Donald Trump
.... has only four four star restaurants, and Trump owns one of them. Trump also owns the Miss Universe Pageant, Miss USA, and also Miss Teen USA.
Trump Tower is one of Donald’s favorite buildings. He favors it so much because it houses some of the greatest tenants that are paying very high rates, but, more importantly, these tenants are doing great financially. NIKETOWN is doing wonderful business and is one of the Trump Towers greatest successes. Trump says that, “while the casinos are b .....
|
|
Donatello
.... which were completed in 1415. "St. George" has been replaced and is now in the Bargello. For the first time, the human body is rendered as a functional organism. The same qualities came in the series of five prophet statues that Donatello did beginning in 1416. The statues were of beardless and bearded prophets as well as a group of Abraham and Isaac in 1416-1421 and also the "Zuccone" and "Jeremiah". "Zuccone" is famous as the finest of the campanile statues and one of the artist's masterpieces .....
|
|
Dorothea Lange
.... Administration. However, much conflict arose and in 1940
she was dismissed for the last time.
In the 1950’s and 60’s Dorotheas’s husband, Paul, spent six months
photographing developing countries and Asia. Dorothea began having
reoccurring ulcers. She was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. When
she was in the Near East she caught malaria.
Ansel Adams described her as a difficult woman who was
opinionated, impatient, and willful. A woman who defied the social gender .....
|
|
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
.... be the better
race. It took more than whips, hoses, sticks, and segregation to keep
Black America down. The government 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 prote .....
|
|
Dreams And Dreaming
.... delta sleep may no occur at all. the brain will cycle through stage 1 and 2. As the night goes on the
proportion of REM to NON- REM increase, so by the end of the night you may dream for as much as 1 of the last 2
hours of sleep. Though for some of us we still sleep deeply even to the wee hours of the morning. The “deep
sleepers” Thus light sleeper are more likely able to remember dreams.
The Menangkabau tribes of Indonesia believe that the real life force, the sumanghat, actually .....
|
|
Duke Ellington 2
.... Juan Tizol, and Lawrence
Brown comprised the monster trombone section, and Sonny Greer rounded out the
orchestra on drums (Holmes). And of course, there the “piano player, as Duke often referred to himself” (Holmes).
During this time, Duke would showcase his individual members in “miniature
masterpieces, three-minute concertos that displayed a single soloist against the backdrop of a tightly-knit ensemble” (Holmes). Then in 1943, Duke began to hold annual concerts in C .....
|
|
Dwight Eisenhower
.... in tactics and various other military skills.
In 1933, Eisenhower became an aide to General Douglas MacArthur, the Army chief of staff. Along MacArthur’s side, Eisenhower planned the military defense of the Philippines and a military academy for the new government. During World War II, Eisenhower rose to prominence. In 1941, Eisenhower was appointed to plan the strategy for the Third Army in war games in Louisiana. The Third Army defeated an “enemy” force that included a tank d .....
|
|
Dylan Thomas
.... age and eventually die in due time. However, Thomas analyzes human and natural death further when he writes, “And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose / My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.” The difference between the modification of the rose’s life and man’s is that our aging and death is sometimes avoidable, whereas the rose dies naturally when its season is over. Our chosen lifestyles sometimes impede the natural progression our lives should lead. We alter our lives wit .....
|
|
E. M. Forster
.... of Forster's work that continually line up.(XXXXX,XX).
Not one character really possesses qualities extremely different from another just different names, even throughout different books the characters remain the same. The use of the same character traits is most likely part of the fact that all of Forster's themes seem to remain constant. "Forster's three major themes are: salvation through love, deficiency of traditional Christianity, and repressiveness of English culture." (Marowski, 130). This .....
|
|
Earl Warren
.... Arizona.” The case dealt with criminal suspects and their rights. The court's decision was that criminal suspects had to be informed of their rights before questioning. Warren and his court also ruled decisions dealing with legislative apportionment, the basic rights of citizenship, and limitation of the use of libel laws. Warren received both criticism and praise as a result of his judicial performances.
Warren reached his last major case of the court in 1963 when he led the group responsible .....
|
|
Edgar Allan Poe
.... analysis of not only Poe’s works, but his life and his mind.
As stated earlier, one of his most acclaimed works is Annabel Lee. It is indeed a love tale. A poem written for his beautiful Annabel Lee. It speaks of the strong and unbreakable love that existed between them. This appears to be a happy enough topic, except for one significant fact. This Annabel Lee is dead.3 According to Poe, her death was caused by the angels who were jealous
of the love between him and Annable Lee. .....
|
|
Edgar Allen Poe
.... in Baltimore with his impoverished aunt, Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virgina Clemm, and his older brother, William Henry Leonard. He tried looking for work as a teacher in Baltimore, but another person got the job and Thomas Willis White hired him as an editor at The Southern Literary Messenger, in which he published short stories, poems, and ascorbic literary reviews. In October, the Clemms joined him, and in May he married his cousin Virginia.
The rest of his life, Poe suffered from severe ment .....
|
|
Eisenhower
.... in officer courses. In 1918 he commanded 6,000 men at Tank Training Center at Camp Colt, near Getttysburg, Pennsylvania and was promoted to temporary major and then lieutenant colonel when he commanded the Tank Brigade at Camp Meade. Even though he never went overseas, he was given the Distinguished Service Medal for his work.
After the war he was reverted to rank of captain and soon after, he advanced to major and commanded the 301st Tank Battalion. In 1922 he was again reverted to rank o .....
|
|
Eli Whitney
.... settled in Savannah after the war. When Whitney arrived in South Carolina, he found that the promised salary was going to be halved. He not only refused to take the position, but decided to give up teaching all together. Coming to his aid, Mrs. Greene invited him to her plantation where he could read law, and also help out the plantation manager, Phineas Miller. Miller, a few years older than Whitney, was a Yale alumnus and the fiancee of Mrs. Greene. Whitney accepted the offer.
Over time Whitney go .....
|
|
Ella Baker
.... Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964, which helped to give African Americans in Mississippi more political power.
Ella continued to serve as the "godmother" and mentor of SNCC as it moved into other human rights issues. Her greatest asset was her ability to organize and mobilize people of all generations. Although her name was not publicized as much as other male leaders, the civil rights movement would not have been the same without her.
Shortly before her death in 1986, a docum .....
|
|
|
|
