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William Bradford
Number of words: 815 - Number of pages: 3.... them, the Lord assisting them. And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare.
But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these, which now came upon them. For some were taken and clapped up in prison, others had their houses beset and watched night and day, and hardly escaped their hands; and the most were fain to flee and leave their houses and habitations, and the means of their livelihood.
Yet these and many othe .....
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Sophocles
Number of words: 811 - Number of pages: 3.... of his own plays. In one of his plays called, "The Woman Washing Clothes," he performed a juggling act that was talked about all over town for many years because the audience was so fascinated. But before you knew it was to take another route and end his acting career to venture elsewhere. For many years served as a dictated priest in the service of two heroes named Alcon and Asclepius, who was the god of medicine. Not only did he do this but he also served on the Board of Generals which was a committee that administered civil and military affairs in Athens. For some time after th .....
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Henry Ford
Number of words: 396 - Number of pages: 2.... sales to General Motors and Chrysler, because his Model T was getting old. His newer cars received moderate sales. Henry’s son, Edsel was named president in 1919, but Henry remained in control. When Edsel died in 1943, Henry resumed presidency. Two years later he handed the presidency over to his grandson, II. died on April 7, 1947. My two affiliations for are: He made cars, and he was wealthy.
It took a lot of work and time for Henry to be able to make cars. It all started when he started working in a machine shop at 16 and the three jobs following that were all related to cars or en .....
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Herbert George Wells
Number of words: 1255 - Number of pages: 5.... parents, he viewed them
as "willing victims of society" (Borrello, Alfred: 2). He was angry at
their refusal to take effective measures to improve their place in life.
And it was because of this that he did not care for the working class and
envied the solidly established middle class.
As a boy H. G. Wells had always been physically active, but after
he broke his leg at the age of 8 in 1874, he couldn't do too much. During
his period of convalescence he turned to books for the first time. When
Herbert's mother went to work at the gentry's house, she took Herbert with
her (his older brot .....
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Review Of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Number of words: 1480 - Number of pages: 6.... Disliking the
business and loving the nature of the sea, Franklin spent his leisure time
in association with it, on the contrary to his father's wishes. His
leadership among the boys on boats was a foretelling of his future progress
and his great sociability. The deaths of Franklin's parents has left him
with positive memories and values , instilled by them. They were greatly
reputed
by the community and even more by their children.
With Franklin's overgrowing desire to read and be taught by books,
he endured the profession of a printer, working side by side with his
brother, .....
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Winston Churchill
Number of words: 1433 - Number of pages: 6.... Churchill was described as an untidy, mischievous child. He was sent to boarding school, where he was constantly doing badly in his schoolwork, and also getting into trouble. Even though Churchill did badly in many areas of school, it was noted that he had a phenomenal memory. When he was thirteen he won a prize for reciting 1,200 lines from Macauley’s Last Days of Ancient Rome, without a mistake.9 was an individualist. He disliked team games such as cricket or football. He did however, excel in fencing, which earned him a silver medal in a school competition.
After fin .....
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Burr, Aaron
Number of words: 991 - Number of pages: 4.... Livingston, elected Burr to the U.S. Senate. His career in the Senate was not particularly memorable. Hamilton hated him, Clinton soon learned to distrust him, and George Washington refused his request to be appointed minister to France. But in and out of Congress, Burr managed to maneuver so skillfully, and with so much personal charm, that he won the support of many Federalists as well as Democratic Republicans.
In 1796 and 1800, Burr ran for vice-president with Thomas Jefferson on the Democratic-Republican ticket. Whatever doubts Virginia Republicans had about Burr--they had not voted .....
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Harry S. Truman
Number of words: 909 - Number of pages: 4.... Wallace, with whom he was
later to fall in love. Truman did not begin regular school until he was eight,
and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness.
His poor eyesight did not interfere with his two interests, music and reading.
He got up each day at 5 AM to practice the piano, and until he was 15, he
went to the local music teacher twice a week. He read four or five histories or
biographies a week and acquired an exhaustive knowledge of great military
battles and of the lives of the world’s greatest leaders. In 1901, when
Truman graduated f .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of words: 855 - Number of pages: 4.... in Albemarle county, Virginia, on
April 13, 1743. His dad, Peter Jefferson and his mom Jane Randolph were members
of the most famous Virginia families. Besides being born rich, Thomas
Jefferson, was well educated. He attended the College of William and Mary and
read law (1762-1767) with George Wythe, the best law teacher of his time in
Virginia. He went into to the bar in 1767 and practiced until 1774, when the
courts were closed by the American Revolution.
He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and
doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayl .....
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Joseph Stalin
Number of words: 1232 - Number of pages: 5.... from the Seminary, he left and joined the Social Democratic Party in 1899. He started as the distributor of propaganda.(Red Tsar) This is the start of Stalin’s political career.
Stalin had many political jobs that helped him to assume the position of dictator. In 1902 Stalin was arrested and spent one year in prison and then was exiled to Siberia. He escaped the prison camp two years later. In 1902-1913 Stalin was arrested eight times was exiled seven and escaped six. The only time the government could hold him in exile was his last time which he served completely from 1913 to 191 .....
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