He later wrote about Bolívar and his last journey down the Magdelena River. ... HE began reading at age 3 and publishing poems by the age of 12. In 1882 he tried to get a scholarship to a college by reading one of his poems but he was turned down because his poems were too liberal and filled with anti-religious sentiments. ... Later in his life his poetry was devoted to solving social and economic problems. ... First in his works he just portrayed the life of the poor and later he started to express their voices. ...

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I was very interested while reading. ... While reading this some of my thoughts of the entire Vietnam War changed. ... I think reading a book about the people that were for the war would make an excellent counter part to Zinn. ... Nixon later said he was affected. ...

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I was very interested while reading. ... While reading this some of my thoughts of the entire Vietnam War changed. ... I think reading a book about the people that were for the war would make an excellent counter part to Zinn. ... Nixon later said he was affected. ...

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Later, as a president candidate, he became known as the Railsplitter. Reading by firelight, Lincoln's desire to learn and his efforts to educate himself have become legendary. ... Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky called themselves National Republicans and later Whigs. ... The job gave him time to read, and he made a habit of reading all the newspapers that came through the office. ...

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I like the book for its information but I did not enjoy reading it. ... From reading this book, I realized this is nothing. ... He was later accused of false crimes, resigned and fell out. ... The army later went looking for gold in the Black Hills. ... Dull Knife and Little Wolf led a group west but later split up. ...

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As a child Benjamin was fond of reading. ... Late in life, he also proposed crop insurance. ... Later, he discovered that people in Boston, miles away were able to view the eclipse before the storm arrived. ... While living in Paris, Benjamin hated having to change constantly from reading glasses to distance glasses. ... In 1788, Benjamin Franklin retired from public life and died two years later at the age of eighty-four. ...

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Previous generations were required to learn the basics: reading, writing, math, science, and history. ... Students fifteen years of age were ranked fourteenth in reading, seventeenth in science, and twenty-fifth in math (Koebler 1). ... Seth Baker writes that students in South Korea typically go to school for eight hours, then they go to another institution, called a "hagwon," for private tutoring until no later than 10:00 P.M. ... Reading and math skills are not assessed on paper until then, but the average student has the same teacher for five years, so the teachers are aware of how each stu...

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The Caribbean and Polynesia Reading the compendium with colonial texts (Jamaica Kincaid and Haunani Trask) did two things to me: It gave me knowledge of something I didn't know anything about before, and it made me feel uneasy. ... In my A history of the United States (Philip Jenkins) Hawaii is mentioned in two sentences, but only that it was claimed and later added to the US. ... These people died silently, in "a holocaust created by white foreigners and celebrated by their later counterparts as the will of a Christian God." ...

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In the mid to late 1900s, the NRA played a key role in encouraging gunplay to be accepted as typical child behavior in the average American home. ... " It is apparent before reading on that "normalizing the gun as part of youth culture" is something that the author finds to be against. ... I personally believe in the right to carry fire arms and do not view them in the same light as the author before or after reading this article; concluding that the effectiveness of this article was lacking....

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This book has taught me that it is never to late or too early to start saving your money. ... Through this you can not only live happily in the short-run, but you can live a wealthy in the long-run and enjoy your later years. ... Each part of my pay check is put into my savings account so it can gain interest, and when I need money it is an available resource for later use. ... Until reading the book, "The Wealthy Barber", I never really had an idea of what to do with my money. ... After reading this book, figured I'd better start saving or making money as it is stated. ...

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Not a long time ago I've been reading a short passage of lawsuits in my assignment book, and the story was about the burglar who tried to rub the house while family goes on vacation. ... Later, the rubber, files a lawsuit for $500,000 for medical expenses and pain and suffering. ...

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In the late 1830's, the Indian tribes of the east were leaving one after the other. ... Right after the Choctaws headed west, the Chickasaws made the journey and were finally past the Mississippi river about three years later. ... It's weird how reading a book can change your opinion of a piece of history. ... Reading this book could change someone's mind about how Indians were treated back then and make people think critically about the whole situation. ...

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Eliza was better educated than Andrew and used it to improve his reading and writing skills. ... She continued to practice reading while Johnson worked. ... Later that year General George McClellan lost to President Lincoln and Johnson became the vice-president of the United States of America. ... Senate, but later that year he suffered a stroke and soon died. ...

