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Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... Bishop in the county. On July
10,1982, Pope John Paul II reappointed Archbishop Bernardin to Archbishop of
Chicago. His installation took at Holy Name Cathedral on August 25,1982. Later
Archbishop Bernardin went to the College of Cardinals. On February 2,1983 he
received his "red hat."
On September 9,1996 President Clinton awarded Cardinal Bernardin the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. In presenting the Metal, the President cited
Cardinal Bernardin's work on behalf of racial equality and arms control and
noted he “has been a persistent voice for moderation.” Cardinal Bernardin was
Chancellor o ...
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Martin Luther King Reflection Essay
Number of Words: 323 / Number of Pages: 2
... companies and their products, that practiced legal
segregation and discrimination. The largest ever non-violent protest in
Washington August 23, 1968, where 200,000 people attended. This was where
King gave his famous " I have a Dream " speech.
Although King insisted on nonviolent ways, violence persistently
occurred. Marchers and protesters were attacked by dogs and shot at with
water hoses. Riot's brike out in black ghettos, and some people were even
beaten to death. The violence was also expressed in black nationalist
groups. The largest group was made up of people who lost faith in America ...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Number of Words: 585 / Number of Pages: 3
... her appetite for the classics was a passionate enthusiasm for her Christian faith. She became active in the Bible and Missionary Societies of her church. In 1826 Elizabeth then anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. Two years after that her mother passed away. The slow abolition of slavery in England and mismanagement of the plantations depleted the Barrett's income. In 1832 Elizabeth's father sold his rural estate at a public auction. He moved his family to a coastal town and rented cottages for the next three years, before settling permanently in London. While livin ...
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Benito Mussolini And His Impact On World War 2
Number of Words: 2040 / Number of Pages: 8
... Mussolini strongly gave thought to declaring war. He then attacked the Rivera across the Maritime. On September13, 1937, he opened an offensive into British- garrisoned Egypt from Libya.
On October 4, 1937, while the offensive still seemed to promise success, Benito Mussolini met Adolf Hitler at the Brenner Pass, on their joint frontier. The two of them discussed how the war in the Mediterranean, Britain’s principal foothold outside its island base, might be turned to her decisive disadvantage. Hitler suggested to Mussolini that Spain might be coaxed on the axis side, thus giving Germany free use of ...
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Shaka Zulu
Number of Words: 699 / Number of Pages: 3
... an important factor in the shaping of his thinking.
Dingiswayo introduced age regiments where young men were called up to serve for a part of every year, men from the same households and villages were put in different regiments, their allegiance primarily to the ruler of the chiefdom, Dingiswayo, and secondarily to their local chiefs.
In his early twenties, Shaka was conscripted into the Mthethwa army, as he was a skilled warrior, he ascended the ranks to command his own regiment. This put him in a position to introduce some ideas that he had. The traditional throwing spear, the assegai, was no ...
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Einstein
Number of Words: 543 / Number of Pages: 2
... theory of relativity. One of his predictions was how an eclipse was formed. Two British expeditions on the solar eclipse of May, 1919 tested this theory. His prediction was then confirmed and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
lived in Berlin, Germany for the next ten years. He was hardly ever actually in Berlin though, for he was constantly traveling to other countries to give lectures. While was lecturing in the United States, Adolf Hitler became leader of Germany and introduced the Nazi Party. Since was Jewish he decided not to return to Germany.
In 1933 traveled to Princeton, ...
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Aristotle
Number of Words: 1279 / Number of Pages: 5
... and not production
theorized that slaves were instruments of life and were therefore needed to form
a complete household. In fact Aristotle went as far as to say that a slave was
comparable to a tame animal, with their only divergence in the fact that a slave
could apprehend reason. For he concluded that a slave and animals only use was
to supply their owners with bodily help.
At the end of the Theories of the Household, Aristotle explains how
slaves are different from andy other types of people, in the sence that they are
the only class who are born into their occupation and become property of thei ...
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Number of Words: 1283 / Number of Pages: 5
... anti--social behavior, but he was a
member of many scientific organizations throughout the world. Naturally, he was
a member of the Royal Society, but he was also a member of the Deutsche Akademie
der Naturforsher and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He was a foreign member
of Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and the Academie des Sciences,
the Accademia delle Scienze Torino and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and
the National Academy of Science. He was an honorary member and fellow of the
Indian Academy of Science, the Chinese Physical Society, the Royal Irish Academy,
the Royal Soci ...
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The Good Times Of Clark Gable
Number of Words: 743 / Number of Pages: 3
... the 1930’s, he was under contract with MGM, where he ended up working for 23 years. Clark Gable tended to play opposite virtually every MGM female star- Greta Carbo, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Myrna Loy; in such films as No Man of Her Own (1932), Red Dust (1932), Strange Interlude (1932), Dancing Lady (1933) and Manhattan Melodrama (1934). He was loaned to Columbia Pictures to star opposite Claudette Colberte in the romantic comedy It Happened One Night (1934), the performance that won his only Academy Award. A string of successful roles followed in films as ...
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The Life Of Jackie Robinson
Number of Words: 2402 / Number of Pages: 9
... his impressive performance that day, several major universities offered him scholarships for his last two years of athletic eligibility.
Jackie chose the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to finish his last two years. Basically because UCLA was the college that was closest to home.
He had a repeat performance and became the first four letter man. No one had ever made four varsity athletic teams. Again just like in high school, he played basketball, baseball, football, and ran track and field. He was the lead man in basketball for scoring two years in a row. He was awarded the label A ...
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