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Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 748 / Number of Pages: 3
... unpaid naturalist on a scientific expedition around the world.
Now Charles Darwin was around the age twenty-two while he was on the HMS Beagle. Darwin’s job as a naturalist aboard the Beagle gave him the opportu-nity to observe the various geological formations found on different continents and islands along the way, as well as a huge variety of fossils and organisms. In his geo-logical observations he was amazed mostly with the effect that natural forces had on shaping the earth’s surface.
During this time, most geologists stuck to the so-called catastrophes theory that the earth had exp ...
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Levi Strauss
Number of Words: 816 / Number of Pages: 3
... persuaded his two brothers to provide him with a supply of silk, cloth, and a few luxury items, which he planned to sell in San Francisco. He also took a supply of canvas, which he intended to use to make tents, and wagon covers to sell to prospectors who were crossing the continent. In January of 1853 Levi became a United States citizen, and by March of the same year he arrived in San Francisco, by the time he landed, Levi had sold all his goods to passengers on the ship except for the canvas.
When got to San Francisco, he opened up a dry goods store under his own name representing his family’s ...
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of Words: 4784 / Number of Pages: 18
... nothing could be more
distasteful to me than what you propose, and, when you address me, I shall
be obliged if you will omit the 'Mr.' "
If we can imagine Washington doing so undignified a thing as did President
Lincoln, when he first met our present Secretary of State, (John Sherman)
and compared their respective heights by standing back to back, a sheet of
paper resting on the crowns of Washington and Jefferson would have lain
horizontal and been six feet two inches from the earth, but the one was
magnificent in physique, of massive frame and prodigious strength,—the
other was thin, wiry, bony, acti ...
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Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, Or None Of The Above
Number of Words: 939 / Number of Pages: 4
... River. Clemens piloted steamboats until the Civil War in 1861. Then he served briefly with the Confederate army (Mark Twain 1). In 1862 Clemens became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada. In 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning “two fathoms deep” (Bloom 43).
In 1865, Twain reworked a tale he had heard in the California gold fields, and within months the author and the story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, had become national sensations (Bloom 47). In 1867 Twain lectured in ...
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Malcolm X 3
Number of Words: 2021 / Number of Pages: 8
... All our experiences fuse into our personalities. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. I was born in trouble!
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, lost his Father, at the age of six, to violence of the Klu Klux Klan, although Newspapers at the time, reported differently "Earl Little, 41,…sustained fatal injuries… when he was run over by a streetcar…" (Myers 21) This tragedy, caused a great tear in Malcolm's family.
By the age of thirteen, Malcolm had seen his house burn down. He had been exposed to the violent death of his father, had known extreme hunger, had seen th ...
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Abraham Lincoln: Biography
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... bristling sea coats, our army and our navy . . . Our
defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all
lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of
despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage
and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book Encyclopedia).
He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during the debates with his
opponent Stephen Douglas, he became well known for his opposotion to slavery.
The southern states, which believed they depended upon slavery to remain
prosperous in the cotton, to ...
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Marilyn Monroe
Number of Words: 1876 / Number of Pages: 7
... many photo trips together, and Jim was rightly jealous, so he filed for divorce. I signed for a year's contract (twenty-six months) with Ben Lyon who worked for Twentieth-century Fox Productions, on August 24, 1946. He was responsible for changing my name. While working at Fox, I met someone who was later to become my best friend, Allan Snyder, and got two bit roles. In August of 1947, Fox downsized and did not renew my contract. I went to the Actor's Laboratory and studied drama and met a long string of influential people including Lee and Paula Strasberg, who in turn introduced me to Joe Shenck ...
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Joesph Stalin
Number of Words: 256 / Number of Pages: 1
... His family was very poor shoemaker who drank heavily and beat Stalin frequently. At the age of fourteen Stalin’s father died and Stalin was sent to a seminary to join the priesthood. He was later kicked out for revolutionary activity.
After being expelled he joined the Russian Social Democrat Party. Stalin then organized a force to revolt against the Czar. Stalin was arrested six times from 1902 to 1913. Stalin frequently attended Bolshevik party secret meetings. At these meetings is where Stalin befriended Lenin and they each had high regard for each other.
Because of this friendship Lenin h ...
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John Paul Stevens: Biography
Number of Words: 486 / Number of Pages: 2
... six, he could play better bridge then most adults today>²
Stevens attended the University of Chicago High School, and then later
went to the University its self. In 1941, he left the University with a Phi
Betta Kappa key, and a B.A. degree. He joined the navy, after the U.S entered
World War 2. Stevens was stationed in Washington D.C, as a intelligence officer
on the staff of admiral Chester W. Nimitz. He worked with a group assigned to
break Japanese codes. for doing this, he was awarded the Bronze Star. After he
returned to Chicago, (at the end of the war) he enrolled himself into
Northwestern Uni ...
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Isaac Newton
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... science. The Fluxional Method, Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the area swept by curves. He recognized that the two procedures were inverse operations. By joining them in what he called the fluxional method, Newton developed in 1666 a kind of mathematics that is known as calculus. Calculus was a new and powerful method that carried modern mathematics above the level of Greek geometry. Optics was another area of Newton's early interests. In trying to explain how colors occur, he arrived at the idea ...
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