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Sophocles
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 811

.... being a talented actor, performed in many of his own plays. In one of his plays called, "The Woman Washing Clothes," he performed a juggling act that was talked about all over town for many years because the audience was so fascinated. But before you knew it was to take another route and end his acting career to venture elsewhere. For many years served as a dictated priest in the service of two heroes named Alcon and Asclepius, who was the god of medicine. Not only did he do this but he also served on the Board of Generals which was a committee that administered civil a .....


Robert E Lee
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 629

.... had their second child, Mary Curtis. Mrs. Lee was put on bed-rest for many months due to illness. They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie, Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all attended episcopal Church where he was raised. On May 13, 1846 the United States declared was on their southern neighbor. When Lee was 39, he headed for Mexico. Lee's will said that he was worth about $38,750 with few depts. He only had few slaves: Nancy and her children. And they were to be freed "soon as it can be done to their advantage and that of others. .....


Thomas Edison
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2111

.... student."(Allen pg. 22) Thomas especially did not like math. And he asked too many questions. The story goes that the teacher whipped students who asked questions. After three months of school, the teacher called Thomas, "addled". Thomas was pissed. The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk with Reverend Engle. The teacher told his mother that Thomas couldn't learn. Nancy also became angry at the teacher's strict ways. "She took Thomas out of school and decided to home-school him."(Allen pg. 34) It appears he briefly attended two mo .....


Clara Hale
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 350

.... and care from the arms of Mother Hale. Hale House is America’s first and best known child care agency to gain worldwide recognition when Ronald Reagan introduced Mother Hale as he gave his 1986 State of Union Address. She was called an American hero, and was appointed to the National Drug-Free America Task Force. Many of the children come to Hale House from prisons, police stations and hospitals. They get their funding mostly from private donations and times do get very rough. Hale House is still in operation today. It has become a national role model for children without famil .....


John F.Kennedy: Biography
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1403

.... Academy when he was 18 years old. When he graduated he was voted "Most likely to succeed." By his fellow class mates. Kennedy went to College at Princeton University, but he developed Jaundice, a disease where ones liver becomes bad and the poisons in your body back up, and was forced to drop out of the university. A year later, when Kennedy felt better, in 1936 he entered Harvard University. Kennedy's major was in government and international affairs. In 1939, John went to Europe. He visited many different countries and interviewed politicians and statesman. Kennedy sent .....


Van Gogh
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1032

.... learning about art was when he apprenticed to the international art firm of Goupil, and the reason he did was because his Uncle was a partner. On March 30, 1852 a child was born from Anna and Theodorus , it was a little boy,they named the boy Vincent. "The baby Vincent died a few weeks after his birth."(Elizabeth, Lawrence Hanson 5) On March 30,1853, exactly a year after the first baby was born, Anna and Theodorus gave birth to another baby boy. His name was Vincent, the same name as the baby who died. Anna and Theodorus although happy with their son could never .....


Tupac
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1468

.... that made it big on the Billboard charts. This really helped his popularity. He released a double CD with the songs on it and a lot of his own songs and sold millions of copies (u.a., n.t., n.p. letter code D) More people were influenced to buy his CD. People listened to the music and did what he said he did. So was influencing all of these people. was rich and famous now. He was showing off his own style now and didn't need his popular friends. This is the time that many people saw the real and loved him. He was now very influential to fans. They wanted to be just like .....


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Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 542

.... family, he lived off donations from peasants because of his claim of being a “self- proclaimed holy man” (Rasputin). “[Grigory] underwent a religious conversion at 18, where he was introduced to the Khlysty sect” (Rasputin). Rasputin’s ideas were heretical from the chruch’s viewpoint, however he was charged with using religion to impress people and “advance himself” (Fuhrmann 44). A doctrine of the Khlysty sect states that “one was nearest God when feeling holy passionlessness and that the best way to reach such a state was through the sexual exhaustion that came aft .....



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