Portuguese noblewomen Dona Felipa e Perestrello e Moriz and established land in Porto Santo were his son Diego was born in 1480. When his wife died somewhere between 1481 to 1485, Columbus returned to Lisbon. As early as 1484 Columbus got a plan to sail west from the Canary Islands to the Indies (now East Indies) and the island kingdom of Cipangu (modern day Japan). When King John II declined Columbus’s “Enterprises to the Indies” he decided to go to the Span .....
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Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, Or None Of The Above
Words: 939 - Pages: 4.... began setting type for the local newspaper Hannibal Journal, which his older brother Orion managed (Mark Twain 1).
In 1853, when Samuel was eighteen, he left Hannibal for St. Louis (Unger 194). There he became a steam boat pilot on the Mississippi River. Clemens piloted steamboats until the Civil War in 1861. Then he served briefly with the Confederate army (Mark Twain 1). In 1862 Clemens became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada. In 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning “two fathoms deep” (Bloom 43).
In 1865, Twain reworked a ta .....
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Vespasian
Words: 2436 - Pages: 9.... hesitated before following his brother into the Senate, his
career was in no sense retarded; for, after military service in Thrace and
a quaestorship in Crete, he reached the praetorship in the earliest year
allowed him by law, namely AD 39, the year in which his elder son, Titus,
was born.
Vespasian ingratiated himself with the ruling emperor, Caligula (Gaius
Caesar); and in the next reign, that of Claudius, he won the favour of the
powerful freedman Narcissus. He became commander of the Legio II Augusta,
which took part in the invasion of Britain in 43. After distinguished
conduct at the crossing of the Medway River, he was given charge .....
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