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George Washington Carver
Number of Words: 1365 / Number of Pages: 5
... playmates to play childhood games with. Though his parents and playmates were white, he developed a strong friendship with most everybody and continued contact with them even after he left his hometown. The nighttime was about the same as everybody’s, except George and his brother went out to explore while the elders were asleep. During the night he would observe plants and also have fun riding sheep until punished by his parents. George learned very quickly. He mastered everything that was taught to him. This life style helped him become aware of his special talents before the difference of h ...
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Kurt Vonnegut
Number of Words: 2035 / Number of Pages: 8
... profound impact on Vonnegut. From it, he developed his existential personal philosophy and his ideas about the evils of technology. He states, "I am the enemy of all technological progress that threatens mankind" (Nuwer, 39). The influence of Dresden shows up in each of the novels.
In Cat's Cradle, one element of his experience at Dresden that Vonnegut portrays is his fear of technology. Initially, the intention of the story is for the narrator to write about what the scientists who invented the atomic bomb were doing the day it was dropped on Hiroshima. To this effect, one of the scientists in th ...
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Niels Bohr
Number of Words: 301 / Number of Pages: 2
... then returned to Denmark in 1940. In 1943, he was still in Copenhagen when the Nazis occupied his country. He left Copenhagen, because of his Jewish background, and went to Los Alamos, North Mexico, were he helped scientist who were working on the first atomic bomb. Before he left, he dissolved his golden Nobel medal in acid. In 1945, after the war was over, he returned to his country, and precipitated the gold from acid and recast the medal. Bohr worked very hard on the peaceful uses of atomic energy and organized the first Atoms for Peace Conference in Geneva in 1955. He was awarded the first Atom ...
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Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 339 / Number of Pages: 2
... the end of their lives. He
started to write out parts of his theory in 1842-1844 in Vestiges of
Natural Creation.
Darwin had many volumes of Origin of Species published from 1859-82.
Darwin’s natural selection was basically saying that some things aren’t
needed. Those are called vestigial organs. These concepts were formed by
Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Organisms of the same
species often have differences in individual variations. The second concept
is, competition among organisms often led to deaths of some of the same
organisms.
Darwin died at age 73 in 1882.Charles ...
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Nanak
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... he was possessed with an evil spirit. A priest later broke that spell.
Later, Nanak took Mardana, a Mohammedan, as a servant. With him as a musical accompanist, Nanak started to deliver more widely about the disciples of the One true God of all people, both rich and poor.
Once, Nanak put on a mangocoloured jacket, over which he threw a white sheet. He had a hat of a Muselman, Qalandar, while he wore a necklace of bones, and he imprinted a saffron mark on his forehead in the style of Hindus. This was evidence that he wanted Hindus and Mohammedan to accept the religion. He wanted them to feel ...
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Thomas Jefferson'S Life: Tell It The Way It Is!
Number of Words: 961 / Number of Pages: 4
... with his slaves as well as his biracial children. The last essay dealt with the similarities in the essays of John Locke and the Declaration of Independence. After Wood summarizes these essays he tells it how it is. Jefferson was not perfect, but he wanted what is best for the common good for all and the future for Americans.
Wood then picks these essays apart by describing Jefferson as a virtuous, trusting, rational student that always looked to the future. Jefferson was very much all of these things. Because of this, he is remembered as one of the greatest leaders ever.
Jefferson came from a ...
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William Shakespeare
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... Warwickshire
farmer. He had a spacious house and owned large amounts of farm land. Anne's father Richard called her Agnes which was interchangeably in the sixteenth century. The Hathaway farm house has now become known to the tourist industry as "Anne Hathaway's cottage." William and his wife Anne had three children. Susanna was born on May 26, 1583. The other two children, Judith and Hamnet were twins, born in 1585. Susanna married Doctor John Hall in 1607. Their home Hall's Croft, is today preserved as one of Shakespeare's properties. Judith Shakespeare married Thomas ...
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Courageous John Quincy Adams
Number of Words: 887 / Number of Pages: 4
... not follow the thought of their constituents. By this time Senate was to be a more executive council than a legislative body. If they became more of a executive council they would help advise the President. Senate was an executive council to the President for a while, until the Federalist Party didn't agree on foreign policy, and many more political issues came up. Senate started criticizing the Executive Branch, this led the Senate to becoming a more legislative body as the time went by. Now the Cabinet has the job to advise and listen to the President.
John Quincy Adams had successful career be ...
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Winston Churchill
Number of Words: 1348 / Number of Pages: 5
... sides" in
1904, when he abandoned the Conservative party for the Liberals. When the
Liberals came to power in 1905, Churchill entered the government as secretary of
state for the colonies. In 1908, the year of his marriage to Clementine Hosier,
he became a member of the cabinet as president of the Board of Trade. Winston's
political missions became more and more important, in 1910 he became a member of
the Admirality. In 1913-1914 Churchill completed British naval preparations for
war. During World War Churchhill made some fatal mistakes in war strategy. This
was one of the main reasons that he was ...
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Jackie Robinson
Number of Words: 292 / Number of Pages: 2
... in four sports-football, basketball, baseball and track.
In 1941 he left college to join the Army. He became a second lieutenant in his journey through the Army. It was a segregated army then. He received an honorable discharge in 1944 after he was acquitted from a court-martial.
Robinson began his professional baseball career in 1945. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the leading teams in the Negro Leagues. Later in the year he signed with the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was sent down to the minors in 1946 but called up to the Dodgers in 1947. He became the fi ...
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