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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1606.... On sidewalks, they were expected to step aside for whites, and if a black man ever entered a white mans home, it had to be through the back door.
Even though Martin did not like these rules, he could not change it as a child. Even with them though, he still managed to live a normal life. He loved church and reading the bible. He decided to become a minister very early in his life. That dream was not far away for him. Because he liked to read so much, it made him very smart in school and he skipped two grades. As King learned about white mans laws, he tried to think of different .....
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Golda Meir
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 650.... survived as a state. In the beginning, Israel hardly had any
weapons. Golda Meir once again decided she wanted to help Israel so she went to
the United States and She went to other countries to try to help Israel out with
this problem by raising money. In the US, she gave speeches at universities and
she contacted the head government officials to try to borrow some money. The US
government turned her down but the college students gave her all the money they
could spare. The government also refused to help Israel out by selling them
weapons. Once again, the college stude .....
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Jackie Kennedy Onasis
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1783.... She was petite and had a somewhat animated look to her. Her nose and chin were long and pointed. When Jackie was born it was happily noted that Jackie looked like Jack Bouvier. (Birmingham)
Though Janet Lee’s family was well off, they were not members of the esteemed highest social caste as were the Bouviers. Janet lived her life with a constant sense of unease because of this difference in lineage.(Birmingham)
Because Black Jack was known for having erratic financial history, James Lee, Janet’s father, offered to allow Janet and Jack to live rent free .....
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Catherine II, Empress Of Russia (Catherine The Great)
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 753.... well read and deeply involved in the cultural trends of her age.
She was a tireless worker and knew how to select capable assistants--for
example, Nikita PANIN in foreign affairs, Aleksandr SUVOROV in the military,
and Grigory POTEMKIN in administration. Imbued with the ideas of the
Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter I--
westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she did
not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but rather
encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of self-interest. She succeede .....
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Sparta: Uncultured Discipline
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1708.... the
Dorians knew how to forge iron weapons which completely outclassed the bronze
weaponry of the Myceneans (Carl Roebuck, 1966, p. 119).
In Mycenean times Sparta had been a important city, but after Dorian
conquest it sank to insignificance. Over the next three hundred years it
recovered and began to prosper. By 800 B.C it ruled over the region called
Lacedonia.
Up to about 650 B.C Sparta was pretty much like every other Greek state.
They had music, art and poetry. During the seventh century, a musician named
Terpander came to Sparta and established himself their. He i .....
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Malcolm X
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2440.... The X represented the African tribal name his ancestors had lost when they were brought in their millions as slaves from Africa to America. From his initial, radical stance as a "Black Nationalist" seeing evil in all whites, he came to think that blacks and whites could work together for international revolution, a belief that ultimately led to his murder in 1965 by rival Black Muslims. Though he came from the American ghetto, spoke for the American ghetto and directed his message first and foremost at the American ghetto, became a figure of world importance developing his .....
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Communism - From Marx To Zemin
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2273.... He went onto comment that the exploitation of the working class must come to an end. That end would be achieved through revolution. Once this was achieved, everybody would work according to their abilities and then be paid accordingly (Capital, 586-617). Soon after, however, technical innovations would create such abundance of goods that "everyone works according to his abilities and receives according to his needs." Soon thereafter, money would have no place in society. People would be able to take what they want and would be lacking nothing. Marx then believed that the ple .....
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The Life Of Alexander Hamilton
Number of pages: 18 | Number of words: 4858.... store that Hamilton got his first taste
of finance; it was also in that high-visibility capacity that he probably
became the target of malicious whispers, or perhaps even outward disdain
from the townspeople he encountered. Rachel's husband, who had had her
imprisoned in Christiansted some years before for adultery, had posted a
public summons for her to appear before a divorce court, declaring her a
whore who had given birth to illegitimate children. After Rachel's death
from yellow fever, her husband then sued for all her assets, depriving her
"whore children" of any benefit .....
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