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    Being a president is one of the biggest honors you can get in the whole world. How could one mess up their chances‚ there are so many great and good presidents in U.S history but there are a couple bad ones like James Buchanan‚ the first and only Pennsylvania born president. How did he become president? James Buchanan was born April 23‚ 1791‚ at Cove Gap‚ Pennsylvania. His first political time was running for a seat in the U.S. House‚ which he won. Being young‚ he was a prominent leader of the Amalgamator

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    ambition eventually led to his inevitable downfall. Question One: What are four categorically different significant facts that illustrate Pinochet following the path to becoming a dictator? I. Early Life A. Birth and Schooling 1. Born in Valparaiso‚ Chile 2. Attended primary and secondary school 3. Began military school in 1931 in Santiago graduating as a Second Lieutenant in four years B. Early Military Career 4. Moved to Maipo Regiment

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    How Did The Nazis Become So Popular? Hitler was a brilliant speaker‚ a good organiser and politician. He was a driven‚ unstable man‚ who believed that he had been called by God to become dictator of Germany and rule the world. This kept him going when other people might have given up. His self-belief persuaded people to believe in him. However‚ I do not think it was solely the brilliance of Hitler’s leadership which brought the Nazis to Power. There are many other reasons why this happened.

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    Party in 1904. Later‚ Winston Churchill successfully helped his allies win World War 2 and defeat the Axis powers. Churchill started suffering from a series of strokes in June of 1953‚ at the age of 78‚ but he returned to work as the Prime Minister in October of that year. With his health declining‚ Churchill retired as the Prime Minister in 1955‚ but he remained on the Parliament until the general

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    Do you ever wonder how Hitler ever became one of the most powerful leaders? Well everything started on January 30‚ 1933. This is when he became chancellor. From that point on his strength started growing quickly and larger. Many events led up to Hitler having so much power. After Paul von Hindenburg made Hitler chancellor Hitler kept excelling in getting more power. Hitler had won 37% of the legislative votes in the year before. Together those two things gave Hitler and his party of Nazis to have

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    Women’s fate changed when World War 1 swept into the United States. Women have contributed a significant amount for the development of the United States but they were not always independent. With the start of the Great War‚ improvements for women started to occur. The gender barriers for women were broken as women entered the workforce. World War 1 was a military conflict which lasted for four years involving nearly all the biggest powers of the world. As men started leaving for the war front‚ life

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    Christianity became very popular in the ancient world for a number of reasons. When Christianity entered the ancient world‚ the Romans accepted it‚ but then they started disliking throughout time Christians because of the way they figured out things. So why did Christianity get so popular anyways? The expansion of Christianity was because to god everyone was made equally‚ Christians handled everything in a nonviolent way‚ and because of how Christianity was spread. Jesus made everyone equally;

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    “Being a Marine is difficult‚ but becoming one is harder”(Clancy 1). Tom Clancy‚ marine‚ novel writer ‚and video game developer‚ had a very difficult life as a child. He had a hard time fitting in with the other kids‚ at his private school. He always worked hard and‚ finished his work to help him to become the successful person he was. Tom Clancy struggled early in his life‚ but his experience with the marines helped him to become successful. Tom Clancy was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland on April

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    Col. Sanders didn’t become a chef until he was at the age of 40 and only became an icon when he sold his company at 75. Col. Sanders was born in 1890 and was brought up on a farm in Indiana. Sanders father died when he was 6 leaving him to take care of his brother and sister while the mother spends long days working. One of Sanders biggest responsibilities was cooking for his sibling’s‚ by the age of 7 he had become a decent cook. Sanders acquired a service station in Kentucky in 1930 and began

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    of the most notorious mobsters in the prohibition era. He was one of the most feared among people in New York and Chicago. History on Al Capone. Al Capone was one of nine children; his mother and father were Teresa Capone and Gabriele Capone. His father was a barber‚ and his mother was semesters. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born on January 17‚ 1899. Some of the influences that caused Al Capone to move towards criminal active. 1. When growing up‚ Al Capone was going to a Catholic

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