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The Life And Work Of Frederick Douglass
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1989.... and returned to slavery. He
left America, and stayed in the British Isles. There he lectured on
slavery, and gained the respect of many people, who raised money to
purchase his freedom. In 1847, Douglass relocated to Rochester, New York,
and became the person in charge of the Underground Railroad. Here he also
began the abolitionist newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860.
In this time period, Douglass became friends with another well
known American abolitionist, John Brown. Brown was involved with the
Underground Railroad, and later wanted Douglass to j .....
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Booker T. Washington
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 553.... 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 spelling book, and even led him to more ahead the hands of the clock at work so he could get to his night school by nine. While playing marbles with other boys, an old colored man told Booker about the meaning of Sunday school. He gave up his marble game for regular Sunday School attendanceand later became thee teache .....
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John Coltrane
Number of pages: 21 | Number of words: 5621.... was the Beatles' redefinition of rock from one album to the next. Yet the distance they traveled from conventional hard rock through sitars and Baroque obligatos to Sergeant Pepper psychedelia and the musical shards of Abbey Road seems short by comparison with Coltrane's journey from hard-bop saxist to daring harmonic and modal improviser to dying prophet speaking in tongues. Asked by a Swedish disc jockey in 1960 if he was trying to "play what you hear," he said that he was working off set harmonic devices while experimenting with others of which he was not yet cert .....
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George Meade
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 582.... During these he served under General Zachory Taylor. To sum up, General accomplished many things during his time at war.
Each of General 's accomplishments had one major effect on how life is today. To start, if Meade had not defeated Lee at the Second Battle of Bull Run the war would not have started off positively for the North. This was important because the soldiers gained their confidence when they won this battle. If the North would have lost the entire war the U.S. would be two different countries. Secondly, Meade's defeat of Lee at the accidental Gettysburg. Th .....
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Walt Whitman 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 741.... was just an outcome of the war. A young man by the name of John Wilkes Booth killed one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States after the war just as something to revolt about due to the loss by the South. It’s hard to imagine how someone could do something like this to such a great man, especially after all he had done to help, and encourage the rights, and goodness for the people of America. This event gave Whitman the idea, and moved him in such a way that he wanted to show the pain that he himself felt inside. This poem was a poem fo .....
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Egotism In Kokoro By Natsume Soseki
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 994.... becomes very insecure when K contradicts Sensei's explanation of his denial about love to an opposite sex. He fears that K is more sophisticated than him. This causes him to believe that he will not be able convince K that his feeling to Ojosan go against his own belief about manhood. "I" on the other hand struggles, for he cannot fully understand why Sensei acts in the way he does until he receives Sensei's testament.
Sensei in his college years, was very machismo. He did not believe in love until he met Ojosan. Therefore, Sensei was very sensitive in Ojosan's attitude to .....
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David Guterson And His Use Of The Theme Of Nature
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1544.... conflicts in Snow Falling on Cedars are the strawberry fields
on the island. These fields represent an important source of income for
the community. Traditionally the Japanese laborers worked the fields and
the white Americans owned the fields. The question of the ownership of
seven acres of strawberry fields serves as the apparent motive for the
murder of Carl Heine. To a local Japanese fisherman, Kabuo (accused of
murdering Carl Heine), the ownership of this land promises a secure future
and ultimately independence. “...she knew that Kabuo wanted a strawberry
field.. n .....
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Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 598.... know what I mean?)
Anyway; a few years later when I became a shambala monk. (many degrees
above a standard monk.) I ran away to America and joined circus Vargus as the
head clown. When the Circus came too my hometown of Olympia My mother witnessed
my performance, and decided too let me move back home. Living at home was worse
than I had hoped. I decided to venture, as I called it; on a long and hopefully
successful quest to find an answer to one of mans most pondered questions. "If
a cow laughs, does milk come out of his nose?" So I took what was left of the
care packag .....
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