Mendoza‚ Alianne Gayle L. BSA 1-13 BIOGRAPHY OF THE PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTS Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (Term: January 23‚1899-April 1‚ 1901) Emilio Aguinaldo was born on March 23‚ 1869 in Cavite Viejo (Kawit) to Carlos Aguinaldo and Trinidad Famy‚ a Chinese mestizo couple who had eight children‚ the seventh of whom was Emilio. The Aguinaldo family was quite well-to-do‚ as Carlos Aguinaldo was the communities appointed gobernadorcillo. Emilio became the Cabeza de Barangay of Binakayan‚ a
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Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels‚ spanning the Southern Gothic‚ Western‚ and Post-apocalyptic genres. He won the Pulitzer Prize and placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time‚ alongside Don DeLillo‚ Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth‚ and called Blood Meridian "the greatest
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Dr. Nathan Hare Dr. Nathan Hare is often called "the Father of black studies." On February 1‚ 1968‚ he was hired at San Francisco State‚ as the first coordinator of a black studies program in the United States‚ to write a proposal for the first department of black studies. Then two semesters later he was fired in the face of his refusal to help the notoriously hard- line college president S. I. Hayakawa break a five-months strike by a campus-wide multiracial coalition of thousands of
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50 Cent (born Curtis James Jackson on July 6‚ 1975[1] in Queens‚ New York) is a popular African-American rapper‚ also known as Fitty or Fifty‚ who rose to fame following the success of his 2003 debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin’. Biography Once almost unknown outside his hometown of Southside Jamaica‚ Queens‚ 50 Cent is currently one of the most well-known and commercially successful rappers of the decade. Because the success of an artist in gangsta rap often depends on street credibility and
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Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born in Honolulu‚ Hawaii on August 4‚ 1961. His parents names are Ann Dunham and Barack Obama. After his parents divorced in 1971‚ his dad moved to KeEnya‚ and Barack moved to Hawaii with his grandparents.While Barack was in Hawaii with his grandparents‚ his mother and baby sister would live some place else until later they would join him in Hawaii. Barack attended Pohaho school‚ an elite private school. Obama was notn’t raised in a religious family he said “ I was
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Print 2. Berne‚ Emma Carlson. Christopher Columbus: The Voyage that Changed the World. New York: Sterling Publishing‚ 2008. Print 3. Bergreen‚ Laurence. Columbus: The Four Voyages. New York: Viking Press‚ 2011. Print 4. Christopher‚ Peter and Dyson‚ John. Columbus: For Gold God and Glory. New York: Simon and Schuster/Madison Press‚ 1991. Print 5. Granzotto‚ Gianni. Christopher Columbus: The Dream and the Obsession. New York: Doubleday and Company‚ 1985. Print
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Awards and Logie Awards. Winton has written a number of children’s books; his award-winning ’Lockie Leonard’ series (published between 1990 and 1997) was adapted for television in 2007 asLockie Leonard. Other adaptations of Winton’s works include John Ruane’s film of That Eye‚ the Sky in 1994 and James Bogle’s film of In the Winter Dark in 1998. Winton has continued to draw international readerships and awards. His novels have been published in England and the United States of America‚ translated
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recognised in the whole of Canada and the United States for her great effort. Hannah has been around Canada and the United States to speak in lots of different places. She has been to Vancouver‚ Edminton‚ Thompsan‚ Calgary‚ Victoria‚ Toronto and St Johns. She has also travelled to Massachusetts‚ the District of Columbia‚ Tennessee‚ Los Angeles and San Francisco. During the time that Hannah has travelled to the places she went to go and talk to people about the Ladybug Foundation. Hannah has been in
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Beloved Alberta Banner Turner Liberty University Abstract Alberta Banner Turner was the first woman to earn a doctoral degree from Ohio State University. She was also the first in her family to complete high school and college. Dr. Turner had a significant love for the equal rights of African Americans. From a very young age‚ Dr. Turner advocated equal rights for all until the time that she died. She was also apart of many Civil Rights groups. She was the head of various considerable home economic
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Gangster Essay John Dillinger was one of the best ghost like get away bank robbers of his era if not the best. He had police looking for him on every corner throughout the day and still was notorious to them and will go down as the most successful bank robber in history. John Dillinger was born on June‚ 22nd 1904 in Indianapolis he was the youngest of two children. His father was John Wilson Dillinger and his mother was Mary Ellen Lancaster. Johns mother died while he was still
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