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Harriet Tubman 2
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1009.... and freedom. Her husband remained in Maryland. In 1849 Harriet Tubman moved to Pennsylvania, but returned to Maryland two years later hoping to persuade her husband to come North with her. By this time John Tubman had remarried. Harriet did not marry again until after Tubman's death.
In Pennsylvania, Harriet Tubman joined the abolitionist cause, working to end slavery. She decided to become a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a network of antislavery activists who helped slaves escape from the South. On her first trip in 1850, Tubman brought her own sister and her sis .....
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Beethoven 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 576.... composer that was not supported by wealthy persons; instead Beethoven supported himself with money from selling his music. By 1778, Beethoven started hearing humming and whistling sound in his ears, and it got worse. A few years later, he became completely deaf. Although he was deaf he could still write music. He finished his first symphony in 1800.
In 1802, Beethoven became depressed and thought a lot about suicide. He went to a small village in Germany where he stayed for a few years. The next couple of years Beethoven created his most impressing masterpieces. In 18 .....
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Eva Peron
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2023.... same time there mere people who were rich”. This was maybe one of the first time’s that Eva felt the injustice of the world, that she felt that there had something to be done for those who did not have enough to eat.
In 1930 Juana Ibarguen decide to leave Los Toldos and left to Junin with all her family seeking for a better fortune. Evita had this dream of someday becoming an actress and she believed in herself saying that she indeed has vocation. She participated in some recitals and plays from school. By 1935 Eva had made up her mind of becoming a great actress. .....
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Margaret Mead
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 770.... travel, she graduated, and was sent to DePauw University at Greencastle Indiana in 1919, where her intention was to major in English. Unfortunately, Margaret was looked down on in DePauw, so she transferred to Barnard College where she studied with Franz Boas and his student Ruth Benedict. It was also at Barnard College that she decided to make anthropology her main field of study. She received her B.A. degree from Barnard in 1923. In September of that same year, Margaret was married to Luther in a small Episcopal Church where she had been baptized. She then conti .....
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A Biography Of Ralph Waldo Eme
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 363.... back to the United States, where he settled in Concord Massachusetts. At an oration at Harvard, he gave one of his most famous, if not his most famous speech, "The American Scholar." "The American Scholar," was a speech about being intellectually independent. Intellectually Independent simply means that everyone should think for themselves, and not become a "parrot of other mens thinking." This speech was very important in Emerson's life, because he was able to mention his theory of Transcendentalism to an open audience. Emerson's most popular written work, was probably .....
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Jackie Robinson
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 292.... letters in four sports-football, basketball, baseball and track.
In 1941 he left college to join the Army. He became a second lieutenant in his journey through the Army. It was a segregated army then. He received an honorable discharge in 1944 after he was acquitted from a court-martial.
Robinson began his professional baseball career in 1945. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the leading teams in the Negro Leagues. Later in the year he signed with the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was sent down to the minors in 1946 but called up to the Dodg .....
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The Impact Of Frederick Douglass
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 991.... 7, Frederick was sent to his master, Captain Aaron
Anthony, at a nearby plantation. There he first met a
brother and two sisters. He later recalled sadly that
"slavery had made us strangers." (Compton’s Interactive
Deluxe 1)
At the age of 13 he read “The Colombian Orator”, a book
of speeches denouncing slavery and oppression deepened his
hatred of slavery.
“In 1833 Frederick was sent to work for Auld's brother,
Thomas, at a plantation near St. Michael's, Md. Frederick's
pride angered his new master, who placed him in the hands of
a "slave breaker" in an effort to "tame" h .....
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Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856)
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 407.... in his time.
Avogadro's work was recognized nearly fifty years after he had made his hypothesis. Two years after his death, his colleague, Cannizzaro, showed how the use of Avogadro's number could solve many of the problems in chemistry. This time Avogadro's paper was looked at more carefully over a wider and more distinguished group of scientists, thus his work was finally recognized. Avogadro's work helped other scientists to solve more problems and develop more theories.
Avogadro has based his work on the findings of Joseph Gay-Lussac in 1809. Gay-Lussac had discovered .....
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