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Horace Mann
Words: 665 / Pages: 3 .... should be long ago.
Mann wanted the common schools to be available to everyone. He wanted it to be available to people that were rich, poor, and of different backgrounds. Public schools try to be this today; they are free to everyone and nondiscriminatory. Mann believed in public support and control of schools.
Mann thought that education was a right that was passed on from generation to generation. Denying children this right was horrible to Mann. Today in the United States, education of the public is seen as a right and is partaken in by countless young people every year. thought that if children were taught well they would make good g .....
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William Buffalo Bill Cody
Words: 675 / Pages: 3 .... turn reflected glory on the regiment. Buffalo Bill thought himself to be lucky too. Cody was very fortunate to be wounded in action only once, and that one time it was only a minor wound. Most of all, he was most gracious for always being in the right place at the right time.
Buffalo Bill Cody appeared on stage for the first time in 1872. He played himself in a play titled “Scouts of the Prairie”. Following this, he kept acting in the winter and he worked for the army in the summer. The Wild West show began in 1883 in Omaha. When this began, real cowboys and real Indians showing how life really was in the west. Cody’s show .....
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Michael Jordan
Words: 421 / Pages: 2 .... 1996, 1997 and 1998.
And along the way Jordan picked up five regular season Most Valuable Player(MVP)awards, six Finals MVPs, 10 scoring titles, and made 12 All-Star appearances and many amazing, magical moments from the last-second shots to phenomenal scoring outbursts. Jordan also was named by the NBA as one of the 50 greatest players of all-time.
He leaves a series of records, including a career record for highest points per game average in a regular season;31.5; Bulls' all-time leading scorer and third all-time leading scorer in the NBA with 29,277 points; set NBA record with 23 consecutive points against Atlanta in 1987; and a career record for .....
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Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
Words: 403 / Pages: 2 .... Diocese of Charleston, he
served under four bishops in many capacities, including the officed of
chancellor, vicar general, diocesan consular, and administrator of the diocese.
On March 9,1966, Pope Paul VI appointed Msgr. Bernardin Auxiliary Bishop
of Atlanta. In doing this he became the youngest Bishop in the county. On July
10,1982, Pope John Paul II reappointed Archbishop Bernardin to Archbishop of
Chicago. His installation took at Holy Name Cathedral on August 25,1982. Later
Archbishop Bernardin went to the College of Cardinals. On February 2,1983 he
received his "red hat."
On September 9,1996 President Clinton awarded Cardinal Bernardi .....
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Emily Murphy: A Great Canadian
Words: 748 / Pages: 3 .... Winnipeg Tribune for a few years before moving to
Alberta in 1907." In her new home Emily became very active in civic
affairs especially in law that would improve the rights of women and
children.
In 1900's in Alberta any man who, for example, had a farm and was
married could sell that farm and leave his wife and children walking away
with the money. Mrs. Murphy was angry that Alberta would allow such
disgrace. In 1910 Emily was still fighting for the Dower Act "which would
recognize a married woman's entitlement to a share of the common property
in a marriage". For the first time the act was turned down, Emily not
giving up tried very hard .....
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Gregory Efimovich Rasputin
Words: 723 / Pages: 3 .... a debauched, and endless sexual appetite.
Undoubtedly, the Empress Alexandra never had relations of a sexual nature with Rasputin; he was a healer to her son, Alex, the heir to the throne, when he had a bleeding crisis. Alexandra put her faith into Rasputin, she became dependent on him, and she saw no wrong in the his ways. Many of the Orthodox clergymen became skeptical of the monk and his close involvement with the imperial family, the Romanov family members of Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich also became concerned and wanted him to be sent away. With many entreaties from Tsars Nicholas’s family to send the monk away, Nicholas was so in love .....
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Biography Of Carolyn Chute
Words: 459 / Pages: 2 .... $2,000 a year.
Times got better for Carolyn, though. She married Michael Chute in 1978, and soon completed high school. She even took some writing courses at the University of Maine. Carolyn’s courses seemed to help her writing because soon after she published her first fictional works for magazines. After her success with magazines she decided to write for herself.
To date she has three published novels; Merry Men, Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts, and her critically acclaimed The Beans of Egypt, Maine. She was quoted as saying, “This book was involuntarily researched,” when interviewed by a reporter. Carolyn’s pain and humiliation, wh .....
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Benjamin Franklin Was A Man Of Many Accomplishments
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Boston boy he could read and write, knew something about history, and had
knew a few Orthodox Catechism scriptures by heart (McMaster 3).
“The story of the life of Ben Franklin began at a time when Queen
Anne still ruled the colonies; when the colonies were but ten in number,
and when the population of the ten did not sum up to be four hundred
thousand souls; ... when pirates infested the Atlantic coast; when there
was no such thing as a stage coach in the land; ...and when Ann Pollard,
the first white women that ever set foot on the soil of Boston, was still
enjoying a hale old age” (McMaster 1).
“It was when he seven that Franklin h .....
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Catherine The Great
Words: 742 / Pages: 3 .... Catherine was not only a handsome woman (whose
numerous love affairs dominate the popular accounts of her life), but also
unusually well read and deeply involved in the cultural trends of her age.
She was a tireless worker and knew how to select capable assistants--for
example, Nikita PANIN in foreign affairs, Aleksandr SUVOROV in the
military, and Grigory POTEMKIN in administration. Imbued with the ideas of
the Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter
I--westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she
did not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but
rather encouraged i .....
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Dorothy Parker
Words: 935 / Pages: 4 .... quotations from her poetry that, while seeming to be among the most clever, were also among the least sincere. These epitomize the apparent lack of emotional range displayed in her verse.
The techniques and topics that many of her verses tackle are as follows: "bitterness, humor, wit, and love" (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker's verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play that she "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." The same could almost be applied t .....
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