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John Brown
<view this essay>.... in Virginia, is a strong hold for weaponry used by the military. , accompanied by a handful of abolitionists intruded on this governmental land with hopes of steeling the arms. The weapons were then going to be used in the attempted freeing of slaves.
It is true that Brown’s actions lasted only a short number of hours, involved only a few other kinsmen, and freed no slaves. However, are his actions wholly unjust and are they actions of a man with little or no sanity. The Northern Chronicle offers you another point of view.
Think of the horrid deeds being performed in the slave states of the south. Men, women, and children being beaten and worked to deat .....
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Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
<view this essay>.... worlds largest ball Of
string. We ended up going to the air port where my mom sent me too India.
Where I lived with a Monk monastery. While I was there, I was beaten repeatedly
with tree limbs. The only toys I had to play with were the contents of the care
package. I also received for some monk holiday a pet snow monkey. But brother
Haanz stole him from me; for his own entertainment.(If you know what I mean?)
Anyway; a few years later when I became a shambala monk. (many degrees
above a standard monk.) I ran away to America and joined circus Vargus as the
head clown. When the Circus came too my hometown of Olympia My mother witnessed
my performance, a .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
<view this essay>.... person and strive to be as different from everyone else as much as you can. Emerson said that your mind is your own, and no one can touch it. You can think what you want to think, and no one can change that. He describes this belief in the quote "Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind." People can mess with every other part of you, but your mind they can't reach.
Emerson is quoted as saying "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle." I think that he means that each and every person has their own life to live and that they shouldn't devote their time to worrying about what other people are doing. You have enough to worr .....
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John Dalton 4
<view this essay>.... John and his brother moved to Kendall. There John, his cousin George, and his brother ran a school where they offered English,Latin,Greek,French and twenty one mathematics and science course. Their school had sixty pupils. After twelve years at Kendall John started doing lectures and answering questions for mens magazines. John found a mentor in John Gough,who was the blind son of a wealthy tradesman. John Gough taught Dalton languages,mathematics,and optics. In 1973 John moved to Manchester as a tutor at New College. He immediately joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and in the same year he published his first book: Meteorological Ob .....
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Pompey The Great
<view this essay>.... Pompey the name Magnus and the honor of
a triumph, although he was little over 25 years old and legally unqualified for
such a status.
Some years later, the senate used his aid against the remnants of
Marius' factor. Then in 77 B.C., Pompey moved against the Marian forces
commanded by Quintus Sertorius in Spain. There his operations were not rewarded
but Sertoriu's death by poison permitted Pompeys return to Italy in time to
annihilate the remnants of Spartacus's army fleeing from the defeat at Crassus
hands (71 B.C.). For his victory, Pompey celebrated his second triumph although
he still held public office. He got a spot in office by moving into th .....
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Joan Of Arc 3
<view this essay>.... Burgundians ruled much of the country and France was suffering. The Royal Family was weak, the King was insane and Charles the Dauphin, future King, was a coward. Total defeat was not far away. Joan was born a peasant, however, she was to bring the French new inspiration and succeed in driving out the English. Joan was like any other peasant girl in the 15th century. She could not read or write, but she worked hard on her father's farm and acquired her faith and prayers from her mother. In the village she was remembered as a good and simple girl. She had three brothers and a sister who died young. As a peasant, she always remained close to home and didn't ev .....
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George Washington
<view this essay>.... though flexible and expressive of
deep feeling when moved by emotion. In conversation he looks you full in the
face, is deliberate, deferential and engaging. His voice is agreeable . . . he
is a splendid horseman."
Thomas Jefferson who served with Washington in the House of Burgesses, wrote:
"On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in a few
points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune
combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same
constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting
remembrance."
In Williamsburg, when it was the seat of Virginia's .....
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Simon Bolivar
<view this essay>.... greatly effected Bolivar, he vowed not to marry again, and became a political and military figure.
In Europe
Napoleon Bonaparte was the Emperor of France, and was crowned as King of Italy. In 1808 Napoleon conquered Spain and chose his brother Joseph as the King of Spain. This created a large revolt in Spain known as the Peninsular Wars. In Spain many small groups were formed to fight against the new king. On the other hand in S. America the groups were formed to fight against the Spanish King and Joseph Bonaparte. That year Caracas, Bolivar hometown, declared independence from Spain.
BACK IN S. AMERICA
In 1808 Bolivar, Bello and Mendez were sent to Englan .....
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