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- 15031: Princess Diana 2
- Throughout Princess Diana s lifetime she loved, cared, and helped others along the way. She had many accomplishments in life. Such as her children and her many organizations. Lady Diana Frances Spencer was born on July 1, 1961 at ... who spent her time looking after a small child ( Diana Internet). On February 24, 1981 the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana was announced (Delano 36). The couple later was married at St. Paul s Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. The wedding ceremony attracted global television and radio audiences. It was estimated that around one thousand million people watched or heard the wedding. In addition, thousands of people ... throne. Diana wore a silk dress designed by the Emanuels, which trailed a twenty-five foot train ( Diana Internet). A year later June 21, 1982 Prince William Arthur Phillip Louis was born at St. Mary s Hospital. Two years later Charles and Diana s second child, Harry Charles Albert David was born on Sept. 15, 1984 (Delano 36). As her children grew, they developed a love for winter sports especially ...
- 15032: Napoleon 2
- During rough times in France in the late 1700 s, an anarchy was being formed. A revolution turned into civil war and the people were unhappy and needed a leader. At this time, General Napoleon Bonaparte took an opportunity. Napoleon s fame for winning battles in the Middle East and Egypt and crushing royalist uprisings back at home allowed him to take over the Directory with ease. Recognized for his great military skills and outstanding leadership, Napoleon easily won over the hearts of the people. Napoleon s first move was to obtain leadership. With the help of Pope Pius VII Napoleon was named First Consul of France. Though France was now declared an empire, it was technically a Republic because of ...
- 15033: Nanak
- This first god, or what they called Guru, was Nanak. Nanak was born in the year 1469 in a village known as Talwandi. Later it was changed in honor of him, it was called "Nanak's Place". His parents were common villagers, his father was a Hindu. When Nanak was 7, he would ask his teacher about the True Name of God. He studied Persian at the age of 9. Many ... situations. But his family felt he was useless and a disgrace to their family. Nanak became unhappy. Then one day after bathing, Nanak disappeared into the forest, he was taken in a vision to God's appearance. Nanak was offered a cup on nectar, which he accepted. God told him ," I am with thee, I have make thee happy, and also those who shall take thy name. Go, and repeat Mine ... his belongings to the poor, he told him to have open confession and reparation for wrong. This changed his life. He continued this with many people, thus they became followers of Guru Nanak. When Nanak's incredible life came down to an end, he went to sit down under a tree. The Musalmans, who had received God's name from the Guru, said that would bury him after his death. ...
- 15034: Marco Polo
- MARCO POLO Marco Polo is one of the most well known heroic travelers and traders around the world. In my paper I will discuss with you Marco Polo s life, his travels, and his visit to China to see the great Khan. Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice. He was a Venetian explorer and merchant whose account of his travels in Asia was the primary source for the European image of the Far East until the late 19th century. Marco's father, Niccolo, and his uncle Maffeo had traveled to China as merchants. When they left Venice to return to China, they were accompanied by 17 year old Marco and two priests. Early life, despite his ... the personal life of Marco Polo. It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a favorable time in world history, when the height of Venice s influence harmonized with the greatest extent of Mongol conquest of Asia. Ruled by Kublai Khan, the Mongol Empire stretched all the way from China to Russia and the Levant. The Mongol crowds also threatened ...
- 15035: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... 12, 1850. Most biographers listed Kate year of birth as 1851 as Kate stated, but Toth discover both baptismal date of May 12, 1850, recorded for Kate at St. Louis Cathedral registry and the U.S. Census record of August 1850 that records a seven-month-old baby, "Cath", at the O'Flaherty home. (Toth, 24) Therefore, the actual date of birth is unclear. Her father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was Irish immigrant who became wealthy. Her mother, Eliza Faris O'Flaherty, was of French-Creole heritage. Eliza, at age 16, became Thomas second wife. From Thomas' first marriage was born George O'Flaherty, Kate's half brother whom she loved with all her heart. Also living in the home was her grandmother and her great-grandmother. Kate had a special bond with her father. She was always curious and inquisitive ... completion of the Pacific Railroad, a bridge collapsed and the train fell into the Gasconade River. Her father died in this accident, this beginning a series of tragedies Kate had to endure. After her father's death, she began bonding with the other members of her family. Her mother, Eliza, dealt with death of her husband by focusing on religion. She enrolled Kate in the St. Louis Academy of the ...
