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Socrates
Number of words: 362 - Number of pages: 2.... church’s beliefs were all wrong, he started to tell people this and they looked at him in a whole new manor. He went from seeming very dignified to just another poor commoner on the street. Once more and more people learned about him, they began to stay away from him, forbidding their kids to listen to a word that he said, for he was contridicting everything that Athens has stood for and known their whole life. He was put to trial and found guilty, and was sentenced to death.
Without and the many scientist that died to learn more about the earth and the way of living, we might still be .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of words: 1679 - Number of pages: 7.... near Munich.
As a child, Einstein's sense of curiosity had already begun to stir. A
favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marvelled at his
uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by
certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure
to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to
believe he was disabled.
Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he
was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through the
school's strict .....
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Comparison Of John F Kennedy And Abraham Lincoln's Lives
Number of words: 1790 - Number of pages: 7.... the United States Congress in 1946.
In November of 1960, when Kennedy was 43 years old, he became the 35th
President of America(O’ Sullivan 10). He established the Peace Corps Of
America which was an agency that promoted world peace and friendship by
training American volunteers to perform social and humanitarian service
overseas (“John” 1). Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963
and was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson. Many historians have found several
interesting similarities through research about two of America’s greatest
presidents.
Researchers and historians ha .....
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Charles Lindbergh 2
Number of words: 674 - Number of pages: 3.... of an engine failing. He also wanted the plane to weigh as little as possible, thus increasing the flight range. This also meant he would be going alone.
By 1927, Ryan Airlines offered to build him a single-engine plane that met his specifications for only $6,000, excluding an engine. Lindbergh met with them and despite the unimpressive headquarters, he walked away impressed. Lindbergh wanted the plane done in two months, rather then the three months Ryan Airlines had wanted, but after much overtime, they finished the Spirit of St. Louis by the deadline.
Because it was being built customi .....
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John Lennon
Number of words: 650 - Number of pages: 3.... most fully realized statement, as a solo artist was 1970's /Plastic Ono Band. Lennon's first solo album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature of Plastic Ono Band reflected the primal-scream therapy that Lennon and Ono had been undergoing with psychologist Arthur Janov.
There were, in fact, numerous facets to Lennon's character captured in the ongoing diary of his life in song. Many of his post-Beatles compositions - "Imagine," "Mind Games," "Instant Karma," a .....
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The Good Times Of Clark Gable
Number of words: 743 - Number of pages: 3.... was his first leading role, Free Soul and Possessed.
During the 1930’s, he was under contract with MGM, where he ended up working for 23 years. Clark Gable tended to play opposite virtually every MGM female star- Greta Carbo, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Myrna Loy; in such films as No Man of Her Own (1932), Red Dust (1932), Strange Interlude (1932), Dancing Lady (1933) and Manhattan Melodrama (1934). He was loaned to Columbia Pictures to star opposite Claudette Colberte in the romantic comedy It Happened One Night (1934), the performance that won his only .....
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Jessica Savitch: The Dark Side Of A Golden Girl
Number of words: 1418 - Number of pages: 6.... continues throughout her life.
Jessica Savitch gets a career boost when she leaps from Houston to KYW T.V. in Philadelphia, the fourth largest market. She goes on to produce three award winning series and anchors the 10:00 news with Mort Crim, a respected anchor in the business. Ron Kershaw moves to Philadelphia, but cannot find a job because he is Jessica Savitch's boyfriend. This creates more turmoil in their relationship, and they continue their process of breaking up and making up. Dave Neal, one of Jessica's mentors says, "They were addicted to each other," (Nash, 183). During a .....
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George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Number of words: 1521 - Number of pages: 6.... so she left him and headed to London with her three children. In addition to the impact his father had on him, Shaw was also influenced in other ways. When he was young, a servant took him to the slums. From that experience he acquired a lifelong hatred of poverty (Collier's 649).
Shaw was a poor student at the Wesleyan Connexional School despite private tutoring (Kunitz 1268). However, most of his education was gained at home through a thorough background in music, art, and extensive reading. He always had the eagerness and determination to write. His writings would be returned often by l .....
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Biography Of John Dalton
Number of words: 539 - Number of pages: 2.... the elements. Dalton arrived at his atomic theory through a study of the physical properties of air and other gases.
English scientist. He taught mathematics and physical sciences at New College, Manchester. Dalton revived the atomic theory of matter (see ATOM), which he applied to a table of atomic weights and used in developing his law of partial pressures (Dalton's law). He was color-blind and studied that affliction, also known as Daltonism.
Irish author and translator from Spanish and German, born in 1814; died at Maddermarket, Norwich, 15 February, 1874. He spent his early years at Co .....
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Jonathan Edwards
Number of words: 978 - Number of pages: 4.... Esther, who died in 1755 when she
was only twenty-three. Her son, Aaron Burr, became the Vice President of
the United States.
Edward was a strong willed pastor. His presence and brilliant
sermons helped to bring about the religious revival known as the "Great
Awakening". He drew such graphic pictures of the hell awaiting them that
the people began to frantically prepare for the conversion experience by
which they would be "born again". Edwards first published revival
narrative, Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God, described his
town awakening. Although it was written .....
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