... uncle was told to take her back home until she grew up. In 1429 she moved back to Vancouleurs were she persuaded the people to follow her. The people also helped her find transportation and safety to get her to where she was going. While in France Joan used the voices in her head to help the Dauphin, Charles VII. She told the Dauphin how she was capable of saving France and she was given a large French army to lead. The army she was given won many wars against the English and helped the French in the Hundred Years' War. This gave her a place of honor next to the king in the Cathedral. Charles was against any further battles against the English. In 1430 Joa ...
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... his mother moved the family to Detroit , six years after her husband's death, Jimmy hauled ashes and passed out leaflets for patent medicines at factory gates. He quit school at fourteen in the middle of his seventh grade year, to work full time."(133) During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his boyish ways and become the man of the house. His years as a teenager were also charged with a special kind of radiant energy. At the youthful age of seventeen Hoffa was unloading boxcars at the Kroger grocery chain warehouse in Detroit for thirty-two cents an hour. It was there that he organized his first labor strike (Franco 150). It is risks like that on ...
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... Rome (Rogers, Bruce, 1870,p.70). Caeser was so successful in the administration of his province that he returned in a short time with military glory and with money enough to pay all his debts. Every hero has its background; Ceaser was a Roman hero by millions and lived through many important events and accomplished many things that no other person has ever come close to. Julius Caesar could be described as one of the greatest men in the history of the world. Caesar was always interested in public affairs, and tried always to gain favor of the people. He won favor because he spent much money to provide recreation for the people. Caesar was a very caring individ ...
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... impossible to carry out his purpose of entering the Society , as he was without education, having only had an incomplete year at a new college begun at Alcala by Francis Villanueva. At the age of thirty-nine he attempted to make up this deficiency by following the course at the College of Barcelona, but without success. His austerities had also undermined his health. After considerable delay he was finally admitted into the Society of Jesus as a lay-brother, 31 January, 1571. Distinct novitiates had not as yet been established in Spain, and Alfonso began his term of probation at Valencia or Gandia -- this point is a subject of dispute -- and after six months w ...
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... said, “copy boys don’t know enough to be reporters.” So, Sinatra went to secretarial school. He studied English, typing, and shorthand. The newspaper’s editor eventually promoted him to cub sports reporter After achieving his goal to be a journalist, Frank had another passion to strive for, singing. In his spare time, Sinatra appeared in on Major Bowes Amateur Hour, which was a popular radio talent show back in the day. Frank had never been taught to sing he taught himself. He was a natural. So the head of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour promoted Frank. For $25 a week he sang, waited tables, was the master of ceremonies, and a comedian at The Rustic Cabin. In ...
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... college when he had still been quite young. As a child, Dmitri spent many hours in his mother’s factory talking to the workers. The chemist there taught him about the concepts behind glass making and the glass blower taught him about the art of glass making. Another large influence in Dmitri’s life had been his sister, Olga’s, husband, Bessargin. Bessargin had been banished to Siberia because of his political beliefs as a Russian Decembrist, (Decembrists, or Dekabrists as they were known in Russia, were a group of literary men who led a revolution in Russia in 1825.), so he spent most of his time teaching Dmitri the science of the day. From these people, Dmitr ...
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... in his works. Therefore, the themes and topics he used were a varying spectrum of everything, but himself. Some of his works included the topics of; innocence in “Evangeline,” bridging the gap between Anglo and Indian America in “The Song of Hiawatha,” and Puritan New England in “The Courtship of Miles Standish.” These three poems mentioned above are his most famous long poems. Longfellow received wide public recognition with his volume of verse “Voices of the Night” (1839), which contained the poem “A Psalm of Life,” which was written in quatrain stanza format. "Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumb ...
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... and mosses--called moss forests. The second type of vegetation, communities dominated by the tall, straggly eucalyptus trees, is the most ubiquitous, forming a wide, concentric band around the desert core. Of the 500 species, two or three typically form a mosaic in one locality and intermingle with other plant associations. Eucalyptus trees are classified according to their bark types--hence the names stringybark, ironbark, bloodwood, and smoothbark (the gums that shed their outer bark annually). The most widespread is the river red gum. Mallee eucalypts survive in semiarid regions by growing multiple stems (lignotubers) from a common rootstock. The world's talle ...
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... extent of his skill. Thus, faced with such great impending loss, Beethoven, keeping faith in his art and ability, states in his Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven in the development of his heroic style. By about 1800, Beethoven was mastering the Viennese High-Classic 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 addit ...
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... the same ideas that shares when She says, “Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom” These two parts of their writings are asking a similar question. Why do you choose to seclude me from you’re world am I something you wouldn’t expect from another human? “Don’t scream about don’t think aloud turn your head now baby just spit me out don’t worry about don’t speak of doubt turn your head now baby just spit me out.” This is a complex way saying why is you disrespected me because you can’t stand the way that I am. Just walk all over me treat me different act as if I’m a piece ...
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