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Accomplishments Of John D. Rockefeller
Number of Words: 678 / Number of Pages: 3
... had purchased and thus
controlled nearly all the refining firms in Cleveland, plus two refineries
in the New York City area. Before long the company was refining 29,000
barrels of crude oil a day and had its own cooper shop manufacturing wooden
barrels. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged
in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is
estimated that Standard Oil owned three-fourths of the petroleum business
in the US in the 1890s.
Rockefeller recognized the difficulties of wisely applying great
funds to human welfare, and he helped to define t ...
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Bill Clinton And His Many Problems
Number of Words: 566 / Number of Pages: 3
... to fulfil those very big
promises he gave during his election campaign in 1992. That has given his
credibility and the polls a big push down. One of his promises was his health
program, the purpose of this was to give people with not so many money a chance
to get treated at a hospital. In US you are supposed to pay hospital-bills
yourself. It is something like our public health insurance where the government
pays for the ho¬ spitals. In US it is a problem that the poor can not afford the
medicine and therefore they sometimes do not get any. This healthprogram was
unfortunately voted down by the re ...
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Malcom X
Number of Words: 649 / Number of Pages: 3
... real name that he never knew. After his release from prison he started preaching for the Nation of Islam (NOI). His preaching was known for its hatred overtone. He describes America as a house with a "bomb" inside and it is about to explode. Unless the white people want the house to explode and kill everyone inside, they should take the bomb out and give it a house of their own. His speeches were very popular among angry blacks and he was frequently on the front page of the newspaper. It was rumored that other Nation of Islam members were jealous about his popularity and worried about the power he was ...
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Elvis
Number of Words: 1397 / Number of Pages: 6
... the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar.
In 1949, was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, graduated from high school and began working as a truck driver while he studied evenings to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, noticed a sign that read, "Memphis Recording Service-Make Your Own Records. Four Dollars for Two ...
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Amelia Earhart
Number of Words: 889 / Number of Pages: 4
... status for being the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane.
Although her fame was set with her first flight, she wanted to promote aviation in women. In 1929, she organized a cross-country air race for women pilots named "the Power Puff Derby." She also formed "the Ninety Nines" a now famous women pilots organization. In addition to forming organizations for women pilots, she occupied her four year break from flying with writing her first book, "20 hours, 40 minutes" on her first flight, became assistant to the general traffic manager of TWA and served as vice president for public ...
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Lena Horne
Number of Words: 1333 / Number of Pages: 5
... (who later died in 1970 from kidney failure). While trying to get used to raising a family and having a career, she received a call from an agent, who had seen her at the Cotton Club, about a part in a movie. Her controlling husband allowed her to be in “The Duke is Tops” and also the musical revue “Blackbirds of 1939." When she finally got up the courage to leave Louis, he deiced to take her son away from her. Page 2 She lost custody of Teddy when the divorce was final and has always regretted not fighting harder for her son. After her divorce she began singing with Noble Sissie’s Society Orchestra. ...
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King William I
Number of Words: 935 / Number of Pages: 4
... of NATO, which Clinton practically controls anyway. He used the United Nations as an excuse
to intervene in something that didn't concern us because "it was in the best interests of mankind as a whole." That was not unlike the Treaty of Vienna in the 19th century. The treaty basically gave the most powerful nations in Europe the right to intervene and interfere in any conflict or uprising that was deemed "harmful" to the rest of Europe. The treaty was written by countries where, by and large, monarchy was still prevalent. So it would not be much of a change to just make Clinton a king because he is a ...
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Ghandi 2
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... and made from hand-woven wool. The spinning wheel was one of the symbols used in his fight for India.
Gandhi gave new life to the old idea of nationalism indeed. He helped to spark the fire that once was weak and now burned brightly. By his actions and protests and rallies for nationalism, he helped to try to unite Muslim and Hindu against their oppressors. Gandhi gave speeches on god attempting to show him as one entity as opposed to being separate through religion. These speeches helped to give Muslims and Hindus common ground on which to fight. The theory was good but in the end it did not ...
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Leonard Bernstein
Number of Words: 1035 / Number of Pages: 4
... relationship with Miss Williams lasted for two years.
When Bernstein decided that he needed a more professional teacher, he went under the education of Helen Coates, who would later become a life long friend and secretary. After four years of working under Helen, he was accepted as a student of Heinrid Gebhard, who was the best piano teacher in Boston.
At the age of seventeen, Bernstein was accepted at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was interested in many other things other than music. For example, philosophy and history were both subjects of great importance to him. After ...
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Hitler And World War I
Number of Words: 1824 / Number of Pages: 7
... army and forbid Germany to join together with Austria. Adding to Germany's already vast economic problems, the country had to pay financial reparations for the war. Hence, the Treaty of Versailles fueled nationalist propaganda and played a major role in collapsing the Weimar Republic in the early 1930s.
Besides the Treaty of Versailles, several other factors affected the Weimar Republic. Parties in the Weimar Republic were closely aimed at specific socioeconomic interest groups. For example, the Social Democrats (SPD) were concerned with representing the working class and the German People's Par ...
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