... a field hand, and experienced most of the horrifying conditions that slaves faced. At the age of twenty, Douglass succeeded in escaping from slavery by impersonating a sailor. After Douglass escaped, he started to show people the evils of slavery. He became an orator and a writer. Whenever he could he attended abolitionist meetings. In October, 1841, after attending an anti-slavery convention on Nantucket Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Lloyd Garrison. He published his own newspaper called The North Star. Douglass also participated in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, in ...
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... in his life. It ultimately led him to success. Lucas was in a car crash in 1962, which ended his racing career before it even started. He missed his graduation ceremony at his high school, but joked that the only reason he got a diploma was because his teachers felt sorry for him. As a result, Lucas looked for other options to fill his void in life. Since his grades were not good enough for a four-year college, he decided to go to junior college. For the first time in his life, he hit the books. He fell asleep trying to earn the highest grades he could in order to have a future for himself. During junior college, Lucas formed other interests. Instead ...
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... acting and abandoned his family. He died a short time later (Harrison 22). Soon afterward, Edgar’s mother, Elizabeth, became ill and died (Nilsson). A young woman named Frances (also known as Fanny) and her husband, John Allan, took in Edgar. Soon thereafter, John, a tobacco trader, moved the family to England. There, Edgar began his first formal education. In 1820, when the tobacco market in London collapsed, the Allan’s returned to New York (Benfey; Nilsson). Edgar continued his education, excelling in Latin and French. During this time he was also in search of a maternal figure. Although fond of Fanny Allan, her poor health limited her abilit ...
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... relative to the weight of hydrogen. His weights were not entirely accurate though , but they formed the basis for the modern periodic table of the elements. Dalton arrived at his atomic theory through a study of the physical properties of air and other gases. English scientist. He taught mathematics and physical sciences at New College, Manchester. Dalton revived the atomic theory of matter (see ATOM), which he applied to a table of atomic weights and used in developing his law of partial pressures (Dalton's law). He was color-blind and studied that affliction, also known as Daltonism. Irish author and translator from Spanish and German, born in 1814; died ...
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... All the men start to get their hopes up, because they think that they are now going to be saved. They see some people on the beach and try to get their attention, but unfortunately the crowd on the beach could not see the men in the small dinghy. Then a series of huge waves comes tumbling towards the men in the dinghy; it capsizes. Now all the men are in the water, and one pictures them desperately trying to swim ashore. When they all had swum like crazy for a while, every body was saved, except the sailor Billy. He had been struggling the most out of everybody, even though a life jacket past him he still kept on struggling and trying. The odds were against him. E ...
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... he escaped to the south where early the next morning he had his leg attend to my Dr. Samuel H. Mudd. On April 15 a small federal troop set out in pursuit. For 11 days he was protected by sympathetic southerners. Finally on the night of April 25 he was cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, VA. Booth refused to be taken alive and was shot by one of the soldiers, or more likely by his own hand. He died on the morning of April 26. His body was brought back to Washington where it was secretly buried in a warehouse and then buried in a common graveyard for criminals. In 1869 the body was removed to the family plot in Baltimore. became an important part of U.S ...
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... was sane and acted upon feelings knowing he would be executed for them. When Winston first met Julia, he thought that she was a spy and he wanted to bash in her skull. When he read her message which was "I love you", he was stunned and also pleased that someone had feelings for him. If Winston was totally under Big Brother's power he wouldn't have felt the urge to return the love, and have the anxiety of wondering if she did really love him rather then just throwing away the incriminating message. Winston felt the feeling of hatred toward the Party and was willing to search for the Brotherhood to try to overthrow the government. O'Brien asked Winston and Juli ...
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... studied law for five years under George Wythe. In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves. The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until Massachusetts paid for the Boston Tea Party of the preceding year. Jefferson and ...
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... of Industry because of Allen Nevins (Historian). He talked about Rockelfeller being a "Bold Innovator in industry and philanthropy" he also said he was "an organizing genius." Allen Nevins, Historian 1940. Another person who swayed my decision was William H. Vanderbilt. He felt Rockelfeller had a monopoly because he was "Enterprising, Shrewd, Able, and Smart." Pg. 128 promise of America volume 3. Vanderbilt knew that Rockelfeller had a successful business because of his good skills. The last thing that helped me decide was a excerpt from Rockelfeller's biography. His opinion was like Vanderbilt's, stating his success was because of the traits he had. These a ...
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... and his family permanently settled into a house in Campobello, New Brunswick, Canada, which was previously a summer getaway (Conkin 34). Two years later, Roosevelt began his formal education under a governess of Archibald and Edmund Rogers. It was here that Roosevelt learned to speak German and received the opportunity to study abroad the next year. While abroad, however, he contracted a mild case of typhoid fever, the first of a multitude of illnesses that he would battle during his life. He returned to Hyde Park in 1890, and was tutored by Miss Riensberg. On September 28 of the same year, Roosevelt began studies under a Swiss governess, Jeanne Sardoz, which la ...
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