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Mother Teresa
Number of Words: 1509 / Number of Pages: 6
... she became principal of the school. had a special place in her heart for children, and she showed it her actions. In 1982, during a the siege of Bierut, she convinced the Israeli army and Palestinian guerillas to stop shooting long enough for her to rescue thirty-seven children trapped in a front line hospital. Children were always delighted to be around , but many World leaders quailed at her approach. They knew that she would not flatter them and that she might ask some embarrassing questions. Her requests for their help with her charitable projects were invariably polite and respectful, but ...
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Richard Nixon
Number of Words: 564 / Number of Pages: 3
... Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promised, he appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon lan ...
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Famous People With Mental Illnesses
Number of Words: 2725 / Number of Pages: 10
... newspaper and magazine articles for his ability to fight the disease he has fought most of his life. His message was simple to families who have mentally ill children or adults, don't give up on them. His motto was, ''Believe they can get well.” Lionel lost his battle with schizophrenia and paranoia as he passed away in 1998.
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was born on October 16th, 1888 in New York City. He was one of the most famous play writers of all time. Eugene suffered from clinical depression. Eugene often was placed in an Asylum or psychiatric hospital for numerous suicide attemp ...
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Grace Hopper Biography
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... Grace was accepted to the Bureau of Ordinance at Harvard University. That is when she was introduced to and assigned to work on Mark I -- the first large-scale U.S. computer and precursor of electronic computers. Her first assignment with Mark I was to "have the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents completed [in about one week]"… not a problem for Grace. She would then be the third person ever to program the Mark I. At that same time, the Mark I was being used to calculate the angles at which naval guns were to be aimed. Shortly after that a machine called BINAC was being develop ...
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Number of Words: 1107 / Number of Pages: 5
... speech, each word is used more differently and more intensely than in ordinary discourse. Old yellow pair resounds with more meaning than old couple. "Yellow" implies faded or old; "Pair" is more compassionate than "couple", suggesting more of a connection than just a matchup. Though easily readable, the first line sets a tone of tenderness. Dinner is a casual affair is also a unique statement. Though five plain words, each is used effectively to create an irony which is maintained for the rest of the stanza. "Dinner" and "affair" imply more formal si ...
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Sinclair Lewis
Number of Words: 1323 / Number of Pages: 5
... a while. After working on some temporary jobs, he graduated Yale in 1908. After he got his degree, he worked for publishing houses and various magazines in Iowa, Carmel, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York City. During his time in Greenville Village, he associated with some radicals like John Reed and Floyd Dell, and he became, for a while, member of the socialist party. In 1912, Lewis published his first book, Hike and the Aeroplane. This book was published under the pseudonym Tom Graham. This book was about a boy and his adventures. In 1914, Lewis got married to Grace Livingston Hegger, and e ...
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Reformation Of Government Thro
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself" (2:475). In other words, if a law denies the right of the minority or is inflicted upon the minority by force, then it is not a just law. Similar opinions are shared by Thoreau, when he writes "But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice..."(1:1425). Both agreed that if a law is unjust, it is the duty of the opposition to break the law, and do what they believe to be right. Once a law is broken, the person must be willing to accept the consequences, which may be the penalty ...
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The Death Of Ivan Ilyich: Leo Tolstoy - Rebirth By Death
Number of Words: 321 / Number of Pages: 2
... that his notion
about his decent and helpfulness was just illusion. He felt as if he were
being squeezed down into a black hole and there at the bottom was light. This
metaphor serves as image of physical death and spiritual rebirth. His death
gave birth to new consciousness. He suddenly perceived that man's essential
life belongs to the spirit and well-being is achieved through loving of people.
He asked forgiveness of his family for his sins and welcomed death... This moral
transformation makes real end of his unreal life. As a moralist Tolstoy would
like to play attention of Russian intelli ...
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Martin Luther King
Number of Words: 1566 / Number of Pages: 6
... 1st. Two Patrolmen took her away to the police station where she
was booked. He and 50 other ministered held a meeting and agreed to start a
boycott on December 5th, the day of Rosa Parks's hearing. This boycott
would probably be successful since 70% of the riders were black. The bus
company did not take them seriously, because if there was bad weather, they
would have to take the bus. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
was established to co-ordinate the boycott. They had a special agreement
with black cab companies, in which they were allowed to get a ride for a
much cheaper price than nor ...
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Francesco Redi
Number of Words: 533 / Number of Pages: 2
... experiments. Unfortunately, Redi died on March 1st in Pisa, Italy at the age in seventy-two. This was a grand age for the period at which he lived.
Spontaneous generation "is the ability of living organisms can originate in nonliving matter independently of other living matter.(Webster's)" This was popular belief before the seventeenth century. People saw dead organisms decay but couldn't understand how. They believed that microorganisms were able to appear on dead organisms without any contact with any other organism. Redi was out to disprove that theory. And this is how he did it…
Redi obser ...
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