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Hopefully, by the time you've finished reading this essay, I will have somehow wavered your opinion on this controversial subject. ... According to statistics, fifty percent of these animals will die in this expirement at least two weeks later. ... Many drugs that are approved for human use based on animal studies have been taken off the market at a later date because of side effects, not revealed in animal studies. More than one hundred thousand people have been hospitalized and later died from toxic reactions to medications that were not predicted by animal tests. ...

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Roosevelt, after reading the thirteen-page transmission said, This Means War." ... Marshall and Stark later testified that the message about the attack was not sent to Kimmel and Short because the commanders in Hawaii had received so many intercepted Japanese messages that another one "would simply confuse them." ... But, a close friend of Knox, the secretary of the Navy, later revealed that Knox, Stark, and Marshall spent most of that night in the White House with Roosevelt, waiting for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the opportunity for America to join World War II. ... As a result, i...

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Thomas PrinceEnglish 241Franklin Vs. Edison Although Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison were born in different eras they are two of the most important inventors and contributors to society, and the development of many of today's new technologies. ...

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Another deterrent from agreeing to the Open Skies policy was the fact that; "Taken from an altitude of 6 miles, the first showed the overall plan of a city; in the next you could distinguish houses, and in the next you could make out the murky figure of a man reclining on a lounge chair in the courtyard of his home reading a newspaper." ... In later years satellites were used over both countries and were able to obtain the same data freely and without any disruptions. ...

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Nearly forty years later Black Elk, a Sioux medicine man, told the story of his nightmare titled, "The Butchering at Wounded Knee." Throughout the reading of his story one can easily relate the Battle at Wounded Knee to the attack on Iraq that is occurring this year. ...

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She believed that she should be able to keep some of her hard earned money for herself and that the father should get off his behind and work instead of reading the Torah all day long over and over. ... She grew up in New York in a Jewish ghetto, and then later worked menial jobs in laundries and sweatshops. ...

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In addition, he states how Morgan's acquisition of Carnegie and Rockefeller's industrial empires combined would eventually set the stage for financiers to truly control the power of the industries and, along with the rise of poverty in large urban areas & the anger of the discontent rural population, would contribute to the later populist and silverist movements. ... What I found most interesting while reading The Reckless Decade was the way Brands described the political battles between Bryan and McKinley leading up to the 1896 presidential election. ...

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With headlines reading "Signs of Terror Said to Increase", it is clear that the "image" of the American public is fear of more terrorist attacks (1). ... Thirty-six hours later 4 American oil employees were gunned down in Karachi Pakistan. ...

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It was later stated that man's muscles simply did not have the power needed to move aeronautical equipment fast enough to achieve flight, that a person would have to have the ability to increase their heart rate up to 800 beats per minute such as a bird to create the lift needed to fly. ... After reading of Lilienthal's gliding flights in Germany, the Wright brother's vowed to continue his work after his death. ...

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Silko's short story "Lullaby" lends itself well to close reading and analysis. ... After close reading "Lullaby", I came to the conclusion that the feelings of the protagonist, Ayah, presented the theme of fear and the ability of other feelings to conquer fear. ... The story began with Ayah in the later years of her life. ... They informed Ayah that Jimmie had died, and they later took Danny and Ella away from her. ... Ayah's time of reflection by the creek took place late in her life and during winter. ...

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Especially before going to bed, it will throw off the sleeping patterns the body is used to, and later become more tired over time. ... Any item used in excess has consequences whether it's for the benefit or detriment of the body and the later problems that might occur. ... Also the same reading said, Radiation of the phones, laptops, and other wireless devices also contribute to sperm count decreasing more per year. ... Ebben writes, "A lot of people spend hours on the devices reading or playing, or sending messages to communicate with others " (Ebben). ... A reading agrees that, "Pup...

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It is suppose to teach the reader that only what they read is to be considered artistic and worth reading for a scholarly mind. ... I later found out that other kids did not attend school at all because they were said to be ineligible. ... This behavior I gathered from reading the autobiography of Malcolm X who found himself troubled with the fact that his childhood education was driven by racist teachers who provided no hope in getting pass the meager income provided by welfare. Reading this as a class assignment in the fifth grade became an enlightening experience. ...

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