As the lines of Scottish and English infantry clashed right over the Bannock Burn stream‚ Scottish king Sir Robert the Bruce was sighted by the English warrior and noble‚ Henry de Bohun. Sir Bohun charged the Scottish king‚ lance pointed down and steel helmet blending into the thick fog. What happened next would go down in history as one of the greatest battles for independence ever fought. The Battle of Bannockburn‚ which was a key cause for Scottish independence in the years to follow‚ is now the
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The person I’m doing my essay on is Marilyn Monroe. Her full name was actually Norma Jeane Mortenson‚ and she was born on June 1‚ 1926‚ in Los Angeles‚ California. She died on August 5‚ 1962‚ at the age of 36. She was a famous actress‚ model‚ and a little bit of a singer. I chose to do this essay on her because I had already new some information about her‚ but I just wanted to learn some more information about her job and her life. Marilyn Monroe grew up with a half sister Bernice Baker Miracle
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In the 1910s‚ Theda Bara became the first Hollywood sex symbol in the silent film era‚ both a product of her on screen roles and the printed press. She revolutionized sexual film content through her character’s persona and attitude. Although she is a significant film star and made more than 40 silent films‚ she is forgotten because about 90% of her films were destroyed in a fire. While few of her films survive today‚ her public image and career as playing as a vampire and Cleopatra helped to develop
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Throughout the years of healthcare in the United States many things have changed. In this paper I will be discussing the research I found on important figures in this profession and how they helped shaped healthcare into what it is today. Let’s first get started with Americas first doctor who was a woman by the name of Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth was born in Bristol England on February 3‚ 1821. She came to America with her family in 1832 around the age of 12. Blackwell’s reasoning for pursuing
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Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey is a renowned American actress‚ comedian‚ writer‚ and producer. She was born on May 18th‚ 1970 in Upper Darby‚ Pennsylvania. Fey graduated from the University of Virginia in 1992 and proceeded to move to Chicago in order to take improvisational classes. Her career began to take off when she repeatedly submitted scripts to NBC’s sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) until 1997‚ when she was interviewed and hired as a writer for the show. After writing various
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Loving sports my whole life and having an Uncle that played Division 1 baseball‚ I often heard stories and learned about great athletes such as Ty Cobb‚ and other famous athletes such as Michael Jordan‚ Babe Ruth‚ Jackie Robinson they all amazed me as a kid and I looked up to them and wanted to acquire the same status in sports as they did. Often you don’t here the stories behind the athlete’s lives how they grew up‚ what they had to overcome‚ or the problems they never really got over. It interests
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Neal Stephen Rara Mrs. Loza English 12A: Period 4 18 December 2012 Personal Statement Ever since I was 5 years old‚ I have always been interested in two careers and that I’ve wanted to pursue. The first career I wanted to do is nursing because since I was young my parents made me interested in the medical field; I wanted to do nursing because I like helping people who are injured. People who are nurses in my family are my mom and dad; I like this career maybe because helping people is in my
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It is almost daunting to start such a journey. I have had such a tremendous adventure with the topic of this paper‚ which continues to unfold and expand. I do believe that it will continue to unfold as I write it. Freud is proving to be one of those authors where at the surface his work presents itself in bold letters‚ leaving me the feeling that I can get what he is saying by reading the titles. Yet the deeper I go the deeper Freud goes. He has writing in-between the lines and then in-between those
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Royal Mail was established by King Charles the first in 1635 as a way for the public to cover his own cost of mail. Over the next 370 years‚ Royal Mail has provide the UK public with its postal services‚ while at the same time providing innovations in the ways of postal delivery that will help shape the way we communicate. With the ever evolving world of technology and the digital medium‚ Royal Mail‚ over the past decade and a half‚ have had to adapt to these new forms of communication by increasing
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Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood is a world-renowned actor and director born on May 31‚ 1930‚ in San Francisco‚ California. His parents were Margaret Ruth and Clint Eastwood Sr. Margaret was a factory worker while Eastwood Sr. was a steelworker. While he did attend Las Angeles City College‚ he ended up dropping out to pursue a career in acting. Prior to attending Las Angeles City College he graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1948. In 1950‚ Eastwood got called into military service
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