Jesse Jackson: A Brief Biography
.... a civil rights leader shocked everybody, and
cost him millions of votes. Another scandal came along when he led over five
hundered Stanford University students singing, "Hey hey, ho ho. Western civ has
got to go!" Jesse Jackson boycotted the Academy Awards last year, because only
on African-American was nominated. However no less of an authority than Denzel
Washington, says that Jesse Jackson overreacted. "I didn't really think that
there were any Oscar worthy African-American performances," said the a .....
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
.... to Great Britain(Anderson
98). His mother, Rose, was a loving housewife and took young John
on frequent trips around historic Boston learning about American
revolutionary history. Both parents impressed on their children
that their country had been good to the Kennedys. Whatever
benefits the family received from the country they were told,
must be returned by performing some service for the
country(Anderson 12). The Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby,
Ted and their sisters, Eunice, Jean, Patric .....
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Jim Bridger
.... gave him a job as a scout and
he helped the army when fighting the Indians. Bridger strongly opposed the
Mormons and guided United State troops into Utah during a conflict that has
been called the Utah war or Mormon war. In 1865 he guided the powder river
expedition. And also became the first person to measure the bozeman trail
(600 miles) from fort laramie, Wyoming to Virginia City, Montana.
James Bridger was just about the most famous explorer of the American West.
In honor of his travels, The .....
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Joan Of Arc
.... Charles the VII. 2
Since France had been fighting with England in what was called the
Hundred Years' War, much of Northern France was captured by the English,
including Reims where the coronation for kings had been held for over centuries
before him. Since Reims was captured, Charles the VII, who had not yet been
crowned; was still called the Dauphin. When Joan had these visions of Saint
Catherine and Saint Margaret, she told her family and friends. When she told
her father, he would not let her g .....
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James Bryant Conant
.... abilities is good because it allows students to learn at an
appropriate level. A student who can read at a speed of 125 words per minute
should not be in the same English class as a person who only reads 50 words per
minute. On the opposite end, there is a downfall to this idea of separation of
classes. Students are put into certain groups and therefore they become
stereotyped into certain categories. A person at a high intelligent level may
be called a "brain" while a person at a low intelligent level .....
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John Adams
.... (Smelser & Gundersen, 1975). As president, Washington appointed, among
others, two influential political leaders to his original cabinet; Thomas
Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson, a veteran politician became the
Secretary of State and Hamiliton, a young, outspoken New Yorker lawyer, became
the Secretary of the Treasury (Ferling, 1992). Jefferson, like Adams, had also
signed the Declaration of Independence. Hamilton, however, was the only cabinet
member relatively unknown to Adams (Ferling, .....
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John F. Kennedy
.... a gap between what he would like and what
is possible" he once said. In the fall of 1963 Kennedy began to plan his
strategy for re-election.
On November 22, at 12:30 p.m., while riding in an open limousine
through Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck by a gunmen.
Kennedy was rushed to the Parkland Memorial Hospital, were efforts to save
him failed. Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded in September 1964 the
assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald. The state funeral of President John Fitzgerald
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Hellen Nellie McClung: A Canadian Feminist
.... legendary.
Her earliest success was achieved as a writer, and during her lengthy career she
authored four novels, two novellas, three collections of short stories, a two-
volume autobiography and various collections of speeches, articles and wartime
writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. Two of her most famous books are:
Clearing In The West and The Stream Runs Fast. All this served as a "pulpit"
from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social
transformation. She was convince .....
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John Lennon
.... by new challenges, he projected a sarcastic and rebellious tough-guy
personality, who was actually a vulnerable romantic. While Paul projected the
sweet image and who was underneath an injured, controlling, perfectionist.
By 1964, The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport. They were greeted with
mass hysteria. Two days later, more than 73 million people watched them perform
live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Four weeks later, The Beatles held the top five
music singles in America at the same time.
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John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice
.... the Virginia House of
Delegates." He became a prominent lawyer and was on his way to a successful
future.
Mr. Marshall worked under the administration of John Adams starting in
1798. He was offered the position of attorney general under George Washington's
administration, but declined because he wanted to stay with his family and
practice law in his home town of Richmond, Virginia. He was one of three
delegates sent to France by John Adams in 1798. His reasoning for taking the
job in France was partly .....
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John Muir
.... and Joanna. For several years, he had toyed with writing up his findings
for publication. Jeanne Carr was the one that encouraged him. She even
suggested titles and copied his notes. John decided to send an article to the
New York Tribune. To his surprise, the newspaper published "Yosemite Glaciers"
on December 5, 1871, and paid him $200, that was a lot of money back then. On
New Year’s Day in 1872, the same newspaper printed "Yosemite in Winter." John
thought that he might be able to earn his .....
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John Muir: His Achievements/Journeys
.... was known as
the thousand-mile walk. During his journey, he would stop to collect plant
samples and write about his observations in his journal.
John was weak from the trip and thought that he would need much more
energy to travel to South America. He decided to visit Yosemite Valley, where
he would regain his strength. He took up the job as a herder there and began to
explore the area. Then he got a job as guide to the Yosemite. Muir quickly
became an expert on Yosemite. John believed that glacie .....
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John Napier
.... lived out his life until 1617, when he
died at the age of sixty-seven.
St. Andrew's
University, but for some unknown reason, left without obtaining a degree,
which didn't seem to have any relevance to him. He returned home in 1571 as
a scholar competent in Greek. He was an ardent Presbyterian who wrote A
Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John, the first Scottish
interpretation of the bible, in 1593 to demonstrate that the Catholic Church
was the beast. He was interested in mathematics at an early age and set forth
the concept of logarithms and published the .....
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John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
.... the
medieval and Renaissance fabalists and the biological sciences (Shaw 11). He
then moved to New York and tried his hand as a construction worker and as a
reporter for the American. (Covici , xxxv). Steinbeck then moved back to
California and lived with his wife at Pacific Grove. In 1934, he wrote for the
San Franciso News, he was assigned to write several articles about the 3,000
migrants flooded in at Kings County. The plight of the migrant workers motivated
him to help and document their struggle. T .....
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Jonas Salk
.... but then
moved to the Bronx where he went to school. "His first spoken words were, 'Dirt,
dirt,' instead of the conventional, uninspired 'No, no' or 'Momma.' He was a
responsive child." Dr. Salk was "raised on the verge of poverty." Although
his family was poor, he did do exceptionally well in all the levels of education.
He graduated from Townsend Harris High School in 1929 and then went on to the
College of the City of New York where he received his B.S. in 1934. He finally
earned his M.D. degre .....
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