Kenichi Ohmae
.... hardback copies. In his book The Borderless World, Ohmae
discusses that centralized governments are loosing their ability, and their
need to direct national economies.
He is the founder of "Reform of Heisei", a citizen's political
movement estavlished on November 25, 1992, to promote and catalyze the
reform of Japan's political and administrative systems. This organization
has two elect Diet members commited to this program.
Reform is almost unheard of in Japan. He is doing rallies, televi .....
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Albert Einstein From Start To Finish
.... Hermann Einstein, didn't want him to study
Philosophy. He wanted him to take over the family business and study
electrical engineering. He and his mother would practice the piano for
hours. He mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to
school and everywhere he went. Albert's father had business problems as he
was growing up. His father was never around to love or help Albert. When
he was home he drank and had no patience for poor Einstein.
When Albert was going through hig .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... the President in turn.
"We wish to give it fitting celebration."
"For that reason, I decline to enlighten you; nothing could be more
distasteful to me than what you propose, and, when you address me, I shall
be obliged if you will omit the 'Mr.' "
If we can imagine Washington doing so undignified a thing as did President
Lincoln, when he first met our present Secretary of State, (John Sherman)
and compared their respective heights by standing back to back, a sheet of
paper resting on the crowns of .....
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Euclid And His Works
.... Elements is divided into 13 books. Books 1-6, plane geometry: books 7-
9, number theory: book 10, Exodus's theory of irrational numbers: books
11-13, solid geometry. The book ends with a discussion of the properties
of the five regular polyhedral and a proof that there are precisely five.
More than one thousand editions of The Elements have been published since
it was first printed in 1482.
The Elements Helpfulness
The Elements were obviously helpful because Zeno of Sidon about 250 years
after E .....
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Stephen King
.... best seller, is about a teenager who is ridiculed and
harassed throughout high school(Bleiler, 1031). After she is finally pushed to
the limit, her true side is finally exposed. Cujo, involves a ferocious dog that
starts out so innocent and kind , and ends up a brutal man killer(Bleiler, 1031).
The Shining, takes place in a motel that is haunted(Beacham, 748). Jack
Torrence is a writer who is ridden by guilt and failure(Beacham, 749). After
Torrence, his wife, and his five year old son are snowed .....
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Robert Penn Warren
.... of half-brothers and sisters when his father died, Robert
Franklin Warren forsook his literary ambitions and devoted himself to more
lucrative businesses. Robert Warren did not always have ambitions to become
a writer, in fact, one of his earlier dreams was to become an adventurer on
the high seas. This fantasy might have indeed come about, for his father
intended to get him an appointment to Annapolis, had it not been for a
childhood accident in which he lost sight in one of his eyes.
Warren was an .....
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Serial Murderer Ed Gein
.... His father George Gein held jobs as a tanner and carpenter when he
wasn't working the farm. When he was not working he would often visit the
local bars and drink himself drunk(Hotvedt). He was often a coward to his
wife and cowered in fear of her. This led him to become an alcoholic to
escape the verbal abuse. His wife would often pray in front of their sons
for the death of him. Her wishes finally came true when he died in 1940 of
causes unknown (Woods 22).
Gein's mother Augusta emerged as .....
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Jane Austen: Her Life And Work
.... were a happy, lively,
reputedly good-natured and sweet tempered family. Family squabbles were
almost unknown." (Wright, pg. 6) The Austens spent their nights together.
They played "charades around a candle-lit table. After the game, the girls
sewed or embroidered while the boys read aloud." (Wright, pg. 7)
Jane and Cassandra spent their whole life together, from birth till
Austen's death, where Jane died "with her head pillowed on Cassandra's
shoulder." (Wright, pg. 11) At age 7 , Cassandra and .....
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Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
.... fiction
aas a way to support himself. In 1832 the Philadelphia Saturday Courier
pulished five of his stories. Poe his aunt and Virginia moved to Richmond
in 1835 and became editor of the Southern LiteraryMessenger and married
Virginia who was not yet 14 years old. In January 1837 Poe annouced his
withdrawl as editor in the Messenger.
He stayed in New York City then in Philadelphia and again in New
York to establish himself as a force of literary jouranalism. Over the
years he discovered new forms of p .....
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Important People In History
.... children.He also said the people who feel inferior
would try to do things to make them feel better like trying to seek out
power or maybe going out and spending a large sum of money. Adler wrote a
book called "Understanding Human Nature". In his book he laid out his basic
theories. Like Freud he too did believe that dreams were really inportant
in understanding one's personality, however he did not believe that dreams
revealed more about a person's sexuality.
Pavlov, Ivan (1849- 1936)
Pavlov won a .....
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Biography Of Christopher Columbus
.... Santo. Diego Columbus, the only child
of this marriage, was born in 1480.
Based on information acquired during his travels, and by reading and
studying charts and maps, Christopher concluded that the earth was 25
percent smaller than was previously thought, and composed mostly of land.
On the basis of these faulty beliefs, he decided that Asia could be reached
quickly by sailing west. In 1484 he submitted his theories to John II, king
of Portugal, petitioning him to finance a westward crossing of the .....
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Biography Of Moshe Dayan
.... of agriculture in the government of David Ben-Gurion.
By popular demand, Dayan was made defense minister just before the
Six-Day War of 1967, which greatly enhanced his reputation. He was, however,
blamed for Israel's unpreparedness in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, and he
subsequently resigned (1974). Named foreign minister in Menachem Begin's
government in 1977, he played an important role in negotiating the peace
treaty with Egypt signed in 1979. Later that year he resigned in protest
ag .....
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Biography: St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
.... having only had an incomplete year at a new
college begun at Alcala by Francis Villanueva. At the age of thirty-nine he
attempted to make up this deficiency by following the course at the College
of Barcelona, but without success. His austerities had also undermined his
health. After considerable delay he was finally admitted into the Society
of Jesus as a lay-brother, 31 January, 1571. Distinct novitiates had not as
yet been established in Spain, and Alfonso began his term of probation at
Valencia o .....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
.... next studied law at New York's Columbia
University. When he passed the bar examination in 1907, he left school
without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a
prominent New York City law firm. He entered politics in 1910 and was
elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally
Republican home district.
In the meantime, in 1905, he had married a distant cousin, Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The
couple had six .....
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Gandhi: A Man With Virtues
.... immigrants to South Africa. He then “threw”
himself into the struggle for basic rights for Indians.
Gandhi stayed in South Africa for 20 years, being imprisoned many
times. In 1896, after being attacked and beaten by white South Africans,
Gandhi began to teach a method of “passive resistance,” to, the South
African authorities. _Part of the inspiration for this method came from
the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Christ and Henry David Thoreau, a 19th
century American writer, also inspired Gandhi. In .....
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