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351 wordsDietrich Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on February 4 th 1906, as a son of a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Berlin. Throughout his early life he was an outstanding student, and when he finally reached the age of 25 he became a lecturer in systematic theology at the University Berlin. Something that is very striking is that when Hitler came to power in 1933, Bonhoeffer became a leading spokesman for the Confessing Church, the cente...
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Supreme Court Of The United Court Of The United States
451 wordsEarl Warren, better known as a chief justice who led the Supreme Court of the United States in making difficult decisions in changes with civil rights laws and criminal cases, was an American jurist and political leader. Warren was born on March 19, 1891, in Los Angeles California. He attended the University of California for his education, and was admitted to the bar in 1914. There he held different offices in local government and practiced the law in the San Francisco area. Being a liberal Rep...
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Find A Job Short Story
1,215 wordsEdgar Allen Poe son of the actress Eliza Poland actor David Poe Jr. , was born January 19, 1809. His father was from ago Baltimore family and drunk heavily. His mother however was a good actress but she died of tuberculosis in Richmond Virginia in December of 1811. After this at the age of 3, Edgar and his brother and sister were orphaned. Edgar went to the home of John and Fanny Allan who lived in Richmond, VA. John Allan was a successful merchant. In 1815 they went to England for five years wh...
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Girls Blood Castle
547 wordsCountess Bathory was Hungarian by birth. Records give her entry into the world as I 56 I. As a girl she was beautiful with long fair hair and an exquisite complexion. She was married off to an aristocratic soldier when she was fifteen and became mistress of the Castle of Csejthe in the Carpathians. Life in the dark, gloomy Csejthe Castle, while her husband was away on his various military campaigns, became very boring indeed. She was determined to liven things up. First she gathered round her a ...
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Desert Island Ft High Catalogue
541 wordsDesert Island Essay The bright sun pierced through my silted eyelids as I made a feeble attempt to block the burning beams of light with my shaking hand. Unsuccessful, I closed my eyes tightly, shutting out the ball of fire hanging overhead. As my senses returned in a painful blow, I raised myself up slowly, spitting out a mouthful of sand. With a quick glance, I uncovered an interesting fact. All my clothes were gone. Then it came flooding back. Back on the SS. TUNA, I had heard a low rumbling,...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Hermia And Lysander
1,016 wordsWhat is True Love? The overriding theme of the play " A Midsummer Nights Dream" by William Shakespeare deals with the nature of love. Though true love seems to be held up as an ideal, false love is mostly what we are shown. Underneath his frantic comedy, Shakespeare seems to be asking the questions all lovers ask in the midst of their confusion: How do we know when love is real? How can we trust ourselves that love is real when we are so easily swayed by passion and romantic convention...
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Innocence And Beauty Plato Theory
1,431 wordsdsffddfdfdAmong School Children is a poem used by Yeats to determine an upcoming generation with the underlying concept that no possible life can be fulfilled. The philosophy controlling this work suggests that perhaps life prepares us for what never happens. Consistent with Yeatsean philosophy, it follows the dogma which states that witlessness brings about innocence, whereas knowledge brings us ballyhoo. Within the realms of acquired wisdom, consciousness produces an anarchic state within the ...
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Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan Magellan Ferdinand Magellan King
363 wordsFerdinand Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan was born around 1480. He WAS BORN IN NORTHERN PORTUGAL, WITH THE NAME FERNAO MAGLHES. HE WAS PART OF A NOBLE FAMILY. HE BECAME A SPANISH EXPLORER AND NAVIGATOR. THE SPANISH KNEW HIM AS FERNANDO DE MAGALLANES. FERDINAND WAS KNOWN FOR DISCOVERING THAT THE WORLD WAS ROUND. IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS MAGELLON SERVED AS A COURT PAGE. LATER HE WAS THE LEADER OF THE FIRST EXPEDITION TO SAIL COMPLETLEY AROUND THE WORLD. IN 1505 HE SAILED WITH ...
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East Indies South America
427 wordsMagellan Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan Magellan was born Fernao de Magalhaes to a noble Portuguese family; later the Spanish knew him as Fernando de Magallanes. He served as a court page in his youth and 1505 he sailed with a fleet carrying the first Portuguese viceroy to India. He then served with the fleet in the exploration of the East Indies. Twice wounded in battle, he took part in expeditions that captured the kingdom of Malacca in Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. He explored the...
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Pla Doh Revenge Gate
632 wordsI cant believe he did that! Ill get even for what happened. Revenge. Hot blooded or cold and calculated. Everyone has had occasion to seek revenge; to retaliate for some wrong, real or perceived. For some, retaliation takes the ultimate and final form. Death. But for most people, just knowing that something was done, no matter how small, is enough to cool the desire to get even. There are multitudes of ways to redress wrongs; however, in this paper I will just be talking of three ways satisfacti...
