… never used his fists or guns to fight for his country, but he used a much more powerful weapon at which he held great skill: his words. Possibly the greatest orator of his time, his speeches such as "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" struck a cord in…

… of lesbians and gay men forming their own families through adoption, foster care, artificial insemination and other means. Researchers estimate that the total number of children nationwide living with at least one gay parent ranges from six to 14 million…

… if not the greatest, presidents in the United States’ history. He led the country through one of the toughest times in history and was still able to preserve the union. However, while he was president many people hated him because of his views on…

… been a nation of many unsuccessful experiments in government. Probably the most famous, however, was the Communist revolution of 1917, set in motion by the visionary Karl Marx. Marx planted the seed of revolution into a world where he thought it…

… been a nation of many unsuccessful experiments in government. Probably the most famous, however, was the Communist revolution of 1917, set in motion by the visionary Karl Marx. Marx planted the seed of revolution into a world where he thought it…

… many fifteen-year old girls have, but Anne Frank did. It was just an average day at the annex. Everyone was doing the usual, which was quietly reading, studying, or sewing. The annex residents had to be very quiet today. The workers would come at 8:00.…

… California, shortly after the end of the Civil War. His mother was a schoolteacher in the public school system in Salinas. Steinbeck grew up in the fertile California where he found the materials for most of his novels, and short stories. Steinbeck…

… D.C, the son of a Georgian farmer. Though he passed for a white during certain periods of his life, he was raised in a predominantly black community and he went to black high schools. In 1914, he went to college at the University of Wisconsin…

… first eleven years. After the death of his father, a journalist, he moved with his mother and sister to eastern Massachusetts near his paternal grandparents. He wrote his first poems while a student at Lawrence High School, from which he graduated as…

… the most powerfully pervasive is fear. The fear of being found out is real enough, but the worry does not end there. There also lurks the fear of being called names, being assaulted, perhaps even killed. For adults these fears are horrible enough.…