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Pitikwahanapiwiyin (poundmaker)
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 753.... for a group critical of the treaty. Though Treaty No. Six was amended to include a 'famine clause,' Pitikwahanapiwiyin continued to express concerns and agreed to sign the treaty on 23 August only because the majority of his band favored it.
In the autumn of 1879, Pitikwahanapiwiyin, now chief, accepted a reserve and settled with 182 followers on 30 square miles along the Battle River about 40 miles west of Battleford. Frustrated by the government's failure to fulfill treaty promises, Pitikwahanapiwiyin became active in Indian politics: representing the Cree at inte .....
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Augustus Caesar
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1399.... done. From conquering Gaul to when he crossed the Rublican with his army, and also when he defeated his enemies and became the most powerful man in Rome. At the age of 14 Octavian had finally met his great-uncle and hero when he came back from Asia Minor and said the 3 famous words that summed up his victory, "Veni, Vidi, Vici." Latin for "I came, I saw, I conquered" In Caesar's will, Octavian's dream had finally come true. Caesar had adopted him as his son. In Caesar's will he left his money to a man named Marc Anthony. He was a powerful general at the time. He was a co .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 364.... on November 4,1842. He married Mary Todd. They
were married for sixty-four years. In those sixty-four years, they had
four children. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and died in 1926.
Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived
from 1850-1862, and finally, Thomas Tad Lincoln lived from 1853-1871.
In February 1860, Lincoln made his first major political appearance in
the Northeast, when he addressed a rally at Cooper Union in New York. He
was now well-known to be a presidential candidate. At the Republican
National Conven-tion, in .....
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Charles Dickens 5
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1218.... a week to help support the family. Charles considered this period as the most terrible time in his life and would later write that he wondered 'how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age'.
This childhood poverty and adversity contributed greatly to Dickens' later views on social reform in a country in the throes of the Industrial Revolution and his compassion for the lower class, especially the children.
Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short storys and articles before his death in 1870. The inscription on his tombstone in Poet's .....
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Tennessee Williams
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 679.... is left of her sanity” (Rasky, 124). At the end, Blanche is committed to a sanitarium.
William’s once told an interviewer, “My work is emotionally autobiographical. It has no relationship to the actual events of my life, but it reflects the emotional currents of my life” (Devlin, 75). Critics have made much use of William’s family background as a means of analyzing his plays. William’s father, Cornelius, was a businessman from a prominent Tennessee family who traveled constantly and moved his family several times during the first decade of William’s life. Cornelius was o .....
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James Clerk Maxwell
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1673.... On the death of his father in 1865, Maxwell returned to his family home in Scotland and devoted himself to research. In 1871 he moved to Cambridge, where he became the first professor of experimental physics and set up the Cavendish Laboratory, which opened in 1874. Maxwell continued in this position until 1879, when illness forced him to resign. Maxwell had many theories.
II COLOR VISION
Maxwell's first important contribution to science began in 1849, when he applied himself to examining how human eyes detect color. He built on the ideas of British physicist Thomas Youn .....
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The Influence Of Henry David Thoreau On Mohanda K. Gandhi
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 347.... “Civil Disobedience”. That’s when Gandhi’s beliefs were confirmed, that it is better to please your soul then your government. His protest was never based on violence he took a stand with out having to go that route. Then Gandhi’s development of Satyagraha, a direct social action based on principles of courage, nonviolence, and truth, took place. This method meant that the way people behaved was more important then what they achieved. This is how Henry David Thoreau influenced Mohanda K. Gandhi.
In conclusion the lives of Emerson, Thoreau, and Gandhi was like a domino effect. .....
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Nixon
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 197.... believed in having health care for everyone, and being taken
care of from the goverments money.
B. Nixon believed that there should be health care for everyone,
employer mandates, pharmancy care, and preventive care.
III. Law Enforcement
A. Crime increased and drud use began to bloom.
B. Nixon believed that the judiciary had moved too far to the left.
IV. Nutrition and Human Needs
A. Nutrition and Health programs were needed to teach people about
thier human needs.
B. Nixon believed in being concerned with people's health and thinks
that programs like Meals .....
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