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President Gerald Ford
Number of Words: 1417 / Number of Pages: 6
... name. Together, they moved to Grand Rapids Michigan
(1, Page 1). During his High School years, he was the most popular Senior
having been a great athlete and competing within 5 sports, his best being
Football. Being good at Football, he got a M.V.P, a scholarship to
Michigan with a Football scholarship and was offered a contract by the
Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. He finally took a job as
assistant Football coach at Yale.
While at Yale, he became interested in law and asked to take courses.
He was soon invited to learn law in the college and didn't graduate till he
was 27 be ...
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
Number of Words: 2054 / Number of Pages: 8
... around historic Boston learning about American revolutionary
history. Both parents impressed on their children that their country had
been good to the Kennedys. Whatever benefits the family received from the
country they were told, must be returned by performing some service for the
country(Anderson 12). The Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby, Ted and
their sisters, Eunice, Jean, Patricia, Rosemary, and Kathleen. Joe, Jr.,
was a significant figure in young John's life as he was the figure for most
of John's admiration. His older brother was much bigger and stronger than
John and took it upon himse ...
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Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Patriot
Number of Words: 649 / Number of Pages: 3
... repeatedly threatened,
and his home was bombed. The boycott ended later that year when the Supreme
Court outlawed segregation in public transportation. This was his first victory
and alone made Dr. King a highly respected leader. When he went to India in 1959,
he studied Gandhi's principle of "Satyagraha" or nonviolent persuasion, which he
planned to use for his social protests. In the following year he decided to move
back to Atlanta to become copastor with his father. In 1963 he was back in
Birmingham, Alabama, where he led a massive civil rights campaign, organizing
drives for black voter regis ...
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Surviving In The Market
Number of Words: 620 / Number of Pages: 3
... at Wal-mart. At Blockbuster, which revenues about $3.3 billion, Fields is expected to make much more. Yet, Fields insists money wasn't the issue for leaving. Field's archival, Sam's Club President Dean Sanders, quit last fall. Wal-Mart's two most likely candidates for CEO are gone which puts Wal-Mart's future more in the hands of Glass.
Glass has lifted Wal-Mart's long-term debt from $1.7 billion in 1992 to $8.5 billion. Glass plans to make Wal-Mart America's largest grocer by saturating the country with "super centers," emporiums that combine a supermarket and general-merchandise store und ...
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Significant Woman - Cleopatra
Number of Words: 957 / Number of Pages: 4
... VII’s mother could possibly have been Cleopatra V Tryphaena, who either died or disappeared in 68 BC, right after Cleopatra VII’s birth in 69 BC. Cleopatra VII had two older sisters, Cleopatra VI and Berenice IV, and one younger sister, Arsinoe IV. She also had two younger brothers, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV.
Ptolemy XII ruled until his death in 51 BC, with only a brief interruption in 58 BC when his second eldest daughter, Berenice IV, took over the kingdom. His will named Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII as heirs to the throne. Leaders in Rome were named as guardians and were to uphold the ch ...
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Anna Knight
Number of Words: 1249 / Number of Pages: 5
... and write. She learned to write by copying words in the sand. Like a good neighbor, Anna taught the children younger than her the things she had learned. In this way, she was teacher even as a young child.
Anna was introduced to the Adventist Church in a very unconventional way. Usually the case with new converts is that they have friends that bring them to church, or maybe even complete strangers that introduce them to their religion. Neither of these conventional ways was the case for Anna. It seems that doing things the unconventional way was the case for most of Anna's life. She was introd ...
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E. E. Cummings
Number of Words: 819 / Number of Pages: 3
... was during this time that E.E. Cummings was publishing his first poems for the Harvard Monthly Journal (Smelstor 455). After earning his Master’s at Harvard, he then moved on to volunteering as an ambulance driver in France during WWII. “From his experiences in La Ferte’ Mace’ (a detention camp) he accumulated material for his documentary ‘novel,’ The Enormous Room (1922), one of the best war books by an American” (Triem 2). After a lifetime of literary achievement, “Cummings died in Conway, NH, on Sept. 3, 1962” at the age of 68 (Ulanov 565). ...
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Francesco Petrarch
Number of Words: 1993 / Number of Pages: 8
... in 1337. The relationship between the two was disappointment to Francesco. He describes him as:
"Intelligent, perhaps even exceptionally intelligent, but he hates books"
He let Giovanni live with him till he could no longer stand the sight of him and sent him to live in Avignon, at the age of 20. It wasn't until just before Giovanni's death, of the Black Plague, did they start to write each other. Just before his sons death, Petrarch's friends though of Giovanni as a good person and wrote Petrarch about this. He never saw his son before his death but in his mind knew that he had ...
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Compare And Cantrast WEB Du Bo
Number of Words: 1340 / Number of Pages: 5
... as a junior. During college he preferred the company of Black students and Black Bostonians. He graduated from Harvard in 1890. Yet he felt that he needed further preparation and study in order to be able to apply "philosophy to an historical interpretation of race relations." He decided to spend another two years at the University of Berlin on a Slater Fund Fellowship.
W. E. B. Du Bois traveling widely in Europe, was delighted by the absence of color consciousness and impressed by their mellow civilization. Still, he knew that his life's work was at home, and returned to America in 1894.
His wor ...
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Review Of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Number of Words: 1480 / Number of Pages: 6
... of the sea, Franklin spent his leisure time
in association with it, on the contrary to his father's wishes. His
leadership among the boys on boats was a foretelling of his future progress
and his great sociability. The deaths of Franklin's parents has left him
with positive memories and values , instilled by them. They were greatly
reputed
by the community and even more by their children.
With Franklin's overgrowing desire to read and be taught by books,
he endured the profession of a printer, working side by side with his
brother, John. Being able to obtain better literature, Franklin began ...
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