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Washington D C Civil War
560 wordsFor minorities, as for other Americans, the Civil War was an opportunity to prove their valor and loyalty. Among the first mustered into the Union Army were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, the Garibaldi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a Polish Legion, and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D. C. , African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, This is a white mans war. Some citizens questione...
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D C Heath Napoleonic Era
1,455 wordsDifferent Factors Led To Napoleons Success. Which Different Factors Led To Napoleons Success. Which Of Factors Dealt With Napoleons Personality Which Of These Factors Were Outside His Control There are many factors that were part of Napoleons success. Some of these were because of his personality, and others were completely out of his control. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1796 on the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea. In that same year French troops invaded Corsica and crushed a movem...
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Washington D C Northern Virginia
945 wordsI was born in Blacksburg, Virginia on September 1, 1980, in Montgomery County Regional Hospital. My parents had me in there early twenty's. My mom and dad went to VA Tech. My mom majored in biology and my dad majored in Forestry. Since they were in college they had no freedom when I was born. After college my parents and I moved to a condo in Northern Virginia. My mother said that I was a happy kid when they were together. I was always happy to see my dad when he came home. We lived there for a ...
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Washington D C Black And White
1,010 wordsRobert Mapplethorpe began taking photographs in 1970 with a Polaroid camera given to him by a friend. Nearly twenty years later, when Mapplethorpe died at the age of forty-two, he was considered one of the most important photographers of his time. His elegant and sometimes shocking nudes, the black-and-white portraits, flower still lifes, and images of sexual sadomasochism had been exhibited widely and were the subject of serious critical attention in Europe and America. A few months after his d...
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Washington D C Art New York City
1,348 wordsPicasso, Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y (1881 - 1973), Spanish painter and sculptor, is considered one of the greatest artist of the 20 th century. He was a inventor of forms, innovator of styles and techniques, a master of various media, and one of the most prolific artists in history. He created more than 20, 000 works. Training and Early Work Picasso was Born in M? last on October 25, 1881, he was the son of Jos? Ruiz Black, an art teacher, and Mar? a Picasso y Lopez. Until...
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Washington D C Todd Lincoln
1,955 wordsMary Ann Todd Lincoln, wife of the sixteenth President of the United States, was born December 13, 1818, in Lexington, Kentucky to Robert and Eliza Parker Todd. She was raised in a wealthy, yet dysfunctional family. She was well educated as a child, but needed more attention while growing up. Mary had a lot of problems as a Southern woman during the Civil War. Many people disliked her and people often criticized her actions while she was in the White House. Her problems began early in her life. ...
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Washington D C Global Warming
814 wordsGlobal Global Warming Global Warming Global warming is a huge environmental and economic challenge that we are facing in the 21 st century. Global warming is also commonly referred to as the greenhouse effect. Global warming can affect entire ecosystems and climates, which in turn affect the way in which people live. We in our lifetimes will not be around to see the major outcome of global warming; however, it is still a major concern. It has come to be known that the major increase in temperatu...
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Supreme Court Justice John Paul
511 wordsJOHN PAUL STEVENS Bio John Paul Stevens, the 101 st Justice to serve on the supreme court of the United States, and the first appointed by President Gerald R. Ford. John Paul Stevens became a member of the high court in December of 1975. Stevens, a middle aged man, with a reputation as a sharp-minded, hardworking lawyer, and first rate judge was given the highest evaluation from the American Bar Association committee that examined his record. |A superb judicial craftsman X and a Judge+s judge, X...
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Washington D C Army Of Northern Virginia
2,101 wordsRobert E. Lee was born in Stratford Hall, near Montrose, Virginia, on January 19, 1807. He grew up with a great love of all country life and his state. This stayed with him for the rest of his life. He was a very serious boy and spent many hours in his fathers library. He loved to play with some his friends, swim, and he loved to hunt. Lee looked up to his father and always wanted to know what he was doing. George Washington and his father, Light-Horse Harry Lee, were his heroes. He wanted to be...
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Washington D C Langston Hughes
842 wordsLangston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri into an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of Charles Henry Langston. His brother was John Mercer Langston, who was the the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didnt think he would be able to make a living as a writer. His father paid his tuition to Columbia University for him t...
