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Booker T. Washington
<view this essay>.... of agricultural impliments, buggies, steam engines, newspapers, books, statuary, carving, paintings, the management of drug stores and banks, has not been trodden without contact with thorns and thistles."
This famous speeh placed Washington in the national spot light as the leader of his race.
Declarated free, Booker and his mother and brother John journeyed several hundred miles from the plantation in Franklin County, Virginia to Malden in West Virginia where they joined his step father who worked in the salt furnaces and coal mines. Booker had to workin the mines until nine at night, but his intense desire to learn enabled him to master a Webster spel .....
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Cleopatra
<view this essay>.... alive rather than beautiful, with a sensitive mouth, firm chin liquid eyes, broad forehead, and prominent nose” (“ VII” 377). After her father’s death in 51 B.C., became queen. She ruled Egypt with her eldest brother and husband Ptolemy XIII. Marriage between siblings was a “common practice” in ancient Egyptian royal families (Sinnigen 662). She was the last ruler of the dynasty established by Ptolemy I. was of Macedonian descent but took it upon herself to learn the Egyptian language and referred to herself as the daughter of the sun god (“ VII” 377). Her capital was Alexandria, discovered by Alexander the Great, and was an excellent center of H .....
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Gwendolyn Brooks
<view this essay>.... for themselves. Although the idiom is local, the message is universal. Brooks uses ordinary speech, only words that will strengthen, and richness of sound to create effective poetry.
The poem The Bean Eaters (see the included poems) is a fine example of all three of these key elements. First and foremost is the use of ordinary speech. For instance the lines They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair / Dinner is a casual affair. Each of these words are easily understandable. Though plain speech, each word is used more differently and more intensely than in ordinary discourse. Old yellow pair resounds with more meaning than old couple. "Yellow" .....
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John Hancock
<view this essay>.... was a "faithful shepard." He kept an attentive watch over the morals and religious well-being of all members of the parish.
Ever since John’s (Jr.) birth, he was perceived to go to Harvard. At the age of six, his parents sent him to a local dame school. Later he was sent to another school, in which he might have met John Adams, with whom he struck up a casual acquaintance. Like all the other children in town, he learned the basics of reading, writing, and figuring.All things seemed to go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of the reason that t .....
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Max Planck
<view this essay>.... and was
unimpressed at the University of Berlin which was between the years of 1877 and
1878. He in turn did independent studies primarily on Rudolf Clausius' writings
of thermodynamics which inspired him and in July 1879 he received his doctoral
degree at the age of twenty-one. He became a lecturer at the University of
Munich. His father helped him be promoted to associate professor at Kiel by
means of professional connections. At the age of thirty he was promoted to full
professor at the University of Berlin.
After he decided to become a theoretical physicist he started a quest for
absolute laws. His favorite absolute law was the law of the .....
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Woodrow Wilson
<view this essay>.... rather than getting the grades to back him up. These wild ideas Wilson has made him absolutely fascinating to hear in public and people from all over came to hear him converse about his essays.
The turning point on Wilson's life was when he made the decision to give up being things he wasn't; a lawyer, a historian, a novelist, and peruse what he was destined to do. Wilson felt his obligation was to humanize "every process of our human life." This dream however was shattered by war.
The greatest achievement Wilson ever made was his cooperation with other nations to form the League of Nations and ultimately form the United Nations. For Wilson's efforts, he was a .....
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Napoleon 2
<view this essay>.... France was now declared an empire, it was technically a Republic because of the set Constitution. Through this Constitution, Napoleon set up a system of government that helped settle the disputes of France.
Napoleon’s career was arranged into a series of both accomplishments and defeats. He demonstrated his accomplishments during battle as well as in government. By setting up the Napoleonic code, Napoleon unified the old Feudal Law and Royal Laws. Many of the laws set up, were based on his knowledge of the Enlightenment. He simplified the laws of old as well as new, and allowed freedom of speech and press. His main idea with these laws was to give all me .....
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E. M. Forster
<view this essay>.... a member of the Bloomsbury Group that discussed literary and artistic issues. He published his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Trend, in 1905. He wrote many other novels including Longest Journey, Howard's End, and A Room with a View. As a pacifist Forster wouldn't fight in the First World War, instead he worked for the International Red Cross. Two years later Forster moved to India where he worked as a personal secretary for Mahaharajah of Dewas. This resulted in his novel, A Passage to India. When he returned to England he wrote many critiques and articles but never wrote any more novels. died on June 7, 1970.
Many critics are split on 's writings, .....
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