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Biography Of Irene Kuhn
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 381.... very
determined to succeed. After that job fell through she and a friend moved
all the way to Shanghai. When she arrived at Shanghai she only had 25
dollars to her name. Within only a few days she found a job with The
Evening Star. There she met her future husband. When they married she
was almost late to her own wedding because she was working on something
for the paper. As I said before she was very determined. At the wedding
she was so poor she wore a four dollar dress and a hat she borrowed off a
friend. She was very poor. But she still tried as hard as she could .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 384.... and later to the Military College of France, his reading enabled him to stay near the top of his class.
Napoleons career was one metoric rise from poverty to power, and then almost equally swift decline. When he was defeated by the English at WaterLoo in 1815, Napoleon was made prisoner and taken to St. Helena, an isolated island in the south atlantic. WIth him were his jailers from Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and France, four companions to keep him company, a doctor to keep him well, and twelve servants.
At first, Napoleon tried to make the best of things, but in ti .....
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Dante
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 953.... ultimately commit. This shows that we must recognize our sins and wrong doings before we end up in Hell, or, existentially speaking, lost in pure, dark evil. It is almost like a small lie that can grow and grow to ultimately consume your life. In its content, the Inferno also shows the reader what a sin is really like by creating a symbolic punishment which mirrors the actual sin. Hell is a place "where penalties are paid by those who, sowing discord, earned Hell’s wages." For example, in canto V lines 31-45, writes, "[Referring to those who lusted] I came to a place wher .....
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The Autobiography Of Malcom X
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2833.... Autobiography of Malcolm X," Alex Haley completed his own
contribution to Afro-American literature, "Roots".
Historical and Political Setting
In the years around 1960, the American Negroes became increasingly active
in the struggle for civil rights. The liberal, intellectual Afro-American
leaders such as Martin Luther King and their supporters, who fought for
equality of and integration among black and white, had participated in
freedom rides and protest marches to finally abolish segregation. But
suddenly, they faced opposition from not one, but two parties advocating
rac .....
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Ben Franklin
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2243.... master thought was an important part of
learning. Ben's best friend's name was Nathan. Ben helped Nathan learn the
fable "The Wolf and the Kid", while Ben learned "The Dog and his Shadow".
At the time of the recital of the fables the school master said, "and Ben
will recite "The Wolf and the Kid", which was Nathan's fable. Ben thought,
"If I say that it is Nathan's fable, then the school master will get into
trouble. If I recite the fable, then Nathan will get into trouble." Ben did
nothing; he simply stood there looking up into the sky. Everyone said that
Ben was lazy and th .....
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Warren G. Harding
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 553.... a divorce, Mrs. Florence Kling De Wolfe. He was a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, a director of almost every important business, and a leader in fraternal organizations and charitable enterprises.
He organized the Citizen's Cornet Band, available for both Republican and Democratic rallies; "I played every instrument but the slide trombone and the E-flat cornet," he once remarked.
Harding's undeviating Republicanism and vibrant speaking voice, plus his willingness to let the machine bosses set policies, led him far in Ohio politics. He served in the state Senate .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 167.... because his buildings were so radical back then. People started to look
and beleive in his work after they saw his first commision, which was Moore-
Dugal house.
Wright was born in the year 1867 on the date June 8th, in Richland Center,
Wisconsin. His name was to be Frank Lincoln Wright, the name was Franks great
grandfathers name. His mother thought it would be a tradition if the name
stayed in the family, and that it did.
Wright studied architecture at the University of Wisconsin. He thought that the
school was the pits in architecture from 1885-1886. He did not l .....
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 603.... and the church fathers.
He also made another set of doors for the Baptistery. These bronze doors had 5 panels on
each side, containing scenes from the Old Testament. They were dubbed “ The Gates of
Paradise,” by Michaelangelo, and were Ghiberti’s greatest work. Ghiberti also made a
larger than life statue of the Arte dei Mercani di Calimala’s(the guild of the merchant
bankers) patron saint. He made two large bronze figures for Or San Michele, created
designs for the stained glass windows in the cathedral, and wrote two books, as well as
accomplishing other things.
I .....
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