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John Hancock
Number of words: 1545 - Number of pages: 6

.... the basics of reading, writing, and figuring.All things seemed to go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of the reason that they would have to move. Mary’s parents were both dead and a very difficult decision would have to be made by Mary. Her anxiety to make that decision was lessened by the invitation from the bishop and his wife, to live with them in Lexington. A year later, John was sent away to live with his uncle Thomas and aunt Lydia, and to attend Boston Latin School .....

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Karl Marx
Number of words: 955 - Number of pages: 4

.... He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. "Workers of the world unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to lose but your chains." Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches, help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion, according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells working people to forget about the injustice they meet in their lives and to think instead of how wonderful it will in the after- life when they go to heaven. Marx, with his colleague, Engels, spread his ideas in two famous books, Capital' and 'T .....

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SAMUEL SEABURY
Number of words: 546 - Number of pages: 2

.... tried to stop the election of the delegates by writing various pamphlets. His attempt proved futile and the delegates were elected and met together on that fateful day in Philadelphia when a new nation was envisioned. Now Samuel began to take more courageous steps in preventing the breaking away of the colonies. He wrote “Westchester Farmer” ,a compilation of five essays reasoning why the colonies should stay with the English. The five essays were Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Congress, The Congress Canvassed, Free Thoughts in the Full Vindication of the Congress, A View of .....

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Isadora Duncan
Number of words: 2919 - Number of pages: 11

.... each one a day before the bills came around. Isadora started school at the age of five. In the late nineteenth century, students were expected to sit still during school, memorizing and reciting their lessons. To Isadora this was "irritating and meaningless." She hated school. She said later in her autobiography that her real education came on the nights when Isadora and her siblings would dance to her mother's music and learn about what they were interested in -- literature and music. Isadora was told as a child that she would have to learn to depend on herself to get what s .....

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Anne Frank
Number of words: 580 - Number of pages: 3

.... 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 out in the attic of a house. The morning after Margot was summoned they left Amsterdam and went to the attic of the house called the Secret Annexe. In the Secret Annexe the Van Daan family accompanied them. There was Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter. Some .....

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Peter The Great
Number of words: 1972 - Number of pages: 8

.... bloody memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobrazhenskoe outside Moscow. They returned to the Kremlin infrequently, where Peter and Ivan sat on their double throne, flanked by 12 giant guards with battle-axes. Warily Peter listened as his clever and r .....

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Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
Number of words: 634 - Number of pages: 3

.... some supposedly respected people who want him to set up his own business. After this, Franklin left Philadelphia for London after being persuaded by the Governor. After arriving in London, Franklin discovered the Governor had not been completely straight with him, but he did find work at a famous printing house. Eighteen months later Franklin left London to return to America as a merchant’s clerk. It wasn’t long before Franklin and his boss both took ill and his boss died leaving Franklin out of a job again. He looked for work as a merchant clerk but instead returned to work at a .....

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Adam Smith
Number of words: 1011 - Number of pages: 4

.... to Balliol College, Oxford, three years later. He continued to attend the college until 1746. In 1748 Smith began to deliver a series of public lectures in Edinburgh on “the progress of opulence”, or on wealth and its increase. In 1751 Smith was appointed professor of logic at Glasgow, and the next year he became the professor of moral philosophy. His subject matter included ethics, law, rhetoric, and political economy or economics. became one of the most influential figures in the development of modern economic theory due to his influential work “An Inquiry into the Natu .....

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Significant Woman - Cleopatra
Number of words: 957 - Number of pages: 4

.... “Auletes”, who began his rule of Egypt in 80 BC. Cleopatra VII’s mother could possibly have been Cleopatra V Tryphaena, who either died or disappeared in 68 BC, right after Cleopatra VII’s birth in 69 BC. Cleopatra VII had two older sisters, Cleopatra VI and Berenice IV, and one younger sister, Arsinoe IV. She also had two younger brothers, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV. Ptolemy XII ruled until his death in 51 BC, with only a brief interruption in 58 BC when his second eldest daughter, Berenice IV, took over the kingdom. His will named Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII as heirs to .....

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Franklin Delino Roosevelt
Number of words: 973 - Number of pages: 4

.... disaster. Right after the war all of America’s debts came due and with the richest farm land in the country being abandoned by the farmers with total crop loss the stock market crashed taking the American dollar with it. President Roosevelt turned many state problems into national one by making it the federal government responsible for providing jobs to anyone who was willing to work To do his he created companies and federally funded program that would be useful to the states and improve the condition of the country. He created programs that paid citizens to maintain the old ro .....

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