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Bruce Lee
Number of words: 183 - Number of pages: 1

.... style of fighting was Kung-Fu among many other styles that he practiced. From all of the things that I've read and seen about Lee, I think that he was the type of person that would never give up. He could get beat and come back for revenge, but there weren't many times that he was defeated. He was also a very inspiring person to many people. He taught that mental actions overcome physical ones, that people should only result to fighting when it was the last option, and that a person shouldn't determine the outcome of a fight before it starts because underestimation could lead to defeat. Bruce also .....


Evita Peron
Number of words: 1812 - Number of pages: 7

.... but everyone called her Evita. Her father abandoned the family shortly after her birth. Fifteen years of poverty followed and, in early 1935, the young Evita fled her stifling existence to go to Buenos Aires. Perhaps, as some have said, she fell in love with a tango singer who was passing through. She wanted to be an actress, and in the next few years supported herself with bit parts, photo sessions for titillating magazines and stints as an attractive judge of tango competitions. She began frequenting the offices of a movie magazine, talking herself up for .....


Hammurabis Code
Number of words: 946 - Number of pages: 4

.... consequences for breaking the laws, and they knew what they must due when accusing a criminal. (We know what we must do on Saturday to Woodstock, don’t we?) Hammurabi created a set of moral codes that was to be copied and used by other civilizations. The Codes of Law were broken into certain categories. These categories are not definitely known, but the majority of historians believe them to be: family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade and business. Many think the codes were too strict and the punishments too harsh. Hammurabi just believed tha .....


Twain
Number of words: 1402 - Number of pages: 6

.... so when his father died, around when he was 12. It was then that Clemens decided to leave his small river town and his ailing scholastic career, and head of by himself. Clemens soon become a printer's apprentice. Interesting enough, it was working around the printing press that helped push Clemens into publishing his first works. His earliest writings were skits for his brother Orion's Hannibal newspaper. A sketch, "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter," published in The Carpet Bag (Boston) in 1852, was his first published story of life on the Mississippi Rive .....


Elizabeth Blackwell
Number of words: 662 - Number of pages: 3

.... studied very hard. She read every book in her house and was the teacher's best pupil. She never got bored of learning or trying new things; and years later she became a medical student. All the young men teased her in her class, but she learned to deal with it.   For a long time the Blackwell's ran a sugar business. It was very successful, until one day the business started to loose money and they had to move to America; and there she would be able to go to a better school. So, on August 1832 they left to America on a ship. The trip was very h .....


Andrew Carnegie
Number of words: 1149 - Number of pages: 5

.... working for $1.20 a week. His father also worked there while his mother bound shoes at home, making a miniscule amount of money. Although the Carnegies lacked in money, they abounded in ideals and training for their children. At age 15, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in Pittsburgh. He learned to send and decipher telegraphic messages and became a telegraph operator at the age of 17. Carnegie’s next job was as a railroad clerk, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He worked his way up the ladder, through his dedication and honest desire to succee .....


Peter The Great 4
Number of words: 846 - Number of pages: 4

.... need to navigate a ship. Peter became very interested in nautical things. Peter soon left Russia and plundered Europe for knowledge, inventions, and great minds to bring back to Russia. His voyage ended in the rich and luxurious city of Amsterdam. Peter began to study Holland’s ships and navy, and hired ship builders to go home with him, and help him prepare a sea power. Peter, wanting to really learn how to build a ship, signed on as a carpenter to hide his true identity, because he wanted to work without that being a distraction. After 4 months, P .....


Mark Twain And His Writings
Number of words: 2786 - Number of pages: 11

.... characters and a hatred of hypocrisy and oppression (Lemaster). Because of his sharp views of society, he used humor and quick-witted satire to express his points. Mark Twain is essentially a satirical writer and a humorist. Twain as a writer, ridicules society in many aspects of American life through satire. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain uses the Grangerford and Sheperdson feud to criticize American culture and its’ inability to put past injustices behind and forgive one another. It serves as a major point in the story in which he co .....



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