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Tupac Shakur
Words: 1490 / Pages: 6 .... and then was offered to be in some movies. He became friends with a couple of popular rap artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre (Placid n.p.). He made some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. This really helped his popularity. He released a double CD with the songs on it and a lot of his own songs and sold millions of copies (u.a., n.t., n.p. letter code D) More people were influenced to buy his CD. People listened to the music and did what he said he did. So Tupac was influencing all of these people. Tupac was rich and famous now. He was showing off his own style now and didn't need his popular friends. Th .....
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Words: 686 / Pages: 3 .... School
where his talent for poetry was first shown. Some sources say he won as many as
seven contests while enrolled at Highgate.
Gerard in 1864 enrolled at Balliol College, at Oxford, to Read Greats
(classics, ancient history, and philosophy). At this time in his life he wanted
to become a painter, like one of his siblings. His plans changed when he, and
three of his friends were drawn in to Catholicism. He was received by the
Church of Newman in October of 1866. After having taken a first class degree in
1867, he taught at the Oratory School, Birmingham. Two years later he decided
to become a Jesuit when he burned all his verses as too .....
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Frederick Douglass
Words: 1169 / Pages: 5 .... pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked." Frederick has absolutely no hatred toward the religion itself, all his hatred came from slavery. He goes on to say "I love the pure, peaceful, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. When Frederick was younger he remembers watching from a cupboard one of the women slaves being tied up by their master and then being beaten till there w .....
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John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
Words: 1133 / Pages: 5 .... 1925, without a degree. Even though he
didn't graduate his books showed the results of his five years spent there. His
books display a considerable reading of the Greek and Roman historians, and the
medieval and Renaissance fabalists and the biological sciences (Shaw 11). He
then moved to New York and tried his hand as a construction worker and as a
reporter for the American. (Covici , xxxv). Steinbeck then moved back to
California and lived with his wife at Pacific Grove. In 1934, he wrote for the
San Franciso News, he was assigned to write several articles about the 3,000
migrants flooded in at Kings County. The plight of the migrant workers mo .....
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Henry VIII
Words: 1044 / Pages: 4 .... his father. Henry the VIII died in 1509, the only reason Henry would become king is because of his brothers, Arthur, death in April of 1502. Soon after that, Henry would marry his first wife, his brother (Arthur's) widow, Catherine of Aragon. Many wifes would follow after her.
During most of his early reign, Henry relied on Thomas Cardinal Wosley to do much of the political and religious activities. Henry soon got tired of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon, so he decides that he doesn't want to be married to her anymore, so he tells Thomas Wosley to talk to the pope so he can divorce Catherine. But, Cardinal Wosley wasn't able to convince the po .....
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John Muir
Words: 432 / Pages: 2 .... When John left the University he started traveling across the country. He walked thousands of miles. He traveled to California to see Yosemite Valley. He worked at a hotel there in the winter. He wrote magizine articles about mountains, glaciers, trees, flowers, birds, animals and insects. People that read the articles came to see the mountains.
While visiting friends in Oakland, California, he met Louise Wanda Strentzel. They married in the spring of 1880. John became a grape and pear farmer. They had two daughters and named Wanda and Helen. As soon as they were old enough John taught them John taught them about plants and animals.
John's .....
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Albert Einstein
Words: 588 / Pages: 3 .... He spent the following
year in Aarau where there were excellent teachers and an excellent physics
facility. In 1896 he returned to the Zurich Polytechnic, there he graduated in
1900 as a secondary school teacher of math and physics.
Two years later, he acquired a post at the Swiss patent office in Bern.
While he was employed there from 1902 to 1909, he completed an extraordinary
range of publications in theoretical physics. Most parts of there were written
in his spare time. In 1905 he submitted one of his many scientific papers to the
University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree. In 1908 he sent another
scientific paper to the .....
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King Henry Viiii
Words: 696 / Pages: 3 .... his wife. The
only one of Catherine's six children who survived infancy was a sickly
girl, the Princess Mary, and it was doubtful whether a woman could succeed
to the English throne. Then too, Henry had fallen in love with a lady of
the court, Anne Boleyn.
When the pope (Clement VII) would not annul his marriage, Henry turned
against Wolsey, deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English churc .....
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Ben Franklin
Words: 442 / Pages: 2 .... states that you should “speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversations.” Franklins believe that to be “morally perfect” once must not speak unless it is necessary or of importance.
Order: Here is a step, which must be the reason in which I am doing my homework right now and concentrating on just this. Franklin believes that everything must have it’s place, and business must have it’s own time. This being my “business” it is receiving it’s own time.
Resolution: “Decide what you need to do, and do what you say you are going to do.” Ben says that you must f .....
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The Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words: 719 / Pages: 3 .... mistreatment of blacks on city buses.
The city's segregation laws forced black riders to sit in the back of buses
and give up their seats to white passengers on crowded buses.
In late 1955 Rosa Parks, a leading member of the local branch of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was
jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. King soon was
selected as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), the
organization that directed a bus boycott prompted by Parks's jailing. The
Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year. Incidents of violence
against black protesters, includin .....
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