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Law Enforcement Agencies Washington D C
1,123 wordslaw To uphold the law through the investigation of violations of federal criminal law; to protect the U. S. from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities; to provide leadership and law enforcement assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies; and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the publican is faithful to the constitution of the U. S. : this is the mission ofthe Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agency now known as the F...
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
1,032 wordsMartin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents, Martin and Alberta King, were wonderful parents who raised Martin Jr. in a middle class, religious home. Martin Luther King, Sr. was a minister and Alberta was the daughter of an affluent minister. Martin was protected as much as possible from racism by his parents and they instilled in him a sense of self-respect and equality. Martin Luther King, Sr. was a strong, self- confident man who feared no one. He was...
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Martin Luther King Washington D C
476 wordsBrainard 1 Craig Brainard Mrs. Robinson Junior Honors English 8 January 1998 Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Junior stepped up to the podium in Washington D. C. to deliver one of the most famous and influential speeches of our time. The crowd of over 200, 000 listened to his I Have a Dream speech, in which King attempted to convince people to live together in peace and understanding of one another. This was one of his many successful non-violent demonstration...
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
1,905 wordsMartin Luther King, Jr. was born at noon on Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at his home in Atlanta, Georgia. He was first named Michael Luther King Jr. , and later changed his name to Martin, after his father. He was the first son and second child born to the reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. , and Alberta Williams King, a schoolteacher. In September 1935, Martin began his schooling at the all-black Yonge Street Elementary School in Atlanta. Growing up as an African American in Georgia, Martin experie...
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Washington D C Lincoln
1,864 wordsMary Ann Todd Lincoln, wife of the sixteenth President of the United States, was born December 13, 1818, in Lexington, Kentucky to Robert and Eliza Parker Todd. She was raised in a wealthy, yet dysfunctional family. She was well educated as a child, but needed more attention while growing up. Mary had a lot of problems as a Southern woman during the Civil War. Many people disliked her and people often criticized her actions while she was in the White House. Her problems began early in her life. ...
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Washington D C Top Of The World
981 wordsGreat Men Have Great Assistants As I stood there on the top of the world and I thought of the hundreds of men who had lost their lives in their effort to reach it [North Pole], I felt profoundly grateful that I had the honor of representing my race. With these words, Matthew Henson planted the American flag on the North Pole. During the past, black Americans have not received the acknowledgement they deserved. Such was the case of Matthew A. Henson. He was the first person to discover the North ...
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Washington D C Museum Of Fine Arts
2,021 wordsMob Victim: One Of The Untold Stories Lynching is an act of violence that took place in great numbers from the era of slavery to the times of the civil rights movements. The Webster s definition of lynch is to execute, extrasensory perception by hanging, without due process of law. Many innocent lives were taken because of the hatred that was accepted during the time that lynching was occurring at large. Between 1882 and 1900 more than a thousand people in the South were killed by whites who too...
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Washington D C Ozone Hole
1,498 wordsThe reappearance of the ozone hole over Antarctica has been a hot topic for scientist around the world. A few of these scientists are the atmospheric physicist Richard D. Mc Peters and several of his colleagues at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. The ozone hole showed up earlier than expected, and it was wider and thinner. It appeared in mid-August, about two weeks ahead of schedule, and on September 19 reached the record size of 10. 5 million square miles, more than three and ...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Washington D C
2,275 wordsThe Worlds Fight Against Microbes Many infectious diseases that were nearly eradicated from the industrialized world, and newly emerging diseases are now breaking out all over the world due to the misuse of medicines, such as antibiotics and antivirals, the destruction of our environment, and shortsighted political action and / or inaction. Viral hemorrhagic fevers are a group of diseases caused by viruses from four distinct families of viruses: filo viruses, arena viruses, flaviviruses, and bun...
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B C D Wilfred Owen
971 wordsWar War Poetry Poetry Assignment War Poetry A popular theme for poets in the last century was war. Many famous poems were written about the two world wars, as well as the Korean and Vietnam wars. For my report I have chosen six poems, three by Wilfred Owen and three by Australian poets. Anthem for Doomed Youth, The Send Off and Insensibility (1) were written by Owen during the first world war to express his anti-war attitude. Beach Burial by Kenneth Slessor, Homecoming by Bruce Dawe and Letter X...
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