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Ghengis Khan The Great
Number of Words: 1620 / Number of Pages: 6
... a while. Temujin and his family lived off berries, animals, and plants.
Temujin started working harder on his archery. He was one of the best in the land by the time he was eleven. By eleven seventy-three, Temujin had risen, he became chief of a tribe. People noted how fierce he was and how he had no mercy. He was engaged to Botei in eleven seventy-five. They were married in eleven seventy-eight. After the marriage, a tribe kidnapped Botei. Temujin was outraged. He attacked the tribe and slaughtered them all. This was the first time when Temujin killed everyone in a tribe. He showed t ...
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Tiger Woods
Number of Words: 845 / Number of Pages: 4
... Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him "Tiger". took interest in golf at a young age. He would watch from his crib as his father would practice his swing. He began playing golf since before he could walk. When he got a few years older, he began to compete in the Junior Nationals tournaments against older boys. He didn't hav e the strength to drive the ball far, but he had skill; he was blessed. Earl made Tiger some miniature clubs out of his old ones and from that moment on, he was obsessed with the sport. The way that Tiger played, it was no l ...
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Jackie Robinson 3
Number of Words: 1169 / Number of Pages: 5
... the Negro Leagues. In 1944 Jackie officially was on a Negro baseball team.(Shorto,Russell p. 5-10)
In 1945 Branch Rickey the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers was looking for a black player to break the serration barrier and rise above it all and join the
Major League Baseball Association. Rickey said that whoever the person was to
be would have to cope with taunts and insult, with name calling and abuse. Rickey heard of the success of Jackie on the Negro League and sent his
scouts to see Jackie. (Ritter, S. Lawrence p. 43-51).
After a long meeting with Rickey, Jackie agreed to join the Brooklyn
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Douglas M. Mcgregor
Number of Words: 282 / Number of Pages: 2
... work and will avoid it whenever possible. (2) Managers must always control, motivate, and direct their employees to perform well. (3) Most workers prefer being directed, avoid responsibility, and seek job security. On the other hand, Theory Y managers assume the following: (1) Employees enjoy working. (2) Managers do not need to control and punish workers to accomplish organizational goals. (3) Workers will be committed to an organization if their work is satisfying. (4) Managers should “…arrange organizational conditions and methods of operation so that people can achieve their own ...
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Al Capone
Number of Words: 1490 / Number of Pages: 6
... of the boys in the community. He worked for a man named Johnny Torrio. He ran errands, and got paid for it, so he had pocket change. Torrio was a new type of gangster. He was one of the first of this new breed and helped with the development of a newly found criminal enterprise.
There were other Capone children, not just Al. James Capone was the oldest child. The two other kids in the family at this time, other than Al, were Ralph and Frank. James, Ralph, and Frank were not as well-known as Al. This was because Al was the only one working for Torrio.
Johnny Torrio moved to Chicago, when 1909 ...
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Tiger Woods
Number of Words: 630 / Number of Pages: 3
... first started swinging a sawed off golf club in
his garage. Some sources say he was actually 10-months old.
Tiger's Education: In the 7th grade Tiger had a GPA of 3.86! (Now there's the
real important stuff.)
Tiger spent 2 years at Stanford University in California majoring in Business.
Tiger has 2 half brothers and 1 half sister from his fathers first marriage.
Tiger loves McDonalds (CheeseBurgers) and Taco Bell.
Tiger's Caddy (Guy who carries Tiger's clubs for him): Mike "Fluff" Cowan, used
to caddy for another pro, Peter Jacobsen.
Tiger's Driver (Big Golf Club) is only 43-inches long, an inch ...
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of Words: 2064 / Number of Pages: 8
... was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves.
The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until Massachusetts paid for the Boston Tea Party of the preceding year. Jefferson and other younger members of the Virginia Assembly ordained a day of fasting and prayer to demonstrate their sympathy with Massachusetts. ...
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John F. Kennedy
Number of Words: 271 / Number of Pages: 1
... of Representatives in 1946, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952.
In 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. During recuperation from spinal surgery,
Kennedy completed Profiles in Courage (1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize
in 1957. Kennedy attempted to win the Vice-president presidential nomination and
failed; Kennedy began to plan for the presidential election in 1960. He won the
nomination on the first ballot. He campaigned with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
his running mate, against Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican
nominee. The issues of defense and economic standards were r ...
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Robert Boyle
Number of Words: 1244 / Number of Pages: 5
... college, Boyle decided to start his work at Oxford. At the age of twenty-seven, he finally became what he wanted to be for so long, an experimental scientist.(Sootin pp.37-38) He continued at Oxford and received an Honored M.D., and later was accepted to be a member of the Royal Society, a big scientific group. It was a great honor to be a part of that scientific group.(Salzberg p.161)
Arguably, is most famous for Boyle's Law. Boyles's Law, in formula form, is Pressure x volume = a constant. Boyle's Law in word form is, "At constant temperature for given mass of gas, volume varies inversely with ...
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Glorious Sceptre
Number of Words: 556 / Number of Pages: 3
... Hermes, and the kings of Mycenae, Homer describes a legacy that enhances the sceptre’s image as a token of influence and power. Moreover, it is important to note that the sceptre was not conceived by a mortal, but rather by Hephaistus. Using the wood from a living tree in the mountains, he constructed an immortal device for Zeus. Hephaistus’ creation of the sceptre both bolsters the notion of the sceptre’s divinity, and strengthens its image as a symbol of influence and recognition.
In Book I of the poem, Achilles takes oath upon the sceptre. In his oath, Achilles states his intent to withd ...
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