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Mary Anning was considered to be the first female paleontologist and the greatest fossil finder. She overcame a lack of formal education to emerge as one of the foremost authorities on fossils. When she was twelve year old, she found the skeleton of one of the first Ichthyosaurus, a giant marine reptile that lived in the early time of Jurassic period in Asia and Europe. She discovered more Ichthyosaurus fossils and also many other important discoveries as an amateur fossil collector in the…

Holes Stanley Yelnats lived in an undersized apartment and has very bad luck and is constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time. throughout the book he is accused of stuff because of his bad luck. Stanley Yelnats lived inside of an undersized apartment near texas. He was walking home from school and someone threw a pair of shoes at him he was convicted of stealing the shoes and he went to court and was sentenced to detention camp, at camp green lake. At camp green lake stanley was…

Louis Riel is possibly the most significant and definitely the most controversial Metis leader throughout all of Canada’s history. He was a leader, a rebel, the father of Manitoba, a politician, a defender of the Metis people and their culture, and so much more. Louis Riel was a Metis man born on October 22, 1844 in the Red River Settlement, and died on November 16, 1885 in Regina. Throughout his complex life, Riel accomplished much, despite his failures, and never broke faith or loyalty to his…

Throughout centuries, history has presented to life a plethora of individuals who would then impact the world by means of various arduous missions and accomplishments. While certain people are extolled for their grandiloquent changes to society, others may become infamous for imperiling humankind. However, within history lies a character who is interposed between approbation and being loathed, whose name is Napoléon Bonaparte. This particular person was a French leader who ruled France as an…

Have you ever wanted to rise to power into the role of a leader of the country? If you have, you might have that unique personality that Napoleon Bonaparte had. He got lucky and worked his way up through the ranks, He used a lot of military tactics, and overall, he was a hero. Viewed as both good and bad, Napoleon Bonaparte was a very powerful leader using a mix of skill, luck and a wide variety of military tactics to get to his position of power. Napoleon Bonaparte used a wide variety of…

Louis Riel Louis Riel has passed away on November 16, 1885 in Reigna. The cause of his death was hanging. He was executed after he wrote his last letter to his mother and his will. Louis David Riel was born on October 22,1844 to Louis Riel Sr and Julie Lagimodière. He had 11 siblings, 6 sisters and 5 brothers. Louis Riel was the oldest out his 11 siblings. He spent the majority of his childhood in Quebec. He studied in College de Montreal and Petit…

Louis Riel was one of the most driven defenders in Canadian History. He fought for the Metis rights and culture, for their homelands in their Northwest, and came under the English's skin progressively. He was born in Saint Boniface, Winnipeg on October 22, 1844, When Louis had just turned the age of 13 he was educated by Roman Catholic Priests Alexandre Taché and the Suffragan Bishop of St.Boniface. When a young Riel heard the news of his father's death in 1864, his view had changed and…

Napoleon was considered a son of the Enlightenment as well as the French Revolution. This is supported since has he lived and came into power in the 18th century when the philosophers of the Enlightenment brought forth the ideas of fair treatment of the French people after enduring hundreds of years of an oppressive and unjust monarchy. Since he took part of the French Revolution and reorganized the government to make all French citizens equal under the Constitution of 1799, he can be regarded…

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a primarily self-trained Brazilian nationalist musician. From his teaching, composing, and performing, he gained much popularity during the twentieth century in Brazil and eventually the United States, but Many musicians in Europe did not like the music of Villa-Lobos. Many of these European critics believed Villa-Lobos’ music was futuristic, and did not represent the music of Brazil well. Until about the 1940s, Brazilian music was heavily influenced by European elements.…

On Friday, July 10th, the local instrumental jazz group Yuma Jazz Company played at Lutes Casino for a couple of hours. The instrumentation was fairly standard for a jazz group, with trumpet, saxophone, guitar, double bass, and drums (I believe those were electric). The guitar and bass, along with the drums, served as a sort of basso continuo, generally backing the horns, but occasionally taking up the melody for themselves, resulting in a texture that was thinly polyphonic. Also noticeable was…