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Booker T. Washington
Number of Words: 553 / Number of Pages: 3
... who worked in the salt furnaces and coal mines. Booker had to workin the mines until nine at night, but his intense desire to learn enabled him to master a Webster spelling book, and even led him to more ahead the hands of the clock at work so he could get to his night school by nine. While playing marbles with other boys, an old colored man told Booker about the meaning of Sunday school. He gave up his marble game for regular Sunday School attendanceand later became thee teacher and superintendent of the school where he had learned to read.
In 1881 Washington was selected to head a newly established ...
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Octavian Augustus
Number of Words: 2253 / Number of Pages: 9
... laws into practice. The most important of these magistrates were the consuls. The two consuls, each elected for one year, acted as the chief executives of the state. Censors were also very important magistrates. Censors were elected every five years to take a census and record the wealth of the people. Censors also had two other very important jobs. The first was to appoint candidates for the Senate and the second was to award contracts for government projects (Hanes 1997). As time passed, the Romans also began to elect other magistrates called praetors. Praetors acted as judges but could also fill ...
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Biography Of Gordie Howe
Number of Words: 393 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the Hockey Hall
of Fame for all kinds of high records. He had 1,518 assists, 1,071 goals;
he scored 2,589 points, and played in 2,421 games. He also received the
Hart Trophy as NHL'S most valuable player six times. He managed to came
back and play a few more games in his life.
Gordie got married and had a daughter named Cathy. He married
Colleen Howe. He did live in Detroit, Michigan and then in Canada. Gordie
faced retirement. That was very hard for him. He also faced returning to
the ice to play a few games in his career. Last year he played under a
minute for Detroit Vipers.
Gord ...
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Aum Shinkyria
Number of Words: 531 / Number of Pages: 2
... still ambitious for leadership, Asahara realized his own divine appointment and religious calling.” While performing his normal religious routine, Asahara claimed to have been visited by the Hindu God Shiva. He also began to inform people that he had been given special powers that allowed him to do such things as levitate, see the future, read people’s minds, make his “wishes” come true, see through solid objects, enter the fourth dimension, talk to God, etc. He pulled together a large following by leafleting and street corner proselytizing. He also had computer ...
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Thomas Paine
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... was one of the speakers
trying to calm down all of the eight-thousand people that were in front of
the building.
Paine soon went to a ball to represent the Pennsylvania Magazine in
which he represented. He had a lot of answers to questions people kept
asking him. Paine was finally fired when he argued with Aitkin because he
wanted to put an article in the paper. It was called Reflections on Titles.
The Second Continental Congress met, and Paine was introduced to
someone he didn't recognize named George Washington. Paine spent two days
in his room trying to write down what he thou ...
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History Of Ozzy
Number of Words: 1591 / Number of Pages: 6
... in bettering the production. There are five separate levels of responsibility the industry must go through before it reaches the public(148). One is the Artists and repertoire, which develop and coordinate talent. The Operations manage the technical aspects of the recording, such as: sound technicians, musicians, and even the people that
copy the discs(148). Marketing and promotion decide the best way to sell the record, while Distribution gets the record in stores. Lastly, and probably most importantly, is the Administration. This handles the bills and keeps track of how well the record i ...
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The Theories Of John Locke
Number of Words: 1145 / Number of Pages: 5
... theories and influential ideas is Thomas Jefferson. He was the second president in America’s history. Jefferson followed a great president, Washington. Washington was a military man not a politician and did not have any idea on how to set up America’s government. Jefferson took over after Washington freed the colonies from the British control. Jefferson liked many of ideas that European countries had when they set up their government. Jefferson liked the idea of Parliament but not the idea of the King. Jefferson also didn’t like the idea of church and government being united together to ru ...
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Alexander Ghram Bell
Number of Words: 914 / Number of Pages: 4
... was 16, he was teaching music and elocution at a boy's boarding school. He and his brothers, Melville and Edward, traveled throughout Scotland impressing audiences with demonstrations of their father's Visible Speech techniques. Visible Speech was invented by their father but he didn’t have much luck with it. It is a technique were ever sound that comes out of a persons mouth can be represented with a visual character. In 1871, Bell began giving instruction in Visible Speech at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes. Attempting to teach deaf children to speak was considered revolutionary. Bell's work with hi ...
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Archimedes
Number of Words: 709 / Number of Pages: 3
... theory of the lever and pulley to the king by moving a ship, of the royal fleet, back into the ocean. Then, moved the ship into the sea with only a few movements of his hand, which caused a lever and pulley device to move the ship. This story has become famous because said, "Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth. Another invention he invented was the Archimedean screw. This machine was built for raising water to highland areas in Egypt that could not receive water directly from the Nile River. This device is still used today for irrigation purposes even is some countries today.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number of Words: 1019 / Number of Pages: 4
... that each and every person has their own life to live and that they shouldn't devote their time to worrying about what other people are doing. You have enough to worry about with what's going on in your own lives.
Emerson believes that when you express what you are feeling on the inside, most people will be able to relate with what you are feeling. He tells us this in the quote "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense." Everyone will be able to understand what you are going through in one way or another.
Emerson really believes that society is bad, whichever ...
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