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Squanto
Number of Words: 748 / Number of Pages: 3
... his newly acquired English friends how to survive in this foreign land. He helped them greatly in the area of growing and gathering food. Without the help of , the English never would have discovered many important methods involved in growing a decent crop on
the American soil. “ showed the immigrants how to plant corn in hillocks, using dead herring as fertilizer”() after many failed attempts of growing while using their own
methods. He also taught them how to fish and where the best spots were to catch enough to feed the colony. These important tips were essential to the survival of the Englis ...
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“George S. Patton, Jr.”
Number of Words: 801 / Number of Pages: 3
... VMI and West Point. He first went to VMI then he decided that he wanted the best so he transferred to West Point. While at West Point he was noticed for his amazing athletic ability he earned his letter there the famous Army A. He did this in football where in one game he broke both of his arms. He was also a good student in history and all of the war classes he took. He did not do so well in Mathematics and French for this reason they let him take another year to make up for his mistakes in these classes he took. So it took him five years to graduate from West Point. After graduating from coll ...
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Jack Robinson
Number of Words: 1089 / Number of Pages: 4
... to the University of California at UCLA. Jackie's true passion was playing sports. He excelled in every sport he played. His favorites were football, track, baseball and basketball, which earned him a scholarship. Jackie was the first student to play on four varsity teams. At UCLA in 1940 he met his future wife Rachel Isum. He did not complete his senior year at UCLA. Instead at age of 21 he joined NYA (national Youth Administration.) where he played baseball to entertain campers and worked with children. He also earned extra money by playing for a semi-pro football team, known as the Honolulu Bears. ...
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Massai Warriors- National Geographic Report
Number of Words: 544 / Number of Pages: 2
... that takes place over the course of a decade, either. It is a very spiritual ritual that occurs over a four-day period. This event is known as Eunoto. It is a very rigorous, very challenging, and almost an inhumane ceremony.
Eunoto involves the slaying of a lion, the skinning of a buffalo, sexual intercourse with prepuburtal and uncircumcised young girls, the erection of a new building for each young man involved, and very often, the hysterical trance of a young man, during which he may attempt to slay himself with a spear. The young man being initiated finally ends the ritual by having his h ...
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Eli Whitney
Number of Words: 1966 / Number of Pages: 8
... at one time he was the only maker of ladies' hatpins in the country.
In his early twenties, Whitney became determined to attend Yale College. Since Yale was mostly a school for law or theology, his parents objected. How could Yale College help enhance his mechanical talents? Finally, at the age of twenty-three, Whitney became a student at Yale. By this time, he seemed almost middle-aged to his classmates. After he graduated with his degree in 1792, he found that no jobs were available to a man with his talents. He eventually settled for teaching, and accepted a job as a tutor in South Carolina, his sal ...
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Generation X
Number of Words: 303 / Number of Pages: 2
... in terms of spending money on recreation. Recreation has become a culture of its own. Rollerblading, paintballing, jetskiing, video games, snowboarding, bungee jumping, and of course the mall.
.X-treme.
X-treme sports and pastimes is a X Generation phenomena. Always looking for new thrills, the Gen-Xers have been watching as technology improved or created new equipment to go higher, faster, at lower cost. i.e. in-line skates, jetskis, snowboards.
.open to new technology.
Generation X is familiar with technology and comfortable with the velocity and momentum at which it changes. Gen-Xer ...
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The Life And Death Of Julius C
Number of Words: 1422 / Number of Pages: 6
... bravery and superior skills at arms. After these years and Sulla's resignation in 78 BC, Julius decided to return to Rome. There he served as an officer in Crassus's army against Spartacus, Caesar climbed steadily in the government by serving as an official in many provinces (Internet Explorer). After the death of his wife Cornelia, Julius remarried a wealthy wife and allied with Crassus, who was the richest man in Rome at the time (Internet Explorer). Their opponent was Pompeius Magnus (the Great). Caesar wanted to become part of the consulate. The consulate was a governmental position where two consu ...
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Bruce Lee
Number of Words: 664 / Number of Pages: 3
... arts. He would practice everyday for hours, and even as a young child he was always practicing. “Bruce
Lee’s devotion to kung fu was total. At home, during dinner, he pounded away on a stool with alternate hands to toughen them” (8). Although is a good role model due to his discipline, it is not the only reason.
The second characteristic that made a good role model was his
determination. During his life was constantly plagued with problems. One of these was chronic back pains. “In 1970 Bruce injured his back in a weight-lifting session. The diagnosis was that he had p ...
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Issac Newton
Number of Words: 1269 / Number of Pages: 5
... His mother returned to Woolsthorpe to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she could not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and brought home to help her.
As a farmer, Newton proved to be a dismal failure. He neglected the necessary chores and thought only of books to study and mechanical things to make. There are many stories about him at that time that show how absent minded he was becoming. One day while he was leading a horse, the animal slipped its bridle and ran away. Isaac continued walking home with the empty bridle, unaware that the hors ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Number of Words: 870 / Number of Pages: 4
... and scientist. His most recognizable talent that he is commonly remembered for is painting, which in where he mastered the two techniques of sfumato and chiaroscuro. Sfumato is the technique to transition color, into a smoky or hazy effect. Chiaroscuro is the mastery of shadows and shading (Encarta-96). He uses these techniques very well in his most famous painting, the "Mona Lisa". Combining science and techniques at times left his works into technical disaster, yet left the work itself marvellous. The best example for that was possibly 's last piece, "The Last Supper" (Costantino 18). By his unders ...
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