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Ben Franklin
Number of Words: 1325 / Number of Pages: 5
... their houses. Also there would be a lot of extra wood because less wood was required for burning. It was also was a lot less dangerous because it was a closed flame rather than an open fire. Ben found out that the women in his family that stayed home each day, did not get as many cold and toothaches as they used to(Cousins 89). “Soon every women in Philadelphia wanted a Franklin stove”(Cousins 89). “The Pennsylvania authorities were very pleased. They offered Franklin the patent for his design of the stove. This meant that he could earn money for every Franklin stove made. He refused saying that he was ...
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Thomas Alva Edison
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... and the telegraph transmitter, as well as many other patents dealing with telegraphs such as the Automatic Telegraph, Duplex Telegraphs, Quadruplex Telegraph Repeater, Telephonic Telegraphs, and Acoustic Telegraphs.
When he was working at the train station a choice that he had no idea would lead to his interest in telegraphs came about. The station operator’s son had fallen on the tracks. Thomas made a wise decision and decided that he could help him and ran down and got him off the tracks with just about 15 seconds to spare. Because of that the station operator decided to teach Edison about te ...
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Cardinal Richelieu
Number of Words: 903 / Number of Pages: 4
... problems was ideally suited to this life. In 1606 then Abbe Armand de Richelieu was appointed Bishop of Lucon and in 1622, Pope Gregory appointed him a Cardinal.
Like his grandfather and father before him, serving the monarchy was very important to Richelieu. To this end he allied himself with Marie de Medici, the queen mother, and was appointed to the court as Secretary of State to foreign affairs in 1616. This position did not last long as Marie's favorite, Concino Concini, was assassinated; this caused a falling out between mother and son. The king, Louis XII, had decided to take a more direc ...
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The Life And Work Of Ronald Dahl
Number of Words: 2475 / Number of Pages: 9
... in
Scandinavian customs, though, teaching them the language of Norway, and
instilling them with a love for all things Norwegian instead of those
English. Mark West contends that this contributed to the detached attitude
Dahl had for England and the feelings of isolation he experienced
throughout his life (2).
Regardless of the impact his Norwegian upbringing would have on his
future, Dahl wrote in Boy that the most idyllic days of his youth were
spent during the summers he, his mother, and his sisters would visit
Sofie's parents, Betsepapa and Betsemama, in Norway (53-74). "The summer
holidays! ...
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James Baldwin
Number of Words: 1702 / Number of Pages: 7
... to credit his years at the pulpit for morphing him into the writer he was to become.
In 1942 James Baldwin was fed up with his father, fed up with the church, and (at that point) fed up with his life. The brassy, young Baldwin went into a restaurant, which he knew was designated for whites only, and demanded that he be served. When the waitress informed him that they did not serve his "kind" in that restaurant Baldwin picked up a glass and hurled it at her with all his pent up spite for the world. (That was the last straw for James Baldwin, he knew that he needed to leave his home since chil ...
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Malcolm X
Number of Words: 1021 / Number of Pages: 4
... to migrate with his family to Lansing, Michigan. It did not help. The white racists of Lansing killed Malcolm’s father and laid him on a railway track, claiming he committed suicide. Alone and without money, Louise Little got more and more desperate, before the white authorities sent her to a mental hospital.
Malcolm attended school until eighth grade living with different families. When his teacher stopped him from trying to become a lawyer, he dropped out of school and went to his older half sister, Ella, who lived in Boston. There, he took a job as a shoeshine boy at the Roseland Ballroom. A career ...
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Louis Riel
Number of Words: 992 / Number of Pages: 4
... in fact, he wanted to use peaceful methods to achieve the changes they desired. Moreover, he had no intention to declare independence nor to take over Canada. Unfortunately, Canadian government did not realize the difficult situation of the Metis. They kept ignoring and disregarding their demand. Consequently, these people were forced to rebel and fight against Canada.
During 1870, the Hudson’s bay company sold the Repert’s land to Canada. However, the Metis had never been consulted by either Hudson’s Bay Company or the Canadian government during the period of negotiations. The Canadian govern ...
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John Gough
Number of Words: 670 / Number of Pages: 3
... on it first before I make a public advent with it.
Take care
Sincerely,
Jonathan Dalton
Mr. John Gough was the blind son of a wealthy tradesman who taught Dalton almost every thing you possibly could have needed to acquire the brilliance that John Dalton had. Dalton really flourished with Mr. Gough and they were very good friends during this period of learning for Dalton.
Any further research can be found on John Gough on my reference to this subject.
Resume of John Dalton
Date of Birth: 6 September 1766
Place of Birth: Cockermouth, England
1772-1777 Attended Quaker ...
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Number of Words: 662 / Number of Pages: 3
... and years later she became a medical student. All the young men teased her in her class, but she learned to deal with it.
For a long time the Blackwell's ran a sugar business. It was very successful, until one day the business started to loose money and they had to move to America; and there she would be able to go to a better school. So, on August 1832 they left to America on a ship. The trip was very hard for them it was like a nightmare. More than 200 people were crowded aboard the ship, and most of them brought cattle, rat-infested blackness below the deck of the ship. Even first-class ...
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A Comparison Of Alfred Hitchcock And Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 1142 / Number of Pages: 5
... the beginning, almost ghost-like, with his
"cadaverousness of complexion" — however, he is not a murderer. He suffers
from a mental disorder which makes him obsessed with fear: fear of the
past, of the house, of the dead. He finally dies, "victim to the terrors
he had anticipated."
The way in which madness is projected in both stories is quite
similar as well. The short story and the movie both take place in a dark
and gloomy house, a "ghostly house" — "a mansion of doom," writes Poe. In
both houses there is the presence of a mysterious woman. For Poe, the
woman is Roderick Usher's sis ...
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