William Lloyd Garrison
.... and teased by other children. He didn't feel shamed in being poor but felt a wealth in shame that he did not have a father. He knew that someday he would make his mark and show everyone that he was someone.
Eventually William's mother decided she couldn't keep the family together any longer. She moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, and left William in Newburyport to live with the family of Deacon Ezekiel Bartlett. (Faber 19) The deacon agreed to keep William and feed and shelter him in exchange for a helping hand.
Young William would get up before the sun to get all the chores done that were assigned to him. If he got his .....
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Walter Whitman
.... Inspired by the suffering he saw, he wrote the volume of poetry called 'Drum-Taps', published in 1865.
After the war Whitman's books began to sell well, and he contributed several articles to magazines. In 1873 he fell ill, suffering the first of several paralytic attacks. He remained an invalid for the rest of his life. Choosing Camden, N.J., as his last home, he lived modestly, enjoying the visits of those who came to honor him. He died on March 26, 1892.
Among Whitman's other books of poems were 'Calamus', 'November Boughs', 'Sands at Seventy', and 'Good-Bye My Fancy'. His prose works include 'Democratic Vistas', .....
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Karl Marx
.... direction." His 'splendid natural gifts' awakened in his father the hope that they would one day be used in the service of humanity, whilst his mother declared him to be a child of fortune in whose hands everything would go well.
In High school Karl stood out among the crowd. When asked to write a report on "How to choose a profession" he took a different approach. He took the angle in which most interested him, by saying that there was no way to choose a profession, but because of circumstances one is placed in an occupation. A person with an aristocratic background is more likely to have a higher role in society as apposed .....
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The John Scopes Trial
.... attorney, in fact, the most famous in the country at the time, was the defense attorney. He was only interested in the case after he learned of Bryan's involvement. During the case, Tennessee got much recognition. People fled from across the country and filled up hotels just to witness this trial. It was the most popular trial at the time. Scopes received much unwanted national press. For example,people seemed out to get him when as one girl, a student of his, asked him to walk her out and at the end of the walk, she kissed him, and at the moment, flood lights and cameras went off. There was much viciousness toward him in .....
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The Life Of Malcolm X
.... in Boston. There, he took a job as a shoeshine boy at the Roseland Ballroom. A career as a hustler seemed a more tempting option, and he was soon peddling narcotics. He met a white girl named Laura who quickly became his girlfriend. Having a white girl and being a very good dancer, he soon was a notorious young man with crazy clothes and a haircut made to resemble the hair of white people, which he was very ashamed of later. But Roxbury proved to be too small for him, and in 1942 he took a job as a railroad dining-car porter, working out of Roxbury and New York. Settling in Harlem, New York, he became more and more involved in c .....
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The Life Of Ernest Hemingway
.... Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible. Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read books. He loved to tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that a friend listen to one of his stories. In spite
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Kelly Flinn Biography
.... about dating. Instead, independence, self-reliance, and strength were the most important things. If they had problems, they worked it out on their own. This served her poorly when she found herself in trouble with the Air Force years later. (pg. 9)
When Kelly was 15, she went to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. She found out how much she loved space and the challenge and the control she experienced. After Space Camp, she knew what she had to do and how to do it. She was going to go to the Air Force Academy and learn how to fly. She spent the next years in high school studying, joining clubs, and filling out applica .....
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Thomas Jefferson: A Product Of His Times Or A Hypocrite?
.... than the oppressed and degraded peasantry of Europe.
Jefferson compared the studies of Native American languages and came to a conclusion that there were twenty basic languages and that the Native Americans had lived in the New World for a far longer period than anyone had thought.
The native Americans had proved that strong government was not necessary to the happiness of mankind. Jefferson declared that the Native Americans had “made war on us without the least provocation or pretense of injury” and that they had want only committed “savage cruelties”
The Native Americans, no more than the black slaves, Jefferson had .....
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The Rule Of Halie Selassie
.... Makonnen fought next to Emperor Menelik, the emperor of Ethiopia at that time. The Emperor swore their relationship hoping that he would pass the throne to Ras Makonnen when Menelik's time had come.
Ras Makonnen wanted a good education for his son "Ras" Tafari. Ras is an Ethiopian title given to people of royal blood. Fortunately, Mokonnen saw to his son's education early, because in 1906 he became sick and soon after died. He left the fourteen-year-old son Tafari to be raised in the house of Meneik. The Emperor, anxious to see Ras Tafari live up to his father's stature and take the throne when the time came, made the young ma .....
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The Life Of Edgar Allan Poe
.... and they reminded him of it often. The first poetry he had released came shortly after this time. It was in no way concerned with his alma mater, it was more concerned with happiness lost and how the his life was miserable due to a rude awakening. His poem "Tamerlane" tells how ambition for youthful dreams killed love. In "The Lake", Poe hints of suicide as an escape from earthly worries. Poe did all of this before he had fully entered manhood. He almost seemed to enjoy feeling melancholy and depressed.
About this time in his life, Poe joined the army. Here he was not chided for not being part of the upper class. .....
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Oliver Cromwell
.... feared man in Ireland. The purpose of his ruthlessness was to eradicate the revolt and to clear the land and make it safe for English settlement. On September 11th his army invaded the town of Drogheda, killing all 3,500 soldiers and civilians. Cromwell ordered his men to "put all to the sword." In October, he seized Wexford killing over 2,000 soldiers, leaving no survivors. These two victories were all the English forces needed. In May 1650 he and his men returned home.
These defeats broke the backs of the Irish. It took decades to rebuild, and independence seemed very distant. It would take almost a century before t .....
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Amiri Baraka
.... formerly known as Sylvia Robinson, and founded in Spirithouse Newark, NJ. Baraka was involved in almost every aspect of the beginning of the BAM and also in many other Black political and cultural movements, including participation with the Black Pather Party for Self Defense.
Since his days of the BAM, Baraka has abandoned his previous black nationalist views in favor of Marxism and the fight of the working class against the bourgeoisie. He continues to write and speaks frequently at colleges and universities nation-wide.
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