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- 2111: Robert E. Lee
- ... Lee was made General in Chief of all the Confederate armies. Richmond fell in April, 1865, and Lee's ragged army retreated westward. Northern forces cut off and surrounded Lee's troops at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, where Lee surrendered to Grant, on April 9, 1865. "There is nothing left to do, but to go see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths". Grant tried to make the ... horse Traveler, he told his army, "Men, we have fought through the war together. I have done my best for you; my heart is too full to say more." Lee's defeat at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, marked the end of his brilliant military career (Nolan 121) At the end of the Civil War Lee set an example for all of the Ex-Confederate soldiers and officers, by his refusal not ...
- 2112: David Livingstone
- ... were often the vehicles he used. Born the second son of poor and pious parents, Neil and Agnes (Hunter) Livingstone, he had three brothers and one sister. The seven were crowded into a two-room house. The fa-ther, while delivering tea to his customers, would also distribute religious books. At age ten young David was put into the cotton-weaving mills factory as a piecer to aid in the earnings ... every day. The two began to be drawn to one another, and so they made some plans. As soon as his arm healed, he would hasten back to Mabotsa to build a comfortable little stone house. Returning, he was married in March, 1844, with Robert Moffat performing the ceremony. Then came the 200-mile ox-wagon honeymoon. They remained at Mabotsa until 1845. A fellow missionary named Edwards, who had joined ...
- 2113: The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... 20,000 people. Although Elizabeth was a fully trained physician, no one would hire her because they did not take her seriously. She then decided to open her own hospital. Elizabeth had to buy a house as her office because no one would rent space to her. This house later became the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. It wasnt long before Elizabeth started seeing many patients because the Society of Friends supported her accomplishment as a doctor and referred people to ...
- 2114: Sister Helen Prejean
- ... her, poverty seemed to be more like a fairy tale than reality (6). She never really knew who or what it was that she prayed for all those years until she moved into the Hope House. While working at the Hope House, she received a quick education about the way of life, the systems and what really occurs day to day, she explains this when she says she lives, in a state whose misery statistics are the ...
- 2115: George Brenard Shaw
- ... with many job opportunities. However between 1873 and 1883 he wrote five novels, all of which were rejected by every publisher in London. Instead he decided to write plays, the first performance of Widower's House appeared in London in 1892 and Arm's and The Man performed in London & New York, in 1894. While he was not writing, Shaw discovered Karl Marx and read his book Das Kapital, during which ... his music critic. Soon after that Shaw began to write the plays that made him a very, very wealthy man. These plays included Arms and the Man, Candida, Don Juan in Hell, Getting Married, Heartbreak House, The Apple Cart, and his last play Why She Would Not. Shaw continued to live his life writing plays until the day he died. On November 2nd 1950, while pruning an apple tree, George fell ...
- 2116: When Does Life Begin
- ... think of any other adult situation that provides a way to erase it. Can you? Bibliography Work Cited Eggebroten, Anne, ed. Abortion: My Choice, God's Grace: Christian Women Tell Their Stories. Pasedena: Hope Publishing House, 1994. Hadley, Janet. Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity. Temple: Temple UP 1998. Irving, Dianne. When Do Human Beings Begin? American Bioethics Advisory Commission. 1999. (27 April 2000). Jasper, William F. The Survivors. The New American ... Being in the Womb Being a Person? The Moral Question of Abortion. 1990. (23 April 2000). Work Cited Eggebroten, Anne, ed. Abortion: My Choice, God's Grace: Christian Women Tell Their Stories. Pasedena: Hope Publishing House, 1994. Hadley, Janet. Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity. Temple: Temple UP 1998. Irving, Dianne. When Do Human Beings Begin? American Bioethics Advisory Commission. 1999. (27 April 2000). Jasper, William F. The Survivors. The New American ...
- 2117: Prince William
- ... school has more than one thousand two hundred students. There are two swimming pools, a golf course and dozens of soccer, rugby, and cricket fields. Prince William lives in an ivy-covered dorm called Manor House with forty-nine other people. When Prince William entered Eton College, he was around thirteen, like many others who enroll there. These groups of boys are referred to as "The Lower Boys," and are in ... at 6:00 p.m., they have a forty-five minute study period. At 7:45 p.m., the student's supper is served. Then, 8:00 p.m. the school is required to have house prayers. At 8:30 p.m., there is another study period, and finally, the day ends at 10:00 p.m. when all lights are ordered off. The "Fifth School" and "Sixth School" are on ...
- 2118: The Odyssey 4
- ... accepted in the Indian culture at this time, it is a sin to be "tainted by another man's [wife]" (294). Therefore, instead of rejecting Sakuntala outright, Dusyanta justly allows her to stay in his house until proof that the child is his can be found. The visit by the policemen and the captured fisherman reflect on another side of Dusyanta's role in justice. Until the visit, Dusyanta's character ... the throne, Telemakhos admits: there are eligible men enough, heaven knows, [ ] and one of them perhaps may come to power after the death of King Odysseus. All I insist on is that I rule our house and rule the slaves my father won for me. (I, 433-8) Telemakhos knows that his future in Ithaka is uncertain, and whether or not Odysseus expected this situation to arise is ambiguous. Regardless, to ...
- 2119: Van Gogh
- ... he did so with mixed feelings. He spent hours wandering the countryside, making sketches of the landscape, but began to feel isolated and concerned about the future. He had rented a little attic in a house but found it melancholy, and was depressed with the quality of his equipment. "Everything is too miserable, too insufficient, too dilapidated." Physically and mentally unable to cope with these conditions any longer, he left for ... loved to paint birds and bird's nests. This phase did not last long. It only lasted until his father's death six months later. "The Family Bible" which he painted just before leaving his house for good, six months after his father's death in 1885, must have meant a great deal to him. Van Gogh had broken with Christianity when he was fired from the missionary which proved to ...
- 2120: Gandhi
- ... like how India was close up after the war and the demands of India's parties. Reginald Sorensen was one of the members of the delegation. For years, Sorensen was the one member in the House of Commons who would plead the Indian Congress view in Parliament. The members of the House of Commons found his views to be "very extreme." These members of the delegation appeared to be quite friendly towards the Indians and their hopes. They were just as Miller 2 good to Jinnah as ...
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