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Martin Luther The Great Reformer
Number of Words: 585 / Number of Pages: 3
... study his Bible, he started questioning some of his Church's beliefs and practices. As he continued to read the Bible he started to see certain descrepancies between God's written Word and the Catholic Church's practices. He started to see the truth that was written in God's Word. Martin began telling friends about these discrepancies in beliefs, but his friends told him to leave it alone and drop it.
Martin, however, would not leave it alone and made it his lifes' goal to change this minsunderstanding of God's Word. He wanted to show the Catholic Church where they were wrong in their teaching of G ...
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The Life Of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Number of Words: 2074 / Number of Pages: 8
... this impression
occurred when he demonstrated his ability to sum the integers from 1 to 100
by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing 101.
In 1788, Gauss began his education at the Gymnasium with the help of
Buttner and Bartels, where he distinguished himself in the ancient
languages of High German and Latin and mathematics. At the age of 14 Gauss
was presented to the duke of Brunswick - Wolfenbuttel, at court where he
was permitted to exhibit his computing skill. His abilities impressed the
duke so much that the duke generously supported Gauss until the duke's
death ...
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Winning For Zorich
Number of Words: 687 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the class. When he started to stutter he heard the kids starting to laugh he stopped half way through and sat down at his seat with anger inside him. When he got home that night he told his mom what happened and she helped him with the problem. At the end of the school year he wanted to read his essay to the class. When he got in front of the class he read through the poem and mumbled just a bit.
When Zora was told she had severe diabetes and was overweight she had no choice but to turn to public assistance. It was barely enough for rent. He and his mother went to very low extremes. C ...
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Number of Words: 1053 / Number of Pages: 4
... kicked them off the high horse
to the ground, and as a Black Nation we jumped back on the saddle and
rode on to victory.
Dr. King started with the Civil Rights Movement, and from there
he kept on going. This movement started with a phone call about Rosa
Parks being arrested for not surrendering her seat to a white bus rider.
King and other leaders felt that a protest of some kind was needed. A
meeting in the community was called, they agreed that the only way to
fight back would be to boycott the bus company. The people in the
locale agreed to participate and that started the Montgomery ...
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Sir Isaac Newton
Number of Words: 2735 / Number of Pages: 10
... and the Reverend would not have a child that was not his living with him. Isaac stayed with his grandparents when his mother went to live with the Reverend in North Witham. His maternal grandmother raised Isaac until he was ten. It is believed that his mother’s second marriage and her leaving caused many problems for Isaac as a child. While living with his grandparents he attended day school nearby in Skillington and Stoke. Isaac was surrounded by many cousins and other family members in the surrounding area though, "He formed no bond with any of his numerous relatives that can be traced later i ...
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An Autobiography: Tom Landry
Number of Words: 388 / Number of Pages: 2
... twenty-nine years there was a controversial firing. It was a
controversy because the great things that he was doing for the Cowboys.
Jerry Jones, coach of a Florida college team, had plans for buying the team.
After he bought it, he fired Tom Landry. The firing happened on February
25, 1989. Jerry Jones named himself head coach. Up to this day Jerry
Jones has never been the coach that Tom was.
Tom Landry's life really was significant to people across America,
because he was so upstanding. Tom had a lot of morals, probably one reason
was because he was a Christian. He was so looked up to th ...
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Ray Charles Robinson
Number of Words: 528 / Number of Pages: 2
... a job at a nearby Elks club.
After a numerous amount of months, a record producer noticed him and
Charles had his first album: "Confession Blues." Afterward Charles went on
the road for a few years. He played at bars around the country. It was
known by musicians as the chitlin' circuit.
Soon Charles stopped imitating other musicians, as he had been doing up
until this point, and began to combine gospel and rhythm and blues, and, in
doing so, created soul. He is still called the "Genius of Soul" today. In
1955 Charles made recorded "I've Got a Women", and made history. It helped
pave the way for soul ...
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The Life Of Author Harper Lee
Number of Words: 536 / Number of Pages: 2
... used this case as a rough basis for some events that took place in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lee first attended college at Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama from 1944-45. In 1945 Lee decided to pursue her law degree at the University of Alabama. She stayed at the University of Alabama until 1949. She also studied for a year at Oxford University in England. Lee never completed her work for her law degree. In the 1950’s she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC in New York City. In the late 1950’s Lee decided to devote all her time to writing. She lived in a cold-water fl ...
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Authur Miller
Number of Words: 809 / Number of Pages: 3
... the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more." He did however push the limits when he released his controversial piece Death of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, young Miller worked as a stock clerk in an automobile parts warehouse for two and ...
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The Political Career Of Richard Nixon
Number of Words: 3572 / Number of Pages: 13
... when he received a telephone call that changed his life. A Republican
citizen's committee in Whittier was considering Nixon as a candidate for
Congress in the 12th Congressional District. In December 1945 Nixon accepted the
candidacy with the promise that he would "wage a fighting, rocking, socking
campaign." Jerry Voorhis, a Democrat who had represented the 12th District
since 1936, was running for reelection. Earlier in his career Voorhis had been
an active Socialist. He had become more conservative over the years and was now
an outspoken anti-Communist. Despite Voorhis' anti-Communist stand th ...
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