Winston Churchill was one of the best known political leaders during the 20th century. He was born into privilege life, and devoted himself into population. He has a complicated endowment being that he was a soldier, idealist, orator, and pragmatist. People in Great Britain thought that Winston was a superhero. Winston Churchill was a defender of democracy, and a advocate of progressive. Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace on Novmber30, 1874. Queen Anne gave this home to Churchill’s ancestors
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Oliver Cromwell: First Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, a well-educated, strict Puritan, and eventual temporary ruler of Great Britain, was born by his parents Elizabeth and Robert Cromwell in 1599. Born of a growing group of Puritans from Huntingdon, Cromwell was born into a time in which his gentry began to seek and demand large changes from the Church of England. His early education came from that of Doctor Thomas Beard, a family friend and very knowledgeable Puritan clergyman
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Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children. Jackie’s father left the family shortly after he was born. Jackie never saw his father again. His mother raised him and his three brothers and one sister. About a year after Jackie was born, the family moved to Pasadena, California. There Jackie grew up watching is older brother excelling in sports. His brother became a track star who won a silver medal in the 200 meter dash the 1936 Olympics
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contrast the ideas and positions of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. DuBois. Critically evaluate the strength and weaknesses of each.” Black History 140B Professor Katungi 3-12-03 Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin Country, Virginia in 1856. One of our nations most powerful black educators; he illustrated his belief in the dignity of work. He was very skilled in politics and influential for both black and white communities
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CHARITY Upbringing Lionel Messi was born June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina to a working class family. His father was a factory steel worker, and his mother a cleaner. He began playing soccer from an early age, and his talent was soon apparent. However at the age of eleven, Messi was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency (GHD). This was a condition that stunted growth, and required expensive medical treatment, including the use of the drug human growth hormone. (T-V PG, 03:22) Career
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¬is an extraordinary woman, who was a woman before her time, and defied the limits that society placed on her. To be able to know the true Laura, one must look at her family history to see where her story began. Laura’s story began before she was born, when her great-grandfather Guillaume DuParc came to America against his will. Guillaume was known for getting in trouble. When Guillaume got into a duel and killed his father’s best friend’s son, that was the last straw. “At that time, at the end
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© stocklight / Shutterstock.com American snowboarder Shaun White won Olympic gold medals in the half pipe event in 2006 and 2010. White’s thick mop of red hair and repertoire of gravity-defying tricks earned him the nickname “the Flying Tomato.” Born on Sept. 3, 1986, in San Diego, Calif., White grew up in nearby Carlsbad. He survived a heart defect that required two operations when he was an infant. Despite his early health problems, he was soon skateboarding, surfing, skiing, and playing soccer
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but in many places women are treated same as in the past. Women still faces lot of problems such as domestic violence, physical violence and mentally abuse and on the other hand men are treated like king. Parents feel proud when son is born however when girl is born parents and even society feel burden. In our society, people give respect, love and better opportunities to their son. On the other hand, in cities and metro-cities women have so many opportunities. Moreover, in every field women are achieving
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Wayne Jones Jr but most of us know him as Chipper Jones. He was born on April 24th of the year 1972 in Deland Florida. Jones began his high school baseball career at Taylor High School, where he pitched a one-hitter as a freshman. He went to The Bolles School as a sophomore, where he was a two-way player. He chalked up a 6-3 record with 87 strikeouts and a 1.89 ERA as a pitcher while hitting a .391 batting average with seven home runs, earning First Team All-State honors. In 1989, he played football
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The impact Jane Addams and Mahatma Gandhi made was extraordinary and will forever be in history! You may be wondering what they did that was soooo amazing. Well, I will tell you! Jane Addams helped many people. Jane opened a “hull house”. What I mean is the hull house was used to help immigrants who needed help financially. Immigrants got a place to live at little to no cost and they were able to go find jobs. When Jane did this she was very brave; this “job” would not make a lot of money so she
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