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Squanto
748 Words - 3 Pages.... the English to destroy some Indian tribes and used trickery to obtain undeserved favors from many people in his own tribe. While was essential to the survival of the English in their American colonies, he betrayed his Native American friends in the process of providing the English with what they needed to survive (Johnson p. 2).
spent much of his life living in the Plymouth Colony teaching his newly acquired English friends how to survive in this foreign land. He helped them greatly in the area of growing and gathering food. Without the help of , the English never would have discovered many important methods involved in growing a decent crop on
the American soil. ....
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Hitler's Life
4214 Words - 16 Pages.... more supervision and discipline under his teachers and also his father, Alias. His father at the time was 58 and had spent most of his life in the Civil Services. He was used to giving and taking orders and liked his children to do the same. The children had many chores on their small farm outside Linz, Austria.
Adolf’s mother, Klara, was more attending to Edmund and soon Paula than to Adolf. The family now consisted of Edmund, Paula, Adolf and an older half brother Alois Jr., a half sister Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm.
The oldest, Alois Jr., 13, spent much of his time getting beat and listening to ....
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Hitler
417 Words - 2 Pages.... to make them suffer. Some Jews went into hiding so they could survive. They had to hope that they wouldn't have their passages discovered and be marched away to a dreaded extermination camp when they knew that it only meant death.
did horrible things to Jewish people because he was inferior and hungry for power. had Jews killed because they believed in the Jewish religion, and he, on the other hand believed in the German race. Adolf 's secret police searched all houses for passages with Jews hidden away. Adolf also decided the Germans were a master race, so any other race had to be wiped out. Since Adolf had a dictatorship, he could tell Germans to kill all Jews. ....
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Anne Frank
580 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 hide ....
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
1184 Words - 5 Pages.... of Lorenzo de' Medici and was influenced by
Neoplatonic thought. Some of Michelangelo's early painting showed the influence
of Giotto and Masaccio. Also many of his early sculptures show the influence of
Donatello (Columbia University Press) .
Michelangelo's artistic career can be divided into two periods. In the
early period he focused on realism. During this early period Michelangelo's
works included the “Pieta” and the “David.” At the age of 24 he completed a
statue called the “Pieta,” showing the dead Jesus Christ in his mother's arms.
In 1501 Michelangelo returned to Florence, Italy to sculpt the famous nude
sculpture called the “David.” T ....
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David Livingstone
2826 Words - 11 Pages.... studies at night. He was an avid reader, and would often stay up until twelve or later, buried in a book. Livingstone enjoyed reading on a variety of subjects, but read mostly scientific works and explorer’s journals. As a boy, David made few friends. Others described him as quiet, sulky, and unremarkable. Yet despite this, David was a tireless worker, and extremely motivated toward his goals.
By age 17, Livingstone had decided he wanted to leave the mill and become a
doctor. Livingstone’s father, a deeply religious man, wanted him to go into a
religious field, and would not allow him to go. Livingstone eventually convinced
his father to let h ....
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Alexander The Great
1076 Words - 4 Pages.... parents
absolutely hated each other. Philip had complied with Macedonian tradition and had a few wives. Soon, one of his wives had a baby which had mysteriously become disabled after birth. It was said that the disability was due to poisoning from Olympias. Olympias sometimes told Alexander that Philip wasn’t his real father, but this probably wasn’t true.After all, Philip certainly did seem to care for Alexander as if he was his real son. He even appointed Aristotle himself as Alexander’s first and only tutor. Yet, there were
some things about Alexander that made Philip angry. He hated the fact that his was very skinny and the fact that he had a high-pitche ....
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William Shakespeare's Life
1185 Words - 5 Pages.... leisure time in his youth is suggested by the fact that his plays
show more knowledge of hunting and hawking than do those of other dramatists.
In 1582, he married Anne Hathaway. He is supposed to have left Stratford after
he was caught poaching in a deer park.
Shakespeare apparently arrived in London about 1588 and by 1592 had
attained success as a playwright. The publication of Venus and Adonis, The Rape
of Lucrece and of his Sonnets established his reputation as a poet in the
Renaissance manner. Shakespeare's modern reputation is based mainly on the 38
plays he wrote, modified, or collaborated on.
Shakespeare's professional life in London was marked by ....
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