Maya Angelou Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4‚ 1928‚ in St. Louis‚ Missouri (poets.org). Maya Angelou later changed her name to promote her writing. Maya- represents the childhood name her brother Bailey gave her and Angelou is a variation of her married last name. At the age of three her parents sent her and her younger brother Bailey to live with their paternal grandmother in Stamps‚ Arkansas. When she was seven years old she moved to Chicago to live with her mother and encountered
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Benjamin Franklin Born: January 17‚ 1706 Birthplace: Boston‚ Massachusetts Bay Nationality: American Contributions: Lightning rod‚ Bifocals‚ Franklin stove Benjamin was the first American physicist to characterized two kinds of electric charge which he named “positive” and “negative.” He earned the title of "The First American" for his early and untiring campaigning for colonial unity He signed the Declaration of Independence‚ the Treaty of Paris‚ which ended the Revolutionary
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A Full Vindication of the measures of Congress "A full vindication of measures of Congress" is one of Alexander Hamilton’s first published letters‚ in response to the letter of " A Westchester Farmer"‚ which accuses the actions of the first Continental Congress. Hamilton starts the letter with defending decisions and actions of the Congress‚ and disproving the "Farmer’s" accusations by logically and precisely responding to his main points‚ with facts and examples. Then‚ he proves how the Congress
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Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 Born in Boston Benjamin Franklin was one of seventeen children born to the parents of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger. His father wanted Benjamin to go to school to become a clergyman‚ but he only had enough to send him to school for one year. Clergymen needed years of school. Benjamin ended up being apprenticed to his brother James. James was a printer and Benjamin helped him. When Benjamin was fifteen his brother started the New England Courant. It was
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Fitzgerald and the movie who was screen played by Eric Roth‚ The curious Case of Benjamin Button tells a story of a gentleman who happened to be born under unusual circumstances. “Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” This is a quote from Mark Twain that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write his short story‚ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 1922. The adaption of literature into film was made in 2008‚ filmed and directed
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individual. For example if an Extrovert individual is revising for an exam and suddenly gets distracted‚ they are most likely to stop revising and become more involved with the surroundings around them then after‚ if they did not achieve the grade they was expected then they would become very self-critical but also exaggerate and blame certain individual that distracted them from revising in the past tense. This behaviour is normally assisted with Aggregation‚ Frustration‚ Stubbornness and Violates (Violates
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He was one of the most influential Greek astronomers and geographers of all time. He was known as Ptolemy. In this biography you will learn what he has overcome and achieved in his lifetime. You will find out what his story is and how he dealt with all of it. He has created a twist in our lifestyle and you will find out how by reading on. Ptolemy was born about 90 AD‚ at Alexandria Egypt. He had his whole life ahead of him‚ but there was one thing‚ he had no idea who his family was. Nobody really
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6 May 2011 Benjamin Franklin’s Influence in 18th Century America Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 6th‚ 1706. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America‚ and was also well known for his writings and inventions. R. V. Jones states that Benjamin Franklin was “the oldest man to sign the Declaration of Independence” he also goes on to say that Franklin “had done more than anyone else to keep America within the British Empire; and now he was to play a key part
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No. Books Authors 01 My experiments with Truth Mahatma M.K.Gandhi 02 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 03 Geetanjali Rabindra Nath Tagore 04 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Alexander Solzhenitsyn 05 The Merchant of venice William shakespeare 06 The Moon and Six pense Somerset Maughan 07 Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come John Bunyan 08 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 09 Utopia Sir Thomas Moor 10 Origin of species charles Darwin
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Essay In 1791‚ astronomer‚ mathematician‚ and author‚ Benjamin Banneker‚ in his letter addressed to Thomas Jefferson argues about slavery. Banneker’s purpose was to persuade Jefferson of the injustice of slavery and alter his view on it. Banneker adopts a formal yet condemning tone in order to appeal to Jefferson’s sense of moral character. He also uses several rhetorical techniques such as tone‚ diction‚ ethos‚ and pathos to make his position of the given subject clear. Banneker begins his letter
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