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    For my fifty birthdays‚ I’m thinking of throwing a great party in honor of that I lived a magnificent life full of health. I’m inviting all my close friends and family members to come delight with me that special day. Among my guests are Thomas Jefferson‚ Dalai Lama‚ C.S. Lewis‚ Gretchen Rubin‚ and Stu Horsfield since‚ they are very great friends of mine. Thomas Jefferson the director of the Declaration independence in 1776. Jefferson wanted power that’s why on the 4th of July the congress passed

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    Joseph Stalin

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    childhood was harsh with a drunken cobbler father‚ who beat both mother and child‚ and in school was bullied as a child‚ Joseph Stalin grew up to be a bully himself” (Klehr). These events in Stalin’s childhood dramatically influenced the later events as an adult. Joseph Stalin had caused social injustice in Russia through two wars‚ during the Great Purge‚ and in the Russian government. Joseph Stalin used social injustice during World War II and during the Cold War. During World War II‚ Stalin killed many

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    Write about how Priestley presents some of the contrasts in the Play ‘An Inspector Calls’ The play ‘An Inspector Calls’ by JB Priestley has many aspects of contrast in it. The aspects of contrast in this play is the differences between the classes with Edna‚ Eva and the inspector being of a lower class to the rest of the cast‚ also the contrast of Gender plays a big role in this play with females being treated differently to Males. The Birlings and Gerald Croft are both of a higher class with Edna

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    If I Could Have Dinner

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    If I could have dinner with five people dead or alive I’d want to have dinner with J.K. Rowling‚ Daniel Radcliffe‚ Marie Antoinette‚ Oprah‚ and God. My reason for these choices are that these individuals each have a story that had some sort of impact in the world whether it be creation or imagination. Regardless of how much time goes by they will still be remembered as a part of what made the generations the way they were. The first person I’d want to have dinner with would be J.K. Rowling this

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    chose to set the play thirty years in the past before either wars had happened- in 1912. Priestly was a renowned socialist and highly respected in his time- with his own radio show which around twenty million tuned into each week. Unfortunately‚ Priestley was seen as too popular- for the conservative government at the time- and taken off air for fear that communities would listen to his left wing ideas more then the prime minister‚ Winston Churchill. Priestley’s ideas of socialism and morality are

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    Joseph Brant

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    Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and his Indian name was Thayendanegea. Thayendanegea meaning he who places two bets. Joseph’s father was a sachem of the Iroquois Confederacy‚ which was to where the Mohawks belonged. Whereas Brant’s mother was not a Mohawk like his father. Brant did become a war chief but never rose to the rank of sachem. His parents were said to live at the Canajoharie castle in New York. Even though his family would have been a consideration and he was the grandson of one of the

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    Joseph Conrad grew up in the Polish Ukraine‚ Polish Ukraine is a huge‚ fertile plain between the counties of Poland and Russia. Polish Ukrainewas a divided nation‚ that held four languages‚ four religions‚ and various of different social classes. Many of the families inethis area were Polish-speaking inhabitants‚ including Conrad ’s family. They belonged to the szlachta‚ a hereditary class in the aristocracy on the social hierarchy‚ combining qualities of gentry and nobility. Despite the areas poor

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    Joseph Conrad: An Innovator in British Literature Joseph Conrad ’s innovative literature is influenced by his experiences in traveling to foreign countries around the world. Conrad ’s literature consists of the various styles of techniques he uses to display his well-recognized work as British literature. "His prose style‚ varying from eloquently sensuous to bare and astringent‚ keeps the reader in constant touch with a mature‚ truth-seeking‚ creative mind" (Hutchinson 1). Conrad ’s novels

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    Jazmin Aguilar 1st 3/14/2013 Senator Joseph McCarthy Notes 1. McCarthy was a Wisconsin farm boy that didn’t graduate high school until 21. 2. McCarthy was one of the youngest senator’s in history. 3. He was the most feared politician in that time. 4. American’s worried about communist operating in their government. 5. McCarthy charges Dorothy‚ an old women‚ of being a communist. 6. The community of republicans supported McCarthy. 7. McCarthy attacked anyone who went

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    Joseph Stalin dominated the soviet scene to a degree unequaled in the United States by Truman or even Roosevelt. Stalin was born in the Russian empire’s southern province of Georgia in 1879. He began studying for the priesthood but was thrown out of seminary for revolutionary activity and some believe because of laziness. After the 1917 Bolshevik revolution he climbed to prominence in the new ruling communist party thanks to his administrative skills and adroit political maneuvering and building

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