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George Washington
2,515 wordsGeorge Washington He was born 1732 and he died in 1799. George Washington seems today a figure larger than life itself... almost as he was when he was a familiar person in the halls, homes, shops, and bars of 18th-century city Williamsburg. On Duke of Gloucester Street, in the Raleigh Tavern's Apollo Room, or the Governor's Palace Gardens, his powerful frame and his nice attitude... his presence... drew to him the notice that wrote his place in the history of the city, the state, and the nation....
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Black And White Alike Washington
2,997 wordsBooker T. Washington "Up From Slavery" unabridged During his lifetime, Booker T. Washington was a national leader for the betterment of African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. He advocated for economic and industrial improvement of Blacks while accommodating Whites on voting rights and social equality. Washington traces his life from his being born a slave to an educator. His writings and speeches, though initially was very influential for his race, later in his life began to be chal...
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Mr Levy
831 wordsThe Washington Times web's extortion lobby Published February 20, 2005 SHAKEDOWN: HOW CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT, AND TRIAL LAWYERS ABUSE THE JUDICIAL PROCESS By Robert A. Levy Cato, 334 pages, $22.95 REVIEWED BY WILLIAM H. PETERSON Worry over security played a big role in the presidential campaign -- and plays it still. For persisting in of D.C. is the naive if popular opinion that government is 'on our side' -- that it is an impartial protector even seeing to it that we shall not want. Sure. In ...
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Control Of The Washington State Democratic Party
2,213 wordsThe documents presented here are designed to be used in classes about Pacific Northwest history or US history. Although the documents deal specifically with events in Washington state, they are still potentially useful for a course about US history as a whole. As historian Richard Fried has observed, 'McCarthyism' is so often characterized in abstract terms that its meaning remains fuzzy. To sense the emotional bite of the Communist issue and to understand both how it affected life for those who...
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Cornwallis From A Hill The British
2,343 wordsThe Beginning On December 31, 1738, Charles Cornwallis was born the second Earl Cornwallis, since his father, the fifth Baron Cornwallis, had been rewarded as a Viscount and the first Earl Cornwallis. In 1661, Sir Frederick Cornwallis was rewarded a baron try by Charles II for service to the Stuarts. His mother was the niece of Sir Robert Walpole. His uncle became he Archbishop of Canterbury. Cornwallis was educated at Eton and moved in elite social circles. In 1756, about a month before his eig...
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Harold Washington In April 1983
959 wordsRonald Ervin McNair, was born on October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina to Carl and Pearl McNair. He attended North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, where, in 1971, he graduated magna cum l aude with a BS degree in physics. In 1976 he earned his Ph. D. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. McNair's many distinctions include: Presidential Scholar (1967-71), Ford Foundation Fellow (1971-74), and National Fellowship Fund Fellow (1974-75). He was a...
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Denzel Washington
272 wordsCool, calm and collected, Denzel Washington has always been a model of poise. It is almost impossible to envision him out of control or nervous; he exudes such confidence. It is also impossible to see his work and not notice him and take him seriously. Before making his meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom, Denzel grew up watching his father, a minister, perform weekly at church. Young Denzel thrilled at the sight of his dad working the audience and began to nurture dreams of showmanship himself. ...
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Washington
578 wordsOn April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. 'As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent,' he wrote James Madison, 'it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles. ' Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th cen...
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Capuchin Order And Father Joseph
431 wordsHoward ran the Nez Per ece into the ground, finally up in Montana. Joseph surrendered his band at a place called Bear Paw Mountain some 40 miles from the Canadian Border, in October, 1877. Joseph fame did him little good. Although he had surrendered with the understanding that he would be allowed to return home, Joseph and his people were instead taken first to eastern Kansas and then to a reservation in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) where many of them died of epidemic diseases. Althou...
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Dc Public Housing Residents
2,680 words1968 Washington Riots INTRODUCTION: Scene 1: # Street U and 13th 36 years have passed since the DC riot. This is the place where thirteen people died and thousands were injured during a three day riot. Nowadays, we cannot find any trace of the riot that occurred at that time. Only the elderly people still have the memory of the day of the riot. # old pedestrian"; at that time I was 22, park police... all this are burnt down... ". The younger generation does not know what happened here. # young p...
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Washington
1,345 wordsThe eldest of six children from his father's second marriage, George Washington was born into the landed gentry in 1732 at Wakefield Plantation, VA. Until reaching 16 years of age, he lived there and at other plantations along the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, including the one that later became known as Mount Vernon. His education was rudimentary, probably being obtained from tutors but possibly also from private schools, and he learned surveying. After he lost his father when he was 11 year...
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Mr Smith Goes To Washington And Passing
673 wordsPeoples ideals have a certain innocence about them, just as people themselves do. The ideals held by the respective characters in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Passing, all vary in degrees of innocence. The ideals of most men are innocent at the core, but have become jaded and hidden behind the cynicism and realization of maturity. The influences of society and ones surroundings contribute to the make-up of innocence and trigger changes within it. Innocence can be said to be a product of ones...
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Washington's Ideas On Education
2,630 wordsThe autobiography of Booker T. Washing titled Up From Slavery is a rich narrative of the man's life from slavery to one of the founders of the Tuskegee Institute. The book takes us through one of the most dynamic periods in this country's history, especially African Americans. I am very interested in the period following the Civil War and especially in the transformation of African Americans from slaves to freemen. Up From Slavery provides a great deal of information on this time period and help...
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Poison Gas Fills Tokyo Subway
1,134 wordsOn March 20, 1995 a nerve gas believed to be sarin was released in Tokyo. The gas was released in several commuter trains throughout the Tokyo metropolitan area, killing six, and injuring twelve hundred others. This act, described by local authorities as "a case of organized and indiscriminate murder, but one item in a string of crimes committed by the doomsday religious cult Aum Shinri Kyo (Aum Supreme Truth). At about 8: 15 a.m. Tokyo time, packages left on several commuter trains throughout T...
