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Shakespeare
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 547.... of His Farewell to Military Profession. More than fifty percent of ’s plays were influenced from various groups of topics.
Other things that influenced ’s plays were his life experiences. As a young boy dramatic events that occurred led to his writing of Hamlet. The drowning of a girl named Katherine he knew was also a source of his playwriting.
History affected his writing as well. One of ’s most heralded plays was based on the life and demise of Julius Caesar. He gathered information about Caesar, and with his literary brilliance wrote about Caesar and his story in a .....
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The Rule Of Halie Selassie
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 707.... born as Tafari Makonnen on July 23, 1892. His mother died when he was two years of age. Shortly after his country was in war with the Italians. It was at this war that Tafari's father, Ras Makonnen fought next to Emperor Menelik, the emperor of Ethiopia at that time. The Emperor swore their relationship hoping that he would pass the throne to Ras Makonnen when Menelik's time had come.
Ras Makonnen wanted a good education for his son "Ras" Tafari. Ras is an Ethiopian title given to people of royal blood. Fortunately, Mokonnen saw to his son's education early, because in 19 .....
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Herbert Hoover
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1320.... much of Asia, Africa, and
Europe as a mining entrepreneur, earning a considerable fortune. At the
outbreak of World War I in August 1914 he was in London.
Hoover, who as a Quaker passionately believed in peace, was appalled by
the human costs of the war, and he determined to devote his life to public
service. He volunteered to direct the exodus of American tourists from war-
torn Europe and then to head (1915-19) the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
This position brought him public attention as the "great humanitarian," a
well-earned reputation that he lost only after .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 938.... and yet sometimes quarrelsome. In all the practical relations of his life he was what the child is at a party, genuinely delighted, delightful, affectionate and happy, and in some strange way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the experience remain with him all his life.
Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, and then left for good. He enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure sto .....
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The Life Of Anne Frank
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 646.... they simply grab five hostages and line them up
against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper,
where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.'"--October 9, 1942
"All college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the
effect that they 'sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New
Order." Eighty percent have decided to obay the dictates of their
conscience, but the penalty will be severe. Any student refusing to sign
will be sent to a German labor camp."--May 18, 1943
Here is were the story begins ...
On June 12, .....
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Joan Of Arc
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1059.... summer of 1425, she began having religious visions and hearing what she believed were voices of saints. They started occuring once a week and as she got older they happened daily. She said the voices told her to always behave, obey her parents, pray, etc. She claimed they were the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. She was said to be a Clair Voyant,
a person who has knowledge of events happening far away or in the futures without using any of the five senses. The visions and voices never left her.
Finally, four years later she was convinc .....
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The Nomination OfAndrew Jackson To The "Presidents Hall Of Fame"
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1817.... He was orphaned at age 14. After studying law and
becoming a member of the Bar in North Carolina later he moved to Nashville
Tennessee. Their he became a member of a powerful political faction led by
William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later
remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794.
Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional
convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator
in 1797, but financial problems forced him to resign and return to Tennessee in
less t .....
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Bill Clinton And His Many Problems
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 566.... still waiting to hear Bill Clinton's statement.
Another big problem to Bill is that he has been unable to fulfil those very big
promises he gave during his election campaign in 1992. That has given his
credibility and the polls a big push down. One of his promises was his health
program, the purpose of this was to give people with not so many money a chance
to get treated at a hospital. In US you are supposed to pay hospital-bills
yourself. It is something like our public health insurance where the government
pays for the ho¬ spitals. In US it is a problem that the poor can n .....
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