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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
Words: 536 / Pages: 2 .... of
Loreto in Ireland. She then received her spiritual training. In 1931,
Mother Teresa took her name of Teresa from Therese Martin, a French nun.
Six years later she took her vows. Mother Teresa then decided to begin her
teaching. She taught for twenty years in Saint Mary's High School in
Calcutta, India.
On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa said she received another call
from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon
granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun
to fulfill her calling. So she began to share her life with the poor, sick
and the hungry in Calcutta. Mother Teresa wi .....
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Mary Warren
Words: 602 / Pages: 3 .... gets up early in the morning to clean the Proctors’ house. While in court, Mary passes the time by making Goody Proctor a present of a small rag doll called a poppet. Upset by the court proceedings, Mary tells Mr. Proctor that she is "all shuddery inside" because Goody Osburn will hang. When the poppet becomes false proof of witchcraft against Elizabeth, Mary willingly explains that the poppet is hers. She also makes a vain attempt to comfort John Proctor as the court officials drag his wife away in chains.
A basic sense of honesty is another of ’s traits. In Act I she goes to Salem to convince Abigail to tell the truth about what reall .....
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Vincent Van Gogh
Words: 1503 / Pages: 6 .... a room in the home of Mrs. Loyer, who with her daughter Ursula, and therefore began the first of his several disastrous encounters with women. He fell in love with the girl, but evidently did not bother to tell her. When Vincent shared his feelings with Ursula, he discovered that the thought of loving him had never entered her head.
In 1875 Uncle Cent arranged for him to be transferred to the Paris office in the hope that his spirits might be revived by a change in scene. Here he became increasingly careless in his work. He was given three months notice, and then six years of training as an art dealer came to an end. He was almost twenty-three, .....
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Charles Darwin
Words: 807 / Pages: 3 .... voyage began, Darwin didn't believe that species change through
time, but he did believe in two prevailing ideas of the time. The first theory
was that the earth was 6,000 years old and had remained unchanged except for the
effects of floods and other catastropes. The second was that organisms were
designed especially for certain habitats and appeared on the earth in their
present form.
After reading the works of a noted geologist, Darwin began to change his
ideas. He saw evidence that the earth was much older than 6,000 years. In South
America, he was witness to an earthquake that lifted the land several feet. He
realized that mountains could be bu .....
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Christopher Marlowe
Words: 1835 / Pages: 7 .... He became a BA
in 1584 and a MA in 1587. He seems to have been of a violent nature and
was often in trouble with the law. He made many trips to the continent
during his short lifetime and it has been suggested that these visits were
related to espionage. In 1589 he was involved in a street brawl which
resulted in a man's death. An injunction was brought against him three
years later by the constable of Shoreditch in relation to that death. In
1592 he was deported from the Netherlands after attempting to issue forged
gold coins. On the 30th of May 1593 he was killed by Ingram Frizer in a
Deptford tavern after a quarrel over the bill. He was only 29 y .....
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Martin Luther King Jr
Words: 2258 / Pages: 9 .... the United State's economy and on the economies of other nations. It has been suggested by such writers as Weber and Smith that the Protestant work ethic first developed around the word "calling." Basically, this term has a religious connotation which is a task set by God. However, gradually this term was expanded to the point where it covered many of man's activities. During the Protestant Reformation, the term "calling" started to take on a new meaning. Fulfilling one's duty in worldly affairs became a task of extreme importance. gradually, fulfilling one's duty was not only important but it became the moral obligation of every individual .....
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Gangs
Words: 1248 / Pages: 5 .... These numbers are often debated, and depending on whose criteria is used to decide who is and is not a gangbanger. The figures could be considerably higher. This paper will elaborate on some of the facts surrounding Juvenile .
Over the past several years we have seen a increase in the number of juvenile
crimes and juveniles joining organized . These juveniles are not only joining at a younger age but are committing more violent crimes then there antecedent. What makes these young men and women decide to participate in the violent and often deadly crimes of ? Why would a youngster be so eager to submit himself or herself to the torture of initi .....
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Stalin As A Continuation Of Le
Words: 696 / Pages: 3 .... were of the same personality. Both were extreme activists with an obsession with violence. This quote from A Concise History of the Russian Revolution, by Richard Pipes (pp. 104) describes the character of both Lenin and Stalin: "He knew of only two categories of men: friend and enemy-those who follwed him, and all the rest." The two agreed on the point that anyone who did not agree with them was an enemy. They both used this as an excuse to kill thousands of people. The reason they were able to do this was because both wanted power and neither were afraid to act on their desires. "Lenin was an activist, indeed a hyper-activist, and it was this which .....
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Robert E. Lee
Words: 470 / Pages: 2 .... of the U.S. Army.
On April 23 he became commander in chief of the military and naval
forces of Virginia. For a year he was military adviser to Jefferson Davis,
president of the Confederate States of America, and was then placed in command
of the Army in northern Virginia.
In February 1865 Lee was made commander in chief of all Confederate
armies; two months later the war was virtually ended by his surrender to General
Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
The masterly strategy of Lee was overcome only by the superior resources
and troop strength of the Union. His campaigns are almost universally studied
in military schools as models of .....
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Remembering The Music Of George Gershwin
Words: 2350 / Pages: 9 .... child who was not interested in any type of school work (Schwartz 11).
In the neighborhood where Gershwin grew up, anyone who was interested in music was known as a sissy. So after passing by a penny arcade and discovering a mechanical piano, George would go to homes of friends who had pianos and secretly tap out the popular tunes of the day (Peyser 21). One day his parents purchased a piano for Ira, the eldest, and as soon as it was moved in George sat down and began to play. The family was flabbergasted! They had no idea he was interested in music or where he learned how to play the piano (Adam 12:08).
George’s parents immediately soug .....
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