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- 231: Airika
- ... Virginia. The demands of European consumers for New World crops and goods helped fuel the slave trade. A strong family and community life helped sustain African Americans in slavery. People often chose their own partners, lived under the same roof, raised children together, and protected each other. Brutal treatment at the hands of slaveholders, however, threatened black family life. Enslaved women experienced sexual exploitation at the hands of slaveholders and overseers. Bondspeople lived with the constant fear of being sold away from their loved ones, with no chance of reunion. Historians estimate that most bondspeople were sold at least once in their lives. No event was more traumatic ... allowed these emancipations to legally take place. Although the Federal Government outlawed the overseas slave trade in 1808, the southern enslaved African American population continued to grow. By 1860 some 4 million enslaved African Americans lived throughout the South. Only Southern states believed slavery to be a major, and essential, economic factor. Whether on a small farm or a large plantation, most enslaved people were agricultural laborers. They worked literally ...
- 232: Jackie Kennedy Onasis
- ... born it was happily noted that Jackie looked like Jack Bouvier. (Birmingham) Though Janet Lee’s family was well off, they were not members of the esteemed highest social caste as were the Bouviers. Janet lived her life with a constant sense of unease because of this difference in lineage.(Birmingham) Because Black Jack was known for having erratic financial history, James Lee, Janet’s father, offered to allow Janet and ... hard working man but his family had an equally high social standing as the Bouviers. Auchincloss’s fortune was also greater than the Bouviers. Hugh owned a large estate, Merrywood, in Virginia. At Merrywood he lived with Janet, his three children, Jackie and Lee, and soon the two children that Janet and he would have together, (Lowe) Jackie did not live in Merrywood for long, she soon went away to Miss ... October 20th 1968, Jackie married Aristotle Onassis on the Greek island Scorpios. Aristotle was not only her sister’s ex boyfriend, but he was also the richest man in the world. Their relationship was short lived. The couple had different tastes and their relationship had been condemned from the beginning. In march 1975, Aristotle was planning on divorcing Jackie, before he could do so he died. After his death, Jackie ...
- 233: Newfoundland
- ... first look back to the example of Catherine Snow. Catherine Snow had the distinction of being the last woman hanged in Newfoundland, out of the 2nd story of the old courthouse in 1834. She had lived common law and then married an abusive planter, John Snow, in Port au Grave. When her husband was murdered, she was implicated along with her cousin Tobias Mandeville, with whom she was having an affair ... after Grade 11. She began teaching in St. Mary's Anglican School in the West End of St. John's in 1933, but resigned when she married in 1935. For the next ten years, Dora lived in various rural communities with her husband, who was a magistrate. In 1945, Dora Russell became the first woman's editor of The Evening Telegram newspaper in St. John's. During her four years with ... and spruce stood upright, row on row, but their branches had been stripped bare and their trunks were as smooth and naked as bones. This was death’s kingdom. This was a dangerous place. Nothing lived here. “ Agnes Marion Ayre had a lifelong interest in botany, and in 1935 published Wild Flowers of Newfoundland, Part III. This book was the only volume of a planned series of five to ...
- 234: Real Ghosts - What Are Ghosts
- ... a hoax, but other stories leave puzzling questions... Do spirits really haunt old houses? Can a human be transported back into the past? Are ghosts real? Return from the dead? A man named john thorne lived near an old haunted house. In 1958 he had an odd experience... He woke up in the middle of the night to find a strange woman in his bedroom. It was dark, but he could ... don't want to talk about it anymore. Here is what we do know. The case began early in 1949. The possessed subject was a fourteen year old boy who was called douglas deen. He lived with his family in a suburb of washington d. C. The first thing the family noticed was strange noises coming from the boy's room. They suspected mice. Exterminators were called in but found nothing ... or spirits haunting crumbling castles or ancients houses. This ghost began causing trouble in a modern ranch house. The house was located in the very ordinary suburban community of seaford, long island. In the house lived mr. And mrs. James hermann and their two children. The children were a girl lucille, thirteen, and a boy jimmy, twelve. Most of the disturbances seemed to centre around the boy. When he was ...
- 235: Zinn's A People's History Of The United States Of America
- ... Zinn correctly credits as being the root of many of the problems that we as a nation have today. It is refreshing to see a book that spends space based proportionately around the people that lived this history. When Columbus arrived on the Island of Haiti, there were 39 men on board his ships compared to the 250,000 Indians on Haiti. If the white race accounts for less than two ... come not from the slaves but from the proletariat in the form of the frontier whites. Nathaniel Bacon led a revolution against Virginia governor William Berkeley and his conciliatory Indian policies. Bacon and others who lived on the western frontier wanted more protection from the government against Indian attacks. Berkeley and his cronies were so concerned with their own financial and political gain that they ignored Bacon's Rebellion and continued ... the side of the peoples that seldom get represented. Columbus's treatment of the Native Americans was atrocious, abominable, and abhorrent, yet most history texts treat him as one the greatest men to have ever lived. If your value as a human being is measured by the number of lives you ruin, people you kill, and civilizations you destroy, then Columbus is on part with Joseph Stalin. This example may ...
