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The Life And Death Of Julius C
1422 Words - 6 Pages.... was made dictator in 82 BC, he issued a list of enemies to be executed. Caesar was not harmed but he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia. Caesar refused that order and left Rome to join the army (Lindsay Salo) (Comptons Encyclopedia). This was the beginning of an astonishing military career. He became second in command of the province Asia (Turkey) (Lindsay Salo). In two years he proved his bravery and superior skills at arms. After these years and Sulla's resignation in 78 BC, Julius decided to return to Rome. There he served as an officer in Crassus's army against Spartacus, Caesar climbed steadily in the government by serving as an official in many provinces (Interne ....
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Stephon Marbury
2096 Words - 8 Pages.... the nation...Up to that point, Marbury says, "I wasn't a very nice kid. I thought I was it. It was y'all supposed to talk to me, I'm not supposed to talk to y'all. i'd just come out on the court, just talk junk, with this walk and this look." In CYO ball he woofed at opposing coaches: I'm just killing your guards. Get someone out here who can stop me(Wolff, 62).
By the time that Mr. Marbury was a Sophomore in high school at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, he had changed his act. He learned to treat everybody with respect and to be a professional person. He had also tattooed a panther onto his right arm. He said:
"A panther is quick and smart ....
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Antonio Vivaldi
325 Words - 2 Pages.... Charles VI in Vienna.
Vivaldi's works include more than 500 concertos, more than 70 sonatas, about 45 operas and also religious music, including the oratorio Juditha Triumphans in 1716, the Gloria in D in1708, masses, and motets. His instrumental sonatas are more traditional than his concertos, and his religious music reflects the operatic style of the era. His most famous and younger contemporary, J. S. Bach, studied his works during his formative years, and some of Vivaldi's violin concertos and sonatas exist only as transcriptions, mostly for harpsichord, made by Bach.
Vivaldi's concertos provided a model for this genre throughout Europe, affecting the style even of ....
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The Life Of Booker T. Washington
767 Words - 3 Pages.... to eat dinner in the White House with President Theodore Roosevelt.
Slowly Booker began to get the respect he deserved. Booker preached that
Blacks should accept that they were inferior to whites, he told them that
we have to prove to them that we are socially capable of taking care of
ourselves. He said the way we do this is make successful businesses we get
educated and get into politics. For these beliefs that Booker believed in
is why he was called "The Great Compromiser." Many white ex-slave owners
began to respect Bookers notions. Not only was he becoming acknowledged by
the Blacks but now also by the whites. Booker T. Washington was being
secretly funded by ....
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Anne Frank
570 Words - 3 Pages.... She attended Montessori School and had a lot of friends. However her father was still worried, for in Germany the Nazis gained almost complete power. In 1940, the Germans invaded and conquered Holland.
Anne's life had changed by the Germans taking control. She could not go to her school, and was to attend the Jewish Lyceum. No Jews were allowed out on the streets at night. Her life changed again. It was not a happy one for herself or her family.
In 1941, the Germans had there first round up of Jews in Amsterdam. 5 months later, the Germans summoned 16-year-old Margot Frank to report for deportation. Otto Frank had contacts with some Dutch friends, and they were able to hi ....
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The Work Of Stephen King
1381 Words - 6 Pages.... that we have been set down in a frightening
universe, full of real demons like death and disease, and perhaps the most
frightening thing is the human mind. Horror is "one of the ways we walk
our imagination" (King 218). King takes ordinary emotional situations and
translates them into violent tales of vampires and ghosts. "You never
have to ask yourself who's afraid of the big bad wolf?--You are" (Yarbro
220). "King has a talent for raising fear from dormancy. He knows how to
activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears?
His own personal fears in (descending order) are the fear of someone else,
others (paranoia), death, insects (especial ....
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Robert Capa
423 Words - 2 Pages.... used by war photographers was the medium-sized bellows extended Graflex with four by-five inch plates. This camera, being fairly large made making candid shots and maneuvering in dangerous situations impossible. Later the 35 mm Leica allowed Capa to do these things. The camera allowed him to be inconspicuous and have a large capability of movement. With this camera he was able to jump into battles to take pictures that no one else was ever able to take.
One of the main things that tried to capture were the emotions of his subjects. He always tried to portray things such as their sorrow or their shock, mainly focusing on the expressions of the subjects’ faces to show ....
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