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Howard Hughes-A Flying Life
Number of Words: 958 / Number of Pages: 4
... attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools.
His father’s great fortune left Howard very wealthy. After his father’s death he was left an estate worth $871,000, and a patent for a drill. The drill was for oil drilling
which made much money. In 1925 Howard got married to Ella Rice, he was twenty . He got divorced in 1928 and that same year he got his first pilots license.
Howard had two careers that made him very successful in life. He started a company called Hughes Aircraft Company. The reason he started this ...
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Rosa Parks
Number of Words: 286 / Number of Pages: 2
... bus system by blacks, with Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the movement.
In spite of harassment the boycott continued, and in 1956 segregated seating was challenged in a federal law suit. Parks' personal history has been lost in the retelling of the event. Prior to her arrest, Mrs. Parks had a firm and quiet strength to change things that were unjust. She served as secretary of the NAACP and later Advisor to the NAACP Youth Council, and tried to register to vote on several occasions when it was still nearly impossible to do so. She had run-ins with bus drivers and was evicted from buses.
Forty year ...
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Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
Number of Words: 545 / Number of Pages: 2
... same time, Goya achieved his first popular success. He became established as a portrait painter to the Spanish aristocracy. He was elected to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1780, named painter to the king in 1786, and made a court painter in 1789.
A serious illness in 1792 left Goya permanently deaf. Isolated from others by his deafness, he became increasingly occupied with the fantasies and inventions of his imagination and with critical and satirical observations of mankind. He evolved a bold, free new style close to caricature. In 1799 he published the Caprichos, a series of etchings satiri ...
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Biography Of Karl Marx
Number of Words: 2066 / Number of Pages: 8
... care-free one. His parents had a
good relationship and it help set Karl in the right direction." His ‘
splendid natural gifts' awakened in his father the hope that they would one
day be used in the service of humanity, whilst his mother declared him to
be a child of fortune in whose hands everything would go well. (The story
of his life, Mehring, page 2)
In High school Karl stood out among the crowd. When asked to write
a report on "How to choose a profession" he took a different approach. He
took the angle in which most interested him, by saying that there was no
way to choose a profession, but beca ...
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Stalin
Number of Words: 3008 / Number of Pages: 11
... the Axis powers while at the same time trying to guarantee security from the West.
wanted nothing less than to rule the Soviet Union and make her the greatest country in the world and he would stop at nothing to reach those goals. In his quest for leadership wished to consolidate his power in only himself, thus enabling him to better rule the Soviet Union. 's roots in politics go all the way back to him being expelled from the theological seminary in Tiflis, Georgia in 1899. This was where got his first real taste for politics and from that point on his political ambitions grew greater and greater ...
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John Dalton (1766 - 1844)
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... Dalton was the first person to develop a scientific atom theory, the ancient Greeks had ideas about the atom but could not prove it scientifically.
Antoine Lavoisier and Dalton are responsible for the discovery of 90 natural elements. Dalton also explained the variations of water vapor in the atmosphere, the base of meteorology.
Dalton’s atomic theory says that each element contained its own number of atoms. Each element had its own size and weight. Dalton’s idea said that all things are made of small bits of matter this bits of matter where too small to be seen even with a microscope. Scientist ...
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The Henchmen: German Government Officials In WWII
Number of Words: 1522 / Number of Pages: 6
... of an activist in government reform. Hitler, looking to recruit
fellow officers in his plan, then in it's infancy, liked Roehm's strong
presence and personality. Roehm, jobless and nowhere to go, joined
Hitler's office. After Hitler was elected into office some years later, he
split his dictatorship into different divisions. Roehm, being one of the
original officers, was chosen as head of the Sturmabteilung, or SA,
commonly referred to as the Brownshirts and storm-troopers. By 1932, the
Brownshirts had reached more than 400,000 members. All types of men who
Hitler saw fit enough to join were mem ...
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
Number of Words: 922 / Number of Pages: 4
... late 1822, John was needed back at the London office, so they
had to move to London. This gave Charles opportunities to walk around the
town with his father and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of the
area. This gave him early inspiration that he would use later on in his
life when he started to write (Mankowitz 13-14).
James Lamert, the owner of a boot-blacking factory, saw the
conditions that the Dickens family was going through. He offered Charles a
job there and he was paid six shillings a week which was reasonable at
that time. Soon, he was moved downstairs in the sweatshop-like room.
Ch ...
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John Hancock
Number of Words: 1563 / Number of Pages: 6
... go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of the reason that they would have to move. Mary’s parents were both dead and a very difficult decision would have to be made by Mary.
Her anxiety to make that decision was lessened by the invitation from the
bishop and his wife, to live with them in Lexington. A year later, John was sent away to live with his uncle Thomas and aunt Lydia, and to attend Boston Latin School. It isn’t sure if he moved there to live with his uncle or to attend that school. Wha ...
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Clinton Vs. Nixon
Number of Words: 491 / Number of Pages: 2
... Nixon was the first to go into China territory for negotiations. Ultimately, they have attracted the media with their antics, making themselves’ targets of controversy and embarrassment. In fact, President Clinton and Nixon have become the subjects of public mockery and have been an embarrassment to the American people in the office of the President. Moreover, both men have been involved in humiliating situations.
Although, of all the correlation’s these Presidents share, they also have a few contrasting elements. President Clinton and Nixon committed different categories of crime. In fact ...
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