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Caboto Returned Set Sail North
777 wordsGiovanni Caboto, or John Cabot as he is known in English, was born most likely around 1451 in Genoa, Italy. In 1461 he relocated to Venice and eventually became a Venetian citizen on March 28, 1476 after fulfilling the fifteen year residency requirement. As an employee of a mercantile firm, Caboto frequently traveled to the shores of the Mediterranean and Mecca which was a great trading post at the time. As an experienced seamen, Caboto envisioned a great voyage of discovery for himself. In 1484...
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Rose Of Sharon Uncle Johns
1,388 wordsAs Tom Joad hitchhiked his way home after a four-year stay in prison for killing a man in a fight, he met up with Jim Casy, a former preacher who was returning from a sojourn in the " wilderness, " where he had been soul-searching. Tom invited Jim to walk with him on the dusty road to the Joad family farm, and to stay for dinner. Arriving there, he saw that " the small unpainted house was mashed at one corner, and it had been pushed off its foundations so that it slumped at an ang...
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Rose Of Sharon Uncle Johns
1,355 wordsAs Tom Joad hitchhiked his way home after a four-year stay in prison for killing a man in a fight, he met up with Jim Casy, a former preacher who was returning from a sojourn in the wilderness, where he had been soul-searching. Tom invited Jim to walk with him on the dusty road to the Joad family farm, and to stay for dinner. Arriving there, he saw that the small unpainted house was mashed at one corner, and it had been pushed off its foundations so that it slumped at an angle. The farm was dese...
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John Smith American History
863 wordsJohn Smith has proved himself to be an inspiring leader and a skilled explorer who played a significant role in American history. His many accomplishments included helping found the original colony of Jamestown, saving it from a starving time, leading various expeditions of exploration, and courageously escaping from the Indians. John Smith had the qualities of a great leader, and all of his men seemed to think highly of him. Smith always recognized good qualities of his companions, and often co...
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Ponce De Leon Juan Ponce De
1,108 wordsJuan Ponce de Leon Juan Ponce de Leon was born in 1460, in Tierra de Campos Paleia, in Leon, Spain. He came from a noble family and entered the royal household as a page for Pedro Nunez de Guzman, at the Court of Aragon. Later, young Ponce de Leon would become a solider for Spain and fight in the battles to drive the Moors from Granada. In 1493, Leon sailed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to America. He was a member of the forces that enslaved the Indians in Hispaniola. This was t...
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One Of The Greatest Nba Finals
1,443 wordsOne of the greatest basketball players of all time emerged from the small town of French Lick, Indiana. With a population of 2, 059 people, around 1, 600 of them came to watch the Valley High basketball games, especially the blond-haired shooting whiz with a funny smile named Larry Joe Bird. Following a sophomore season that was shortened by a broken ankle, Bird erupted as a junior. Springs Valley went 19 - 2 and young Larry became a local celebrity. Generous fans always seemed to be willing to ...
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July 1999 1 St
556 wordsRobert Kelly Slater Kelly Slater Robert Kelly Hell Slater was born on February 11, 1972, in Coca Beach, Florida. Kelly has 2 brothers, older brother Sean, owns his own board-shaping business, and younger brother Stephen, who is the USA East Coast Longboard champion. Kelly also has a six-year-old daughter, Taylor. Not only is Kelly the best surfer in the world, he also is a great actor, and model. Kelly co-stared in the TV series Baywatch, in 1992 - 93. He did some modeling for Gianni Versace, wh...
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Kurt Cobain Jerry Hopkins
2,223 wordsKurt Cobain and Jim Morrison were more than leads of great bands. They were heros of their generations. They had so many talents and each influenced a multitude of people. Aside from being singers and song writers Kurt was also a musician, guitarist and mass-media phenomenon, and Jim was also a poet, film maker and writer. Their groups also had about a twenty year span in between them. Even though it seems you could not compare them you actually can. Unlike fictional writers their material comes...
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Plate Tectonics Paradigm Shift
1,310 wordsWhen Albert Einstein proposed his Theory of Relativity it was not accepted immediately but eventually over time and after some debate it became a replacement for the idea of physical mechanics formulated by Isaac Newton to explain the motion of large bodies in the presence of gravity. Relativity did not totally discredit Newtonian Mechanics but it did raise new questions and could prove certain things that Newton could not. There were questions, critics, and proponents of the new idea but it cam...
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Bubonic Plague Pneumonic Plague
595 wordsThe Bubonic Plague, or Black Death, had many negative as well as positive effects on medieval Europe. While being one of the worst and deadliest diseases in the history of the world, it indirectly helped Europe break grounds for some of the basic necessities for life today. The Black Death erupted in the Gobi Desert in the late 1320 s, but one really knows why. The plague bacillus was alive and active long before that; as Europe itself had suffered an epidemic in the 6 th century. But the diseas...
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