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Biography
nk Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Centre, Wisconsin on June 8, 1867. His parents, William Cary Wright and Anna Lloyd-Jones, originally named him Frank Lincoln Wright, which he later changed after they divorced. When he was twelve years old, Wright\'s family settled in Madison, Wisconsin where he attended Madison High School. During summers spent on his Uncle James Lloyd Jones\' farm in Spring Green, Wisconsin, Wright first began ...
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Letter 1
R. Walton writes to his sister about his expedition in Russia. He\'s going to Archangel from where he\'ll hire a boat and some whale catchers. He doesn\'t regret himself beginning this whole thing six years ago.
Letter 2
Walton complains that he hasn\'t got a friend, and he\'d like one. He then writes about a Lieutnant he hired; he\'s a gentleman. Walton promisses to his sister that he won\'t do any BS and he hopes that they\'ll s ...
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. What was reconstruction?
The name "Reconstruction" was given the period after the civil war. It's also called "Tragic Era".
There where high damages in the southern states raised by the warfare. Politicians organised elections and set up new state governments. Black men were now allowed to vote, but the white Southerners disliked this. Soon, black politicians were elected in state and local government. But most of the Blacks were poor and had ...
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Elisabeth, die letzte englische Herrscherin aus dem Hause Tudor, wurde am 7. September 1533 in London als Tochter König Heinrichs VIII. von England und seiner zweiten Gemahlin Anne Boleyn geboren. 1536 hatte ihr Vater Heinrich durch einen Parlamentsbeschluss seine Ehe mit Anne Boleyn für ungültig erklären lassen, um seine dritte Frau, Jane Seymour, ehelichen zu können. Mit Zustimmung des Parlaments setzte er seinen Sohn aus der Ehe mit Jane Seymo ...
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Elisabeths dominierende Rolle in einem Zeitalter, das sogar mit ihrem Namen belegt wurde, gründet teilweise auf dem allumfassenden Nationalgeist, den sie zu verbreiten verstand und der während der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts ganz England erfasste. Elisabeth gelang es, das Vertrauen des Volkes in die Monarchie und eine starke Krongewalt wieder herzustellen. Nach der Überwindung der konfessionellen Spaltung im Land und der Beendigung des Kr ...
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Unter Elisabeths Führung wuchs England zu einer bedeutenden Seemacht heran, die legendäre Seehelden wie Sir Francis Drake und Sir John Hawkins hervorbrachte.
Drake und Hawkins begründeten in den 1560er mit 3 Expeditionen, mit denen sie in den Handel mit Sklaven aus Afrika in Mittelamerika einzusteigen versuchten, den großen Ringhandel zwischen Europa, Afrika und Amerika mit. Über zehn Millionen umgekommene Schwarze gehen zu Lasten britischer Skl ...
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Ein sehr delikates politisches Problem war für Elisabeth ihre katholische Cousine Maria Stuart, Königin von Schottland, die nach ihrer Niederlage gegen ihren Halbbruder James Stuart, Earl von Moray, 1568 in England Zuflucht suchte.
Maria wurde am 8. Dezember 1542 in Linlithgow geboren und bereits wenige Tage später als Nachfolgerin ihres Vaters zur Königin erhoben. Sie wuchs in Frankreich auf und wurde 1558 mit dem französischen Thronfolger ver ...
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Maria Stuarts Hinrichtung hatte schwerwiegende Folgen. Bereits seit längerem hatte Elisabeth die Übergriffe englischer Freibeuter wie z. B. Francis Drake auf spanische Schiffe und spanischen Kolonialbesitz unterstützt, und sie ließ den Niederlanden in ihrem Freiheitskampf gegen Spanien Hilfe zukommen. Die Hinrichtung der Katholikin Maria lieferte nun dem ebenfalls katholischen spanischen König Philipp II., der sich im Übrigen nach dem Tod seiner ...
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Gegen Ende ihrer Regierungszeit schwand Elisabeths Popularität vor allem wegen ihrer unkontrollierten Ausgaben und dem zunehmenden Missbrauch ihrer königlichen Macht. Wirtschaft und Handel gingen infolge der Kriege nieder, und Elisabeths politische Führung zeigte zunehmend Schwächen - waren ihre späteren Berater doch bei weitem nicht so fähig wie ein William Cecil Burghley oder ein Walsingham. Einen bitteren Beigeschmack bekam die Endphase von El ...
