Charles Wang
.... the different aspects of a company, until they reach the
quality of an executive worker. At that point, the are promoted and re-
trained by Wang to insure excellence.
Wang's method of running his company could help him to succeed in a
variety of situations. For example, when Wang wants to retire, he would
not have to worry about the way his company was run. Since he taught his
own executives exactly how to run the company, they will most likely
continue this, even after Wang is working at the compa .....
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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
.... then decided to begin her
teaching. She taught for twenty years in Saint Mary's High School in
Calcutta, India.
On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa said she received another call
from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon
granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun
to fulfill her calling. So she began to share her life with the poor, sick
and the hungry in Calcutta. Mother Teresa with her new positon established
a congregation call .....
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Winston Churchill: A Biography
.... in Cuba and India, he worked as a war-correspondent in
Northern India, Sudan and in South Africa, where he was captured by the
Boers. His daring escape made him an overnight celebrity.
Churchill always wanted to become a politician. Early in his life
he envisioned himself at political debates. His wish came true in 1900,
when he was elected to the Parliament as a Conservative, and he quickly
made his mark. ************ His political sympathies began to change,
however, and he "changed sides" in 1904, whe .....
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The Life Of Walt Disney
.... I.
Walt Disney had difficulty holding a steady job. His father
advised him to take a job at the Chicago jelly factory. But, he
determinedly replied," I want to be an artist."4 His first endeavor was
the Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small
studio and designed ads for local businesses. They payed the rent of the
studio in artwork.5 In April of 1920, Disney took a better paying job at
the Kansas City Film Ad company. Ub also took a position at the company.6
Later Walt .....
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Oscar Wilde
.... He found the aesthetic
movement's notions of "art for art's sake" and dedicating one's life to art
suitable to his temperament and talents. As an aesthete, Wilde wore long hair
and velvet knee breeches, and became known for his eccentricity as well as his
academic ability. His rooms were filled with various objets d'art such as
sunflowers, peacock feathers, and blue china. Wilde frequently confided that
his greatest challenge at University was learning to live up to the perfection
of the china. Wil .....
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HG Wells
.... world of Wells's youth; the first tells
the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's
assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels.
Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay,
attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through,
depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I
Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History.
Throughout his long life Wells was deeply con .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of Mr.
Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While
there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia.
There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent
scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan
did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other
necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He .....
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Biography Of Robert Cormier
.... a teacher at Fitchburg State College was so impressed with one of
Cormier's stories that she submitted it to a magazine; it became his first
published work.
After college, Cormier went on to write commercials for a local radio
station, and soon switched to newspaper work. He was a writer and editor at
the Fitchburg Sentinel for 23 years, where he won three major journalism
awards. He later wrote short stories for popular magazines such as McCall's
and the Saturday Evening Post. Cormier married in 1948, a .....
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Jimmy Carter: The 39th President Of The United States
.... as president at a transitional period in the United
State's history, and lost most of his power very quickly.
Jimmy Carter's beginning was a very simple and typical "American
style" start. Jimmy was born James Earl Carter, Jr., on October 1, 1924,
in Plains, Georgia. His parents were James Earl Carter and Lillina Gordy
Carter. His family lived there for the first three years of Jimmy's life,
and then moved to Archery, Georgia, just outside of Plains. He lived there
until he was seventeen years old, .....
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Yasir Arafat
.... in northern Lebanon, but Arafat remained chairman of the PLO.
The PLO did not recognize Israel's rights to exist. Bur in 1988,
Arafat persuaded the PLO it accept Israel's rights to exist along side an
independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had
occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip
and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected
Arafat it's president. But Israel continued to occupy and in effect govern
the area. I .....
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Nathan McCall
.... we are hated.” He said this is
the reason why Black men commit so many crimes against each other--they
internalize the hatred that others in society have for them. They end up
hating themselves.
"I learned to hate myself by the time I was 12 years old," he said. McCall
said he and his friends did not believe they had a future. Self-
destructive behavior was the result. He credits his 12 year prison sentence
for changing his attitude. His fellow inmates told him "don't do what
we've done," and encour .....
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Richard Nixon's Presidency
.... on Un-American Activities during its investigation
of what became known as the Hiss case. In 1950 Nixon ran for the U.S.
Senate against Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-80), whom he
labeled th e for what he alleged to be her pro-Communist sympathies. He won
the election, but his campaign tactics were widely criticized.
Vice-President
In 1952 the Republicans nominated Nixon to be the running mate of
presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. When it was disclosed that as
a senator Nixon .....
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Gaius Marius: Savior.. Or Destroyer?
.... army volunteers from the capita censi, while saving
Rome in the short run, ultimately led to the downfall of the Republic.
Born into an unimpressive equestrian family, Marius found himself
better suited to the life of a warrior than that of a philosopher. He had
little tolerance for the aesthetic, finding more use with the sword than
the pen. He cut his military teeth under Scipio Aemilianus in the
Numantine war In Spain c.134, making an excellent impression on his
commander as did another up-and-com .....
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Richelieu And Olivares: The Quest For European Domination
.... I hold no special brief for the deference of
Olivares, whose record of defeat is plain for all to read. My only anxiety
is to ensure that he should be given equal time.”(6). This book attempts
to demonstrate the chess match between Richelieu and Olivares in which
there was to be only one winner. The book compared the two leaders to show
what conflicts the two men had, how they dealt with them, what they thought
of each other and why one came out on top of the other. “They shared many
of the same probl .....
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Lorenz's Work In The Chaos Field And Basic Chaos
.... and supposedly
went for coffee. When he returned, he was confused to find results of the
beginning of the new sequence not matching up with the results of the
middle of the last run. The numbers were not very close and growing farther
apart as the sequence progressed. Lorenz then thought there was a bug in
the system. After much double checking, he found the problem. When he had
entered the data into the second run, he had shortened one decimal. He had
cut 0.506127 at 0.206 thinking it would not make a .....
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