Flo Hyman
.... ball cone to her. Instead she pushed herself to go for the ball – and became the greatest American woman ever to play Volleyball”. (Encyclopedia of Women in Sports 1996).
Hyman’s dedication to sports and to the fight for equal opportunities for women in remembered by and honored with the Flo Hyman Memorial Award, given annually by the Women’s Sports Foundation to female athletes who capture Hyman’s “dignity, spirit, and commitment to excellence”. (Sports Illustrated 1986) Hyman was known for a lot o .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
.... a French military academy and later to the Military College of France, his reading enabled him to stay near the top of his class.
Napoleons career was one metoric rise from poverty to power, and then almost equally swift decline. When he was defeated by the English at WaterLoo in 1815, Napoleon was made prisoner and taken to St. Helena, an isolated island in the south atlantic. WIth him were his jailers from Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and France, four companions to keep him company, a doctor to kee .....
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Hitler's Life
.... small farm outside Linz, Austria.
Adolf’s mother, Klara, was more attending to Edmund and soon Paula than to Adolf. The family now consisted of Edmund, Paula, Adolf and an older half brother Alois Jr., a half sister Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm.
The oldest, Alois Jr., 13, spent much of his time getting beat and listening to his fathers’ harsh words. At age 14 he ran away, never seeing his father again. That put Adolf , the next oldes .....
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James Earl Ray
.... internationally. However, like several great leaders of the century before him, there was a point where he fell.
The date was April 4, 1968. The location: Memphis, Tennessee. King Jr. was visiting Memphis on a conference trip. He had done the same thing before and he had also been televised while doing so. This visitation was different in the fact it would be his last. Martin Luther King Jr. did not retire and he did not give up his cause, he was killed, assassinated by the bullet of the man James .....
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Bob Marley
.... followers to imagine Jesus as Black and to organize their
own church.
From 1930 until the mid ‘60s is known as the Classical Period of Rastafari.
Rastafari was a local Jamaican religious movement with few outside influences. The
movement was dominated by “Elders” with widely varying views. There was no
agreement on basic doctrine or scripture. The Holy Piby and the King James Bible were
used by various Elders, but were freely emended and “corrected” (Angelfire 3).
Reggae was at the height of its p .....
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In 1953, King met and married Coretta Scott in Boston. They had four children named Yolanda, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice. In 1954, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Later, in 1959, he became co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
King’s serious behavior and positive requests to a Christian relationship that will end discrimination between black and white people made a pos .....
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Karl Marx
.... of an academic career, but his dad made him transfer to the University of Berlin. The transfer was do to Marx earlier possession of alcohol and imprisonment for drunkenness.
At Berlin Marx interests changed from law to philosophy. "Degeneration in a learned dressing gown with uncombed hair had replaced degeneration with a beer glass." (1 p2) Marx father obviously disapproved greatly.
Marx attached to the philosophy of G.W.F Hegel. He referred to the Phenomenology of mind as the true birthplace and s .....
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The Life Of Thomas Edison
.... Herald" He spent the entire paycheck on Books and Chemicals for his lab. After a year on the job he was given permission to set up his lab in the baggage car of the train. He did his experiment in Detroit while he waited for the return trip. One day the train Lurched and some chemicals were spilled, And his lab caught on fire. The conductor Threw Thomas and his chemicals off of the train. He then sold newspapers at stops along the railroad.
Thomas had tons of problems with his ears, when he was fi .....
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Malcolm X
.... prison in 1952, Malcolm joined his younger brother in Detroit, Michigan where he replaced his slave last name with an X to symbolize his lost true African name.
Malcolm X soon became an active participant in the nation of Islam. He assisted Elijah Muhammad by starting many new Muslim groups in the United States. In 1952 he returned to New York to become a minister of the important Harlem temple and in 1957 he organized the Muslim newspaper.
By the early 1960’s Islam had become nationally known. He wa .....
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Louis Armstrong
.... of "scat singing," a type of wordless singing derived from folk and blues music. He continued touring with his own groups, generally consisting of six to eight- musician groups (Louis Armstrong Hot Five, Six, & Seven) through the thirties and forties, his fame only hampered by the fact that the best venues were generally reserved for white musicians.
In his later years, Armstrong remained a good trumpet player. As his health declined, he began to rely more upon his singing than his trumpet play .....
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Martin Luther King Jr
.... Yolanda Denise, and Bernice Albrtine.
In December 1958 Martin became the president of the group, Southern Christian Leadership Conference that was formed to carry on civil right activities in the south. But later in 1963 he was put into jail during a successful campaign to achieve the desegregation of many public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama.
Martin later became the youngest person ever to get the Nobel peace prize. In 1965 Martin Luther king Jr. led a drive to register black voters in Selma, Alabam .....
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Gertrude Stein
.... taken under the wing of noted psychoanalyst, William James. James had an effect on Stein’s later writings as well. His method of “automatic writing, in which subjects wrote down their unedited, free-associative thoughts” (Gombar 42), was often the way Gertrude wrote many of her literary pieces.
In 1897, she was denied her bachelor’s degree, but the next year, she graduated magna cum laude with the class of 1898. Because of high recommendations from James and her other professors, she was granted adm .....
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Bill Bradley
.... care systems.
Bill Bradley understands that education is the bedrock of our economic strength, essential to ensuring that all Americans have the skills they need to build a better future in this time of technological change. Bill will enroll an additional 400,000 children in the Head Start program, helping nearly every eligible child to enter school prepared to succeed. He will create Teach to Reach partnerships to place 60,000 new, well-trained teachers each year into low-income urban and rural s .....
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Life Of Charles Robert Darwin
.... health since the birth of her second child, Caroline. Dr. Darwin became grumpy, and impatient after the death of his wife. At the age of nine Charles went to Shrewsbury School, where his older brother Erasmus was already attending school. The school was very strict, and Charles found the lessons mindless and boring. No Science was taught, and perhaps the only thing he felt joy in was famous literature. He read all the great works of Shakespeare, enjoying them immensely.
When Charles was 16 he was .....
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Alexander Hamilton
.... and by proposing an excise tax on American whiskey. He argued that as long as the states owed money to other nations, it could not be truly an independent nation. Hamilton's program had great success in restoring the credit of the United States. His vision of a centralized economy provided the basic model for a system that has survived to the present day. Yet, in the implementation of his political ideas, Hamilton encountered many attacks against his character and beliefs.
I believe that Hamilton was a .....
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