.... true but who knows. Being a student at Shrewsbury I have had much success. I have been on the honor roll many times and a few months ago I was accepted to Bryant College. On the baseball field I have also received various honors and awards. I was captain of the baseball team in my junior and senior year and was named most valuable player in my junior year. Shrewsbury is not were I've always lived. I was born in Natick, lived there for a few months then moved to Framingham. I lived in Framingham for eleven years then moved to this town I never heard of, Shrewsbury. I have now lived here for seven years. I have two great pa .....

.... clearly a great man and a great president. He firmly and fairly guided the nation through its most perilous period and made a lasting impact in shaping the office of chief executive. Once regarded as the "Great Emancipator" for his forward strides in freeing the slaves, he was criticized a century later, when the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, for his caution in moving toward equal rights. If he is judged in the historical context, however, it can be seen that he was far in advance of most liberal opinion. His claim to greatness endures. The future president was born in the most modest of circumstances in a log cabin nea .....

.... his father’s work-aholic traits that drove him so hard later in life. Eliot was the youngest of the five Ness children. There was a huge age difference between Eliot and his siblings. His brother whom was closest to Eliot in age was none the less thirteen years older. Hence Eliot received a great deal of individual attention from his parents who were well into middle age when he was born. Due to this Eliot was a remarkable well-behaved boy, full of integrity and enthusiasm. Eliot was an excellent student who preferred his studies to rowdier activities. It is supposed that Eliot’s older brother in law fueled his need for a .....

.... “Mark Twain”. In 1864 Twain joined the staff of the Morning Call, which is when he met Bret Harte, the first purely literary figure he had ever known. The next year he wrote The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. After his publishment he was sent around the world by the Sacromento Union. Later in Twains life he faced many inner struggles which probale be viewed as a good thing, but it did inspire some of Twain's best work such as, Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, and Huckleberry Finn. Twain led a life that few ever get the chance to live, he truly was a glorious writer. II. Major themes Mark Twain used a .....

.... studying charts and maps, Christopher concluded that the earth was 25 percent smaller than was previously thought, and composed mostly of land. On the basis of these faulty beliefs, he decided that Asia could be reached quickly by sailing west. In 1484 he submitted his theories to John II, king of Portugal, petitioning him to finance a westward crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. His proposal was rejected by a royal maritime commission because of his miscalculations and because Portuguese ships were already rounding Africa. Soon after, Columbus moved to Spain, where his plans won the support of several influential perso .....

.... Tartar tribes and south of the Ural Mountains. At this moment we can see two theories emerging in the 19th century. The first one is nationalism provides by the fearsness that Tartar tribes were resisting Russian aggression. The second important characteristic trait is chauvinism portrayed by the fact hat the girl was killed upon being taken to the homeland. This gruesome portrayal is the beginning of the feministic movement, when the women grew form nothing to become equal to the other half of the earth population. The second part of the story is further acquaintance of the narrator with an old soldier Maxim Maximich. .....

.... governor of a nearby island and hunted down his captors. After keeping his promises, he crucified the whole band of the pirates, leaving them to die of thirst hanging naked on crosses in the hot Mediterranean sun. 's most famous accomplishments might as well be the conquest of Gaul and the invasion of Britain. The civil wars that had plagued the Roman Republic kept going during the reign of , and he was a major player in the struggle for power and leadership. He defeated his major rival Cnaeus Pompey in 48 B.C. at the Battle of Pharsalus. Because he continued to generate so much power in his own hands that really belonged to the S .....

.... a prenuptial agreement. The first chapter explains briefly his rise to the top and the rest of the book tells how he survived the low period and eventually regained his status. One of the main reasons for Donald’s downfall was the plummeting value of his vast real estate assets. He claims that his investments in Atlantic City are what eventually saved him from really going under between 1989 and 1992. Trump then bought Mar-a-lago, a gigantic mansion in Palm Beach and restored it. He vacations there and has had dozens of celebrities vacation there also. then acquired 40 Wall Street in 1995. The deal that he was able to .....

.... After she realized that there were no blood or bullet holes she took over the cannon. Molly helped load and fire the cannon and had a very close encounter with death. While she was firing a cannonball a shot from the enemy passed between her legs, not touching or hurting her, but rather tearing off her skirt. There were two nicknames that Molly earned out on the battlefield. The first one was ; the soldiers called her this because she brought pitchers of water out to them. The second nickname they had for her was 'sergeant.' They often called her this because she held her head high and fought for her country and freedom. Mo .....

.... drive to be where he is today. His grandfather, who could not read, sent him to a Catholic school run by a group of White nuns that was established for poor Black youth. He later became one of the first Blacks at his all-white Catholic high school. His first premonition was to enter the priesthood but declined after a fellow seminarian student exclaimed, “ Good I hope the SOB dies” following the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. He came to realize he could never escape being Black. While enrolled at Holy Cross College, the first in his family to attend college, he became an activist. He became interested in the Bla .....