In his biography‚ Olaudah Equiano writes that he was born in Nigeria at the age of 11‚ he was kidnapped. Some days later he was sold to European slave traders‚ with other slaves he was put or packed into a ship and transferred across the ocean to Barbados islands. Many years later Equiano wrote a biography about the treatment of slaves in Virginia. His descriptions of the punishments and humiliations that slaves had to endure were the first published account of an autobiography of an African slave
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Aryabhatta is a renowned mathematician and astronomer of ancient India. He was born in 476 AD in Kerala. He studied at the University of Nalanda. One of his major work was Aryabhatiya written in 499 AD. The book dealt with many topics like astronomy‚ spherical trigonometry‚ arithmetic‚ algebra and plane trigonometry. He jotted his inventions in mathematics and astronomy in verse form. The book was translated into Latin in the 13th century. Through the translated Latin version of the Aryabhattiya
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Edward Hastings Chamberlin (May 18‚ 1899 – July 16‚ 1967) was an American economist. He was born in La Conner‚ Washington‚ and died in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. Chamberlin studied first at the University of Iowa (where he was influenced by Frank H. Knight)‚ then pursued graduate-level studies at the University of Michigan‚ eventually receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1927. For most of his career Edward Chamberlin taught economics at Harvard (1937–1967). He made significant contributions
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Wedding Dance: As the story opens the man is telling his beloved wife he is sorry this has to happen‚ he is sorry he must take another wife as she has proved barren (leaving aside medical fact it might be him). He offers her part of their land but she refuses. He tells her she should go to the wedding dance for his new marriage to show she is accepting of what is happening. She refuses all but some beads he gave her. She is still the most attractive woman in the community‚ the best homemaker
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Michelangelo Buonarrati Alex Moir/3-15-00 Per.3/Mr. Mikulec The typical stereotype of artists of the past‚ is a lonely‚ tormented outsider‚ who creates his art through his pain and anguish. Well Michelangelo was just that. In fact the stereotype is modeled after him. He was an unsociable loner who didn’t have many friends‚ lovers‚ or even assistants to help him. His temper and rudeness drove others away from him and kept him lonely. However‚ even though he was not the most likeable or
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Biography is concerned with the pattern of action woven by a human character. It is concerned with creating not simply recording. The writing of biography is not a cut-and-dried affair‚ the assemblage of known facts in a chronological order. Much of the work of the biographer consists in unearthing and collecting the facts. But after the facts have been assembled and classified‚ the business of interpretation remains. The biographer must put the facts with which he deals into some sort of pattern
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Biography of Noynoy Aquino Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino III (born February 8‚ 1960) is a Senator of the Philippines and a candidate for President of the Philippines in the 2010 election‚ as the standard-bearer of the Liberal Party. He is the only son of former President Corazon Aquino and former Senator Benigno Aquino‚ Jr. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University‚ he was seriously wounded by rebel soldiers in a failed coup attempt during his mother’s presidency. In 1989‚ he was elected
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(Henry Heimlich Biography). Used widely by the military during the Vietnam War‚ the device allowed soldiers who were shot in the chest a good chance to Henry 3 survive for the first time in history. (Henry Heimlich Biography). More than four million Heimlich Chest Drain valves have been sold since that time. (Henry Heimlich Biography). In the early 1970’s‚ after learning that nearly 4‚000 Americans die each year from choking
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The speech that I decided to do is John F. Kennedy’s Address to the Houston Ministerial Association. I will be using both external and internal criticism. With the external criticism I will be examining the time‚ the occasion‚ how the audience reacted‚ John F Kennedy’s biographical factors and the effects of the speech. John F Kennedy came from a strong political family‚ was well educated‚ defended his country in WW II and received rewards for his courage and bravery‚ and along with his political
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“President Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino” María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino (January 25‚ 1933 – August 1‚ 2009) was a Philippine politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines‚ the first woman to hold that office‚ and the first female president in Asia‚ though not the first female Asian head of state. Aquino was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution‚ which toppled the 20-yearauthoritarian rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy to
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