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Louis Armstrong’s Influential Career
Number of Words: 1217 / Number of Pages: 5
... slots at orchestras and other venues. In 1918, he was offered the vacant seat left by Oliver in the band the Brown Skinned Babies. Kid Ory, leader of the band, once said that after Louis joined them he, “…improved so fast it was amazing. He had a wonderful ear and a wonderful memory. All you had to do was hum or whistle a new tune to him and he’d know it right away” (Boujut 21). At the end of 1918 Armstrong married Daisy Parker, a prostitute he had met at a dance hall that he played on Saturday nights. The marriage ended only four years later due to her beating him regularly (Bergreen 87).
Louis A ...
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Albert Einstein And His Theories
Number of Words: 1938 / Number of Pages: 8
... Zürich. Einstein did not enjoy the methods of instruction there.
He often cut classes and used the time to study physics on his own or to play
his beloved violin. He passed his examinations and graduated in 1900 by studying
the notes of a classmate. His professors did not think highly of him and would
not recommend him for a university position.
For two years Einstein worked as a tutor and substitute teacher. In 1902
he secured a position as an examiner in the Swiss patent office in Bern. In 1903
he married Mileva Mariç, who had been his classmate at the polytechnic. They had
two sons but event ...
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Sam Walton
Number of Words: 758 / Number of Pages: 3
... run. It can probably be stated that would not have been as successful if his devoted wife had not been there along his side. Always there for him, Mrs. Walton was able to keep the entire family together during the hard and difficult times. While Sam was out doing the dirty work trying to make something of his business, Mrs. Walton was playing the role of mother and father back at home. had to create and develop his business in a very difficult environment. Competition was all around, and most people saw Walton’s store as a dead-end flop when it first began. Before the founding of Wal-mart, all of the ...
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Alfred Nobel
Number of Words: 469 / Number of Pages: 2
... consisted of (diatomeus earth) marine organisms diatoms. This way the explosive could be transported easily and detonated from a safe distance. It saved laves and time. He would name it Dynamite and got a patent for it in 1867.
Throughout his life he had poor health but was not worried about it because he expected many advances in medicine. He once experimented with his theories on blood transfusions. These attempts failed and was back on with his chemistry. From an early age Alfred had written and read quite a bit and he had very good writing skills. He wrote many poems and even a play ...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Number of Words: 998 / Number of Pages: 4
... Nietzsche
left his home of Naumburg and went to an exclusive boarding school at the nearby
Schulpforta Academy. The school was famous for its grandeur of alumni that
included “Klopstock and Fichte”(Brett-Evans, p.76). “It was here that
Nietzsche received the thorough education in Greek and Latin that set him upon
the road to classical philology.”(Brett-Evans, p. 76) On many occasions
Nietzsche's zeal to prove himself at the Pforta school spurned legendary tales.
One certain tale is when Nietzsche “could not bear to hear of the courage of
Mucius Scaevol, who did not flinch when his hand was ...
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Bill Gates
Number of Words: 951 / Number of Pages: 4
... Dougall, remembers if the teacher wasn't going fast
enough, "Bill always seemed on the verge of saying, 'But that's obvious.'" Gates
once said to a teacher that some day he would be a millionaire. A grossly
underestimated statement. Today Gates is one of the richest men in the world.
In the fall of 1968, Bill Gates was entering the 8th grade at lakeside School,
and his best friend Paul Allen, entered the 10th grade. Lakeside invested $3,000
into a Teletype machine which could connect to the business computer via a phone
line. When the computer courses began in January 1969, both Gates and Allen ...
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Sarah (Moore) And Angelina (Emily) Grimke
Number of Words: 422 / Number of Pages: 2
... The
following year, 1836, she composed a thirty page pamphlet entitled An Appeal to
the Christian Women of the South. This pamphlet urged southern women to persuade
their influential husbands to re-examine the morality of the slavery institution.
A similar plea was made towards the Southern Church institutions months later in
An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Though praised by other
abolitionists in the free states, officials in South Carolina burned copies and
threatened imprisonment to the authors should they return to that state. During
this time the sisters released their own family ...
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Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Number of Words: 1810 / Number of Pages: 7
... essay: Federalism is the only possible system of government
that breeds and sustains equality in a multicultural country such as
Canada.
Trudeau is fervent and stalwart in his opinions towards
Federalism and its ramifications on Canadian citizenry. Born and
raised in Quebec, he attended several prestigious institutions that
educated him about the political spectrum of the country. After his
time spent at the London School of Economics, Trudeau returned to
Quebec at a time when the province was experiencing vast differences
with its Federal overseer. The Union Nationale, a religious
nationalist mov ...
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John Brown
Number of Words: 938 / Number of Pages: 4
... Torrington Connecticut. When he was about five years old, his father moved the family to Hudson Ohio. There, John was filled with the heavy anti-slavery sentiment that was present in that area. This, combined with personal observations of the maltreatment of blacks and the influence of Calvinism, started John Brown on his crusade to abolish slavery. While still living in Hudson he married Dianthe Lusk and began to raise a large family. To support his family he worked as a farmer, tanner, and surveyor. In 1849, John Brown moved with his second wife Mary Ann Day, and their seven children to North Elba. ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
Number of Words: 2195 / Number of Pages: 8
... icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Malcolm X, however, promote ...
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