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    Whitney Elizabeth Houston by: Alisa Dettmer 6B Whitney Houston impressed me by her self-conscious as a singer and wanted to be a singer since she could talk. She became her dream. Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born 09.08.1963 in New Jersey. Whitney was seemed to become a singer from birth on. Her mother Cissy Houston was a singer. She was the choir minister at New Hope Baptist Church. This is the place where Whitney as a young girl started singing. Even as a small girl she was…

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    Paper:Whitney Houston Born on August 9, 1963, Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress. Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992, and amassed global sales in excess of 86 million copies. Whitney Houston began singing in church as a child. Whitney Houston is a modern day tragic hero because she was an amazing singer. She had a tragic flaw of arrogance and she suffered retribution by committing suicide. First, Whitney…

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    Sam Houston (1793-1863) was an American politician. In addition to that, Houston played a great political role as a senator in the state that we now know as Texas. He born on March 2, 1793, near Lexington, Virginia. Houston went to school and developed a normal life as the other children of his age. However, all this changed when he turned thirteen years old. Houston's father died and his family had to move to another state. “He emigrated with his mother, five brothers, and three sisters to…

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    Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time.[1] Houston is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide.[2][3] She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover…

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    Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born August 9th, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey. She was the youngest of 3. Her parents are John Houston and Emily "Cissy" Houston. Her mom was a Grammy-award-winning gospel singer and her godmother was Aretha Franklin and her cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick were also singers, as well as her other godmother, Darlene Love so she knew singing and was born for it . At age 11 she started performing in her church’s gospel choir as a soloist and learned to play the piano.…

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    Andrea Barrios Hist 1301.1m1 5/31/2016 Sam Houston and the American Southwest In Sam Houston and the American Southwest, written by Randolph B. Campbell and edited by Mark C. Canes, the main focus is on Sam Houston’s many accomplishments and failures. The purpose Randolph Campbell has is to inform general and scholarly readers on who Sam Houston was as a warrior, politician, and leader. Sam Houston was a governor of two states, President of the Republic of Texas, and for thirteen years a…

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    In Sam Houston and the American Southwest, the author, Randolph B. Campbell, argues that many of the political decisions that Sam Houston made throughout his life had been influenced by Houston’s practical approach to problems and issues and his level-headed nature. Houston developed this mindset through the years that he had lived with the Cherokee nation, and he exercised these ideas in such a way to further himself as a leader in the political world and to gain respect among his peers. At the…

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    While Sam Houston is one of the most widely known individuals throughout history, many do not know his bitter rivalries in the creation of the Republic of Texas. Houston was born on March 2nd, 1863 in Rockbridge County Virginia. As a product of his era, Houston embraced Westward expansion and moved to Tennessee. While the true intentions for Houston’s arrival in Texas are unknown, it is evident he quickly rose within the hierarchy of Texas politics as he was elected to President at two separate…

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    the influence of Sam Houston on many aspects of American history from Tennessee to Washington and of course, his adopted home of Texas. Campbell seems to fall into the trap of many biographers and veer off the course of serious historian, presenting us instead with an easy to read novel presenting his hero as larger than life. The life of Sam Houston does lend itself to glorification rather easily. Many of the events he was involved in do seem larger than life, yet Houston was by all accounts a…

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    For many Texans kid, including James E. Crisp, Sam Houston might become their childhood idol. The victory that Sam Houston bring for Texas at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the Texas’ independence from Mexico. James E. Crisp, on his book Sleuthing the Alamo is investigating Sam Houston’s speech that he made to the soldiers at the small South Texas settlement called Refugio. Crisp was not investigating Sam Houston’s speech suddenly. Instead, Crisp found out that the content of his speech is…

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