Abraham Lincoln
.... as the
heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have
planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with
the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book
Encyclopedia).
He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during the debates with his
opponent Stephen Douglas, he became well known for his opposotion to slavery.
The southern states, which believed they depended upon slavery to remain
prosperous in the cotton, tobacco, and rice industries, threatened to secede
from the nation if Lincoln won the election. Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4 .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
.... the collection of 48 preludes and fugures known as THE WELL-
TEMPERED CLAVIER, the GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, and the FRENCH and ENGLISH
SUITES.
Of his organ music, the most imporant examples are the choral preludes. He
also wrote chamber music and songs. Two important works written in the
later years illustrate the principles and potential of his polyphic art -
THE MUSICAL OFFERING and THE ART OF FUGUE.
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A Biography On Carl Sandburg
.... were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked for.
With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew. In
the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book, Chicago poems.
Two years later, at the age of forty, he published Cornhuskers. The public
loved these two marvelous books. Other poets accepted them as wonderful. In the
1920's he became so popular, that he quit journalism to write full-time as a
career. He also moved away from the black ink to write songs. Some were
accepted into songbooks, such as The Songbag, and The New American Songbag.
Sandburg was then transformed into an A .....
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Rosa Parks
.... It was a miracle. People stopped riding the buses all because of Rosa
Parks.
Soon, the police were informed of the people standing on the street corners
watching the buses drive by. The police watched the streets to make sure that
the black people were not bothering the other bus riders. They tried guarding
the bus stops. The police failed and the boycott was a success. A few months
later, Rosa Parks once again started to climb aboard a bus. She stopped when she
noticed a sign that read, "People don't ride the bus today. Don't ride the bus
for freedom."
Finally the rules for riding the buses were changed. 1. Black and white peopl .....
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The Life And Work Of Chaim Potok
.... all of his writings which are all in some way related to or
involve Judaism.
Now, to go in-depth into his writings. First, his novels. The first
novel Potok wrote was The Chosen, which won him the Edward Lewis Wallant award,
in 1969, here is a quotation about that book:
"So why did Potok's book make such a heavy impression on me?... he takes a
meager story, told in plain words, about two Jewish boys who are radically
unlike me and turns it into something so universal I couldn't help getting
pulled in by it. " -Lea Davis
The next novel he wrote was the sequel to The Chosen, The Promise, in
1969, which also won him an awa .....
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Sarah (Moore) And Angelina (Emily) Grimke
.... women to persuade
their influential husbands to re-examine the morality of the slavery institution.
A similar plea was made towards the Southern Church institutions months later in
An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Though praised by other
abolitionists in the free states, officials in South Carolina burned copies and
threatened imprisonment to the authors should they return to that state. During
this time the sisters released their own family slaves after they were
apportioned to them as part of the family estate.
Angelina also began the sister's speaking career in the private homes of
Philadelphia women. Th .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
.... Charles opportunities to walk around the town with his
father and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of the area. This gave him
early inspiration that he would use later on in his life when he started to
write (Mankowitz 13-14).
James Lamert, the owner of a boot-blacking factory, saw the conditions
that the Dickens family was going through. He offered Charles a job there and
he was paid six shillings a week which was reasonable at that time. Soon, he
was moved downstairs in the sweatshop-like room. Charles had been working at
the factory for less than two weeks when his father was arrested for debt. He
was sent to debtors pr .....
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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman
.... center, near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total
of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria,
Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys
School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before
he was caught and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington
D.C. Manson never had a place to call "home" or a real family. He spent his
childhood being sent from one place to another, and trouble always seemed to
follow him. His mother's negligence left Manson without a home and without much
of a future. Manson turned to cri .....
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Stephen Bantu Biko
.... and truth.
At the University of Natal Medicine in 1968, he became involved in the
multiracial National Union of South African Students. He was known by peers and
adults as a student leader This organization fought for black rights, except he
claimed that, "the white [were] doing all the talking and the blacks listening"
(Biko 210). Biko wanted the blacks to have as much say and participation as the
whites, so in 1968 he became the co-founder and first president of he South
African Students' Organization (SASO). This was an all-black organization,
which aim was to raise self respect and reliance to all blacks. He said, "Black .....
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Adolf Hitler
.... born in an Austrian town known as Braunau am Inn.
Hitler was the son of a man named Alois. Alois Hitler’s father was a Custom
official’s, and his mother was named Klara. Alois was illegitimate, first of all
he used his mother’s name, Schicklgruber until 1876, when he adopted the name
Hitler. Adolf’s father was very strict with him, and ignored him most of the
time because Adolf liked to dream. As you can see Adolf did not idealize his
father very much, and his death in 1903 actually came as a relief to Adolf.
Adolf really idealized his mother, whose death in 1907 had a traumatic effect on
him. So as you can see Adolf lead a very .....
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The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven
.... style.
Although the style had been first perfected by Mozart, Beethoven did extend
it to some degree. He had unprecedently composed sonatas for the cello
which in combination with the piano opened the era of the Classic-Romantic
cello sonata. In addition, his sonatas for violin and piano became the
cornerstone of the sonata duo repertory. His experimentation with additions
to the standard forms likewise made it apparent that he had reached the
limits of the high-Classic style. Having displayed the extended range of
his piano writing he was also begining to forge a new voice for the violin.
In 1800, Beethoven was additionally c .....
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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell
.... poet of the day, as Dante's skill became more
defined the two became friends. It is also thought that Dante studied at the
university in Bologna around the year 1285.
He became involved in some political altercations, he joined the Guelphs,
as opposed to the Chibellines, and he was involved in a battle and emerged
victorious. It was around this time, 1290, that Beatrice died, after she died
he began studying philosophy, he read the works of Boethius and Cicero. He soon
after married Gemma Donati, a member of a noble Florentine Guelph family. He
attempted to settle down and forget Beatrice, however he became more and more
en .....
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