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Aaron Coplandwas the embodiment of what a composer can hope to become.
Copland was very much in touch not only with himself and his feelings, but with
the audience he intended to reach. Very few composers have a concrete idea of
what "types" of people they wish their music to reach. Copland was one of ...
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Cesar E. ChavezCesar Estrada Chavez, was a great Mexican American labor union organizer, leader and An Agricultural migrant worker. He used nonviolent action to gain recognition and respect from the Migrant farm laborers. Cesar Chavez knew he needed recognition in order to negotiate in collective bargaining for ...
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Helen KellerImagine a life without being able to see or hear and not knowing how to communicate with anyone around you. That world of darkness is what lived in for six years. has been an inspiration to people ever since she turned six. From 1886-1960, she proved herself to be a creative and inspiring ...
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Ernest Hemingway - The Man AndErnest Hemingway – The Man and His Work On July 2, 1961, a writer whom many critics call the greatest writer of this century, a man who had a zest for adventure, a winner of the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize, a man who held esteem everywhere – on that July day, that man put a shotgun to his ...
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Albert Einsteinwas born in Germany on March 14, 1879.As a kid he had
trouble learning to speak. His parents thought that he might be mentally
retarded. He was not smart in school. He suffered under the learning methods
that they used in the schools of Germany at that time so he was never able to
finish his ...
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Heinrich Himmlerwas Reichsführer-SS (Reich SS Leader) and Chief of the German police. In this capacity, he was responsible for the implementation of the Final Solution - the extermination of the Jews - as ordered by the Führer, Adolf Hitler.
He was born in Munich on October 7, 1900. His father was the ...
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Edgar Allen Poe: Writing StyleThe short story writer which I have chosen to research is Edgar Allen
Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious
style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different
views on Poe's writing style, I think that Harold Bloom summed it up ...
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Mark TwainCohen 1 Jeffrey Cohen Mrs. Schroeder-Blumke American Authors 26 March 1999 Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as , is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane ...
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Ansel AdamsFebruary 20, 1902, a photographer was born. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Ansel Easton Adams was the only child of New England parents, Charles Hitchcock and Olive Adams. Adams\' father was a businessman, whose company included an insurance agency and chemical plant. Ansel took ...
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JFK: Was His Assassination IneA popular misconception is that President John F. Kennedy's assassination was an isolated event perpetrated by one man. This could not be farther from the truth. Instead, it was the result of a complex combination of domestic and foreign events. When President Kennedy was in office, he had to deal ...
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John Wilkes Booth( A man with a mission) is known as killing one
of our U . S presidents, Abraham Lincoln. How did he do it when did he do
it and where did he do it at? Lincoln helping abolish slavery state by
state to try to stop the civil war. as he was known as a
professional actor before the assassination ...
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Saint Francis Of Assisiwas born in Assisi, Italy, in 1182. Francis was originally named Giovanni Francesco Bernardone, and never received a formal education. Instead, as the son of a wealthy merchant, Francis led a worldly and carefree life. He found his way into a battle between Assisi and Perugia, and was captured ...
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Jedediah HotchkissThe Civil War, a turning point in history. Not only did this important event change the lives of Americans, but also it effected people right here in the valley. Few know that a battle was fought here in the local town of Waynesboro. This battle may not have been the turning point of the war, but ...
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Isaac Newton And Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein and Isaac Newton were both the sons of farmers. Although Einstein lived in Germany and was Jewish while Newton was Catholic or Christian and lived in England. Albert taught himself geometry while Newton’s family couldn’t even read or write yet. As Newton was growing up ...
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Otto Eduard Leopold Von Bismarck-Schönhausenwas a major player in the unification of Germany. This Prussian junker, or aristocrat, was a Prussian nationalist and later a German nationalist. As Chief Minister to Wilhelm I of Prussia, he devised and executed a "klein-deutsch" (excluding Austria) plan to unify Germany.
It was Bismarck's ...
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live”Mohandas Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, on October 2, 1869. During the 1900’s, Gandhi was considered to be by many one of the foremost political and spiritual leaders of that century. Gandhi’s quest in life was to use a nonviolent resistance method to free India from bondage under British ...
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King Henry VIIIHenry VIII (born 1491, ruled 1509-1547). The second son of Henry VII
and Elizabeth of York was one of England's strongest and least popular
monarchs. He was born at Greenwich on June 28, 1491. The first English
ruler to be educated under the influence of the Renaissance, he was a
gifted scholar, ...
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Galileo GallileiGalileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. Galileo was the first of seven children of Vincenzio Galilei, a trader and Giula Ammannati, an upper-class woman who married below her class. When Galileo was a young boy, his father moved the family moved to Florence. Galileo moved ...
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Nikita Khrushchevs Rise To PowerNikita Khrushchev rose to power after the death of Stalin. He was a leader who desperately worked for reform yet his reforms hardly ever accomplished their goals. He was a man who praised Stalin while he was alive but when Stalin died Khrushchev was the first to publicly denounce him. Khrushchev ...
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Roberto Clemente Walkerwas born in Barrio San Anton in Carolina, Puerto Rico, August 18, 1934. He was the youngest of four children. He stood 5 feet and 11 inches tall, and he weighed 175 pounds. Roberto excelled in track and field, winning medals in the javelin throw and short distance races. However, his real love ...
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Marcus Aurelius Even today, Meditations by is read by every class from kings to common people. The book is a universal classic, meaning it can be related to at any time, by anyone. The philosophies included in his book have spanned the centuries, and Meditations remains to be one of the most influential ...
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Karl Marxwas the greatest thinker and philosopher of his time. His views on life and the social structure of his time revolutionized the way in which people think. He created an opportunity for the lower class to rise above the aristocrats and failed due to the creation of the middle class. Despite this ...
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John F. KennedyMany people have had profound impacts on America and how the country is and how it is ran. Many of these people are presidents, and one of these people is John Fritzgerald Kennedy.
was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He was born into a rich family, and his father who was the ...
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Biography Of Arthur ClarkeArthur C. Clarke, a science fiction author, has had a very interesting
life.
Arthur was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England. He was the
oldest of four children. His two brothers were Frederick and Michael, and his
sister's name was Mary. As a child, he enjoyed science very much. He ...
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Presidential AnomaliesThere has been a very unusual historical occurrence involving the presidency since the early 19th Century. Every candidate that had run for the office of President of the United States in an election year at the beginning of a decade has either been assassinated, died, or had been shot while in ...
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