The Life And Career Of Babe Ruth
.... then became
a member of the Boston Red Sox in the American League. Babe pitched for
Boston until the 1919 season, when his unusual ability as a batter and a
fielder caused the Boston management to convert him into an outfielder.
From 1920 to 1935 he played the outfield for the New York Yankees of the
American League. In the1932 World Series Babe pointed his bat in the
outfield and hit a home run.
In 1935, he became vice president of the Boston Braves in the
National League and played numerous game .....
|
|
Biography Of Robert Frost
.... to The
Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor
White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.)
High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special
student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but
rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased
for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by
teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy.
In 1912, at the age of .....
|
|
William Mosby Is A Hero
.... would always have the upper hand on his enemy. He
would always check on his opponent. He knew how many men they had and what
kind of weapons they had. He always knew what he was up against.
Lastly one must be daring. You got to have guts; a wussy hero
isn't any good. Mosby was very daring. You had to be to take six men into
an enemy camp armed with just pistols and a few rifles and steal millions
in gold and equipment. Once he snuck into an enemy held town, he creaped
right up to the command post .....
|
|
The Work Of Cormac McCarthy
.... metaphysical assumptions are existential. Human
consciousness of the past exists within each person in memories and
contacts, held in an ongoing meaning by individuals as fragments, subject
to loss as memory dims and subject to arbitrary changes without order or
meaning" (Richey 141).
These same critics compare McCarthy's writing to past writers
saying that McCarthy shares some aspects of his writing with Thomas Pynchon,
Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, and James Joyce. "A sophisticated reader on
fi .....
|
|
The Life Of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
.... permitted to study with a view toward entering a
university. Gauss's extraordinary achievement which caused this impression
occurred when he demonstrated his ability to sum the integers from 1 to 100
by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing 101.
In 1788, Gauss began his education at the Gymnasium with the help of
Buttner and Bartels, where he distinguished himself in the ancient
languages of High German and Latin and mathematics. At the age of 14 Gauss
was presented to the .....
|
|
B. F. Skinner
.... to read the music. In college, he was very
independent, and sometimes even a prankster. He graduated from Hamilton College
in 1926 and later received his P.h.D. in psychology at Harvard University.
(Ulrich, 1997)
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January
9th 1878. He went to college at Furman University and the University of Chicago.
Watson created "Psychological behaviorism" in 1912. He told the world about his
theory of behaviorism in a 1913 paper entitle .....
|
|
Robert E. Lee
.... they had their
second child, Mary Curtis. Mrs. Lee was put on bed-rest for many months due
to illness. They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie,
Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all attended
episcopal Church where he was raised.
On May 13, 1846 the United States declared was on their southern neighbor.
When Lee was 39, he headed for Mexico. Lee's will said that he was worth
about $38,750 with few depts. He only had few slaves: Nancy and her
children. And they wer .....
|
|
Computer Nerds: Wozniak, Jobs, Gates, And Allen
.... believed that there would be a personal computer in every household. Gates
and Paul Allen formed Microsoft in 1975. Today Gates is a very important leader
in Microsoft.
Paul Allen was also a co-founder of Microsoft. He bought a chip from a
store and brought it back to Bill Gates and then they called their friends.
They loaded BASIC into the computer and it worked by printing out the memory
size. Paul left Microsoft in 1983 after an illness.
.....
|
|
Herman Melville: His Life And Works
.... (Humford 23) Allan
Melville was also attached financially to the Gansevoorts for support.
There is a lot of evidence concerning Melville's relation to his mother
Maria Melville. “Apparently the older son Gansevoort who carried the
mother's maiden name was distinctly her favorite.” (Edinger 7) This was a
sense of alienation the Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one
of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel.
In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S.
he .....
|
|
Martin Luther King Reflection Essay
.... sit-ins at lunch
counters and rode on segregated buses. Others in the country boycotted
discriminatory companies and their products, that practiced legal
segregation and discrimination. The largest ever non-violent protest in
Washington August 23, 1968, where 200,000 people attended. This was where
King gave his famous " I have a Dream " speech.
Although King insisted on nonviolent ways, violence persistently
occurred. Marchers and protesters were attacked by dogs and shot at with
water hoses. Riot's .....
|
|
Jackie Robinson
.... with another officer
when he would not give up his seat on a military bus (1). He was
discharged as a first Lieutenant (1).
After leaving the Army Jackie wanted to play baseball, his
favorite sport. He tried out for many teams and was drafted by the Kansas
City Monarchs Negro League Team (Hill 1). The Negro League schedule was
very tuff. The team was always on the road playing games. Jackie did not
like the life style of being on the Monarchs (“Robinson, Jackie”). He and
his teammates woul .....
|
|
Francisco Pizarro
.... His second expedition was more successful. On his second
expedition he reached the capitol of the Inca Empire, Cuzco7. Pizarro and
other Spaniards were migrating to Cuzco and inconspicuously taking over the
Inca Empire.
The complete takeover of the Inca's was a very big accomplishment
because the Incas had the most formidable and successful military societies
of the Americas, served by generals, with inexhaustible supplies and more
than 50'000 armed soldiers8. Pizarro only had 180 men. The downfall .....
|
|
The Life Of Mao Zedong
.... father,
the son of a "poor peasant," during Mao's childhood however, prospered and
become a wealthy land owner and rice dealer. 5 Yet, the structure of Mao's
family continued to mirror the rigidity of traditional Chinese society. His
father, a strict disciplinarian, demanded filial piety. 6 Forced to do farm
labor and study the Chinese classics, Mao was expected to be obedient. On
the other hand, Mao remembers his mother was "generous and sympathetic." 7
Mao urged his mother to confront his father but Ma .....
|
|
Biography Of Aaron Montgomery Ward
.... In this period, Aaron Montgomery Ward learned the mechanics and
customs of retailing.
Aaron the moved to Chicago, which was the center of the wholesale
dry goods trade. The Chicago City Directories for 1868 through 1870 listed
him as a salesman for Wills, Greg & Co. and later for Stetthauers & Wineman,
both dry goods houses.
Aaron Montgomery Ward felt that a way of doing business must be
found that would bring relief from the traditional systems. The plan that
shaped in Aaron's mind was to buy goo .....
|
|
Kublai Khan
.... of courageous men. One of
these men included the famous Venetian Marco Polo. Kublai Khan did much
to encourage the advancement of literature and arts as well. He was a
devout Buddhist. Kublai also made Buddhism the state religion during his
dynasty. Although Buddhism was the main religion, during his reign many
other religions evolved and were tolerated.
Kublai moved the Mongol capital from Cambulac to the place closer
to Beijing. From then on he ruled and empire that extended from eastern
.....
|
|
|
|
