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Essay On Christopher Columbus
<view this essay>.... 1892, people perceived that Columbus and the Europeans who followed him
brought civilization to two immense sparsely populated continents, in the
process of enhancing and altering the Old World from where they had came
from. The 19th century, was a period whereby soceity of the Europeans
altered the Western culture of the Native Americans. The Europeans had
brought many new changes to the "New World", such as pigs, horses. Columbus
had opened the seeds of change. The European society as a whole, had
thought that the Europeans were doing a favor, by changing their primitive
ways, when in fact, some of the Native American customs were far more
superior .....
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Charles Manson
<view this essay>.... major black movement in the 1960's. After
killing a leader of this movement in self defence, Manson grew scared on
the promise of revenge from the Black Panthers. Scared, Manson ordered his
followers to practice guerrilla tactics and they did so, without question.
Manson sad he taught love because in love there is no hatred, but John
Flynn, a man who testified at his trial, testified to some very
incriminating admissions by Manson. Barbara Holt, a "Family" member, fled
the group before a raid. She later showed up as a prosecution witness, a
potential danger to Manson, so faithful members of the "Family" tried to
kill her with a hamburger laced with LSD. Before .....
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Serial Killer: Ted Bundy
<view this essay>.... Serial killers are most often white men between the ages of 25 - 35. Serial killers, in most cases, work alone. The murderer most often does not know his victim nor have they had any previous contact with each other. A serial killers motivation is death. He has a need to kill as others have a need for food. A serial killer can appear "normal" to neighbors and friends.
Ted Bundy is known as one of the most notorious serial killers. He was born in November of 1946 to a 22 year old unwed mother, Eleanor Louise Cowell. Ted’s father, whom he never knew, was an air force veteran. After Ted was born his mother moved him from the home for unwed mothers t .....
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Princess Diana
<view this essay>.... new title was "Lady Diana Spencer." In 1969 Diana's parents got divorced. It hit her very hard and made her determined to have a happier marriage of her own. Her father won custody of her, her brother, and her two sisters. Then in 1976 Diana's father got remarried to the former Countess of Dartmouth and daughter of romance novelist Barbra Cartland. Diana remained close to her father but never had a friendly relationship with her stepmother. Her mother remarried too. To a man named Peter Shand-Kydd. She then moved to the island of Seil which is west of Scotland where they now still live.
Diana attended finishing school briefly in Switzerland. Then sh .....
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Maya Angelou
<view this essay>.... who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. spent her formative years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published Cairo. lived in Accra, Ghana, where Ser .....
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Sinclair Lewis
<view this essay>.... since he didn't have many friends and he became interested in writing.
In 1902, Lewis entered the Oberlin Academy in Ohio. He later left this school and enrolled in Yale. During his time in Yale University, he became the editor of the "Yale Literary Magazine". For two summers he worked on cattleboats. On his other summer vacations he went to England. He also worked as a janitor at Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall (utopian community) and he also took a shot as free-lance work in New York for a while. After working on some temporary jobs, he graduated Yale in 1908. After he got his degree, he worked for publishing houses and various magazines in Iowa, Carmel, .....
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Columbus
<view this essay>.... a result, people began to live longer. Today the population has multiplied ten times in the past 150 years. This all happened because of and his findings. We would not be as healthy human beings if were not for him.
Secondly, even though may have done things that are considered cruel, he was able to do something that no one else could and he did it with primitive equipment. He was able to find his way to the New World and back to Spain using only a compass, and astrolabe. He did have caravel ships with Lateen sail, but it was a miracle that he did what he did. was accused of cruelty to animals and humans, but so was everyone else at his time. Just lik .....
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Nostradamus's Prophecies
<view this essay>.... a small boy Nostradamus underwent significant changes in his life. Around this time he was sent to live with his grandfather who taught him the basics of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Mathematics and Astrology. A few years later Nostradamus's grandfather died and Nostradamus went to live to Avignon to finish his education.
Nostradamus used his ability to help people through harsh times and did not even fear for his own life. In 1525 he received his Bachelor's degree for medicine, and He started to help the fight against the 'Black Death' that was feared throughout the Renaissance period. It was then that he began to treat victims of the plague in communities of sout .....
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