Evita Peron
.... the family shortly after her
birth. Fifteen years of poverty followed and, in early 1935, the young Evita
fled her stifling existence to go to Buenos Aires. Perhaps, as some have said,
she fell in love with a tango singer who was passing through.
She wanted to be an actress, and in the next few years supported herself
with bit parts, photo sessions for titillating magazines and stints as an
attractive judge of tango competitions. She began frequenting the offices of a
movie magazine, talking her .....
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Adam Smith
.... the impossibility of monopolizing the benefits of colonies, and
pessimistically calculates the cost of empire, but the book appeared too late to
have any effect upon British policy. Because the Declaration of Independence and
The Wealth of Nations, the political and economic reliations of empire and
mercantilism, appeared in the same year, historians have often designated 1776
as one of the turning points in modern history. The text On the cost of Empire,
the eloquent exhortation to the rulers of Britain .....
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Frank Lincoln Wright
.... warm household. His father, William Carey Wright who worked as a preacher
and a musician, moved from job to job, dragging his family across the United
States. His parents divorced when Wright was still young. His mother Anna
(Lloyd-Jones) Wright, relied heavily on upon her many brothers sisters and
uncles, and was intellectually guided by his aunts and his mother.
Before her son was born, Anna Wright had decided that her son was gong
to be a great architect. Using Froebel's geometric blocks to ente .....
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
.... the mourning."
"I helped him by encouraging his urge to write adventures. It was also
his best work. He did not shine in his other subjects. It was the pride in his
literary work that put him in his real bent." Recalls his St. Paul Academy
teacher. From that prestigious school he then traveled and began attendance in
Princeton University. Not a promising student he was often late to his classes.
His excuse was once "Sir-it's absurd to expect me to be on time. I'm a
genius!!!" Though the "Princeton years .....
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
.... maternal grandfather was a very successful wholesale merchant. His
grandfather's early death and his father's inability to keep a job, forced the
family to be extremely dependent on the wealth of his grandfather's estate.
Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy as a child. In 1911 he entered the
Newman School in Hackensack, NJ. Growing up with a father who was out of work
and who relied on his wife's inheritance gave Fitzgerald a mixed feeling of
guilt and shame and yet he felt love for both his .....
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Gandhi
.... a pass if he appeared on the streets after 9 p.m.”(Pg. 24). Gandhi felt
this was completely unfair and by the time he had finished his campaign against
colour prejudice in South Africa, “the three pound tax on farm indentured
labourers was annulled, Hindu, Muslim and Parsi marriages were declared valid;
free Indians and their wives could continue to come into the country from India”
(Pg. 47-48). Gandhi achieved this status for Indians in South Africa by a method
called “Satyagraha” or “passive resistance .....
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Bill Gates
.... about the history,
and about the most important figure in this industry, then this is definitely
"the third type of book."
The book that I was able to read was Gates by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews.
It was about how man named Bill Gates became the foundation of computing
industry and how he reinvented an industry- and made himself the richest man in
America.
William (Bill) Gates is the computer industry's youngest billionaire. As
president and CEO of Microsoft, he has made several important contr .....
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Robert E. Lee
.... Confederate States of America, and was then placed in command
of the Army in northern Virginia.
In February 1865 Lee was made commander in chief of all Confederate
armies; two months later the war was virtually ended by his surrender to General
Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
The masterly strategy of Lee was overcome only by the superior resources
and troop strength of the Union. His campaigns are almost universally studied
in military schools as models of strategy and tactics, He had a ca .....
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George Washington
.... indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune
combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same
constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting
remembrance."
In Williamsburg, when it was the seat of Virginia's government, Washington
secured his first military commissions, learned and practiced the arts of
politics, and moved from the attitude of being just another country squire to
become the leader of a continental revolution .....
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George Frederick Handel
.... he traveled to Rome, enjoying the backing of
both the nobility and the clergy, and in the late spring of 1707 he made an
additional short trip to Naples. In Italy, Handel composed operas, oratorios,
and many small secular cantatas; he ended his Italian visit with the stunning
success of his fifth opera, Agrippina (1709), in Venice. Handel left Italy for a
job as court composer and conductor in Hannover, Germany, where he arrived in
the spring of 1710. As had been the case in Halle, however, he did not hol .....
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
.... 1864 enrolled at Balliol College, at Oxford, to Read Greats
(classics, ancient history, and philosophy). At this time in his life he wanted
to become a painter, like one of his siblings. His plans changed when he, and
three of his friends were drawn in to Catholicism. He was received by the
Church of Newman in October of 1866. After having taken a first class degree in
1867, he taught at the Oratory School, Birmingham. Two years later he decided
to become a Jesuit when he burned all his verses as too .....
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Golda Meir
.... would have
possibly never survived as a state. In the beginning, Israel hardly had any
weapons. Golda Meir once again decided she wanted to help Israel so she went to
the United States and She went to other countries to try to help Israel out with
this problem by raising money. In the US, she gave speeches at universities and
she contacted the head government officials to try to borrow some money. The US
government turned her down but the college students gave her all the money they
could spare. The go .....
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John Bates Clark
.... marginal productivity of labor. This was also beneficial to both the
industry and the labor.
Secondly, Clark ignored the distinction between land and capital,
grouping together both kinds of non-human inputs under the general term
"capital," which he then assumed that the broadened "capital" is homogenous.
John took this Neoclassical approach one step further than others in
applying it to the business firm and the maximization of profits. One of the
results was a theory of the distribution wh .....
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Lee Iacocca
.... joined the
service had been killed over-seas and abroad. For college Lee chose Lehigh
University for its engineering program, although he wanted to go to Purdue, he
did not get a scholarship. Lehigh University was one of the sights that Ford
Motor Company used to recruit new employees. He was able to secure a place in
the Ford training program, it was difficult for him to get admission but he
survived. During his time in the training program Lee had become less
interested in the engineering aspect of .....
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Grover Cleveland
.... and attacked corruption and dishonesty in govwenment.
He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputation
for honesty.
Grover Cleveland got married in 1886 to Frances Folsom. He was the
first President to get married in the White House. Reporters pried into every
detail of Grover Cleveland's life which he called "colossal impertinence".
Grover Cleveland had five children. Esther, his second daughter, was the first
and only child of a President to ever be born in the Whi .....
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