go to live with your critical grandmother. Only two years later‚ your affectionate dad dies. At the age of 15‚ your grandmother sends you away to boarding school in England. Three years later‚ you return back to New York. Marry your distant cousin‚ have many children together and then he cheats on you. You decide to stay married though. Facing these adversities can either make or break you. Hate to say it‚ but most of the time it breaks people. There is one certain individual who went through all
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Although Franz Liszt lived and died many years ago‚ his legacy continues to impact the world. Many people have heard this pianist and composer’s work‚ but don’t even know it. Perhaps‚ his most widely heard piece is Bavarian Rhapsody #2‚ which is featured in many cartoons and watched by millions of people all over the world. However‚ he was and continues to be one of history’s greatest and most original piano virtuosos. Liszt was born in Raiding‚ Hungary (now Austria) on October 22‚ 1811. His
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I’m sitting on a bench in Christopher Columbus Park. The wooden planks at my back are faded from a combination of sun and sea-breeze‚ and under my fingers are lover’s carvings. Names‚ initials‚ crooked hearts‚ equations that end in forever. The last time I was here‚ I was eighteen. Maybe back then‚ I would have seen the beauty in it all. Right now‚ I pass my fingers over the gouges in the wood and hope I don’t get a splinter. I sigh softly‚ leaning forward and hanging my head. One hand dangles
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Kyle Jakubeck 8/18/14 AP US History Dr. Dohle American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World Who was Christopher Columbus? Every educated person knows‚ he discovered America. Well according to history textbooks distributed at schools at least. Actually‚ America had been discovered by Native Americans thousands of years before. As a result of European colonization in the Americas after Columbus supposedly “founded America‚” we lost the incredible variety of cultures and the impressive
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Italy. Christopher Columbus first went to sea when he was a teenager.He usually participated in small voyages which happen in Mediterranean and Aegean seas which were a calm and relaxing place with a really good weather. His first big voyage happened in 1492.He started from the city of Granada at twelfth may 1492. He and his crew member proceed to find the new landmass for expansion for his king empire. For first few weeks the voyage was smooth‚ but in the month of August‚ Christopher Columbus faces
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forebears and our own parents and grandparents did for us or it’s going to slip away…if you don’t care about it‚ don’t know what it is‚ don’t know what it’s worth‚ and aren’t interested in it‚ you’re going to lose it.” –David McCullough I believe that in his quote‚ McCullough covered almost everything that history is: He said that it is all about interpretation. He told us that we are the ones that have influence on the future‚ because we created the past. He also basically said that we study history
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mention that Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest physicists ever and besides he born on the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo; the first person to study the sky with a telescope (McDaniel‚ 21). Hawking was involved in the rowing team at Oxford and it changed him; he was no longer a awkward‚ lonely genius. Hawking achieved many things in his lifetime which positively impacted America and physicists throughout the world. Stephen Hawking impacted American society through the discovery of black
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influential thinkers that we’ve had‚ his thinking still affects us today. He’s impacted the world in some many ways. When we bounce a ball we expect it to go down then come back up. When we jump up we realize were fighting the gravity pulling us down. When were in math class we realize because of him our lives are miserable. When we see an apple falling from a tree we remember the myth that gave him the idea of gravity. He developed the principles in physics‚ gravity and calculus we still use today. In Lincolnshire
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Hannah Shumaker Miss Mueller English I March 21‚ 2013 William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered one of English’s best writers and he impacted the world (Merriman). He’s also praised for his great works (Merriman). Shakespeare combined and contorted roots of Latin and French (“William Shakespeare”). He created thousands of everyday words that way (“William Shakespeare”). Some words are watchdog‚ stillborn‚ schoolboy‚ radiance‚ leapfrog‚ hunchbacked‚ downstairs‚ dewdrop‚ courtship
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3.Spain looked west to find the Indies because in the fifteenth century‚ there was a theory that the world was flat. Spain sought out a westward passage to the Indies to potentially save time and money because the route to the Indies was extremely long. Portugal alsop controlled the African coast at the time of their voyage.
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