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Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1869 in Gujarat, India. He was know the people of India as Mahatma Gandhi. He was called “Mahatma” because it means great soul. He studied law in England. He became a lawyer and when he arrived in South Africa to represent an Indian client. While in South Africa he was…

Minty(soon to be Harriet Tubman)was a slave on a Southern plantation. She was special because she would have “visions” what she claimed to be from god. She and her husband, John, who is free hires a lawyer to prove that Harriet’s mother was supposed to be freed and that therefore her children are free as…

“As for Roger O’Farrel … He took me off a sinking ship when I was a baby and raised me like his own daughter. And if I took to the life of a rover, it is not his fault, who would have established me like a fine lady ashore had I wished. ” – Robert…

Towards the terminal of the sixteenth century, the United States authorities experienced uninterrupted alterations in Torahs ( revenue enhancements ) and several jobs ( combating and remotion of Indians ) associated with westbound enlargement. Conflict was created in response to the lifting revenue enhancements issued by the authorities on goods such as whisky. Most affected…

IntroductionThe 72 years long rein of Louis the Great (Louis XIV), King of France is unanimously regarded as golden age of France that established it the cultural, military and political summit of Europe. Regarded among many historians as the best Emperor ever seen by Europe and the finest emblem of royalty, Louis XIV occupied the…

William Shakespeare’s tragic play, Julius Caesar, tells the true story of Julius Caesar’s assassination. After Caesar conquered Pompey, many of Caesar’s closest friends plot against him, because they believe his ambition and behavior is going to bring the fall of Rome. His traits of arrogance, weakness, and lovingness ultimately lead him to his defeat. The…

King Alfred the Great Alfred the Great (849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet “the Great”….

The Villains of All Nations is book written by Marcus Rediker that follows the origins of the pirate boom before and after the War of Spanish Succession. The book covers infamous pirates like Bartholomew Roberts, William Fly, and Edward Teach also known as Blackbeard. It discusses the grim environment of working the seas for the…

Before reading the biography I knew very little about his life. I knew he was an African freedom fighter and that he was the president of South Africa. I knew he led anti-apartheid strikes. I also had the vague idea that he was involved in the communist party and he had gone to jail, but…

The dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1900s resulted from a succession of political turmoil and conflict. These conflicts can be primarily attributed to nationalistic sentiments in Serbia, the absence of a desire to reach political compromises, and a profound economic and political crisis. The initial Yugoslavia, established in 1918, aimed to be a unified…