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William Lloyd Garrison
611 Words - 3 Pages.... Lundy believed in gradual emancipation, and Garrison at first shared his views; but he soon became convinced that immediate and complete emancipation was necessary. Because Baltimore was then a center of the domestic slave trade in the U.S., Garrison's eloquent denunciations of the trade aroused great animosity. A slave trader sued him for libel; he was fined, and, lacking funds to pay the fine, was jailed. After his release from prison Garrison dissolved his partnership with Lundy and returned to New England. in partnership with another American abolitionist, Isaac Knapp, Garrison launched The Liberator in Boston in 1831; the newspaper became one of the most influenti ....
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Galileo Galilei
993 Words - 4 Pages.... soon. Galileo had other plans, and in early 1583 he began spending his time with the mathematics professors instead of the medical ones. When his father learned of this, he was furious and traveled 60 miles from Florence to Pisa just to confront his son with the knowledge that he had been “neglecting his studies.” The grand duke’s mathematician intervened and persuaded Vincenzio to allow Galileo to study mathematics on the condition that after one year, all of Galileo’s support would be cut off and he was on his own.
In the spring of 1585, Galileo skipped his final exams and left the university without a degree. He began finding work as a math tu ....
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Robert E. Lee
3598 Words - 14 Pages.... life. After Lee's early years, the reader
will learn of his schooling at the Military Academy, West Point, followed by his
life in the Army before and after the Civil War. The biography ends in the
latter pages with an account of his work after his military career came to an
end, and finally, with his death after a prolonged period of ill-health, thought
to be stress induced.
Author Ian Hogg is a prolific writer in the field of defense and
military technology. He is a weapons expert, having written many books on all
types of rifles, shotguns and small arms, such as Modern Rifles, Shotguns and
Pistols, and Modern Small Arms. He is an acknowledged expert on infantry
wea ....
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Issac Newton
1269 Words - 5 Pages.... in notebooks, or invent toys. He made no friends. Silent and dreamy, he was at the bottom of his class. Oddly, it was a savage kick by a school bully that caused Newton's great mind to awaken. The mild, dreamy boy flew into a rage and beat the other boy thoroughly. Isaac determined to beat the bully in school work as well. Soon Isaac was at the head of his class.
In 1656 Newton's stepfather died. His mother returned to Woolsthorpe to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she could not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and brought home to help her.
As a farmer, Newton proved to be a dismal failure. He neglected the nece ....
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The Life And Works Of Samual Clemens
976 Words - 4 Pages.... Army, but he some how managed to get out because
of diasabilities. After his short military career Clemens went back to his
brother who had been appointed secretary of the territory of Nevada.
Realizing that he had no money Clemens tried his hand in prospecting, which
he found was not his cup of tea. He then became a reporter, but he was
quickly moved up to editor of the Virginia City, Nev., Enterprise, this is
when he began using Pseudonym “Mark Twain”. In 1864 Twain joined the staff
of the Morning Call, which is when he met Bret Harte, the first purely
literary figure he had ever known. The next year he wrote The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Afte ....
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Twain
1402 Words - 6 Pages.... lower class family. His father was a good, but unsuccessful lawyer. His mother was a proper church-going southern woman, who was kind and compassionate to others, (Anderson 5). Both of his parents would inspire Clemens¹s writings. Significantly so when his father died, around when he was 12. It was then that Clemens decided to leave his small river town and his ailing scholastic career, and head of by himself.
Clemens soon become a printer's apprentice. Interesting enough, it was working around the printing press that helped push Clemens into publishing his first works. His earliest writings were skits for his brother Orion's Hannibal newspaper. A sketch, "The D ....
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Gandhi
777 Words - 3 Pages.... an independent country. In 1945, a change in the British government occurred. The Labour Party took office in England having a clear majority over the other parties. This meant that dealing with India now could be a priority but it was difficult to convince the Indian Congress Leaders that Britain actually wanted to give over control to the Indians. A lot of questions remained such as why the change now? Also, since Britain was just starting to recover from World War II, would this issue just be pushed aside until their own affairs are looked after? Ghandi was hopeful yet a bit sceptical.(Attenborough) "Those of us who had been hammering on the doors of the India Office fo ....
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1744 Words - 7 Pages.... an alcoholic. As he grew up, Doyle had to take more of the responsibilities around the house into his own hands, because his father was either too sick or drunk to fulfill his daily work at home. Doyle’s mother, Mary Foley, was a homemaker who took care of her son Arthur and his brothers and sisters, and also worked and cleaned the house everyday.2 Doyle’s early education started when he was about seven years old. His mother spent lots of time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle was ten years old he left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boardin ....
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