... of war. I would love to hear their stories of how they overcame their hardships and made it to America. My love for history will never be replaced and hope that my career in the future will involve this subject. I am involved in many sports which are cross country, basketball, volleyball ... rank you can achieve in Girl Scouts. I achieved all required badges by staying committed and focused. I still participate every year by helping raise money for various charities through selling cookies. Another extracurricular activity I participated in was Hand Bells. I would perform during school c...

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... mill worker or the 19 year old son of a Jewish family, she worked for as a cook, named Frankenberger. Adolf never knew for sure who his grandfather was. But he did know his grandmother, Maria, married Johann Hiedler when his father Alois was five-years-old. Alois, at the age of 39, after a ... as Bismark and Frederick the Great In defiance of the Austrian Monarchy. Adolf and his friends liked to use the German greeting, "Heil," and sang the German anthem "Deutschland Uber Alles," instead of the Austrian Imperial anthem ("The Rise of Hitler"). Adolf dropped out of school at the age ... d...

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... Wilson who was adamantly against the desegregation of schools. Paul didn't stay in this town very long when he was just a young boy his father, Rev. Robeson, moved himself and his youngest son Paul to the nearby town of Westfield, New Jersey which had even fewer blacks than the previous ... to be one of only 3 graduating blacks from College and still managed strive and surpass the level of educational excellency that his father and oldest brother had set for him. In college Paul was even given the high honor of being admitted to the educational honorary fraternity Phi Beta Kappa and ... ...

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Frank Sinatra was born December 12,1915 in the small town of Hoboken, New Jersey. (Lahr 3) His mother and father were poor Italian Immigrants, but his mother managed to make her mark on the town. She was a sturdy little woman that was into ... sing along with the roll. Years later, at a lecture Frank gave at Yale University, Frank said that he once got and nickel for his "racket". (Lahr 9) He never forgot that moment. Dolly was a singer and sang in the choir and at local democratic parties, but she didn't want Frank to sing at all. Dolly didn't think that a ... his singing career away from hi...

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