- 236: Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... bodies. In 1803 Gauss had met Johanna Osthoff, the daughter of a tannery owner in Braunschweig. She was born in 1780 and was an only child. They were married on October 9, 1805. They were lived on in Braunschweig for a time, in the house which Gauss had occupied as a bachelor. On August 21, 1806, his first son Joseph was born. He received his name after Peazzi, the discoverer of ... were born in the new marriage, Eugene on July 29, 1811, Wilhelm on October 23, 1813, and Therese on June 9, 1816. In 1816 Gauss and his family moved into the west wing, while Harding lived in the east. During the following years, Gauss and Harding installed the astronomical instruments. New ones were ordered in Munich. Among other times, Gauss visited Munich in 1816. After the intense sorrow of Johanna's death had been mollified in his second marriage, Gauss lived an ordinary academic life which was hardly disturbed by the violent events of the time. His powers and his productivity were unimpaired, and he continued with a work program which in a short time ...
- 237: Martin Luther King Jr And Malcolm X
- ... cocaine and set up a burglary ring to support his expensive habit. Malcolm X's hostility and promotion of violence as a way of getting change was well established in his childhood. Martin Luther King lived in an entirely different environment. He was a smart student and skipped two grades before entering an ivy league college at only the age of 15. He was the class valedictorian with an A average ... Malcolm X's life was known to many as a nightmare because he was abused and haunted by both blacks and whites. Malcolm X blamed many of the conditions that blacks in the United States lived in on the whites. He also talked about how the white man still sees the black man as a slave. Martin Luther King appeared to many as calm and idealistic. Many say his calmness came ... in Malcolm X and Martin Luther King's backgrounds had a direct influence on their later viewpoints. As a black youth, Malcolm X was rebellious and angry. He blamed the poor social conditions that blacks lived in on the whites. "His past ghetto life prepared him to reject non-violence and integration and to accept a strong separatist philosophy as the basis for black survival," (Internet, Malcolm X anniversary). He ...
- 238: Saint Francis Of Assisi
- ... through. This persuaded him not only to mourn for Christ, but to take it one step further. Francis wanted to be a martyr. He wanted to follow in the footsteps of Christ. Francis perhaps best lived out the fourth beatitude: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. "Francis repaired to the church of St. Nicholas and sought to learn God's will" (Robinson). He ... Heaven'" (Robinson). From that point on, the only thing that occupied Francis' heart was doing God's will. Francis is described as having "downright sincerity and artless simplicity. ... His dearest desire so long as he lived was ever to seek among wise and simple, perfect and imperfect, the means to walk in the way of truth. The whole world was to him one luminous ladder, mounting upon the rungs of which ... drove in his ass upon them" (Robinson). Perhaps the most severe suffering came at the end of his life. He suffered the stigmata of Christ, and went almost totally blind. His last few years were lived out in pain. Though plagued with abuse and misfortune, Francis continued to follow the will of God and let nothing stand in his way. Saint Francis of Assisi was a good man who devoted ...
- 239: Jungle Book
- ... book are written about animals. The animals have to prove things to other animals, and their struggles and victories make up the stories. Stories of Mowgli This collection of stories is about a boy that lived in the jungle. Mowgli was raised by wolves after his family was frightened away by a tiger named Shere Khan. Shere Khan wanted to eat the boy but the wolves would not let him. Mowgli ... there for the rest of their days. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’ This story is about a mongoose that is raised by a small family of three. The family thought that they were relatively safe. The family lived in a jungle in a little hut. Many different types of animals lived in the garden. The family did not know, however, that one of these groups of animals consisted of two Cobras. These Cobras were thinking of killing the family. They thought that if they killed ...
- 240: The Most Heroic Character In I
- ... but one Mirbal Sisters have prepared to sacrifice. But there is one, the only exception, the only unsung heroine among the four, the one who was trained to be the traditional housekeeper, the one who lived unwillingly after all three sisters are gone, and her name is Dede. There is one common Chinese saying: one's lifetime character is determined by the age of three, after that, it is much easier ... same but already born with courage. Thirty- four years of sleepless nights, a hundred and thirty-six seasons of loneliness can break anyone but not Dede. With all that have happened, Dede has survived, but lived as a corpse. Interminable sadness has consumed Dede spiritually, bearing the loss of her sisters, she can barely breath with the massive bars on her shoulders, yet she survives. Raising the children and preserving the ... but will the people in the circumstance where they determine the remainder is always "mortally afraid of death" . Will they believe that she has sell all her sisters for a happy life or she has lived painfully and willingly only to pass the message? She has picked the wrong path apparently, if she dies with the other Mirabal sisters, she does not have to raise the kids with painstaking efforts. ...
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