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Maya Angelou 5
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1200.... had irregular eating habits, and generally did not get three meals a day. Only about 8% were getting only one meal a day, and this was not stolid food. Day after day, people lived off of bread, potatoes, macaroni, spaghetti, canned soups and thin gravy. Meat and vegetables were rarely served. A common response, often heard, when children were asked if they had eaten today was “No, this is my sisters’ day to eat.”
In 1937 the Ohio river burst it’s banks and killed over 250 people and ruined many livelihoods. Between 1933 and 1934 huge dust storms swept .....
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Thomas Paine
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 950.... The next day after they heard this news, a huge mob
assembled outside of the state house. Thomas Paine was one of the speakers
trying to calm down all of the eight-thousand people that were in front of
the building.
Paine soon went to a ball to represent the Pennsylvania Magazine in
which he represented. He had a lot of answers to questions people kept
asking him. Paine was finally fired when he argued with Aitkin because he
wanted to put an article in the paper. It was called Reflections on Titles.
The Second Continental Congress met, and Paine was introduce .....
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Colt: A Man And His Guns
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 970.... MA.
During the years of 1830 - 1831 Colt voyaged to India.. It was during
these years that Colt first conceived the idea of a revolving firearm. Some
think it may have come from watching the revolving wheel of the ship, turning
and locking. While on board ship, Colt must have seen other revolving firearms
in London or India. He carved a wooden model of his ideal gun while he was at
sea. None of what Colt may have previously seen on revolving guns could have
led to his invention. His ideas were not copied from any source, even though the
revolving idea was n .....
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Margaret Bourke-White
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 567.... with only a group of pigeons to hear. Margaret wanted to take his picture but she didn't have her camera with her. She ran into a camera store and asked to rent or borrow a camera. The picture became one of her first works of art and the owner of the store became one of her best friends.
One of Margaret's early dreams was to photograph the inside of a steel mill but women weren't allowed inside. Being a woman didn't stop her and the pictures were a success. Her shots were published in magazines all over the country and got Margaret her first big job, at Fortune magazine in New .....
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Neve Campbell
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 627.... involved in the theatre. After her quitting dancing, she had turned out to be the Degas girl in “The Phantom of the Opera”. She preformed at the Pantages theatre in Toronto. Neve had preformed in over 800 shows when she was done in “The Phantom of the Opera” Neve says she likes the theatre because she gets an automatic response from the audience. It was this part of her career that Neve found the love of acting, not only on a stage but to reach higher in her career and be a movie star.
Neve’s career as a movie star was just the beginning of her debut on television. appeared i .....
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Anne Frank
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 580.... the Jewish Lyceum. No Jews were allowed out on the streets at night. Her life changed again. It was not a happy one for herself or her family.
In 1941, the Germans had there first round up of Jews in Amsterdam. 5 months later, the Germans summoned 16-year-old Margot Frank to report for deportation. Otto Frank had contacts with some Dutch friends, and they were able to hide out in the attic of a house. The morning after Margot was summoned they left Amsterdam and went to the attic of the house called the Secret Annexe.
In the Secret Annexe the Van Daan family accompanied .....
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Review Of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1480.... father's business as a tallow chandler and soap boiler. Disliking the
business and loving the nature of the sea, Franklin spent his leisure time
in association with it, on the contrary to his father's wishes. His
leadership among the boys on boats was a foretelling of his future progress
and his great sociability. The deaths of Franklin's parents has left him
with positive memories and values , instilled by them. They were greatly
reputed
by the community and even more by their children.
With Franklin's overgrowing desire to read and be taught by books,
he endured the .....
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Saint Francis Of Assissi
Number of pages: 14 | Number of words: 3721.... tend more and more to assert their
independence of any ethical code, were then strictly subordinated to accepted
moral standards, as is clearly shown in the writings of Leo Battista Alberti, a
century and a half later, or in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas.
Bernardone was not in Assisi when his son was born. At first the child was
called John but upon his father's return he was christened Francis, in memory of
France, whence Pietro di Bernardone had just returned. More than any other
character in history, St. Francis in after life retained the qualities most
charac .....
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