.... early in his life, and had slaves working for him throughout his life. Jefferson had tolerated while he didn't accept others who owned slaves. Jefferson denounced the slave owners, while he was owning and using slaves. Although Jefferson was supposedly a good slave owner, his hypocritical nature made him accuse others not to own slaves while he, himself was owning slaves. Another part of the hypocrisy was that Jefferson believed that the slaves were dependent upon the white man, while he, himself was dependent upon the slaves. Jefferson also was hypocritcal in his acquisition of the Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large expansive governments wer .....

.... are now. It still was not that easy to become a cadet. Robert Lee entered the United States Military Academy at West Point where his classmates admired him for his brilliance, leadership, and his love for his work. He graduated from the academy with high honors in 1829, and he was ranked as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers at the age of 21. Lee served for seventeen months at Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island, Georgia. In 1831, the army transferred him to Fort Monroe, Virginia, as assistant engineer. While he was stationed there, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis who was Martha Washington's great-granddaughter. They lived in her fa .....

.... the best of me.” Roy Sr. was also a former middleweight competitor. Roy’s dad made Roy Jr. to fight a 14 yr. old when Roy himself was only 10. The boy out weighed him by 16 lbs. The training facilities weren’t to Roy Sr.’s standard so he constructed his own ring in a pasture and fmade a punching bag with scrap materials. Local kids watched as Roy’s father taught him the fundamentals of boxing. Soon they got interested and a boxing club was formed. Roy Sr. used his own money to buy boxing equipment and at one point sold the family’s tractor to finance the boxing club. This wasn’t enough though becau .....

.... but not anything else. Montesquieu wrote three major books when he lived. His first published work was Lettres Persanes, or Persian Letters. This book deals with the criticism of the wealthy French lifestyle. The book is about two Persian’s who take a trip to Paris. Montesquieu ridicules the two people throughout the book. Montesquieu strongly disliked despotism. Despotism is a government run by a tyrant. In another book, Spirit Of The Laws, he uses despotism to tell about how the different governments get corrupt. He believed that the only reason a despotism starts is because of a corruption in a republican or monarchy government. Montesquieu be .....

.... us up. Three examples of things that he did with foreign relations where that while he was president he strengthened the navy, kept European countries from fighting with Latin America and he also began the construction of the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal was especially important because it is now much easier for trade to go on. Instead of having to go around all the islands you can now cut through the canal and have a much quicker traveling time. At the time that the Cubans were fighting with our country Roosevelt was quietly forming a cavalry regiment nicknamed Rough Riders. On July 1,1898 him and his men charged up Kettle Hill and defeated the Cubans. .....

.... he entered a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. His story “MS. Found in a Bottle” “was considered to be the one of the world’s first science fiction stories, he won both the $50 prize and acclaim for its 24-year-old author.” (Internet source) He would then work at several different editorials, none of which really worked out for him. His dream though would be to own a magazine or paper of his own. He would come close twice but never succeed in keeping them alive due to his different habits. What made ? Through his lifetime many different misfortunes and disasters would strike him. All of these would shape him and his writing to what we now ass .....

.... which was founded by African Americans and was the first all-black town incorporated into the United States (Cheryl@geocities [online] ). Her father John Hurston was a tall, heavy muscled man who often seemed "invincible" to Zora (Lyons 2). John was a community leader and was influential member of society. His positions in Eatonville included: Baptist preacher, town mayor, and skilled carpenter (Lyons 2). Though John was a revered member of Eatonville he had is faults as well. His eye for other women often left his family home alone for months out of a time (Lyons 1). Zora's mother, Lucy Potts Hurston was the "hard-driving force in the family."(Lyons 2) .....

.... birth was illegitimate. had one brother, James Hamilton. Heavy burdens fell upon Hamilton's shoulders during childhood. Business failures caused Hamilton's father to become bankrupt. Soon thereafter, his mother died in 1768. At twelve, Alexander entered the counting house of Nicholas Cruger and David Beekman. There, young Alexander served as a clerk and apprentice. At the age of fifteen, Mr. Cruger left Alexander in charge of the business. Early on, Hamilton wished to increase his opportunities in life. This is evidenced by a letter written to his friend Edward Stevens at the age of fourteen on Nov. 11, 1769 where he stated, "[m]y ambition is prevalen .....