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    Tecumseh Legacy

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    settlers (Sugden). He believed that the land was for all Native Americans‚ and fought to protect their lands (“Bio.com”). Even in his childhood‚ he was known as a great leader. He was passionate about his cause‚ and didn’t give up until he died. The legacy Tecumseh left behind is unmatched by almost any other Native American. Tecumseh was born around 1768 in western Ohio (“Bio.com”). He was disgusted by the brutality of the whites and tried to treat people they captured better (“Bio.com”). He led an

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    A Legacy of a Hero

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    The LEGACY of a HERO “lagi ninyong pakatandaan‚ na ang kadahilanan ng ating pagbuwis ng buhay ay upang makamit ang matagal na nating minimithing kalayaan mula sa paglustay at pagka-alipin.” Gat Andres Bonifacio Andres Bonifacio‚ known as the “Ama ng Katipunan”‚ had a rebirth with one of the famous indie actor‚ Alfred Vargas. Alfred Vargas portrayed Andres’ life in the film entitled “SUPREMO”. This film enables the Filipinos to realize how much pain Andres’ suffered and how

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    The Legacy of Healing

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    Dominic Liddell Mr. Siguake September 13‚ 2012 English 101 A Legacy Of Healing In this text by Keith Gilyard‚ “A Legacy of Healing: Words‚ African American‚ and Power‚” is a text that shows how African Americans and the names that we were called and given in back then [and now] are just a prime example of every race. Also it shows that when someone speaks or says something intimidating‚ it may give that person power but most of the time it’s just the word that does that to someone. The word

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    The Legacy of Xerxes

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    want to fall short of Darius’s ambition to punish them‚ he hoped to just frighten them but then intended to conquer them in battle since frightening the Greeks into submission did not work out. In Xerxes time as king he did a lot to remember his legacy‚ although descriptions of Xerxes are different on how how people remembered him as a king and leader. Xerxes himself describes his character as a legitimate ruler‚ just to all‚ able to control his temper‚ devoted to his father and the god of Ahuramazda

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    The Interesting Narrative of Equiano features a man who experienced several shifts in identity on his journey to freedom‚ as opposed to someone who worked to construct a specific identity. At the beginning of the narrative‚ Equiano presented the reader with his rendering of Africa—a portrayal of Africa often not in agreement with the Eurocentric view that several non-African native people share. He wiped away a misconstrued guise of primitive and inferior beliefs‚ describing the mannerisms of their

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    Augustine's Legacy

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    culture moved and shaped Augustine. As time passed‚ his lifestyle tore at his conscience until his conversion to Christianity. This newfound direction introduced light and purpose into his life which ultimately overflowed into the world around him. His legacy through his service and literary works impact today’s world‚ as well. Thus‚ Saint Augustine’s conversion and contributions to Christianity continue to impact the believers’

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    Legacy of Luna

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    BOOK REVIEW Legacy of Luna Julia Butterfly Hill Harper San Francisco April 1‚ 2000 The author Julia Butterfly Hill book is a personal reference of the adversity she overcame when faced with saving a part of nature‚ a part of what defines her‚ a piece of something she would never let go of. In this novel the author gives biographical evidence of not only her love of saving the redwood trees. The story begins in December of 1996‚ in the town of Stafford‚ California. There was

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    1. What is the goal of the author? The author goal in this piece of the Atlantic voyage was his story. It was memoir the life of Gustavus Vassa by Oloudah Equiano about his journey and what he experienced during his childhood and the pain and sorrow he felt at cargo ship. He touched how slaves were put to death and he expected to join the dead because he felt any hour or day it may be him. Finally he described when he reached Barbados every object was new to him house were built with bricks. He

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    Pythagoras Legacy

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    Approximately in 530‚ disagreeing with the tyrannos Polycartes government‚ he moved to the city of Kroton in Southern Italy. In this city‚ Phythagoras established a religious tarekat which became known as "The Phytagorean." One of Phytagoras’s famous legacy is the Pythagoras theorem‚ which states that the hypotenuse squared of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the legs (sides of the elbows). Although the facts in this theorem have been widely known before the birth of Pythagoras

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    The Banjo Legacy

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    Banjo Legacy Many say a picture is worth a thousand words. This holds to be true with the painting called The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner. This painting is an example of the 19th century realism. Realism is the tendency to see things as they really are.(realism) These ideas of realism and Tanner collide into the painting‚ The Banjo Lesson bringing forth a comprehensive visual analysis‚ and a historical view through race‚ gender‚ class‚ and events in 1893 that make this painting almost come

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