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Helen Keller
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1583

.... stomach; this is now known as scarlet fever. As a result, she was left blind, deaf, and mute. For many of her earlier years Helen lived in darkness with very few ways to communicate with others around her. Obviously her attempts were not always successful. When she failed to communicate she would throw fits and have outburst that would upset not only her, but her family as well. Because of these violent fits, she appeared to be a very unruly child, but underneath all of the tragedy was a future inspirational figure that would surprise the world with amazing and countless .....


Franklin Delino Roosevelt
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 973

.... with saving our country from total economic disaster. Right after the war all of America’s debts came due and with the richest farm land in the country being abandoned by the farmers with total crop loss the stock market crashed taking the American dollar with it. President Roosevelt turned many state problems into national one by making it the federal government responsible for providing jobs to anyone who was willing to work To do his he created companies and federally funded program that would be useful to the states and improve the condition of the country. He cre .....


Letter To Charles Darwin
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 529

.... it had to teach, and not , when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. Following the advice of my friend Emerson, I, like you, went out and experienced nature as a transparent eyeball, observing as much as I could. I noticed the Pickerel under the ice in the pond, I never pondered the possibility of the different kinds of Pickerel to be originated from the same species. When you were observing nature in the Galapagos Islands, you saw all the different types of plants and animals and postulated that some of the different species of each came from a single an .....


Biography: Anne Sullivan (1866-1936)
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 212

.... up. Eventually she attended the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston. She was nicknamed "Spitfire" because she behaved badly and was very rude; however the school's director realized that she could become a talented pupil. Several years later, after two operations, she regained her sight and graduated with honours. Life with Helen She came to work with Helen when she was 20 years old and a graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind. Her persistence in trying to reach the deaf-blind child was rewarded in the now famous incident at the backyard pump. That breakthrough w .....


James Taylor
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 456

.... The chorus of "You’ve got A Friend" has a line in it that is extremely significant to all of Taylor’s writings. The line says "you just call out my name, and you know wherever I am, I’ll be there, you’ve got a friend." I feel that is such an excellent classic rock artist and an all around good person because of the messages he portrays in his writings and his music. His attitude while performing reflects his all around outlook on life, which is a good one. was born into a rich family in Boston Massachusetts in 1948. His childhood taught him about friend .....


Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 468

.... adviser to commercial airlines. He made "goodwill tours" of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Lindbergh flew over Yucatán and Mexico in 1929 and over the Far East in 1931, and in 1933 he made a survey of more than 48,000 km (about 30,000 mi) for transatlantic air routes and landing fields. Lindbergh also collaborated with the French surgeon Alexis Carrel in experiments to develop an artificial heart pump. Despite early promising results the experiments were finally given up without entirely achieving their purpose. The two men were coauthors of The Culture .....


Lytton Strachey
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 490

.... English biography. Until Strachey, biographers had kept awestruck distance from their subjects; anything short of adulation was regarded as disrespect Strachey, however, announced that he would write lives with "a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant," whether flattering to the subject or not. His intensely personal sketches scandalized stuffier readers but delighted many literati. Strachey's impressionistic portraits occasionally led to inaccuracy, since he selected the facts he liked and had little use for politics or religion. .....


St. Joan Of Arc
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1670

.... neck and a little bright red mark behind her right ear.' Jeanne begins to be mentioned in history, as a young girl of 12 – 13 years old. Jeanne was born into a family of healthy parents, she did her housework, worked in the fields, tended the cattle and took part as a member of a country family. With these tasks, one might expect Jeanne to have rough hands, dark skin from spending so much time in the sun, and strong muscles. It would be expected that a future soldier must be tough and sturdy in order to lead the life which she led for herself. The people of Domremy, testified .....



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