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Cleopatra
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 464.... met Julius Caesar. She smuggled herself into a rug and snuck in to his room. married another brother, Ptolemy XV, due to tradition. However she also became Caesar's mistress and followed him to Rome. In 47 b.c. Ptolemy Caesarion was born. However the Romans refused to believe that Ptolemy Caesarion was Caesar’s child. She stayed in Rome until his assassination 44 BC. He was killed by Brutus and Cassius. It was rumored later that helped the Caesarian party to assassin Caesar. But her world was shattered after his death.
When she was just fourteen years old she met .....
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Bontsha And Gimpel
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 741.... expresses his believe through the main character, Bontsha. He describes Bontsha as the most unfortunate imaginable human being on earth and yet never complaining about his adversity. Ever since the first day Bontsha was born, no one has cared of him. He was born with silence and passed away with silence. During his lifetime, he had to haul heavy loads stumbling at each step and begged for the pennies that were rightfully his, and even then, sometimes he did not get paid. Further, he knew he had been taken advantage of, and still, he remained silent. Once he had run into luc .....
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Jackie Robinson
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1192.... NBA and NFL still had their doors closed to African Americans.
As a baseball player, Robinson revolutionized the way the game was played. He combined power and speed in a way that had never been done before, and is acknowledged as the greatest baserunner of all time. In 1947, when Robinson finally put on a Brooklyn Dodger uniform, he started the integration of professional athletics in America. He strongly challenged the deep-rooted custom of racial segregation in both the North and South. Players in MLB actually considered going on strike instead of playing against a black .....
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 583.... that she could read the Old Testament. Her interests then later turned to Greek studies. Accompanying her appetite for the classics was a passionate enthusiasm for her Christian faith. She became active in the Bible and Missionary Societies of her church.
In 1826 Elizabeth then anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. Two years after that her mother passed away. The slow abolition of slavery in England and mismanagement of the plantations depleted the Barrett's income. In 1832 Elizabeth's father sold his rural estate at a public auction. He moved .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 562.... survey
land, and play the violin. Despite his thinness, he was strong enough to tame a
wild horse and chop wood like a lumberjack. Most important of all, he was know
to be a superb writer.
Though surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson was not a man of many words. Not
known for his speaking abilities, he was shy and seldom spoke in public. When
delegates at the Congress gave long speeches, Thomas Jefferson oftentimes just
listened. John Adams said of Jefferson, "During the whole time I sat with him
in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together."
Instead, this Vir .....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1179.... law at New York's Columbia
University. When he passed the bar examination in 1907, he left school
without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a
prominent New York City law firm. He entered politics in 1910 and was
elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally
Republican home district.
In the meantime, in 1905, he had married a distant cousin, Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The
couple had six children, five of whom survived infancy: Anna (1906), James
(1907), Elliott (1910), .....
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Shaquille O'neal
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 255.... at his web-site. We
talked about him signing a seven year deal with the LA Lakers. I knew him since
his second year with the Orlando Magic about four years ago.
Shaq is a professional basketball player in the NBA. He has also made
two platinum albums in which he expressed his life story. Movies that he has
been in include Blue Chips and Kazaam. Also, Shaq has contributed a lot of time
and money to donations.
Shaq has affected me in many ways. One thing that he has taught me is
that I can do anything that I want if I put my mind to it. He taught me this by
overcoming .....
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Style Of J.D Salinger
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1940.... Prayer" to cope with the
suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and Senick 69).
Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for Franny.
The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation.
Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick
71). Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden
Caufield, the protagonist, is very much in despair for losing his
girlfriend, so Caufield reads a passage in the Bible. This helps
Holden change his outlook on life (Salzberg 75). Holden was all alone .....
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