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Cleopatra
<view this essay>.... was the Ptolemy XII. She was very, which added to her popularity of the Egyptian and Roman world.
tried to preserve the country’s independence from Rome. Roman senators threatened Egypt’s independence and prosperity. In 55 b.c. Berenic IV was executed leaving the oldest child. In 51 b.c. her father died.
Caesar chased Pompey to Egypt where Pompey was beheaded in Alexandria. This is where met Julius Caesar. She smuggled herself into a rug and snuck in to his room. married another brother, Ptolemy XV, due to tradition. However she also became Caesar's mistress and followed him to Rome. In 47 b.c. Ptolemy Caesarion was born. However the Romans re .....
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Arthur Miller-BIO
<view this essay>.... career as playwright he demonstrated extreme talent on two of his greatest pieces The Crucible and the Death of a Salesman. He has also written other powerful, often mind-altering plays: A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, and The Price. Who could forget the film The Misfits and the dramatic special Playing for Time. Death of a Salesman was not Arthur Miller's first success on Broadway. His first plays were Honors at Dawn (1936) and No Villain (1937) which won the University of Michigan Hopwood Awards. His Death of a Salesman won the Pulitzer prize in 1949, which was another proof of his excellent talent. Mille .....
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Lyndon B Johnson
<view this essay>.... in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During the next 4 years Johnson developed a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people .....
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Mao Zedong
<view this essay>.... of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 to Mao’s Death in 1976, one can justly consider the principle architect of the New China (McHenry 1992).
was born in 1893, in the village of Sao-Shan, Hunan Province. He was the son of a poor man who had become affluent as a farmer and grain dealer,(McHenry 1992).
He grew up in a time and place where education was only considererd necessary for keeping records and accounts. He was educated at a primary school and there he learned the basic knowledge of the classics of Confusous. Continuing with his education, he then went to a secondaryschool , and later graduated from the first provincial school in Chang-Sha (McHenry .....
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Howard Hughes
<view this essay>.... Gano Hughes. His mother died when he was sixteen and his father died when he was 18. Howard’s childhood wasn’t the greatest but in the end it turned out all right. He was orphaned and inherited $2,000,000 and Hughes Tool Company. His uncle was Hollywood writer Rupert Hughes. Howard took his first airplane ride when he was fourteen years old.
attended private elementary and high school in California and Massachusetts. He attended the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas. He also attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools.
His father’s great fortune left Howard very .....
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Dorothea Lange
<view this essay>.... Other things she photographed were children, ships, the
Depression, and many others. She also photographed Mormon communities.
During her years in photography, she traveled to Asia, South America,
Egypt, and India.
She married Maynard Dixon in 1920. Her marriage lasted fifteen
years and in 1935 she divorced him. However, while on assignment in New
Mexico, she remarried to Paul Taylor.
In 1939, she began her first major project. Later, she worked for the
Farm Security Administration. However, much conflict arose and in 1940
she was dismissed for the last time.
In the 1950’s and 60’s Dorotheas’s husband, Paul, spent six .....
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Anne Moody
<view this essay>.... the way it was and did not see a difference in the skin color of a white person as opposed to that of a black. It was not until a movie incident did she begin to realize that the color of her skin made her inferior. “Their whiteness provided them with a pass to downstairs in that nice section and my blackness sent me to the balcony. Now that I was thinking about it, their schools, homes, and streets were better than mine.” Soon after Moody entered high school, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago, was killed for whistling at a white woman. “Emmett Till’s murder had proved it was a crime, punishable by death, for a Negro man to even whistle at .....
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Hudson Taylor
<view this essay>.... one who obeys and hears God.
was a calm, peaceful man, who learned many things about God and became closer to Him through self-sacrifice and dedication to God in all aspects of his life. Hudson trained himself to live on just the necessities, and nothing more in order that he depend upon God for everything and even his very meal everyday. He lived in a most humble and poor conditions to show his dependence upon God in every day life and activity. He was obedient and listened to the call of God. He was described as many of the fruits of the Spirit that God shows in the Word. Sacrifice became a daily thing for Hudson, as God molded and shaped Hudson for His .....
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