Jomo Kenyatta
.... Kenyatta
studied under the British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and wrote his
influential book Facing Mount Kenya (1938).
On returning to Africa, Kenyatta was elected president of the new Kenya
African Union (later, Kenya African National Union, or KANU). In 1952 he was
charged with leading the Mau Mau Rebellion against the British, and, despite his
denials, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and two years in exile.
Released in 1961, he assumed the presidency of KANU. In 1963, when .....
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Donatello
.... member of the
workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti who was a sculptor in bronze. Donatello's earliest
work was a marble statue of David. The "David" was originally made for the
cathedral but was moved in 1416 to the Palazzo Vecchio which is a city hall
where it long stood as a civic-patriotic symbol. From the sixteenth century on
it was eclipsed by the gigantic "David" of Michelangelo which served the same
purpose. Other of Donatello's early works which were still partly Gothic are the
impressive seated marble fig .....
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Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
.... death. They moved to New York. While in New York
he worked drawing cartoon advertisments for Flit, an insect repellant. It was he
who coined the phrase “Quick Henry, the Flit” which was to 1930s advertising
what “Just Do It” is to 1990s advertising. Sort of.
They later moved to La Jolla, California where Ted lived for the rest of
his life. They loved children although they were unable to have any of their own.
About five years after Helem's death he married Audrey Stone. He died in 1991 in
his sleep at t .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... It was also at this time that he was engaged to marry his childhood
sweetheart, Sarah Elmira Royster. He was a good student, but only stayed for a
year. He did not have enough money to make ends meet, so he ran up extremely
large gambling debts to trying make more money. Then he could not afford to go
to school anymore. John Allan refused to pay off Poe's debts, and broke off his
engagement to Sarah Elmira Royster. Since Poe had no other means of support, he
enlisted in the army. By this time howev .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... Shortly afterward Poe enlisted in the
U.S. Army and served a two-year term. In 1829 his second volume of verse, Al
Aaraaf, was published, and he effected a reconciliation with Allan, who secured
him an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. After only a few months at the
academy Poe was dismissed for neglect of duty, and his foster father disowned
him permanently. Poe's third book, Poems, appeared in 1831, and the following
year he moved to Baltimore, where he lived with his aunt and her 11-year- .....
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Albert Einstein
.... an affair.
Einstein decided to go to America to tell other scientists about his
theory of relativity. He brought his wife and several freinds with him. When
they got there, they were stormed with reporters and camera-men who wanted to
know about his theories. He went around to different areas and gave speeches
and lectures. When he appeared at Union Station to lecture, there was almost a
riot because so many people wanted to see him.
Einstein's most famous theory was the theory of relativity. "E .....
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
.... his neck
and replied that I will try my hardest to be all my brother was.
I was determined to be courageous, to ride horses and play chess, and
study such manly subjects as Latin, Greek, mathematics, and philosophy. I
devoured the books in my father's extensive law library and debated the fine
points of the law with his clerks. It was while reading my father's law books
that I first discovered the cruelty of the laws regarding women, and I resolved
to get scissors and snip out every unfair law. Bu .....
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Giorgione
.... Most other works that are attributed to him are based on indirect evidence. His innovation of “tonal painting”, created images using only color and light. His use of color and line made him unrivaled in the portrayal of mood. He chose not to rely heavily on sketching his work before he executed it, rather, he preferred to compose directly on the canvas to give his paintings a more atmospheric rendering and more striking color.
His subject matter was revolutionary in this time period. Gior .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
.... were part of this historical movement. Emerson was a big part of this and practically initiated the entire club. As we know he was already a major part of the movement and know got himself involved more. Many people and ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awards, but he did win the love and appreciation of his readers.
Literary In .....
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Herman Melville Defined
.... the ship United States during his service with the U.S. Navy. Although the public was grateful Melville returned to a more realistic style, he was very unhappy. He wrote to his father-in-law, “no reputation that is gratifying to me, can possibly be achieved by this book. This is a job, which I have done for money-being forced to do it, as other men are to sawing wood…So far as I am concerned, and independent of my pocket, it is my earnest desire to write those sort of books which are said to fail” (1 .....
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Alexander The Great
.... enemy to ribbons. He also made it a practice to reward all of his troops after battle with gold, food, or other riches. He lost many men in battle, but he never lost their morale.
The first battle that Alexander faced at the start of his career was one of civil action. The people in Thebes had heard little of their new ruler, Alexander, and were worried there was no one to lead them. In response, they revolted. Alexander immediately responded and crushed the rebellion in one swift blow. Although .....
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Andrew Carnegie: "Capt. Of Industry" Or "Robber Baron"?
.... of potential injuries waiting to happen… and they had to work twelve hours a day, 7 days a week. When they started to form a labor union, he tried to stop it. He had to go to Scotland for a couple of days and told his partner to stop the strike by any means. Whether it was a misunderstanding or not, but his partner called for armed forces. The former workers were imprisoned, injured or killed, and definitely fired. Though after the unsuccessful strike, Carnegie rehired many of those people upon his return. .....
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Siddhartha
.... cycle of Samsara. He knew he could do this by bettering himself through discipline and finding his true self.
I have had two crisis experiences that stand out in my recent memories. First, in the eighth grade I made the choice to attend a private school that was 30 miles away from where I lived. This was a school that none of my current friends were going to attend. I chose to leave all my friends and thrust myself into a new experience for my own good. My friends didn’t want me to leave, just lik .....
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Oral Roberts
.... healing.
There were several events surrounding the birth of Oral that became part of his ministry’s hagiography. Oral’s mother, Claudius, went to a sick child while she was pregnant with Oral to try and heal the child. She promised God that she would give her child to him if he would heal the sick child. The child was healed and she knew God had promised her a "little preacher".
As a child Oral was mischievous and lively. But also shy, self-conscious, extrovert and poor. His self-consciousnes .....
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William Wordsworth Biography
.... Michel Beaupuy, a French officer who is spoken of in The Prelude. In France, he also met Annette Vallon, with whom he had an illegitimate child, Caroline.
Wordsworth returned to England in 1793 and published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. During a walking tour that year, Wordsworth journeyed across the Salisbury Plain and to Tintern Abbey, both of which are subjects of later poems. By 1794, he was finally reunited with his sister Dorothy, and in 1775, he met the philosopher William Godwin .....
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