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Michael Jackson
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 760.... Jacksons. He
began to perform some of his solo hits in benefit concerts. For example,
the UNICEF, The Atlanta Children’s Foundation at the Omni Auditorium in
Atlanta , Georgia and raised $100,000 for the charity. The Foundation is
established in response to a series of kidnappings which had been occurring
in Atlanta, a charity album is released in 1984 "Let’s beat it" with the
money raised being donated to the Music and Entertainment Industries own
charity , the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia and Cancer Research.
Later on that year President Reagan presents a Specia .....
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Frederick Douglass's Physical And Intellectual Struggles
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2380.... slaves. Douglass felt that the autobiography was descriptive; however, no reader could actually feel exactly what a slave felt, and sympathize completely with a slave. "... I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation, -the situation in which I was placed, -then, and not till then, will he fully appreciate the hardships of, and know how to sympathize with, the toil-worn and whip-scarred fugitive slave." (70) Douglass felt that no one would ever know what slavery was like unless he or she had been a part of it.
As a slave, Douglass was not given many opportunities .....
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Emily Dickinson: A Biography
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 725.... on Pleasant
Street where they lived from 1840 to 1855. Emily was already writing
letters, but composed most of her poetry in this home. Emily only left home
to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for two semesters.
Though her stay there was brief, she impressed her teachers with
her courage and directness. They felt her writing was sensational.
At the age of twenty-one, Emily and her family moved to the
Dickinson Homestead on Main Street. This move proved to be very difficult
for Emily. This was difficult for Emily because she became very attached to
her ol .....
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Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1979.... Prussian war office, giving him free time to work on his airship ideas.
Zeppelin now finally found the time to concern himself with his visions to the topic of "Lenkbare Luftschiffe" or "guidable airships". This idea had always pursued him in the last 20 years. It was particularly the success of the airship LA FRANCE, which had very much impressed Zeppelin. In a letter to his king, Zeppelin referred, particularly, to the possibilities of the military use of this technology. A meeting with the military authorities, following on it, did not bring good re .....
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Woodrow Wilson
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 316.... to humanize "every process of our human life." This dream however was shattered by war.
The greatest achievement Wilson ever made was his cooperation with other nations to form the League of Nations and ultimately form the United Nations. For Wilson's efforts, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Wilson was greatly responsible for increasing US participation in world affairs.
Wilson was a great president and a great public servant. He was a brilliant speaker and a fun loving, energetic man who pursued his ideas to lead the nation through hard times. A true hero in a p .....
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Pompey
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 978.... It was instigated, in war and peace, through illegality and treachery. was a great general, but a bad politician. helped to end the slave revolt of Spartacus in 72 BC. Because of his leadership abilities, was elected consul in 70 BC. However, he ran into opposition in the senate, especially from Marcus Crassus, and returned to leading the army to more conquests.
was an opportunist, he worked by himself, all the while leading the senate to think that he was working with them. He manipulated the senate to make out that Caesar was dangerous. became the most powerful .....
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Neal Cassady
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2683.... of lower downtown Denver there was not one so young as myself. Of these dreary men who had committed themselves, each for his own good reason, to the task of finishing their days as pennyless drunkards, I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood to which their vision could daily turn, and in being thus grafted onto them, I became the unnatural son of a few score beaten men.
( The First Third)
With him as not only the legendary driver of On The Road but also as the driver of the bus with the Merry Pranksters in tow, the two generations were s .....
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Benito Mussolini
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1434.... school. When he was growing up he was surrounded by many political philosophies. There was anarchism, socialism, and others. Both Benito and his father Allesandro had very bad violent tempers.
When Benito grew up, he became a teacher in an elementary school in his nearby town; he spread the party of doctrine. He was an editor, Fascist leader, laborer, soldier, politician, and revolutionary. He also became a socialist. He graduated at a teacher training school in Forli, Italy. Then he moved to Switzerland to find a better place to work. When he was in Switzerland, he got in .....
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