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Biographies · 156 words
- Sharon #29
Mrs.Rendon
was known as an English theologian, a theologian is a person knowledgeable in theology, mainly Christian theology. was born in London, circa 1603. He was a father of three sons and one daughter. There names were Sydrach, Roger and...
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- Mohandas Gandhi, Whom most people know as Mahatma, meaning ?Great
Soul,? is one of the most prevalent images in the minds of those who think about great
leaders, in the movement for human rights and non-violence. However, not much is
known about his life as a child and his achievements in the...
Biographies · 1,135 words
- ?I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed: ?We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal?...I have a dream that my
four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their...
Biographies · 321 words
- Se trataba de Mr , un americano quien se hab'a educado hast= a el punto de no tener dinero. En 1937, sali' de su ciudad, Boston, Massachussets. En 1944, se halla en Am'rica del Sur, alrededor del r'o Amazonas, con una tribu de ind'genas. Era 'el Gringo Pobre', a veces deb'a buscar...
Biographies · 1,337 words
- was born in Lawrenceville, Massachusettes on
August 25, 1918. He was the first born child of Samuel and Jennie Bernstein,
who lived in Boston, but had gone to Lawrenceville to visit some relatives.
Bernstein's parents had little knowledge of, or interest in
classical music. The only records...
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- Albert Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost every person in the world. While most of these people do not understand his work, everyone knows that his impact on the world of science is amazing. Many people have heard...
Biographies · 670 words
- is one of the toughest players you can meet on a basketball court. Off the court, he is soft-spoken and extremely friendly. When you first meet him you can not help but want to be friends with him. I had the opportunity to first see Modibo play this past summer at an AAU (Amateur Athletic Union)...
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- On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 A.M. a baby girl was born in Frankfurt, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the world's most famous victims of World War II. Her name was , and her parents were Edith Frank Hollandar and Otto Frank. She had one sister,...
Biographies · 1,248 words
- : Fighter for the Black Man was a man beyond words. His perseverance and will to work were well known throughout the United States. He rose from slavery, delivering speech after speech expressing his views on how to uplift America's view of the Negro. He felt that knowledge was power, not just...
Biographies · 1,706 words
- America is interesting. It captures the imagination and attention
of the world but almost all of the attention it receives is negative. A gas
guzzling, beer drinking, loud, and highly violent culture are some of the
more common attributes dumped on America. It's the mass murders, militia
standoffs,...
Biographies · 1,472 words
- There have been many people that have contribution to sociology, was one of these people. His theories made great and big changes, which brought many controversies into sociology. He used scientific methods to approach the study of society and social groups (Dickey, est. al; 1876; 394).
was a...
Biographies · 613 words
- Characteristic of the Romantic Era
Romanticism is a literary and artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that placed value on emotion or imagination over reason, on the imagination over society. Some sources say Romanticism started in reaction to neo-classicism, or the...
Biographies · 815 words
- The 18th century was a period of unprecedented contact between Europeans and subjects of the Ottoman Empire, a situation that spilled over into all areas of society. "Turkish" customs and art became the popular rage in Vienna, as the fear of actual Ottoman a superior opera, with his creation of Die...
Biographies · 104 words
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was known as a Patriot woman who was a threat to the power and authority of the Puritan leadership. Her religious beliefs were very different when compared to those that were being taught by Puritan clergy within the Boston area. Her preaching nearly caused a...
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- Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848,
six years after his parents, George and Rebecca Latimer, had run away from slavery in Virginia. They were determined to be free and that their children be born on free soil. Because of his light complexion, George was...