- 15036: Jon Woo
- ... may not have heard about him, he is widely considered to be "the best contemporary director of action films working anywhere." John Woo, after many years of hard work, has become known as the world's best action film director. His action sequences have become the stuff of legend and are now the basis from which all other action movies are judged. More importantly, along with the bloodshed, Woo has proven ... emotions that the audience can sympathize with. Perhaps that is his greatest talent, and perhaps that is why he will become known as one of the greatest directors in the years to come. John Woo s style is definitely fast paced an exciting. Mostly throughout all of his movies his themes are good against evil. It is always the case of a standoff between the good guy and the bad guy, in their last battle, always to the death. Woo s would often use montages to make time go faster, as in Face/Off when the swat team breaks into the house and where Castor Troy kills the men that he once commanded. Most of ...
- 15037: Joan Of Arc 3
- ... the French new inspiration and succeed in driving out the English. Joan was like any other peasant girl in the 15th century. She could not read or write, but she worked hard on her father's farm and acquired her faith and prayers from her mother. In the village she was remembered as a good and simple girl. She had three brothers and a sister who died young. As a peasant, she always remained close to home and didn't even consider leaving the village until she was thirteen and had begun hearing voices. She identified the voice as that of God, telling her that she would have to perform a great task. By age ... although she had never seen him before she recognized him immediately and made straight for him. The King was anxious to believe her voices and therefore he reassembled his troops and placed them under Joan's command. Being led by her voices, she set off to raise the siege of Orleans. Joan inspired the French. She brought on a new hope by encouraging them that God was with them. Joan ...
- 15038: Jack London 2
- ... Wellman, was unmarried and of wealthy background. His father may have been William Chaney. Chaney was a journalist, lawyer, and a major figure in the development of American astrology. During his childhood his parents weren't there for him and he was looked after by an ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss (Memmie Jennie). London dropped out of school at the age of fourteen, and worked at a series of low-paying sweatshops until he was sixteen. In 1894, during America's worst depression of his time, London traveled across the United States and Canada on railroads. He was arrested in 1894 in Niagara Falls and jailed for vagrancy. As an adolescent, he worked at various hard labor jobs, pirated for oysters, served as a fish patrol to capture poachers, sailed the Pacific on a sealing ship, joined Kelly's Army of unemployed working men, and returned to attend high school. University of California at Berkeley, is where London went when he went back. Jack started to become a writer to escape from the ...
- 15039: Fredrick Douglass 2
- ... cause, I subscribe myself. (76) With these words, Frederick Douglass ended one of the greatest pieces of propaganda of the 19th century. Douglass wrote his autobiography as an abolitionist tool to shape his northern audience s view of southern slaveholders. Through personal anecdotes, Douglass drew an accurate picture of the life of a slave. At the same time, these events were chosen for how they would affect the northern audience s opinion of southern slaveholders. By using the written word, Douglass and fellow abolitionists targeted educated northern whites because they were the only group who could change the status quo. Illiterate northern whites and free northern ... heartless monsters and abolish slavery, thereby ending the callous practices associated with slavery. Another example of how Douglass used family values as propaganda against southern slaveholders was in the treatment of his grandmother. When Douglass s master decided that his grandmother was too old and no longer useful, they took her to the woods, built her a little hut and then made her welcome to the privilege of supporting herself ...
- 15040: Emerson
- ... individualism and self- examination. They believed that they could understand themselves better if they study nature and their surroundings. Transcendentalists also believed in an "Over-Soul" where all forms of being are united spiritually. Emerson's lectures and writing were based on this philosophy. (Hirsh) Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. His father, Reverend William Emerson, was a Unitarian minister at the famous First Church ... to 1817. Emerson then started to study at Harvard College in August 1817. He worked his way through college as a messenger and writer because of the financial strain on his family after his father's death. He developed his great interests in literature and philosophy during this time. Emerson studied Latin, Greek, and French, but didn't pay much attention to mathematics. He liked living in solitude and independence and said that the best thing about college was having a room to himself. Emerson graduated in the thirtieth position in a ...
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