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School Library Essays and Term Papers
Platowas born to an aristocratic family in Athens, Greece. When he was a child his
father, Ariston, who was believed to be descended from the early kings of Athens died, and his
mother, Perictione married Pyrilampes. As a young man was always interested in political
leadership and eventually became ...
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Lewis Latimer Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848,
six years after his parents, George and Rebecca Latimer, had run away from slavery in Virginia. They were determined to be free and that their children be born on free soil. Because of his light complexion, ...
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Abigail Adamswas a unique women because she had an education and an interest in politics. She learned how to read and write and enjoyed poems most. She was also very resourceful by helping her husband on difficult problems.Abigail was born on November 11 on the Julian calendar, or November 22 on the modern ...
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Alzeimer(AD) is one of the most fatal disease in America. It strikes
More than 4 millions of personne. Unfortunately, it also attacks a lot of loved one. And these loved ones are our parents, husband, wifes,
Brother or sisters. And we have to take care of them. But how can we deal with a personne who ...
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Ernest Che GuevaraErnesto Guevara de Serna was born in Argentina in 1928 into a fairly privileged family. He developed serious asthma at the age of two, which would plague him throughout his life. He was home-schooled by his mother, Celia de la Serna. It was these early years when he became an eager reader of ...
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Abigail Adamswas a unique women because she had an education and an
interest in politics. She learned how to read and write and enjoyed poems most.
She was also very resourceful by helping her husband on difficult problems.
Abigail was born on November 11 on the Julian calendar, or November 22 on
the ...
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The Effects Of Lead Poison On ChildrenThroughout the world today one out of every six children under the age
of six are suffering from health disorders due to a poisonous metal known as
lead(Kiwanis, 1996). Lead is a natural occurring bluish-grey metal found in the
earth's crust. It has no taste or smell. Lead can easily be found ...
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Jack Londonwas a prolific writer, one of the most widely read American writers of the early 20th century. During his short life, he wrote fifty books, plus many articles and short stories. Besides being one of the most widely read authors, he was also the highest-paid. However, did not spend all of his ...
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Albert Einstein: His LifeOf all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people.
While most of these do not understand this man's work, everyone knows that
its impact on the world of science is astonishing.
Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany ...
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Hippocrates, The Father Of MedicineHippocrates, greatest physician of antiquity, is regarded as the father
of medicine. Born on the island of Kos, Greece in the year 460 b.c., says the
earliest biography written by Soranus of Ephesus in the a third century a.d.
Although a native of Kos he was forced to leave the island as the ...
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Censorship Of Music In The MediaCensorship of Music in the Media
The American society of today has buried its head in the sand. If our venerable representatives in Washington, D.C. and our respective state capitols feel the need to regulate which musical albums and concerts I should be exposed to, then I guess that means I will ...
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Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara, 1928-1967
At two years old he developed asthma from which he suffered all his life, and his family moved to the drier climate of Alta Gracia (Cordoba) where his health did not improve. Primary education at home, mostly by his mother, Celia de la Serna. He early became a voracious reader of Marx, ...
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Ernesto Guevarawas born in l928. When he was two, he moved to Cordoba,
Spain, because of asthma. As a young child, Guevara became interested in
reading Marx, Engels, and Freud found in his father's library. As he grew up,
he watched the Spanish refugees from the Spanish Civil War fight against the
fascist ...
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Computer LiteracyFor over fifty years, beginning with the famous ENIAC, a revolution has
been taking place in the United States and the world. The personal computer has
changed the way many people think and live. With its amazing versatility, it
has found its way into every area of life, and knowing how to ...
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Biography Of Ogden NashFredric Ogden Nash was an American humorist who lived from 1902 to
1971. He was born in 1902 in Rye, New York, where he grew up with well
educated parents. Microsoft Encarta 95 said that his parents names were
Edmund Strudwick Nash and Mattie Nash. During his childhood years, Nash
was educated ...
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Ray Bradburyhas written over more then five hundred published works and continues to keep writing. He is known as one of the best science fiction novelists and has won many awards and accommodations for it. After publishing his adult novel Fahrenheit 451, it was soon considered one of his best works. ...
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Using The Student Study Sheets In The ClassroomThe study sheets exploring political, religious, social, intellectual, and personal freedom can be printed out and distributed to students. (Study sheets are provided on PBS ONLINE courtesy of General Motors.)
When using the study sheets in conjunction with the series Thomas Jefferson (PBS ...
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Huckleberry Finn: On The Surface…I don’t know anything that mars literature so much as too much truth- Mark Twain
An honest and realistic view of southern life was what Mark Twain had in mind when writing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Satiric as this view may have been, it was by no means prejudiced (against blacks). By ...
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Frankenstein 3Frankenstein, A Creature of Society.
When Cindy Porter was twenty five, a single mother, and living in the projects of Philadelphia she wrote a novel. Her novel was a story about a teenage boy who had grown up in poverty. The boy's daily confrontations with the hardships of his own life proved ...
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