.... have to be the king of Spain. The fact that Columbus was Italian (a foreigner) he had to definitely make an impression on the king. Another problem was the fact that Columbus had never actually been a captain on a ship, only a passenger. There was also not a huge market for a Trans-Atlantic voyage. The fact that the idea of the world being round was a somewhat new aspect. It was amazing that this trip had started at all. The price of this trip included several boats, manpower, and survival supplies. This was all he needed to do the trip. This was not enough. Christopher wanted 10% commission on all commerce between his discoveries a .....

.... student who could remember things easy and concentrate well. At the age of 15, Manya graduated high school at the top of her class. That s ame year, Manya left for the countryside in order to relax. A year later, Manya returned home ready to return to school. Since girls were not permitted to attend university in Russian Poland, Manya and her sister Bronya, decided to study at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. However, they face one major p roblem, they had no money. In order to save money, the sisters decided to give private lessons, business was poor, so they made little money. Manya, wanting to keep up her education attende .....

.... he met the leading composers and musicians and worked on pieces together which gave him more insight on music. In 1712, he moved to England where he wrote most of his music. Handel composed music for George I of England including "Water Music." Handel composed the first London Italian opera ,"Rinaldo". He also developed a new form of opera called English oratorio. It combined the gaiety of Italian opera with an increased amount of chorus, usually in English and religious text. His most famous oratorio is the Messiah. It dealt with the birth, passion, and resurrection of Christ using text derived from the Bible. Handel had trouble with .....

.... Bishop ford refused to leave the war-torn country, even after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the war. During this time he distinguished himself by the way he cared for war refugees. Chinese paid a terrible price during this war with Japan, but even more costly was a civil war that followed. Bishop Ford exemplified the virtue of fortitude, by not leaving the war-torn country and staying to try to pursue good. During this time of war, many would wonder what was the reason for him to stay in China, and what was his why to live? In the Novel A Mans Search For Meaning, Nietzsche says "he who has a why .....

.... experiences were hard to describe. Douglass witnessed, as a child, what he called a "horrible exhibition." He lived with his Aunt in one of the master's corridors. The master was an inhumane slave holder. He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a slave. Douglass was often times awakened by the screams of his Aunt. She would be tied and whipped on her back. The master would whip her till he was literally covered in blood. "No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose." The louder she screamed, the harder the master seemed to whip her. Douglass witnessed this first a .....

.... most brutal serial killers of the 20th century (AP 10). was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont in a home for unwed mothers. His 22-year-old mother Eleanor Louise Cowell felt forced by the norms of society to have her parents raise Ted as their own and she portrayed herself to be her son's older sister. As for Ted's natural father Lloyd Marshall, who was an Air Force veteran was unknown to him throughout his life. When Ted turned four, his mother, Louise took him with her and moved to Tacoma, Washington where she married Johnnie Bundy. felt nothing towards his stepfather, he was very bitter that he was forced to move across .....

.... school there in 1963(Disc. Auth. 1). He attended the Citadel on a basketball scholarship (Castro 2). While there, he became the literary editor for the school magazine (Disc. Auth. 1). He also became captain and MVP of the basketball team (Bdd 1). While he was attending the Citadel, he learned many important lessons of life (Burns 5). Pat Conroy gained a lot of inspiration for his writing while attending college. His first book, The Boo, was published in 1970. It is based on a relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Nugent Courvoise, Assistant Commandant of Cadets, nicknamed Boo (Burns 1). It was a kind account of the Citadel .....

.... of that. My third source, Infopedia (computer encyclopedia) stated that the modernization of Russia included the creation of an army capable of contending with the western world. Another point that the video stressed which the text book and the encyclopedia did not was the opposition that Peter faced from Russian traditionalist church followers. Also, Peter’s stepsister was only mentioned in the video viewed in class. Peter Alexeevich, later to be known as , was born on May 30, 1672. He was the fourteenth child of his mother, although not all of them had lived past infancy. He was raised by a nurse although he knew his mother and she .....

.... annexed Albania. He then told the British ambassador that not even the bribe of France and North Africa would keep him neutral.�2 The British ambassador was appalled and dismayed. On May 28, 1937, Mussolini strongly gave thought to declaring war. He then attacked the Riviera across the Maritime. “On September 13, 1937 he opened an offensive into British-garrisoned Egypt from Libya.�3 On October 4, 1937, while the offensive still seemed to promise success, met Adolf Hitler at the Brenner Pass, on their joint frontier. “The two of them discussed how the war in the Mediterranean, Britain’s principal foothold outside its island bas .....

.... and by the age of eighteen he had already crossed the Atlantic six times. He avoided participation in the Civil War because of a poor back and began a role which he would maintain throughout his life and writings, one of a detached observer rather than participant in the American social scene. (Matthiessen 14) The first phase of James' writing begins when he is twenty-one, in 1864 and continues until 1881. He was extremely popular during this time, especially during after publication of a short story Daisy Miller, which is concerned with the destruction of a naive American girl by European mores. James continues the theme of placing Ameri .....