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Jonathan Larson
Number of Words: 694 / Number of Pages: 3
... hand.
January 22. Morning. Jonathan Larson telephones Cabrini Medical to
query the results of the tests taken the previous evening for food poisoning.
The employee on the other end of the line claimed no results could be found but
tried to assure Larson that if any thing serious had been found he would have
been notified immediately. The rest of the day, Larson spent being nursed by
Eddie Rosenstine.
Evening. Brian Carmody found his roommate in bed, short of breath and
mumbling in a low voice. The only food he could seemingly stomach was Jell-O and
some tapioca pudding.
Ja ...
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Rush Limbaugh
Number of Words: 859 / Number of Pages: 4
... as a disc jockey,
Rush got his first taste of radio. From there, Rusty began to work at several
different stations, none of which were getting him anywhere. During one of his
first radio jobs Rush went by the name Jeff Christie while working for KQV in
Pittsburgh. He was fired by a man named Jim Carnegie, who now says that he was
instructed to fire him, but as soon as Jim got his next job, he hired Rush again.
At the age of 28 Rush took a job organizing community events for the Kansas
City Royals. This paid him $18,000 a year. Rush spent five unfulfilling years
with the Royals. “No fault of p ...
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Newton And Prisms
Number of Words: 778 / Number of Pages: 3
... and that reflections and refractions cause colors to appear through the separation of the "white" light. To demonstrate and prove his theory, Newton used a prism.
A prism is a type of lens with sharp angled edges that are able to separate light. Prisms can be very simple boxes or triangles or prisms can be in complex shapes like diamonds. The prism's ability to bend visible light into the different colors that make up the rainbow is what helped it become the perfect tool for Newton.
To set up his experiment, Newton took a single beam of "white" light and passed it through a prism. The prism separa ...
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Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power
Number of Words: 695 / Number of Pages: 3
... and French leaders condemned him for these acts, he looked
elsewhere for allies and found Germany and Japan.
He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-
1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo
Franco, but being associated with the atrocities of this brutal war lost
him still more support in the rest of the world. His biggest mistake,
however, was the decision to enter the Second World War. On 10 June 1940,
Germany had been at war with Britain and France since the previous
September, but Italy was still at peace, and had little reason to ...
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Upton Sinclair
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... from the inside, public uproar was his among lesser expectation. The details regarding the unsanitary and disgusting conditions in meat packing factories appear to be background details of a much larger picture. Sinclair's main fight in his "Conditions at the Slaughterhouse" was to bring about the ideology of Socialism and how government needed to step in and take control.
The grotesque ways in which the meat was being processed in these plants also relates to the ways in which workers were being treated as well. People working in these plants were about as valuable to the owners as the ind ...
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Malcolm X
Number of Words: 335 / Number of Pages: 2
... suspended as a
minister of the Black Muslims. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he announced
(1964) that he had become an orthodox Muslim and founded the rival
Organization for Afro-American Unity. His travel in the Middle East and
Africa gave him a more optimistic view regarding potential brotherhood
between black and white Americans; he no longer preached racial separation,
but rather a socialist revolution.
His career ended abruptly when he was shot and killed in New York City
on Feb. 21, 1965, by assassins thought to be connected with the Black
Muslims. The AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X (dictated to ...
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Hippocrates, The Father Of Medicine
Number of Words: 424 / Number of Pages: 2
... His
teachings, sense of detachment, and ability to make direct, clinical
observations probably influenced the other authors of these works and had much
to do with freeing ancient medicine from superstition.
Among the more significant works of the Hippocratic Collection is Airs,
Waters, and Places, which, instead of ascribing diseases to divine origin,
disusses their environmental causes. It proposes that considerations such as a
town's weather drinking water, and site along the paths of favorable winds can
help a physician ascertain the general health of citizens. Three other works-
Prognostic, C ...
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Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation Of The Chinese Military
Number of Words: 1833 / Number of Pages: 7
... of Yuan and also gain the advantage of being in a very influential military family. All of this would help him later in his military career. In 1886, Shih-k’ai would be taken to begin preparing for his career in the civil service.
China had been using exams for many generations to decide who its leaders would be, and these test would be based on the Confucius theories. Its desire to hold on to the old ways would cause the country to become a target for foreign countries to try and control. The foreign invasion would begin after Japan had defeated China in the first Sino-Japanese War. In the Shimon ...
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George Washington
Number of Words: 2218 / Number of Pages: 9
... by marriage. His journey led him to take a lifelong interest in the development of western lands. In the summer of 1749 he was given the job of official surveyor for Culpeper County, and during the next two years he made many surveys for landowners on the Virginia frontier. In 1753 he was given the job of adjutant of one of the districts into which Virginia was divided, with the rank of major.
Washington played an important role in the struggles preceding the outbreak of the French and Indian War. He was chosen by Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia to deliver a strong calling on the French ...
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Jackie Robinson
Number of Words: 1588 / Number of Pages: 6
... After leaving the Army Jackie wanted to play baseball, his
favorite sport. He tried out for many teams and was drafted by the Kansas
City Monarchs Negro League Team (Hill 1). The Negro League schedule was
very tuff. The team was always on the road playing games. Jackie did not
like the life style of being on the Monarchs (“Robinson, Jackie”). He and
his teammates would have to withstand the racial tensions everywhere they
went (Ward, Burns 285) . While Jackie was playing in the Negro Leagues,
Branch Rickey, the Los Angeles Dodgers manager was secretly sending out
scouts to look at Ja ...
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