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The Life Of Malcolm X
Number of Words: 957 / Number of Pages: 4
... to become a lawyer, he dropped out of school and went to his older half sister, Ella, who lived in Boston. There, he took a job as a shoeshine boy at the Roseland Ballroom. A career as a hustler seemed a more tempting option, and he was soon peddling narcotics. He met a white girl named Laura who quickly became his girlfriend. Having a white girl and being a very good dancer, he soon was a notorious young man with crazy clothes and a haircut made to resemble the hair of white people, which he was very ashamed of later. But Roxbury proved to be too small for him, and in 1942 he took a job as a railro ...
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Harry Shippe Truman
Number of Words: 1714 / Number of Pages: 7
... His mom wanted Harry, his brother Vivian, and Their little sister
Mary Jane to enrich their lives so she bought them a piano. She gave the
children lessons and noticed that Harry was especially gifted with the
piano. So, she sent him to get professional lessons with a woman named Mrs.
Edwin C. White. Everyone in his family thought that Harry would become a
concert Pianist. Harry thought so too. Harry had experiences that the
other kids did not have while playing the piano. Harry's teacher once was
a student of one of the greatest pianists ever to live named Ignacy Jan
Paderewski. When he was ha ...
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Fritz Haber
Number of Words: 1459 / Number of Pages: 6
... During the first decade of the twentieth century, the world-wide demand for nitrogen based fertilizers exceeded the existing supply. The largest source of the chemicals necessary for fertilizer production was found in a huge guano deposit (essentially sea bird droppings) that was 220 miles in length and five feet thick, located along the coast of Chile.
Scientists had long desired to solve the problem of the world's dependence on this fast disappearing natural source of ammonia and nitrogenous compounds. It was Haber, along with Carl Bosch, who finally solved this problem. Haber invented a la ...
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Marie Curie
Number of Words: 2645 / Number of Pages: 10
... to school. Since girls were not permitted to attend university in Russian Poland, Manya and her sister Bronya, decided to study at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. However, they face one major p roblem, they had no money. In order to save money, the sisters decided to give private lessons, business was poor, so they made little money. Manya, wanting to keep up her education attended a "floating" university. The floating university helped Manya decide to be a physics teacher, like her father (Webb, 1991).
Manya and Bronya decided on a new plan, seeing their old one wasn't working. Manya ...
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Steven Speilberg
Number of Words: 848 / Number of Pages: 4
... director, and I didn't think that science or math or foreign languages were going to help me turn out the little 8-mm sagas I was making to avoid homework."(Contemporary Authors 3) Movies were also helping Stephen to escape his family life, where at home things were bad with his parents, and when Stephen was twelve years old they divorced. This only helped to clarify Stephen's love of film.
After he completed high school, Spielberg was well on his way to becoming a director. He had already won student awards for some of his short films, and one of them, a movie called Firelight, had actua ...
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Freud And Marx
Number of Words: 1110 / Number of Pages: 5
... eventually was released and caused the
social evils he observed. Marx also saw instincts at work but not the tensions
and Id that Freud saw, Marx simply credited man's greed and the subsequent
oppression of other men as the root to all that was wrong with civilization. It
is interesting to note that both Freud and Marx saw conflict but each traced it
back to sources each was respectively educated in.
Freud was a Psychoanalyst and his understanding of the mind was very
conflict oriented. He saw man as a kind of glorified animal who had the same
desires and needs as any other animal. The only true di ...
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Oliver North
Number of Words: 1161 / Number of Pages: 5
... with K Company of the Third Battalion, Third Marine Regiment, Third Division from December 3, 1968 to August 21, 1969. During his service, North led many covert operations, and was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. He was a "marine's marine", and was a one-of-a-kind leader.
While in Vietnam, he was assigned to counterinsurgency operations in which he met General Singlaub and General Secord, then lieutenant colonels. After coming back from Vietnam, he served as a planner in the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C. After being promoted to Major in the Marine Corps, ...
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The Life Of Ian Fleming
Number of Words: 1090 / Number of Pages: 4
... Valentine's widow, regardless of
other loves or circumstances.
The knowledge of Ian's late father's looming wealth, and Ian's lack
of access to it was bound to make the young Fleming feel disinherited. The
unattainable Fleming fortune and high achievements of Valentine and Peter,
Ian's older brother, seem to have put a chip on Ian's shoulder. As Ian
failed to fill their shoes, it appears he became more determined to build
his own empire, create his own identity within the family, and be praised
for his own successes.
Fleming had a short career at a military academy called Sandhurst.
I ...
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The Baseball Life Of Babe Ruth
Number of Words: 1132 / Number of Pages: 5
... first
time Ruth had ever pitched in his lifetime, so he was scared. No one had
ever seen Ruth this scared before, but after the first pitch that Ruth
threw he knew that he was a natural.
On July 10, 1914, Ruth was sold to the Boston Red Sox's
organization. The Red Sox player did not know too much about Ruth. They
thought he was just another guy who thinks too much of himself. But after
Ruth contributed 23 victories, and his ERA. was 1.75, the team started to
respect him.
For the Red Sox's in 1917, Ruth had another effective record 24-13.
On June 23, 1919, he blew up and helped his teammat ...
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Biographical Fact Sheet On James Fenimore Cooper
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... reputation after his second novel, The Spy, and in his third book, the autobiographical Pioneers (1823), Cooper introduced the character of Natty Bumppo, a uniquely American personification of rugged individualism and the pioneer spirit. A second book featuring Bumppo, The Last of the Mohicans written in 1826, quickly became the most widely read work of the day, solidifying Cooper's popularity in the U.S. and in Europe. Set during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans chronicles the massacre of the colonial garrison at Fort William Henry and a fictional kidnapping of two pioneer siste ...
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