The book, Little Women, is enjoyable because it's realistic, its characters are unforgettable, and the author wrote it so you never get bored. ... I also think that the author wrote this so real people could relate to these brave women. ... Jo is somewhat of a tomboy so she's not afraid to get dirty and play hard. ... The final reason I think Little Women is a great novel is because the author wrote it so you never get bored. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He was not taught to play the guitar, he merely learned the hard way: lots of practice. ... (Jeffrey Hacker 6) Carl Sandburg wrote in a style, free prose, which was considered different by most. ... He wrote two volumes on President Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln: the Prairie Years which were about him and the Civil War. ... Sandburg wrote a countless number of other great works but these are the most famous of them all. ... He wrote hundreds of stories/poems and had the respect of the people. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They wrote about Cuban people. They wrote how they suffering so American people wanted to help Cuba to get their independence. ... Newspaper wrote that Spanish blew up the ship. ... Spanish diplomat wrote letter to American president saying that President McKinley was weak. ... Foreign policy played major role in 19th century. ...

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Hughes wrote about the many aspects of African American life. ... Hughes wrote all of these because of the profound love and interest in what he does. ... Even the way Hughes wrote showed African American influences. ... According to Meltzer, " The critic had hailed him as a poet who played authentic blues with consummate skill" (123). ... Like every good story Hughes wrote there is always an ending; he was no exception. ...

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She later insisted that , "the Lord Himself wrote it. ... Even though she did disapprove of the theater, actors began to put on productions of a dramatized version of the book, which turned into one of the most popular American plays ever. ... On Stowe's visit to the White House, Abraham Lincoln greeted her as "the little lady who wrote the book that made this big war." ... She wrote one other book on slavery, Dred, a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. ... This letter played an important role in possible preventing English interference when it could have endangered the Northern side. ...

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Barbara Fields wrote that the slaves did not need nor wait for anybody to help them and essentially freed themselves. ... Barbara Fields wrote that "Lincoln forced his secretary of war to delete from his report a paragraph to free and to arm slaves." and that Lincoln was " the principal opponent of slavery on moral grounds that precipitated it. " Then she says slaves enlisted in the army in order to free themselves. ... James Mcapherson also wrote about who freed slaves : "The clear answer is the war. ... He points out that Lincoln had to play the part of politician in these decisions an...

• Word Count: 850
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To correct the mistake of the previous version of reconstruction many people from the era black and white wrote their own experience of reconstruction. W.E.B Du Bios was one these people who wrote about reconstruction in a new light and emphasis how many of the writing about the subject refuses to see blacks as human-beings. ... The author concludes with the statement that reconstruction was failure on creating an equal playing field for freedman. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This autobiography that he wrote led him to fame when it was published in 1845. ... He spent his childhood playing in the woods near his grandmother's cabin. ... He later wrote, "A new world had opened upon me." ...

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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION The whole thing started because of the Republican Party who wanted to keep the slavery states safe and the radical republicans that wanted to free the slave states. In 1861 at fort Monroe the head person who was against slavery, Benjamin Butler, allowed the slaves tha...

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The Atlantic Monthly wrote after the battle, "Through the cannon smoke of that dark night, the manhood of the colored race shines before many eyes that would not see." The New York Tribune wrote that the 54th's brave assault "made Fort Wagner such a name to the colored race as Bunker Hill has been for ninety years to the white Yankees." ... Matthew Broderick plays Shaw and while there has been some criticism of his performance, I think it is the best thing he's ever done and he did it well. Cary Elwes plays his second in command, Major Cabot Forbes. The best performances, however, ...

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Sadly, her mother died while Harriet was only four years old, leaving the duties of raising the large Beecher family to her older sister, Catherine, who would play a large role in Harriet's life. ... She wrote fiction for profit, but still somehow managed to find time to write moral editorials for publication without payment. ... Harriet wrote a second book, in which the hero was modeled on Nat Turner. ... She worried that Lincoln took so long to issue it, and wrote articles and letters urging Lincoln to free the slaves. ... After the ending of the Civil War, Harriet wrote another boo...

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• Grade Level: High School

She wrote the most powerful antislavery novel ever and it perhaps made her the most influential woman of her time. ... American women have played a large part in building our country. ... This was rare in that time because most authors used men as their protagonist and the women played minor roles. ... When President Lincoln first met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he reportedly called her "the little lady who wrote the book that made this big war" (McMichael 1561). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Douglass was played significant role in the civil war by convincing Lincoln that the main focus of the war should be the abolishment of slavery and influenced a large amount of blacks to fight for the Union. ... His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of language and power of thought- they were utterly at loss to dev...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bryant wrote his finest poetry in his youth. ... She wrote several plays for the experimental theater group the Provincetown Players, notably Aria da Capo (1919), a satirical fantasy on war. ... Sandburg also wrote what is generally considered the definitive biography of United States president Abraham Lincoln. ...

• Word Count: 1931
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• Grade Level: High School

Women in the nineteenth century did not have the same rights as men, but they were still able to make a large impact in the Civil War. Women in the early 1800's were not allowed to vote and not able to possess their own money. Also women could not work, or they could not have a lawyer in court. Boy...

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Curry also wrote a book, "The South in the Olden Times," after the Civil War, and it was published in 1901. ... He maintained that those few who did were confronted, and downed-played such offences aligning them with spousal abuse, neglect, and oppressive employers. ...

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In June of 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in Congressionally imposed secrecy. ... I wasn't able to play a lot, nor participate in sporting activities like they did. ...

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Although Alex Haley wrote Roots in search of his origin and Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin for a political purpose, both authors lead readers to sympathize with the predicaments of African-Americans by putting a human face, as well as a racial one on the tragedy of slavery, thus involving all readers in the inhumanity of the institution. ... The young, naked children play throughout the day by having wrestling matches and eagerly listening to the moral stories told by the village grandmothers, who loved the children as if they were their own. ...

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They look at the heroes, outlaws, and peacemakers who influenced the role the Ozarks played in the War Between the States". ... I found that although they wrote about the Civil War battles, there were not enough human- interest events included in the book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Yes, Huck played tricks on Jim because Huck thought that Jim was lower than him, but he finally understands that Jim would do anything for him. " Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more." ... Now what does that tell you about what Twain wrote? ...

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Chesnutt and Douglass were men who played important roles in the history of African-Americans and the history of our country. ... In fact, during the year 1899, he wrote Frederick Douglass, Chesnutt published Two works with Houghton Mifflin, Boston: The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories. ...

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Smith wrote the book in hopes of supplementing urban politics, intergovernmental relations, urban studies, state and local government, and state administration classes. ... The book specifically delves into how the Reagan administrations new federalism played out in intergovernmental relations by ending programs and seeking control of some agencies. ...

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When this happened many newspapers journalist {yellow journalism} took advantage of the explosion and wrote whom they thought did the explosion or who did the people want it to be. ... At 12:00 on that day you could hear Stars and Stripes forever playing with a 21-gun salute. ...

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. Tensions evolved between the North and South before the Civil War due to their difference in econ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Grant would be seeing the play Our American Cousin in a special box designated for Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. ... Later that day Lincoln learned that due to another responsibility, General Grant would be unable to attend the play. ... However, Lincoln did not want to disappoint all the people expecting him to be at the play, so he made the fatal decision to attend. ... He was enjoying a play with people cheering him on, and did not worry too much about the war because it was nearly over. ... That is why the American Flag played such an important role in capturing John Wilkes Booth. ...

• Word Count: 2631
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• Grade Level: High School