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William Wodsworth
Words: 597 - Pages: 3.... become noticeable. For example, both Dorothy and William refer to the daffodils as dancing in the wind, William's daffodils "dancing in the breeze," while Dorothy's "danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them." (Norton, 186, 293-294) Also, both describe the heads of the daffodils, instead of say, the tops, or buds. The difference in this is, however, that Dorothy Wordsworth has her daffodils "rest [ing] their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness" (Norton, 293) while William Wordsworth, in a quite different vein, has his daffodils "Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance," which is also .....
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Sir Robert Laird Borden
Words: 1253 - Pages: 5.... in cases that brought him before the Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Committee of he Privy Council in England. On September 25, 1889, Robert married Laura Bond with whom he had no children.
Growing up, Robert was a Liberal, but he left the party in 1886 to become a Conservative after the Liberal leader in Nova Scotia wanted he province to retire from he Canadian federation. In 1896, the Conservative party was in extreme need for new people and the Halifax Conservatives thought Robert to be a good candidate. In the beginning, Robert was hesitant to enter into the world of politics, but finally agreed to run for parliament. He ended .....
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Significant Woman - Cleopatra
Words: 957 - Pages: 4.... Egypt sometime after Alexander the Great’s death. The Ptolemy family was of Macedonian decent, not Egyptian.
Cleopatra, more precisely, Cleopatra VII, was the third daughter of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos “Auletes”, who began his rule of Egypt in 80 BC. Cleopatra VII’s mother could possibly have been Cleopatra V Tryphaena, who either died or disappeared in 68 BC, right after Cleopatra VII’s birth in 69 BC. Cleopatra VII had two older sisters, Cleopatra VI and Berenice IV, and one younger sister, Arsinoe IV. She also had two younger brothers, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV.
Ptolemy XII ruled until his death in 51 BC, with only a br .....
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Winston Churchill: A Biography
Words: 1426 - Pages: 6.... didn't want to go to university. His dream was to
be enrolled in the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He graduated in
1894.After service in Cuba and India, he worked as a war-correspondent in
Northern India, Sudan and in South Africa, where he was captured by the
Boers. His daring escape made him an overnight celebrity.
Churchill always wanted to become a politician. Early in his life
he envisioned himself at political debates. His wish came true in 1900,
when he was elected to the Parliament as a Conservative, and he quickly
made his mark. ************ His political sympathies began to change,
however, and he "changed sides" in .....
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History Of Womans Education
Words: 834 - Pages: 4.... geometry, a study previously thought incapable for a female mind. Her father helped her study and even engaged her in philosophical discussions. When Emma was in her late teens she first attended, then eventually taught at several "girls academies" which were finishing schools. In 1809 at the age of twenty two, she married Dr. John Willard. It was at this time she stopped her teaching and focused on being a wife and mother to John's children and her own baby.
Soon Emma Hart Willard got her fire back. This occured when she began
reading the books John's eldest son brought home from college. Her feelings towards female education .....
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William Richardson Davie
Words: 557 - Pages: 3.... operated mainly in western North Carolina. In January 1781 Davie was appointed commissary-general for the Carolina campaign. In this capacity he oversaw the collection of arms and supplies to Gen. Nathanael Greene's army and the state militia.
After the war, Davie embarked on his career as a lawyer, traveling the circuit in North Carolina. In 1782 he married Sarah Jones, the daughter of his former commander, Gen. Allen Jones, and settled in Halifax. His legal knowledge and ability won him great respect, and his presentation of arguments was admired. Between 1786 and 1798 Davie represented Halifax in the North Carolina legislature. There h .....
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Malcolm X
Words: 890 - Pages: 4.... even robbed a house. Because of their antics, the law was on their trail. They eventually caught and sent to prison. Malcolm was sentenced to 8 years in prison while Sophia was only sentenced to 2 years because she was white. This relates to the social organization of arrest, which suggest that police arrest blacks at a higher rate than whites. While Malcolm was in jail, he was well known to the guards. One time he was asked to state his number, but instead he said he forgot his number. The guards beat the hell out of him and sent him to the darkroom. In the darkroom he met Brother Baines. Baines was a man everyone respected including the .....
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JFK: The Death Of A Conspiracy
Words: 1746 - Pages: 7.... the huge flap of frontal scalp that was loosened from the head was held in place by the clotting of the blood on the scalp. This concealed the degree of the wound. They were desperate to save the life of the President and examined him quickly without taking the time...to wash off the blood and debris” (1542). The doctors removed the President's clothing to check the body for other wounds. While Dr. Perry began the tracheostomy, Dr. Jenkins recalled, that Mrs. Kennedy was circling the room with something “cupped” in her hands. As Mrs. Kennedy passed by, she nudged Jenkins with her elbow and handed him “a large chunk o! f he .....
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Words: 2410 - Pages: 9.... her regard for every human being has made the story of her life a morality play that brightens the American memory. "There is no human being," wrote in one of her several columns that she frequently wrote for newspaper, from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep." This basic sense fo kinship with which she approaced the world dictated her vocation of helpfulness. The honesty with whcihc she told us of hte long path she travelded to free herself of fear and prejudice and become an independent person has placed her in that specaila pantheon reserved for shapers of the human spirit. appeared on the Amer .....
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Crazy Horse
Words: 2730 - Pages: 10.... many other leaders to surrender their nation in
order to save the lives of their people.
In the nineteenth century the most dominant nation in the western
plains was the Sioux Nation. This nation was divided into seven tribes:
Oglala's, Brule', Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle, and the
Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The Hunkpatila was one
band of the Oglala's (Guttmacher 12). One of the greatest war chiefs of all
times came from this band. His name was Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the fall of
1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy man, an .....
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