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Les Miserables

In his novel, , author Victor Hugo makes a strong statement about society being the cause for evil in man. is based on a poor man, Jean Valjean, who was arrested for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving baby. Valjean is sentenced to 20 years for his crime, and, when he is ...

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Harriet Tubman

The abolitionist movement was intended to get rid of one of the darkest things in our country’s history. Pioneers of abolitionism devoted their lives to fight for freedom and the pursuit of a better life for blacks. One of the most famous abolitionists is . Her efforts in the Underground ...

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Frank Lloyd Wright

“.......having a good start not only do I fully intend to be the greatest architect who has yet lived, but fully intend to be the greatest architect who will ever live. Yes, I intend to be the greatest architect of all time.” - 1867-1959 CHILDHOOD Born in Richland Center, in southwestern ...

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Bill Gates

William (Bill) H. Gates III is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading provider of software for personal computer. was born on October 28, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle ...

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Harriet Tubman

Her real name was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Born as a salve on June 14, 1820 on a plantation in Maryland. There were 8 children in her family and she was the sixth. When she was five, her Mother died. Her Father remarried one year later and in time had three more children. Her Father always ...

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Moll Flanders: Themes

Three recurring themes in Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe are greed, vanity, and repentance. Theme is defined as an underlying or essential subject of artistic representation. These three themes play an important role in the development of the story of Moll Flanders. The first theme, greed, is ...

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Greek Mythology

Since the days when man lived in caves and struggled to survive, he has wondered about the world that surrounds him. What makes the sun rise and set? Why are there seasons? Where do things go when they die? To the ancient Greeks, there were simple explanations to all these questions – it was ...

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Analyzing King Lears Tragic Fl

ANALYZING KING LEAR’S TRAGIC FLAWS King Lear is a play about a tragic hero, by the name of King Lear, whose flaws get the best of him. A tragic hero must posess three qualities. The first is they must have power, in other words, a leader. King Lear has the highest rank of any leader. He ...

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Little Yellow Dog, Long Goodby

The Little Yellow Dog & The Long Goodbye Every human being must have a set of moral codes. These morals are usually set out by the people and environments that one finds themselves surrounded by. Easy Rawlins, the main protagonist in The Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosely, is exposed to crime at ...

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Cleopatra Vii Ptolemaic Dynast

In the springtime of 51 BC, Ptolemy Auletes died and left his kingdom in his will to his eighteen year old daughter, Cleopatra, and her younger brother Ptolemy XIII who was twelve at the time. Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt. She had two older sisters, Cleopatra VI and Berenice IV ...

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The Opening Of The Crusades: Pope Urban II

The series of crusades initiated in the eleventh century brought the West into greater contact with Byzantium and Islam. These crusades demonstrated the expansiveness of the West during the High Middle Ages as well as the increasing power and activism of the papacy. The first of these ...

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Steven Speilberg

A Mini-paper on Steven Spielberg Stephen Spielberg has directed some of the most popular, and highest grossing, movies of all time. He has directed six of the top 25 highest grossing movies of all time, and is clearly one of the most notable directors of our day. Stephen Spielberg was born on ...

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The Legend Of Baby Doe

by John Burke copyright 1974 & 1989 John Burke, a former newspaperman, has published biographies, mysteries, popular histories, and juvenile biographies. He has written biographies on Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, George Thomas, and many others. Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in ...

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Explain Why Cultural Diversity Is Important In A College Education

I come from a small town. Hannibal, MO, the boyhood home of Mark Twain, is described its claim to fame as “a sleepy town drowsing.” Most surely he has never been more accurate, for this small enchanted river town has never awakened total equality. It is a town full of ignorance, where nobody ...

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Ozzy Osbourne

’s music is liked by so many people because of how his lyrics deal with real life experiences. Ozzy writes a lot about what feels or what he has done. Something that has made Ozzy so popular was the fact that he doesn’t care what people think. He always has done what ever he wants. These two ...

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Heinrich Schliemann

"We could describe (Heinrich) Schliemann's excavations on the hill of Hissarlik and consider their results without speaking of Troy or even alluding to it," Georges Perrot wrote in 1891 in his Journal des Savants. "Even then, they would have added a whole new chapter to the history of ...

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Antigone

and Ismene are sisters.  They have two brothers who just killed each other and both died.  Creon, whos very powerful, honored one and dishonored the other.  The dishonored brother being left outside, unburied, and prohibited anyone to cry or sympathetic on the dead body.  who came from a ...

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The Different Conceptions Of The Veil In The Souls Of Black Folk

"For now we see through a glass, darkly" -Isiah 25:7 W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk, a collection of autobiographical and historical essays contains many themes. There is the theme of souls and their attainment of consciousness, the theme of double consciousness and the duality ...

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Max Planck

Justin Thomas Period 4 Chemistry 10/08/96 On April 23, 1858 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany. He was the sixth child of a law professor at the University of Kiel. At the age of nine his interest in physics and mathematics was developed by his teacher Hermann Muller. ...

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Billy Graham

\"This is the Hour of Decision with , coming to you from Minneapolis Minnesota\" , has preached to more than 210 million people through a live audience, more than anyone else in history. Not only that, but Mr. Graham has reached millions more through live televison, video and film. This has led ...

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