... wanted to find a passage to China, through unmarked waters. He had to receive funding for the great adventure, which had to be covered by the richest of the rich. The only place he could go would have to be the king of Spain. The fact that Columbus was Italian (a foreigner) he had to definitely make an impression on the king. Another problem was the fact that Columbus had never actually been a captain on a ship, only a passenger. There was also not a huge market for a Trans-Atlantic voyage. The fact that the idea of the world being round was a somewhat new aspect. It was amazing that this trip had started at ...

... the harsh and cruel reality of the Nazi agenda at only thirteen years of age. All this only because she was Jewish. She stayed locked up in the attic of the warehouse for almost twenty-five months, never being able to step outside. Such repression and life of fear would make almost any teenager completely depressed and more miserable that words could express. However, Anne managed to keep hope for a better tomorrow and her respect for the human race. Anne made a very powerful statement in her last words. To truly believe such a thing after being abused by the Nazis is quite remarkable indeed. I am very sure ...

... the shipyard for two years until he had another great escape idea, this one would work though. The sailing papers of a sailor had been borrowed, and disguised as a sailor, Frederick Douglass made his escape to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Upon his arrival, Frederick took up his new assumed last name Douglass, to escape being captured. In 1841, Frederick attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket Massachusetts. Here, his impromptu speech he gave showed him to be a great speaker. The opponents of Frederick believed that he was never a slave, because of his great speaking skills and knowledge. I ...

... had just begun. As soon as he received his commission as lieutenant of artillery, Jackson was assigned to the war zone in Mexico. There he first met Robert E. Lee. Jackson served at Veracruz, Contreras, Chapultepec, and Mexico City, and rose to the temporary rank of major within a year. In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. Jackson left the army in 1850 and became a math professor at Virginia Military Institute where he taught for ten years. He was not a very good teacher of math. Many students mocked him and made fun of how religious he was. In 1853, he married ...

... twenty- seventh of April in 1897. His father, Amos Parker Wilder, was a strict Calvinist who combined strong economic interests with politics (Block and Shedd 959) in his work as the editor, owner, and publisher of a newspaper. Isabella Thornton Niven, his mother, was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. They were to influence their son's works greatly. Wilder also had a sister, Isabel, who was to become a distinguished novelist in her own right. Wilder's early education began in Hong Kong, where his father was serving as American consul general in Shanghai (Goldstone 11). He was then schooled at Berkeley, Cali ...

... Anne. She studied up on the condition of deaf and blindness, and eventually got the job to look after Helen. Before Anne came to teach her, Helen didn't know how to communicate with any one and her parents and family didn't know what to do with her. Mr. and Mrs. Keller let Helen do what ever she wanted regardless of what it was. She had an awful temper that could not be controlled by anyone. She would throw outrageous tantrums because she could not communicate with others what she wanted. Anne would not tolerate any of this. After much trial and error she taught Helen the one handed alphabet which gave her a way of ...

... his power and presence in the literacy world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. This novel also won the Pulitzer Prize award. III. July 21st, 1899, Ernest was born. He was born to DR Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall . He grew up in a small conservative town called Oak Park, Illinois. His father, a practicing doctor, taught him how to hunt and fish, while his mother, wished to make him a professional musician. His upbringing was very conservative and somewhat religious. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School, where he distinguished himself in English. His main act ...

... Hume writes, “nor does any man imagine that the explosion of gunpowder, or the attraction of a loadstone, could ever be discovered by arguments a priori.� Only through experiences with gunpowder and a loadstone would you be able to know the cause, which produced it, or the effects, which will arise for it. Hume writes, “When we reason a priori, and consider merely any object or cause, as it appears to the mind, independent of all observations, it never could suggest to us the notion of any distinct object, such as its effect; mush less, show us the inseparable and inviolable connexion between them. A ...

... great voice, he immediately wanted to start a business with her. Anna became the new lead singer in “The Kings of Rhythm�. After many hits, Ike wanted to leave “The Kings of Rhythm� with Anna, and move to California to start their own band. Once they moved to California, that when Anna became “�. Eventually everyone knew the rock n’ roll superstar, , but Ike wanted more. He knew he needed total control of Tina’s life, so he married her in Mexico, just by Tina signing a piece of paper. Before long Tina realized that Ike could be a very violent and controlling person. She knew it would take some risks, ...

... They then settled in Bethany, Oklahoma. She always had the dream that someday she would be a space explorer. People thought her crazy for this dream though, because the United States didn't even have a space program. After graduating from Bethany High School in 1960 she got her pilot's license. In regard to her dream she said, "the Baptists wouldn't let women preach, so I had to become an astronaut to get closer to God than my father." By this time America already had a space program. She could not believe that of the first seven Mercury astronauts, none were females. This is just one more instance she ...