Harriet Jacobs was a beautiful slave girl who suffered great abuse as a child from her master. After loosing her mother at age six‚ her grandma was all she had. Although she had great admiration and respect for her grandma‚ she also feared her presence. Harriet lived in town with her master‚ Dr. Flint‚ instead of on a distant plantation like most slaves in that time. As she grew‚ she caught the attention of her master more and more. She was fifteen when the innocent attention turned in to something
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One the most distinguished artists of the twentieth century‚ Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City and spnt part of his child hood in Pennsylvania. After his parents split up in 1924‚ he went with his mother and siblings to New York‚ settling in Harlem. "He trained as a painter at the Harlem Art Workshop‚ inside the New York Public Library’s 113 5th Street branch. Younger than the artists and writers who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s‚ Lawrence was also at an angle to them:
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Jacob Lawrence has painted figurative and narrative pictures of the black community and black history for more than 60 years in a consistent modernist style‚ using expressive‚ strong design and flat areas of color. Jacob Lawrence was a great artist. During Harlem Renaissance‚ he helped establish African American artists. He gave lectures at Washington University‚ and he enjoyed working with students of all ages. Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City on September 7‚ 1917. His parents
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Chernobyl * The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel. * The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere and downwind. * Two Chernobyl plant workers died on the night of the accident‚ and a further 28 people died within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation poisoning. * UNSCEAR says that apart from increased thyroid cancers‚ "there
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keine Quellen vorhanden. Source Citations: https://www.facebook.com/marcjacobsintl/info http://www.marcjacobs.com/world-of-marc-jacobs/biography/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Jacobs "The 2010 Time 100". Time. April 29‚ 2010. "The 5th Annual Power 50". Out. Retrieved September 9‚ 2011. http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/biographies/marc-jacobs-biography "Marc Jacobs." Newsmakers. Detroit: Gale‚ 2002. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 24 Apr. 2012. http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/designers/bios/marcjacobs/
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Name: _____________________________ Jacob the Great Jacob hated finishing things almost as much as he loved starting them. As a result‚ he had gotten into a million hobbies and activities‚ but he never stuck with any of them long enough to get any good. He begged his mother for months for a guitar so that he could play Black Eyed Peas songs to Angie‚ a girl he liked‚ but after he finally got one for Christmas‚ he found out that guitars don’t play themselves. He took a few lessons‚ but strumming
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Jacob and Sowege Yelles "Jules‚ Julius Cassel" Kassel; born abt.1590 and died abt.1681 of Krisheim‚ Germany‚ "Krisheim is located between Manheim and Worms in the Palatinate (Pfalz)"‚ had at least two sons‚ ; Johannes "John" Cassel‚ born abt. 1639 and died April 17‚ 1692 in Philadelphia‚ Pa. and Arnold Cassel‚ born abt. 1642 and died abt. 1687. These were the first Cassel‚ Cassell‚ Kassel‚ Kassell‚ Castle’s to come to America. They came to America under the terms of a promise by William Penn
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Harriet Tubman My paper is on Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was a very heroic woman who completed thirteen missions to free black slaves using the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was born with the name Araminta "Minty" Ross to slave parents‚ Harriet Rit Green and Ben Ross. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County‚ Maryland. There is no accurate account of Harriet Tubman’s birthday. Harriet only had a general knowledge that she was born in between the years of 1815 to 1825. Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman By Blake Snider December 5‚ 2010 Professor J Arrieta Seminar Critical Inquiry Harriet Tubman is a woman of faith and dignity who saved many African American men and women through courage and love for God. One would ponder what would drive someone to bring upon pain and suffering to one’s self just to help others. Harriet Tubman was an African American women that took upon many roles during her time just as abolitionist‚ humanitarian‚ and a Union
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Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman displayed the traits of being a hero. She was brave‚ courage’s‚ and made a big change in the black and slave community. Born with an awful disease‚ Harriet Tubman could not read or write. She was born a slave with not much. Yet it was hard to see her heroic characteristics shined right through her. In her early years Harriet served as a spy for the union army during the civil war and was the first women to lead an expedition army. Harriet joined the union army because
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