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Bonnie And Clyde
... the physician incorrectly recorded it as "baby girl Barrow" in the Vital Statistics volume of the Ellis County Courthouse at Waxahachie.
Three additional children followed Clyde’s birth, and the families financial difficulties worsened as the price for cotton bounced up and down. After some years the Barrow’s found it impossible to provide for their children and sent them to live with relatives in east Texas. At one relatives home Clyde developed two interests that remained with him to the end of hid life: a passion for music, and an obsession with guns. Even as Clyde drove along the lane ...
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Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson
... even though his family was criticized, Jackson is now a national figure. In 1957, his stepfather, a postal worker, adopted him as his own son.
Reverend Jackson finished tenth in his high school class and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. Later, he left U. I. And enrolled in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensburo. There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before g ...
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Deng Xiaopeng
... which made China very appealing to foreign marketers. This “open door policy” also worked out for Deng because it opened up communication technology through out China so he could speak directly to his people in their own homes much like President Roosevelt did here in America. Deng listed technology as on his list of expansion goals but he also listed three other important goals agriculture, economy, and military. Deng had great need to expand Agriculture because China has the highest population in the world. If Deng could not put food on the table then chances are the people are not going to really like him ...
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Joan Of Arc
... country from England and help the dauphine
gain the French throne ( Schlesinger 21 ). Then the voices told her to cut
her hair, dress in man's clothes and to pick up the arms.
By 1429, the English, with the help of their Burgundian allies,
occupied Paris and all of France north of the Loire. The resistance was
minimial due to the lack of leadership and a sense of hopelessness. Henry
the VI of England was claiming the French throne.
At the battle of Orleans in May 1429, Joan led the troops to a
miraculous victory over the English. She continued fighting the enemy in
other locations along the Loire ( Paine 211). ...
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The Legend Of Baby Doe
... Peshtigo fire of October, 1871,
burned over 1,280,000 acres and left more than 1,000 people dead. This
ended the lumber boom and mcCourt went into debt to the bank.
Elizabeth loved attention from men when she was a teenager and she
liked to be talked about, even if the talk didn't compliment her. Her
sisters were jealous of her most of the time. Even their parents lavished
affection on her. To put it plainly, Elizabeth was spoiled. She always
went her own way and damned anyone who tried to stop her.
After winning an ice skating contest with an incredibly revealing
costume, a man named Harvey Doe began courti ...
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Leslie Marmon Silko
... main character in this story is a woman named Ayah. Ayah is a Native American who lives in a shack with her husband and two children. She is not very close to her husband, (Chato), but she is very loyal to him. This is the way of a Navajo Woman, being loyal to your husband and family. Chato was a well-spoken man who spoke both English and Spanish in addition to his native language. The worst thing that happened to Ayah was the loss of her two children to the welfare board. They were either sick or she wasn’t providing for them. She wasn’t taking care of them in a way that please ...
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Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
... of a
girls' school. The Russians insisted that Polish schools teach the Russian
language and Russian history. The Poles had to teach their children their own
language and history in secrecy.
Manya enjoyed learning but her childhood was always overshadowed by
depression. At the young age of six, her father lost his job and her family
became very poor. In the same year of 1873, her mother died of tuberculosis.
As if that wasn't enough tragedy for the family already, two of her sisters died
of typhus as well. Her oldest sister, Bronya, had to leave school early to take
care of the family. Despite all these ...
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Alice Walker
... strong feelings towards the respect black women get.
In 1961, Walker entered Spelman College, where she joined the Civil Rights Movement. Two years after graduating in 1965, she married Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer; afterward, they worked together in Mississippi, registering blacks to vote. In the summer of 1968, she went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off farms or taken off welfare roles for registering to vote. In New York, she worked as an editor at Ms. Magazine, and her husband worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
In ...
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John Wilkes Booth
... 1852. When Booth was seventeen, he went to a military school.
Booth loved Shakespeare. He wanted to be just like him. He became such a good actor, he was compared to his father and brother as an actor. He was called Romeo because the ladies thought he was so handsome. He was the "darling of the theatrical circuit". He was irresistible to women. He toured wildly. He was one of the most promising actors.
Booth was a famous actor during the Civil War. He traveled intensively. The fans loved him a lot. He got hundreds of love letters from his fans. His last tour was in 1862.
Booth did not fight in the war. The war split ...
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Biographical Fact Sheet On James Fenimore Cooper
... Cooper's father passed in 1809, he received a nice inheritance. Cooper quickly squandered his inheritance, and at thirty was on the verge of bankruptcy. He decided to try his hand at writing as a career. Carefully modeling his work after Sir Walter Scott's successful Waverly Novels, he wrote his first novel in 1820 called Precaution. A domestic comedy set in England, lost money, but Cooper had discovered his vocation.
Cooper established his reputation after his second novel, The Spy, and in his third book, the autobiographical Pioneers (1823), Cooper introduced the character of Natty Bumppo, a uniquely America ...
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