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After her death, she became a minor deity, and her poetry was copied, studied, and performed throughout the empire for over 500 years.
And not only that, when I was eight I became a child soldier.
Three hundred and forty-four frames, four and a half years and commissions later, what started as a one person show became a collaborative work of nineteen most talented artists.
Zero became a person and not just a character in a play.
And it became ever clearer that economic growth doesn't automatically translate into social growth or human growth.
He had helped shape Britain's post-war institutions, its welfare state, its economy, but had sort of reinvented himself as a social entrepreneur, became an inventor of many, many different organizations.
What started as a way to identify those who needed academic help quickly became used to sort people in other ways, often in service of deeply flawed ideologies.
During this time, Baumfree found solace in her faith and became increasingly dedicated to religious reflection.
Though she never learned to read or write, Baumfree became known as an electrifying orator, whose speeches drew on Biblical references, spiritual ideals, and her experience of slavery.
Her sermons denounced the oppression of African Americans and women in general, and became prominent in campaigns for both abolition and women’s rights.
During the Civil War, she became involved with the Union Army, recruiting soldiers and organizing supplies for Black troops.
And I became friends with a lot of people I never had a chance to talk to before.
I actually became the product manager lead for Netscape Navigator, the first popular web browser.
I then started writing about Eastern Europe, and eventually I became the BBC's chief correspondent for the region, which is what I was doing in 1989.
This machine, known as the iron lung, became a fixture in hospitals through the mid-20th century.
The first time that I was victimized and became the target of inappropriate workplace behavior, I hadn't even left university.
And they became my friends, and, well, the Pope was off the hook.
However, when a friend sent her charcoals to the art dealer Alfred Stieglitz, he became entranced.
He became a shaman after seeing a sign in the sea one morning— like his father and grandfather before him.
And as we got closer, its significance became apparent.
The E.U. also became a currency block, and is now the most powerful trade block in the entire world.
But I think this small view of design is a relatively recent phenomenon, and in fact really emerged in the latter half of the 20th century as design became a tool of consumerism.
As our industrial society matured, so design became a profession and it focused on an ever smaller canvas until it came to stand for aesthetics, image and fashion.
So William Beveridge, when he wrote the first of his famous reports in 1942, created what became Britain's welfare state in which he hoped that every citizen would be an active participant in their own social well-being.
So I became my own intern.
So then it became quite easy.
Now here is what happened to this person who eventually became Mayor of San Francisco.
And, as often happens in America, immigration became synonymous with Mexicans.
And so, as a child, I saw jam disappear from the breakfast table, then margarine disappeared, then bread became too expensive, then milk became rationed.
Or, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "As the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that once flowered for Dutch sailors' eyes, a fresh green breast of the new world."
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