... Acquaviva. About a year later, he joined s Spanish military regiment in Naples. He fought in the Battle of Lepanto. During that battle, he lost the use of his left hand. In 1575, and one of his brothers were captured by Barbary pirates. During his imprisonment, the pirates sent them to Algeria and sold them as slaves. They were held there for ransom. In 1580, he family and friends paid the ransom to free ’ brother. They did not have enough money to free . After he tried to escape and got caught, they released him because of his bravery for taking all the blame. could not find a job so he decided to become a writer. During 1582 and 1585, he wrote ...
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... Through his faith in god it helped him to motivate us so that we could be the better race. It took more than whips, hoses, sticks, and segregation to keep Black America down. The government kicked them off the high horse to the ground, and as a Black Nation we jumped back on the saddle and rode on to victory. Dr. King started with the Civil Rights Movement, and from there he kept on going. This movement started with a phone call about Rosa Parks being arrested for not surrendering her seat to a white bus rider. King and other leaders felt that a protest of some kind was needed. A meeting in the community was called, they agreed that the only w ...
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... to the pursuit of truth who" believed in argument, in disputation, and in the dialectic of Reason. . ."2 He began his pursuit of truth as an atheist and ended up as a Christian. His works the Problem of Pain and Mere Christianity dealt with issues he struggled with. Mere Christianity consists of three separate radio broadcasts. One of the broadcasts was titled The Case For Christianity. In The Case For Christianity, Lewis discussed two crucial topics in his apologetic defense of Christianity. They were the "Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe" and "What Christians Believe". This critique will address the first chapter. "Right and Wrong as ...
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... because she had her mother by her side to raise her. It was common to have a slave mother and her children split apart by the slave trade. Araminta had barely any clothes to wear; usually just a soiled cotton dress. She slept as close to the fire as possible on cold nights and sometimes stuck her toes into the smoldering ashes to avoid frostbite. Cornmeal was her main source of nutrition and occasionally meat of some kind as her family had the privilege to hunt and fish. Most of her early childhood was spent with her grandmother who was too old for slave labor. At age six, Araminta was old enough to be considered able to work. She did not work in the fields tho ...
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... where he studied. It is known that he was in Bolonga in about 1285 and it is possible that he studied at the university there. He supported the Guelphs against the Ghibellines; two political parties of the time, and fought with them victoriously in 1289. Around this same time he married a member of a prominent Guelph family, Gemma Donati. During the following few years, Dante was active in Florence’s disorderly politics.Records show that in 1295, he served several offices. In 1300, he was sent on a mission to San Gimignano for diplomatic purposes and later that same year was elected one of the six magistrates of Florence. That position was his for only t ...
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... his parents went on a trip to Yosemite National Park. He took his picture with a Kodak Box Brownie camera. His images were of the park, and nature, but his major interest were the High Sierra Mountains. From that time on, Ansel returned to Yosemite National Park every summer. While he was there in 1919, he joined the Sierra Club. The purpose of this club was to explore and protect the wilderness areas of the Sierra Nevada. Ansel eventually worked in the park for four summers as the caretaker of the club's headquarters. While his time there, Ansel became an expert mountaineer and conservationist. He also gained a lot of experience shifting conditions as a p ...
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... Maine, on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn't see a great deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low paying jobs.” Ste ...
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... years before accepting a better job in a competing store, where he worked another two years. In this period, Aaron Montgomery Ward learned the mechanics and customs of retailing. Aaron the moved to Chicago, which was the center of the wholesale dry goods trade. The Chicago City Directories for 1868 through 1870 listed him as a salesman for Wills, Greg & Co. and later for Stetthauers & Wineman, both dry goods houses. Aaron Montgomery Ward felt that a way of doing business must be found that would bring relief from the traditional systems. The plan that shaped in Aaron's mind was to buy goods at low cost for cash, eliminate retailers, and cut selling costs to t ...
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... out playing the Alto Horn then moved to the drums and finally ending up with the trumpet. Two years later at the age of fourteen he was released from the center. He went out and got jobs to help get him to be able to afford an instrument. His jobs included, selling papers, unloading boats, and selling coal from a cart. On his off times he would go around to clubs like the Funky Butt Hall to listen to bands play. A jazz musician named King Oliver saw him and was impressed at his attendance at so many of the local clubs that he inquired of him as to if he wanted to learn to play the cornet. Armstrong said yes. He picked it up very quickly and soon was pl ...
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... Madame Von Meck, the patroness he never met in person. His letters give us insight on how he felt about his music and life. This biography includes many exerts from such letters. Tchaikovsky was married to Atonina Milyuka, one of his students, in July of 1877. He made it clear however, that they were married due to her threat of suicide if they were not married. During their brief marriage Tchaikovsky was extremely unhappy. In his letters he described her as having an empty heart as well as an empty head. As a result of his marital despair, he attempted suicide. He fell into unconsciousness and it was during that time that his brother and a good friend ...
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