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George Frideric Handel
<view this essay>.... buried in Westminister
Abbey. Handel was one of the famous composers of the Baroque Period. This
great composer was mostly known very well for his English Oratorio,
particularly the Messiah. His trouble in his operas that he made lied
within his uncertain temper and uncertain lack of tact.
Handel first learned how to play from an instrument called a clavichord.
This was like a forerunner of the piano. With the help of one of Handel's
friend, they smuggled the instrument up to his attic in his house. Every
night he would sneak up to the attic after everyone was asleep and he'd
play it until he finally mastered it. The instrument could not be heard
throu .....
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Daniel Webster
<view this essay>.... After two more terms in the House,
Webster decided to leave the Congress and move to Boston in 1816. Over the
next 6 years, Webster won major constitutional cases in front of the
Supreme Court making him almost famous. Some of his most notable cases
were Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v.
Maryland. He made himself the nations leading lawyer and an outstanding
skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to
Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts.
New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American
nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he .....
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Helen Keller
<view this essay>.... explain to the reader the difficulty of not having
the ability to speak, see, and hear and overcoming this to be a wonderful
person in history.
Once Helen did not respond to the sounds of bells her parents knew
at once that something was wrong with Helen. They soon discovered that
Helen was deaf. They discovered later that she was blind when she did not
blink when her mother clothed or bathed her. She was declared legally as
an idiot.
She soon started going to a special school called the Boston
Institute for the Blind that her parents had heard of that helps children
with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for
things in the wor .....
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Juliette Low: Founder Of The Girl Scouts
<view this essay>.... her family. One summer Daisy made a club called “The Helpful Hands” and all of her cousins were in it. They sewed clothes for the poor. Juliette Low went to Miss. Blois School in Savannah, Georgia. She also went to Stuart Hall in Virginia to become a lady. It wasn’t very fun there. Daisy loved to climb trees, race through the woods, and swim. At Stuart Hall Daisy couldn’t do any of these things, instead she had to walk slowly and quietly every where she went. For her birthday one year, Juliette’s parents sent her a Bible. When she read it, it made her feel closer to them. Another school Juliette went to was Edge Hill School, which was also in Virgi .....
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Paul Ehrlich
<view this essay>.... for the deadly disease.
Another discovery Ehrlich made was of a dye called trypan red. Trypan red helped destroy cells that caused sleeping sickness. His research of antibodies and understanding how the antibodies attack harmful substances that enter the body has made him the "founder" of modern chemotherapy.
Ehrlich is best known for his work on curing syphilis. Syphilis is an infectious disease transmitted by sexual contact or kissing. Ehrlich named the compound that cured syphilis "salvarsan". This was a very effective way to cure syphilis.
II. Background
A. Family
Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854 in Strehlen, Silesia. .....
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Yamamoto
<view this essay>.... One such figure was Tatekawa , who fought against the Emperor, and his forces at the Battle of Watkamatsu, during the Bosshin War. Since he was one of the leaders of the rebellion, when he was captured, he was beheaded at Watkamatsu. Since Tatekawa had no sons, Isoroku was also the future of the clan. Not uncommon in Japan was the fact that men got married for the purpose of producing sons to keep the family name alive. This is exactly what Isoroku did. In 1918, he got married to Reiko, who, ironically, was from Watkamatsu. They had 4 children together, 2 sons, and 2 daughters. It was the standard Japanese family, the mother in charge of the household and of .....
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Jackie Robinson
<view this essay>.... and had to live in a cabin. Soon after that, in 1920, Mallie sold a few of her family’s things and the family boarded a train to California. They bought a house on Pepper Street in Pasadena.
As child, Jackie enjoyed sports as much as the next kid did. Just before he started school, he became ill with Diphtheria and almost died! He was an average student at his school, in the playground he realized that his amazing talent in sports made him stand made him stand out. More than once he came home with a pocket full of change or an extra lunch, because the kids bribed him into playing on their team. But his childhood wasn’t all-good, because all of his friendsh .....
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Florence Nightengale
<view this essay>.... She did not think that she out to do what her family and all of society expected of her—to either get married or look after her married relatives. She wanted to have a career, and this was very unusual of a woman in this time. Florence knew she wanted to help others on her own, but had no idea what she could do.
Florence refused to marry several suitors, and at the age of twenty-five told her parents that she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents were appalled at this decision because the idea of nursing was associate with working class women and it was not considered a suitable profession for well-educated women.
While the family conflicts over Florence .....
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