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Prognoses of the future technical development
Nobody really can say in which direction our science goes. There are so many different subjects that can revolutionise the whole world.
Here are some examples of these future technologies:
Gene engineering:
The scientists think that they will have completely decoded the DNA (Desoxy Ribo Nuclein Acid) of humans in 50 years. After that we will be able to create a human with all the att ...
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Impulse Drive, Warp Drive and Dilithium Crystals
The impulse drive is powered by nuclear fusion. The problem here is that fusion turns only one percent of the available mass into energy. you can work out how much fuel would be required to do the following simple manoeuvre: start from rest, go to half the speed of light and then stop. It turns out that you need about 7000 times the mass of the ship in fuel just to do that.
The galaxy is about ...
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1869 (Young Gandhi):
. Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) born on 2nd October 1869. Normal family (not very rich, neither poor).
. Mother of Ghandi very religious Hindu.
. Gandhi not very good in school + didn't like it.
. Gandhi married at age of 13, bride = Kasturbai (chosen by parents)
. When Gandhi was 16 years old father died + wife 1st child, which died as well.
. Gandhi was sent to London to study law.
. After 3 years Gandhi return ...
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Index:
1. A Definition
2. Personal Experience
3. Film - Boys in the Hood
4. Literature - Shadow of the Dragon (Sherry Garland)
Outsiders (Sue Ellen Hinton)
The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
Common information about gangs
A gang is a group of people, especially Young people, who usually go around together and often deliberately cause trouble. They are connected in some way and \"hang\" around, e.g.: frightening people and breaki ...
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Author:
Ms. Sherry Garland has written several books, e.g. Song of the Buffalo Boy, The
Silent Storm and Lotus Seed.
The Shadow of the Dragon has been written in 1993. Ms. Garland lives now in
Houston, Texas.
Main Characters:
Danny Vo: is also called Anh-Hai or Duong by his family. Anh-Hai means second son. That is the traditional name for the first born son in a Vietnamese family.(lt is to deceive bad spirits who are said to steal ...
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Main characters:
Tre: He lives with his father, who wants to make a man of him. He does not want to
live a life like the other boys in the hood, he wants to learn something and to
have a good job, he is also trying to keep his rage.
Ricky: He is Doughboy\'s brother and he dreams of becoming a football star. He has
a girlfriend and they have a son. His mother loves him and believes in him
Doughboy: He is Ricky\'s brother, he was 7 year ...
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Author:
Robert Cormier began his writing career as a journalist. He lives in Leominster, Massachusetts in America.
Other books by Cormier: "I am the Cheese", "After the First Death"
Main Characters:
Jerry Renault: He is an honest and straightforward freshman at Trinity High school. He is the protagonist of the story.
The Vigils: They are a secret and forbidden student organization at Trinity. For this high school Mafia, public victim ...
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The author
Author:
"The Outsiders\" is not like other books, because when it was written S.E. Hinton was only sixteen. It was her first book and it has become a bestseller. She did not write about glory life; she told US the truth about her world, a truth of street battles and crimes. Now she lives in America where she was born, with her husband and her son.
Ponyboy Curtis: a 14-year-old boy who has lost his parents in a car accident, he liv ...
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Street gangs often arise when many different, poor, immigrant communities are thrown together in a densely populated area such as New York or LA. The graffiti which sometimes appears overnight is almost certainly the work of "taggers" - young gang members leaving their mark on a piece of territory.
Today gangs are larger, highly sophisticated, more violent, younger and have greater access to sophisticated weaponry. Children of all races, as yo ...
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Who is Bill Gates and what is so special about him?
Bill Gates is chairman and chairman executive officer of Microsoft, the biggest software company in the world. He owns approximately 30% of the company\'s stock and he is one of the richest men on earth.
1.His Childhood
William Henry Gates III. is the soll of William Henry Gates II., a well-known lawyer in Seattle and Mary Gates. He was born on the 28th of October 1955 in Seattle. ...
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Nick Carraway:
He is the main character and the narrator of this novel. Nick is a pretty, solid, young man who has graduated from Yale University. He`s honest, tolerant and understanding. Nick admires Gatsby and he`s the only person that understands him.
Jay Gatsby:
Nick`s neighbour, who has climbed the social ladder after the war. His problem is that he chose an illegal way t ...
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