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Reading Campaign Essays and Term Papers
Fredrick Douglass 5Frederick Douglass the most successful abolitionist who changed America’s views of slavery through his writings and actions. Frederick Douglass had many achievements throughout his life. His Life as a slave had a great impact on his writings. His great oratory skills left the largest ...
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Maria MithchellThe person that I chose for the Womens History Month report is Maria Mitchell, who was a self- taught astronomer. She discovered Comet Mitchell and made amazing achievements throughout her life. Maria Mitchell was born on ...
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Josef Stalinwas born in 1879, under the name Iosif
Vissarionich Dzhugashvili. He was born in Gori, which is now the Republic
of Georgia, and his parents were both Georgian peasants who did not know
how to speak Russian.
However, Stalin learned the Russian language at his school, a
Georgian church ...
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PRESUMED INNOCENTScott Turow writes an engrossing book based on love, obsession, and the legal system. In the beginning the protagonist character, Rusty Sabich, a District Prosecuting Attorney (P.A.) begins the story in first person speaking about what is expected of him as a P.A. His voice gives reason that he ...
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Maurice Sendakwas born June 10, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were poor immigrants from Poland who came to America before World War I. Many of his relatives died in the Holocaust, and this was an important influence upon his childhood. His parents were always upset about the relatives they had ...
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Maurice Sendak may be the best-known children\'s author / illustrator in the world today. His artwork has become somewhat of an American icon; some even became the basis of an advertising campaign for Bell Atlantic. This extremely gifted genius was actually cultivating within Sendak since his childhood, ...
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Essential Writings: ReviewThis is the fourth book in OUP's "Essential Writings" series that I happen to be revieweing. The first three were on Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, and Sri Auorbindo, respectively. It certainly looks as if the series is shaping up well, despite the inevitable unevenness in editorial inputs ...
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was very
important to the past history of our country. He helped to abolish slavery in
this country and kept the American Union from splitting apart during the Civil
War.
At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping
stories and ...
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Mahatma Gandhi
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one
as this ever walked upon this earth in flesh and blood".
-Albert Einstein
Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors, ...
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Mahatma Gandhi“Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one
as this ever walked upon this earth in flesh and blood”.
-Albert Einstein
Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors, but Gandhi was a passive and peaceful preacher of morals, ethics, and beliefs. He was an outsider who ...
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Robert E. LeeIntroduction
Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War,
fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals
- , by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the
greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in ...
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Immoral Acts Of The Tobacco InThe tobacco industry seems like a beneficial addition to our economy. It has basically been a socially acceptable business in the past because it brings jobs to our people and tax money to the government to redistribute; but consider the cost of tobacco related treatment, mortality and ...
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Jacqueline KennedyJacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is to this day considered to be one of the most graceful, intelligent, and maternal woman in the history of the United States. She played a great role in society by displaying her firm convictions of family values and her strong female individualism. At the time of her ...
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"The World Today Seems To Be Going Crazy": The Unabomber's ManifestoIt was May 25th 1978, Terry Marker was on his usual patrol on campus at
the University of Illinois. This earmark package, addressed to an engineering
professor at Rensselaer from a material science professor at Northwestern, was
found in a parking lot. What seemed like an insignificant ...
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JFKThe Assassination of John F. Kennedy For the American people, John F. Kennedy was the bright future. He was a young man that they was as holding the torch for this country. When he was elected, he brought youth and a relaing calm to the White House for the first time in our nation's history. Not ...
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Life And Times Of Alexander The GreatIntroduction
Alexander the great made an impact on world history that few individuals
can profess to have done. He ruled all of the known world, and one of the
largest empires ever. His men were the first westerners to encounter tales of
the Yeti. They even discovered and classified new types ...
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Reproductive Technologies: Does Choice Mean Freedom??
"One does not, it might be said, increase a person's freedom simply by
increasing the sheer quantity of possibilities which he or she can choose from."
n Richard Norman
The issue of reproductive technologies in our society today raises an
interesting question. Do they increase a women's ...
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1968An Indignant Generation.\" With all its disruptions and rage, the idea of black revolution was something many white Americans could at least comprehend, if not agree with. When rebellion seized their own children, however they were almost completely at a loss. A product of the posts war \"Baby ...
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Florence Nightingaleis remembered throughout the world for her heroic, almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child, Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in her years attending school. Florence grew up to ...
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Ben And Jerry'sBen & Jerry Homemade, INC was founded in 1977 by two hippie type young men. Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. The first scoop shop was opened in May 1978 in a renovated gas station in downtown Burlington. Financed by a $12,000 investment loan from Ben’s father.
The cofounder‘s business ...
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