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Captain Kidd
<view this essay>.... English king addressed to our
trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd. One commissioned him to suppress
piracy. The other commissioned him to cruise as a privateer against the
French.
In 1696, the captain set sail in the adventure Gallery for Madagascar,
Malabar, and the Red Sea Regions. In August 1667, he made an unsuccessful
attack on ships sailing with mocha coffee from Yemen, but later Kidd’s crew
took several small ships. Kidd captured his most valuable prize, the
Armenian ship Quedagh Merchant, in January 1698 and scuttled the
unseaworthy Adventure Galley. When he reached the West Indies in April
1699, he learned that he had been denounced as a pirate. .....
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Louis Riel
<view this essay>.... the traditional rights of Metis and made sure they treated as equally as the British subjects. Riel was a patriote, who passionately love, supported and defended his people. He was also a serious and thoughtful person who dedicated his life to help others. Metis, Native Indians and western setters were all very proud of and respected this leader because of his life long effort. He was a person who was willing to step up and told the government what they needed. Riel never wanted any violent, in fact, he wanted to use peaceful methods to achieve the changes they desired. Moreover, he had no intention to declare independence nor to take over Canada. Unfort .....
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Maya Angelou
<view this essay>.... song December, show the effects on an individual through positive and negative means of expression.
and Collective Soul’s poetry are similar in some ways when broken down correctly. Collective Soul writes “ why drink the water from my hand? Contagious as you think I am” reflects the same ideas that shares when She says, “Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom” These two parts of their writings are asking a similar question. Why do you choose to seclude me from you’re world am I something you wouldn’t expect from another human? “Don’t scream about don’t think aloud turn your .....
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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
<view this essay>.... started of as many of us do with a pretty normal life.
She was born in Albanian and 1948, Mother Teresa became a citizen of India.
At the age of eighteen, she started her religious order at Our Lady of
Loreto in Ireland. She then received her spiritual training. In 1931,
Mother Teresa took her name of Teresa from Therese Martin, a French nun.
Six years later she took her vows. Mother Teresa then decided to begin her
teaching. She taught for twenty years in Saint Mary's High School in
Calcutta, India.
On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa said she received another call
from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon
grante .....
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Biography Of Katharine Hepburn
<view this essay>.... New York
Production of The Big Pond. The first Broadway production she played in
was The Night Hostess where she had a small role. Miss Hepburn played a
part as a schoolgirl in the play These Days. It opened in her hometown,
Hartford, Connecticut. She was praised by critics for her performance.
She earned a one hundred twenty-five dollar a week salary for These Days.
In the 1930's, that was a very high salary for begining actresses.
Katharine served as Hope Williams's understudy in Holiday. She sat
through every performance for six months. One day at understudy rehearsal,
Aurhtur Hopkins, the director, watched her act. “Fine,” he said, “Just
don't ever .....
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
<view this essay>.... O'Neill has achieved an international
reputation throughout the world, his plays and stories are the subject of
countless books and articles.
Eugene was born at the Barrett Hotel in New York on Oct, 16 1888.
His father James O'Neill was one of Americas most popular 19th Century
actors, who was imprisoned by the material success of his role as the
Count of Monte Cristo. Eugene's mother Ellen Quinlan O'Neill was a
romantic and idealistic women who was affected most of her life by an
addiction to morphine.
During his childhood Eugene attended the Mount Vincent Catholic
Boarding School between the years 1895 and 1900. After leaving Mount
Vincent Eugene atte .....
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Alexander The Great
<view this essay>.... famous Egyptian queen).However, this family was not as ordinary as one might think. In fact, his parents
absolutely hated each other. Philip had complied with Macedonian tradition and had a few wives. Soon, one of his wives had a baby which had mysteriously become disabled after birth. It was said that the disability was due to poisoning from Olympias. Olympias sometimes told Alexander that Philip wasn’t his real father, but this probably wasn’t true.After all, Philip certainly did seem to care for Alexander as if he was his real son. He even appointed Aristotle himself as Alexander’s first and only tutor. Yet, there were
some things about .....
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Martin Luther
<view this essay>.... of selling indulgences for money. People who purchased these indulgences were promised freedom form punishment on earth.
Luther believed that salvation is a matter of faith in Christ and neither the church nor the state has the authority over the "individual conscience". He strongly believed that everyone is a free spokesperson in his relation with God. Luther believed that all the church authorities from the pope down must be overthrown.
Luther placed emphasis on personal Bible study. He was the first to bring personal Bible study to the life of the "common people". Because Luther had found the true way of salvation by studying the Bible, he .....
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