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Thomas Edison
Number of Words: 2091 / Number of Pages: 8
... goes that the teacher whipped students who asked questions. After three months of school, the teacher called Thomas, "addled". Thomas was pissed. The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk with Reverend Engle. The teacher told his mother that Thomas couldn't learn. Nancy also became angry at the teacher's strict ways. “She took Thomas out of school and decided to home-school him.”(Allen pg. 34) It appears he briefly attended two more schools. However, his school attendance was not very good. So nearly all his childhood learning took place at home. Edison's parents loved to read ...
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John Paul Jones
Number of Words: 451 / Number of Pages: 2
... The other event was the Battle off Flambrough Head. A Baltic convoy
escorted by two British ships was sailing past Flamborough Head, and since
Jones had always wanted to break up a Baltic convly, that's exactly what he
planned to do.
Jones had three warships under his command compared to the two British
escorts. He soon realized after chasing the convoy, that he would have to
sink the escorts ot get a crack at the convoy. when the battle started,
bad communication left Jones' ship one-on-one with a superior waship,
another ship fighting the other British escort, and the alst ship ...
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Number of Words: 307 / Number of Pages: 2
... had a good Vice-Presidential term, he was known as the backbone to the Johnson administration. He ran all foreign conflicts etc.. There was two Presidents during this term, Johnson was the White colored type President and Humphrey was the President that went and got things done, the blue colored worker, he was the guy that was willing to get his hands dirty. Humphrey later died at his home in Waverly, Minnesota on January 13, 1978 of cancer. His widow was apointed to fill out his Senate term. The stadium that the Minnesota Twins now play in(a major league baseball team) is named after the late ...
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Wrestling With The American Culture
Number of Words: 619 / Number of Pages: 3
... and tight clothes that have there
name or “catch phrase” written on it.
Wrestling goes straight to it’s demographic audience when it gets sponsors
like Castrol motor oil, RC cola, Chef Boyarde, and Tower Records. The color
commentators plug these every chance they get before or after the matches. The
fans of this sport cheer every chance they get and bring large signs for everyone to
see. even though the fans don’t physically get into a match, they psychologically
distract some wrestlers with blaring chants that go straight to the wrestlers brain.
There are 2 announcers that sit at ringsi ...
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Louis Leakey
Number of Words: 2457 / Number of Pages: 9
... as he could find. After confirmation by a prehistory expert that these were truly stone tools of ancient Africans, truly links to the past, Leakey knew that the rest of his life would be devoted towards discovering the secrets of the prehistoric ancestors of humankind.
Despite not being accustomed to the school structure back in England and the accompanying problems he had in public school, Leakey was accepted into Cambridge in 1922. However, blows to the head sustained during rugby games resulted in epilepsy and headaches for Leakey, and he had to leave school in 1923. This, however, was a bless ...
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Eva Peron
Number of Words: 2023 / Number of Pages: 8
... Eva felt the injustice of the world, that she felt that there had something to be done for those who did not have enough to eat.
In 1930 Juana Ibarguen decide to leave Los Toldos and left to Junin with all her family seeking for a better fortune. Evita had this dream of someday becoming an actress and she believed in herself saying that she indeed has vocation. She participated in some recitals and plays from school. By 1935 Eva had made up her mind of becoming a great actress. Just after her fifteen birthday Eva met a tango singer: Agustin Magaldi, who had come to Junin to give some presentations. E ...
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Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... upon which the infrastructure of an organization must be built as a coherent system of life. According to Iqbal, this system of life when implemented as a living force is ISLAM. Because it is based on permanent (absolute) values given in the Qur'an, this system provides perfect harmony, balance, and stability in the society from within and the source of security and a shield from without. It also provides freedom of choice and equal opportunity for the development of personality for everyone within the guidelines of Qur'an. Thus, in Iqbal's opinion, Islam is not a religion in which individuals striv ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 3474 / Number of Pages: 13
... power following Germany's defeat. With his strong hatred for the Communists, the Jews, and the weak government, Hitler vowed to fight back, and to change the terrible things, which he believed, had been done to Germany.
After the War, Hitler found a job as a prison guard sixty miles north from Munich. The job was boring, but it provided him with security, food, shelter, and something to do. When the job ended, Hitler went back to Munich, where he was offered a more challenging job due to his great dislike for the Communists who were provoking revolution in cities throughout Germany. In this assignmen ...
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Louis Pasteur 3
Number of Words: 1185 / Number of Pages: 5
... generation which states that certain forms of life such as flies, worms, and mice can develop from non-living matter such as mud and decaying fish. Pasteur disproved this theory with a simple experiment. He showed that microorganisms would grow in sterilized broth only if the broth was first exposed to air containing spores, or reproductive cells. His findings led to the development of the cell theory of the origin of living matter which states that all life originates from preexisting living material.
In 1849, Pasteur became professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, where h ...
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Edgar Allen Poe
Number of Words: 908 / Number of Pages: 4
... habits.
What made ? Through his lifetime many different misfortunes and disasters would strike him. All of these would shape him and his writing to what we now associate as the father of modern diabolic fiction. (Internet source) The first of the tragedies to plague him would be the abandonment by his father. He would grow never knowing who his real father was. His father had left his family when Edgar was only an infant. The next misfortune would be the death of his mother when he was three. There was yet another factor that would shape him throughout his lifetime. He would also come how from hi ...
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