... her brother Ptolemy. Cleopatra married her brother Ptolemy, because they wanted to rule Egypt together. They did for quite some time. But it all changed when Ptolemy got sick and died. After the death of Ptolemy she found a great emperor who she then fell in love with, and then married. She then became "a woman of great ambition, intelligence, vigor, and fascination." That's when she gained both the love and the political and military support of first Julius Caesar and then Mark Antony. Because she was a Ptolemy, Cleopatra had a negative effect on Egypt as seen in her relationship with Julius Ceasar and Mark Antony. ...
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... house, and this baby was the first of thousands of children to reap the love, support, devotion, and care from the arms of Mother Hale. Hale House is America’s first and best known child care agency to gain worldwide recognition when Ronald Reagan introduced Mother Hale as he gave his 1986 State of Union Address. She was called an American hero, and was appointed to the National Drug-Free America Task Force. Many of the children come to Hale House from prisons, police stations and hospitals. They get their funding mostly from private donations and times do get very rough. Hale House is still in operation today. It has become a national role model for children wit ...
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... people. People then knew all the punishments and consequences for breaking the laws, and they knew what they must due when accusing a criminal. (We know what we must do on Saturday to Woodstock, don’t we?) Hammurabi created a set of moral codes that was to be copied and used by other civilizations. The Codes of Law were broken into certain categories. These categories are not definitely known, but the majority of historians believe them to be: family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade and business. Many think the codes were too strict and the punishments too harsh. Hammurabi just believed that the punishment should fit the crime and that the strong sho ...
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... While Stella is in the hospital giving birth, Stanley rapes Blanche, causing her “to lose what little is left of her sanity” (Rasky, 124). At the end, Blanche is committed to a sanitarium. William’s once told an interviewer, “My work is emotionally autobiographical. It has no relationship to the actual events of my life, but it reflects the emotional currents of my life” (Devlin, 75). Critics have made much use of William’s family background as a means of analyzing his plays. William’s father, Cornelius, was a businessman from a prominent Tennessee family who traveled constantly and moved his family several times during the first decade of William’s life. Corne ...
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... was doing. George Washington and his father, "Light-Horse Harry Lee," were his two heroes and he wanted to be just like them when he grew up. In 1811 the Lee family moved to a larger home in Alexandria, Virginia. The next year his father received injuries in a Baltimore riot from which he never fully recovered and that also caused his leaving of Alexandria for a warmer climate. He died six years later at Cumberland Island, Georgia when Robert was only 12. Robert was forced to become the man of the family and cared for his mother and sisters because his father and elder brothers had left. Robert would stuff papers to block cracks in the carriage and go driving to hel ...
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... McCulloch v. Maryland. He made himself the nations leading lawyer and an outstanding skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts. New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had shifted the economic interest from shipping to manufacturing, Webster decided to back the high-tariff bill of that year to help the small new manufacturing busine ...
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... some reason or another, but usually having something to deal with his blindness. Hardships controlled his life, one after another. He needed to learn to read and write Braille in order to return to school. This proved to be a test of his strength, as well as that of his mother. They both became frustrated with each other many a times, and she occasionally called him ‘stupid’. Harold always tried his best. One summer in camp he received an award. Not out of the sake of pity, not because he was blind, but because he tried his hardest and did the best he could do. As his life progressed, Harold was taken advantage of many times, used in plans and schemes for th ...
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... his inner thoughts and emotions through music, by listening and empathizing with bands such as Black Sabbath and the Sex Pistols. While in high school Kurt met Buzz Osbourne and Matt Lukin of the Melvins, musical heroes and inspirations to Kurt. Also while in high school he met future band mate with Nirvana, and many other groups, Krist(Chris) Novoselic. Krist was an immigrant from Croatia and he and Kurt became friends instantly. Later Kurt and Krist formed Nirvana with Chad Channing as drummer and recorded Bleach in 1989 for only $600. Channing was replaced with Dave Grohl, now of the Foo Fighters, who went on to record their other five CD's as Nirvana's ...
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... they're all going to be tough." The words, not particularly memorable, might have come from any of a thousand thoughtful executives after a year on the job. But here they were spoken by the still-young executive in the world's biggest job, and they showed the difference in attitude and tone that twelve months in the White House have worked on John F. Kennedy. Jack Kennedy -- Man of the Year for 1961 -- had passionately sought the presidency. The closeness of his victory did not disturb him; he took over the office with a youth-can-do-anything sort of self-confidence. He learned better; but learn he did. And in so doing he not only made 1961 the most end ...
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... to Buffalo, where a year or two later they joined the Unitarian Church. Fillmore formed a law partnership with Hall and developed a thriving practice. His massive frame, benign air, dignified mien, and conciliatory temper commanded respect and admiration. His popularity in Erie County marked him as one of the outstanding political leaders in western New York, and in 1832 he won election to Congress on the Anti-Masonic ticket. During the 1840's Weed led the New York Whig party's liberal wing, which was hostile to slavery. Fillmore disliked slavery but disapprove of attacks on it. For he regarded the South's peculiar institution as untouchable in the states where ...
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