.... small tobacco plantation. His only true relative was his mother, Jane, who was the plantation's cook. His father was probably the white son of one of the neighbors, though it is not known for sure. Washington spent his childhood years on the plantation, but since he was so young he never had to do the heavy work. He did the small jobs, such as carrying water to the field hands and taking corn to the local mill for grinding. This hard work at an early age instilled in him the values he would teach for the rest of his life. When the Civil War ended in April of 1863, Washington and his mom were set free. Unlike most of the other slav .....

.... fall of 1506, and his superiors selected him for the priesthood. Ordained in 1507, he approached his first celebration of the mass with awe. After his ordination, Luther was asked to study theology in order to become a professor at one of the many new German universities staffed by monks. In 1508 he was assigned by Johann von Staupitz, vicar-general of the Augustinians and a friend and counselor, to the new University of Wittenberg (founded in 1502) to give introductory lectures in moral philosophy. He received his bachelor's degree in theology in 1509 and returned to Erfurt, where he taught and studied. In November 1510, on beh .....

.... a best-seller. Kennedy graduated cum laude in 1940. He then enrolled in the Stanford University graduate business school, but dropped out six months later. Kennedy enlisted as a seaman in the U.S. Navy after taking a trip through South America. For a few months, Kennedy was stationed in Washington, D.C. He applied for sea duty following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Kennedy was assigned to a PT boat squadron late in 1942. After learning to command one of the small craft, he was commissioned as an ensign. Shortly after midnight on August 2, 1943, a Japanese destroyer cut Kennedy's PT boat in two. His .....

.... Head. A Baltic convoy escorted by two British ships was sailing past Flamborough Head, and since Jones had always wanted to break up a Baltic convly, that's exactly what he planned to do. Jones had three warships under his command compared to the two British escorts. He soon realized after chasing the convoy, that he would have to sink the escorts ot get a crack at the convoy. when the battle started, bad communication left Jones' ship one-on-one with a superior waship, another ship fighting the other British escort, and the alst ship under Jones' command just sailing around. It was quite a battle between the .....

.... for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Carl sat and pondered the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wrote down the correct answer. Carl came to the conclusion that the sum of the integers was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to one hundred and one, thus simple multiplication followed and the answer could be found. This act of sheer genius was so astounding to Herr Buttner that the tea .....

.... minor poems" but this time under the name of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the other cadets to publish his third version of the book, although Poe called this book a second version. In this book there are famous poems as "To Helen" and "Israfel". These poems show the musical effect that has come to characterize Poe's poems. Later Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his ant. There he married his cousin who was only 13 years old. Then Poe moved to New York to become famous, but with almost no success. Poe had after 1837 his best period with his greatest works as "The murders in the Rue Morgue" ( .....

.... Israel's rights to exist along side an independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected Arafat it's president. But Israel continued to occupy and in effect govern the area. In 1993, the PLO-under Arafat's leadership, signed an agreement with Isreal for the star of a plan for Palestinian self-government for and Israel's withdrawals from the Gaza strip and the west bank. In 1994, this plan went into effect in the Gaza strip and the west bank city of Jericho. The P .....

.... became a member of a powerful political faction led by William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794. Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator in 1797, but financial problems forced him to resign and return to Tennessee in less than a year. Later he served as a Tennessee superior court judge for six years starting in 1798. In 1804 he retired from the bench and moved to Nashville and devoted time to business ventures and his plan .....

.... in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised...to give back something of what [I have] received" (qtd. in "Author Profile"). Two years after this life-altering decision, Atwood entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She received her bachelor's degree from Victoria College in 1961, and then went on to receive her Master's degree from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Atwood also received education from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during1962-63 and 1965-67. The most positive comment Atwood received about her writing aspirations was from a friend of her moth .....

.... while trying to isolate , becomes affected by it, so much so that he appears almost human. Instead of dismissing him on the spot for refusing to copy, proofread or leave the premises, he tries to find other employment for him, and even considers inviting him to live in his residence as his guest. The narrator develops before our eyes into a caring person, very different from the cold, unsympathetic person at the beginning of the story. "To befriend , to humor him in his strange willfulness, will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul what will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience." The narrator would .....