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Jonathan Edwards
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... twenty-three. Her son, Aaron Burr, became the Vice President of
the United States.
Edward was a strong willed pastor. His presence and brilliant
sermons helped to bring about the religious revival known as the "Great
Awakening". He drew such graphic pictures of the hell awaiting them that
the people began to frantically prepare for the conversion experience by
which they would be "born again". Edwards first published revival
narrative, Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God, described his
town awakening. Although it was written in 1736 it is still referred to
today. In 1739 these "brus ...
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Saint John Bosco
Number of Words: 647 / Number of Pages: 3
... 16. Father Cafasso helped John through seminary school because he could not afford it, neither could his mother help him pay for it.
John became a priest in 1841 at the age of 26, and was named Don Bosco, which means Father Bosco. After Sunday Mass's he would have a catechism class
which would teach young people about God. After a while the catechism class turned into a school were boys could receive a real education, not just a religion class. He was appointed chaplain of St. Philomena's Hospice for girls. John did not really like his job so he resigned and opened a house for boys, where he helpe ...
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Donald Barthelme
Number of Words: 1103 / Number of Pages: 5
... White, a parody of the popular children’s fairy tale, the novel. He won the National Book Award for Children’s literature for the book titled "The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: or, the Hithering, Thithering, Djinn" (1971) (Marowski and Matuz, 3?). In 1976 he received the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982. Barthelme also had the privilege of being widely regarded as one of ...
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of Words: 1606 / Number of Pages: 6
... home, it had to be through the back door.
Even though Martin did not like these rules, he could not change it as a child. Even with them though, he still managed to live a normal life. He loved church and reading the bible. He decided to become a minister very early in his life. That dream was not far away for him. Because he liked to read so much, it made him very smart in school and he skipped two grades. As King learned about white mans laws, he tried to think of different ways to try and change them. This is what lead him to becoming a minister. So at the age of 15 the deacons of his church lic ...
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Lee De Forest
Number of Words: 894 / Number of Pages: 4
... of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, with the help of scholarships, and money his parents made by working odd jobs. By this time he had become interested in electricity, particularly the study of electromagnetic wave propagation, then being pioneered chiefly by the German Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and the Italian Guglielmo Marconi. De Forest's doctoral dissertation on the "Reflection of Hertzian Waves from the Ends of Parallel Wires" is said to poss ...
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Malcolm X
Number of Words: 1415 / Number of Pages: 6
... to Lansing, Michigan. Here was where Malcolm's father died at the
hand of the Black Legion (X 4-13). After Malcolm's father's death, his
mother who had to take care of eight children and endure threats from the
KKK, suffered a nervous breakdown. As a result, Malcolm and his siblings
were taken by the welfare department. Malcolm was later enrolled in a
reform school and did very well grade wise. He was the best student in his
class and wanted to become a lawyer. When the school heads heard about
this, they sent a person to talk to Malcolm. This person told and
convinced Malcolm that he was black and ...
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Stephen Hawking
Number of Words: 1424 / Number of Pages: 6
... he fell down, he could not remember anything, gradually he began remembering, until he remembered it all, which took all of two hours. graduated from Oxford University at the age of twenty in 1962. He then took a trip to Prussia with a friend. During the visit, he became ill. Upon returning to England, he had a series of tests to identify his health problem. He moved to Cambridge to attend graduate school, which is where he learned that he had Lou Gehrig’s disease. This disease destroys the voluntary muscles, making normal tasks become impossible, such as walking and eating. Doctors predicted t ...
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Bill Cosby
Number of Words: 1286 / Number of Pages: 5
... week of football he broke his arm. Since there were few blacks in the school and he was slightly a target of biggotous remarks he went back to getting attention by clowning around in class again. He was later sent to Germantown Highschool where all his neighborhood friends went. He was back with his friends but his grades started to drop. He was left back twice. He was also too old to participate in the city track meets (which he could easily win). Bill dropped out of high school. He went to be a shoemaker=s helper, but the shoemaker didn=t like it when he nailed the ladies heels onto the mens shoes!
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Socrates
Number of Words: 3018 / Number of Pages: 11
... he knew that sort of thing was not for him. He thought about everything in a more abstract way.
The Gods during time seemed to be further away from humanity, they did not disguise themselves as humans to help or punish them anymore (1). He only knew of them from old stories, myths, and Homer. He had a voice in him that stopped him from doing certain things as he was about to, and he thought that that was gift from the gods. He knew that goodness was the very mark of the gods and that is why he tried his best to be just towards everything and everybody.
As a teen Socrates talked and studied ...
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Ted Bundy
Number of Words: 2143 / Number of Pages: 8
... Ted Bundy is one of the worst serial killers in history. His antisocial
personality and psychotic character made him feared across the country. After
all was said and done Ted left behind a trail of bloody slayings that included
the deaths of 36 young women and spanned through four states. The biggest
question in many people's mind was how could someone as intelligent,highly
accomplished, and praised as Bundy do such a thing?
Theodore Robert Bundy was born November 24th, 1946 in Burlinton, Vermont
to a 21 year old mother. Ted's mom never told him much about his father except
that h ...
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