Albert Einstein
.... a Swiss citizen in 1905.
The papers of 1905. During this time, Einstein made three of his
greatest contributions to scientific knowledge. The year 1905 was an
epoch-making one in the history of physical science, because Einstein
contributed three papers to Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics), a
German scientific periodical. Each of them became the basis of a new
branch of physics.
In one of the papers, Einstein suggested that light could be
thought of as a stream of tiny particles. This ide .....
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Charles Darwin
.... Josiah Wedgewood. After he
abandoned medicine, his father urged him to attend Cambridge University to
study to be a clergyman. At Cambridge he met John Steven Henslow who
helped him regain his interest in nature. It was Henslow who was
influential in getting Darwin the position of naturalist on the boat The
Beagle. In April of 1831, he graduated from the University.
In the fall following his graduation, the government decided to
send the H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, to .....
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Richard Nixon
.... goal. He
was voted in with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He went through many
political high points, such as the Caracas Mob incident, where Nixon was
taken hostage. The "Kitchen Debate", noted as a high point for Nixon,
where he and the Russian leader discussed issues in a kitchen. With
Eisenhower, he served two terms. Nixon's next goal was to become the
President of the United States.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon ran for the presidency. As it
turned out, Kennedy and Johnson won by a mere .....
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
.... he soon would be on his way to political
fame. After leaving Groton, Roosevelt would go on to attend Harvard, in
the fall of 1900. He would excel, and eventually graduate in 1904. Groton
as well as Harvard would pave the way for the future of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
It was 1932, when Roosevelt, would acquire the renowned title of
President of the United States by winning the election. It was sort of a
platform for his campaign, as he said in Chicago Stadium, “I pledge you, I
pledge myself, to a new .....
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Writings Of Maya Angelou
.... so she invited a classmate
of hers to come over and have sex with her. This resulted in pregnancy.
She gave birth to her son, Guy, a month after she graduated from high
school in 1945 (“Maya” 18). When she was growing up, she suffered from
people being racist toward her. For example, when she was younger her
grandmother took her to a white dentist that refused to put his hands in a
black persons mouth (Arensberg 118). Occasions like such convinced her
that she had to take the pain and move on. Much .....
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Julius Caesar And His Accomplishments
.... that he returned in a short time with
military glory and with money enough to pay all his debts. Every hero has
its background; Ceaser was a Roman hero by millions and lived through many
important events and accomplished many things that no other person has ever
come close to.
Julius Caesar could be described as one of the greatest men in the
history of the world. Caesar was always interested in public affairs, and
tried always to gain favor of the people. He won favor because he spent
much money to pro .....
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Sean Gagnon
.... Gagnon said that it was usually
"himself". He never was the one to keep his mouth shut. He was the one
who liked to stir the pot....a lot. He used to get his nose dirty all the
time. The problem was he was smaller than everybody else. Then in turn
he was the one that had gotten in the end. But by looking at Gagnon (gon-
yoe) he is definately all grown up. The skinny kid who once stood 180 cm
as a junior in high school is now a 189 cm, 96 kg monster with a very mean
steak. He just happens to play ic .....
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Malcolm X
.... in the Little's home and left. When Mr. Little
came home and heard what happened, he decided to move as soon a Malcolm was
born to Lansing, Michigan. Here was where Malcolm's father died at the
hand of the Black Legion (X 4-13). After Malcolm's father's death, his
mother who had to take care of eight children and endure threats from the
KKK, suffered a nervous breakdown. As a result, Malcolm and his siblings
were taken by the welfare department. Malcolm was later enrolled in a
reform school and did ver .....
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Ben Franklin’s Involvement In The Age Of Reason
.... as the open
heating stove, the bifocals, and other neat gadgets helped suit the needs
of people across the world. He was a tinkerer, one that was always playing,
trying to figure out, asking himself just how can I improve this or invent
something better.
Another reflection of the Age of Reason that involved Ben Franklin
was him being so pragmatic. His practical personality put restrictions on
what he was able to do, although he still managed to do pretty much what he
wanted to do. The pragmatic Ben we .....
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Nathanial Hawthorne
.... Seven Gables". The story of The House Of The Seven
Gables streches over two centuries. It's the classic scenario of two rival
families, in this case the Pyncheons ( weathly aristocratic puritans) and
the Maules ( humbler paupers). The story of these two families begins with
Matthew Maule, who owned a certain amount of land and built himself a hut
to live in, in this new puritan settlement. Maule was a hard working but
obscure man, who was stubborn and protected what was his. His rival arrived
at the settle .....
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Jim Henson, A Gentle Genius
.... success with children.
Henson was very successful in life. He accomplished many things
that people might dream of as a child. His success first started in high
school when his family first moved to Washington and he became fascinated
by television. In the summer of 1954, just before he entered the
University of Maryland he learned that a local station needed someone to
perform with puppets on a children’s show. That job didn’t last long, but
within a few months later he was puppeteering for the local .....
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Captain Kidd
.... coffee from Yemen, but later Kidd’s crew
took several small ships. Kidd captured his most valuable prize, the
Armenian ship Quedagh Merchant, in January 1698 and scuttled the
unseaworthy Adventure Galley. When he reached the West Indies in April
1699, he learned that he had been denounced as a pirate. He then abandoned
the Quedagh Merchant at the island of Hispaniola and got aboard a newly
purchased ship, the Antonio, and sailed to New York City.
There he tried to persuade the colonial governor of Ne .....
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Hitler's Legacy Still Haunts The World
.... all three were fascist. All
three countries felt Communism was a threat just like the democratic
nations of the time. However, they also knew that the democratic nations
were a threat and that the democratic nations felt the same about them. As
a result the fascists signed a treaty known as the Triple Alliance. This
treaty was pushed by Hitler and wouldn’t have happened without him. With
Hitler’s help Fascism united world wide.
Hitler’s government was considered a fascist regime. Hitler’s
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Mark Twain (1835-1910)
.... to a riverboat pilot. He became a licensed pilot and spent two and
a half years at his new trade. The river swarmed with traffic, and the
pilot was the most important man aboard the boat. He wrote of these years
in 'Life on the Mississippi'.
The Civil War ended his career as a pilot. Clemens went west to Nevada
and soon became a reporter on the Virginia City newspaper. Here he began
using the pen name Mark Twain. It is an old river term meaning two fathoms,
or 12 feet, of water dep .....
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Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
.... a bit like a optimist,
quite frankly though his own “waste land”steps in half way through. This is
his only poetic work I like. But it will never be at the top of any of my
lists. In this “song” , JAP (J. Alfred Prufrock) is writing a letter to
his honey, the girl he is in love with. In this poem Eliot uses a lot of
visual imagery, he is very good with his adjectives and brings such a happy
correlation of thought into a grim reality he would call his “Waste Land”.
He talks of how :
In the room the .....
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