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Booker T. Washington
Number of Words: 1404 / Number of Pages: 6
... was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at the time.”(4)
was engulfed in labor throughout his adolescence and young boyhood days, joining his step-father in working in salt furnaces and coal-mines after the civil war. Of course the labor force in this country was predominately slaves, and after the civil war black people were paid little money to do some of the same work. The whole machinery of slavery was constructed as to cause labor, as a rule, to be looked upon as a sign of degradation and inferiority. The slave system to ...
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Fredrerick Douglass
Number of Words: 1147 / Number of Pages: 5
... moving speeches raised the anger of many Northerners, yet many still felt the slaves deserved their position in life. Douglass, for his own safety, was urged to travel to England where he stayed and spoke until 1847 when he returned to the U.S. to buy his freedom. At that point, he began to write and distribute an anti-slavery newspaper called "The North Star". Not only did he present news to the slaves, but it was also highly regarded as a good source of information for those opposed to slavery. During the Civil war, Douglass organized two regiments of black soldiers in Massachusetts to fight for th ...
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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879-April 18, 1955)
Number of Words: 231 / Number of Pages: 1
... he had from age six to age thirteen, he also had religious education at home where he was taught Judaism. Two years later he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium and after this his religious education was given at school. He studied mathematics, calculus in particular, beginning around 1891.
Many people did not know that Einstein would be as successful as he came out to be. In 1895 Einstein failed an exam that would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at ETH. After failing the exam, he got excepted in to a lower class school. In 1905 Einstein showed how mass and energy were ...
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Michael Collins
Number of Words: 2103 / Number of Pages: 8
... addressed in Yeats's poem "Easter 1916" can almost be glimpsed in the painstakingly re-created destruction, carnage, and valor. Wooed by Boland and won by Collins when his friend and rival travels to America with de Valera in search of support, she serves as a device to separate the two boys and inject feeling into passions that are largely theoretical.
The character who most projects the burning, almost pathological patriotism that has fueled Irish nationalism to the
present day is Alan Rickman's de Valera. His aquiline eyes buttressed by rimless spectacles, he writhes with a
pinched, fanatic dev ...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 367 / Number of Pages: 2
... volume of verse, Al
Aaraaf, was published, and he effected a reconciliation with Allan, who secured
him an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. After only a few months at the
academy Poe was dismissed for neglect of duty, and his foster father disowned
him permanently. Poe's third book, Poems, appeared in 1831, and the following
year he moved to Baltimore, where he lived with his aunt and her 11-year-old
daughter, Virginia Clemm. The following year his tale “A MS. Found in a Bottle”
won a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. From 1835 to 1837 Poe
was an editor of the Southern Liter ...
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Antoine Lavoisier
Number of Words: 335 / Number of Pages: 2
... down by any formation of chemical compounds.” He once said, “ If, by the term elements, we mean to express the simple and indivisible molecules that compose bodies, it is probable that we know nothing about them; but if, on the contrary, we express by the term elements or principles of bodies the idea of the last point reached by analysis, all substances that we have no yet been able to decompose by any means are elements to us.” His proposed oxygen theory discredited the phlogiston theory and described oxygen’s role in respiration.
lived a monumental life and in his attempt to introduce reforms i ...
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The Life Of John Calvin
Number of Words: 696 / Number of Pages: 3
... similar to our own Catholic religion,
regarded the bible as the basis of all Christian teachings. Calvin was
very knowledgeable of the scriptures and often quoted them in his writings.
He would relate the ideas in the bible to the present times. He would also
search the bible as a text for parables and ideas that supported his own
teachings. Catholics read and study the bible as a lesson to be learned
not as a point to proven.
The Catholic Church models itself as an institution. As an
institution there is an existing hierarchy. In this hierarchy is a system
analogous to that of the caste sys ...
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Important People In History
Number of Words: 2790 / Number of Pages: 11
... like trying to seek out
power or maybe going out and spending a large sum of money. Adler wrote a
book called "Understanding Human Nature". In his book he laid out his basic
theories. Like Freud he too did believe that dreams were really inportant
in understanding one's personality, however he did not believe that dreams
revealed more about a person's sexuality.
Pavlov, Ivan (1849- 1936)
Pavlov won a nobel prize for medicine in 1904. He was interested in the
relationship between stimulus and response.
Pavlov tested his theory with dogs. He discovered that by ringing a bell
and giving them food th ...
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Jean Sartre
Number of Words: 1214 / Number of Pages: 5
... many pieces of literature on political problems. In 1964 Sartre won the Nobel Prize in literature, saying that he refuses to compromise his integrity as a writer, he refuses to accept the prize. He then becomes an outcast in society, for having turned on Existentialism and lives out his life in poor health and a few radical followers.
In the dictionary the translation of Existentialism is a branch of philosophy based on the concept of an absurd universe where humans have free will, and that humans are responsible for and the sole judge of their actions as they affect others. This philosophy propose ...
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Michael Smith Biography
Number of Words: 437 / Number of Pages: 2
... is to mutate it, then observe how this changes the behavior of the entire organism. Prior to Smith's innovation, mutation was achieved by exposing random cells to mutagens (radiation or chemicals). This approach was unreliable because both radiation and chemicals mutated proteins randomly, making it impossible to determine how specific proteins had been affected. Scientists needed a way to deliberately alter a protein molecule's DNA structure (its sequence of amino acids).
In the early 1980s Smith decided to try altering a viral DNA molecule because viruses transmit their genetic code into bacterial ...
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