Maya Angelou
.... but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent her formative years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under the black nationalis .....
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Beethoven
.... and later with Antonio Salieri.
Beethoven's first public appearance in Vienna was on March 29, 1795, as a soloist in one of his piano concerti. Even before he left Bonn, he had developed a reputation for fine improvisatory performances. In Vienna young Beethoven soon had a long list of aristocratic patrons who loved music and were eager to help him.
Onset of Deafness
In the late 1700s Beethoven began to suffer from early symptoms of deafness. The cause of his disability is still uncertain. B .....
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Frederick Douglass' Life And His Work
.... to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad. When Douglass learned on the eve of the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, that Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal and armory there. He objected. Warning Brown that an attack on federal property would be equal to an assault on the U.S. government, and would prove disastrous. Douglass withdrew from further participation.
He campaigned for Abraham Lincoln during the presidential election of 1860, and helped raise two regiments of black soldier, .....
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Machiavelli's View Of Human Nature
.... both intellectually and morally- through participation' in the life of the state."4 Machiavelli generally distrusted citizens, stating that "...in time of adversity, when the state is in need of it's citizens there are few to be found."5 Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises the Prince that "...because men a wretched creatures who would not keep their word to you, you need keep your word to them."6 However, Machiavelli did not feel that a Prince should mistre .....
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The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
.... very short. He also did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him.
Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery regiment , and c .....
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Emily Dickinson
.... Emily Dickinson believed and practiced this philosophy.
Dickinson was brought up by a stern, authoritarian father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from other children. After attending Amherst Academy with other scrupulous thinkers she began to develop into a free-willed person. Many of Dickinson’s friends had continued with their Christianity and her family put an enormous amount of pressure on her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster, she would not compromise her .....
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Howard Stern: The King Of Mass Media Or The Anti Christ?
.... air waves. His words are offending and detrimental to our society.
In the past people have viewed Howard Stern as a vulgar pig who degrades every one that he encounters. After constantly ducking from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC), and many activist groups, Stern still manages to stay on the air. However, that air time has come with a hefty price. Stern has gone down in the history books for receiving the largest fine that the FCC has .....
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John Brown
.... disgusting actions as you and your neighbors. The only difference, he acted upon his abhorrence. Should he be condemned for these actions as a criminal or praised as a martyr? Many would vote the latter.
John Brown was hanged for his attempt at giving the greatest gift of all, freedom. There are men who walk among us that are thankful for having had the chance to meet Brown. There are others who dreamt about doing as he did. John Brown is a man of honor and courage, guilty of only acting impulsive .....
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Kazimir Malevich
.... This is a pure abstract painting, the artist's main theme being the internal movements of the personality. The theme has no precise form, and Malevich had to search it out from within the visible expression of what he felt.
Malevich described Suprematism at its moment of birth as a 'purely pictorial art'. From his point of view it represented the highest manifestation of inherent value of art. It may be wrong to approach Suprematism as painting in the ordinary, traditional sense of the word. Despite i .....
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The Traits Of Adolf Hitler
.... M. Schlesinger 1985, 14) Even though he didn’t have a normal amount of education, he still became the leader of Germany.
Adolf Hitler, nevertheless, was a great orator and when he spoke, everybody listened. He sometimes spoke several times a day, moving from town to town seemingly tireless. Ken McVay had this to say about this subject, “He was a tireless speaker and before he came to power would sometimes give as many as three or four speeches on the same day, often in different cites. Even .....
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Author Obsessed Over Love
.... school. She then went on to Holy Cross College and obtained honors in English, chemistry, and botany. Next she began to attend the University of Sydney to become a physician. McCullough eventually dropped out due to her father’s opposition to women having medical careers. The author has had a variety of jobs varying from librarian to bus driver and schoolteacher. McCullough returned to the University of Sydney to become a medical technician specializing in neurophysiology. After accomplishing that .....
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Martin Luther King Junior
.... Mohand as K. Gandhi, whose ideas became the core of his own philosophy of nonviolent protest. While in Boston, he met Coretta Scott of Marion, Ala. They were married in June 1953, and the following year King accepted an appointment as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
That same year the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed all segregated public education, and in the wake of that decision the segregated South was soon challenged in every .....
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
.... one of the most powerful women in Washington, D.C. She has received sixty honorary degrees. Norton has been recognized nationally as a writer. A few of her published works include, “Justice and Efficiency in Dispute Systems” in 1990, “Bargaining and the Ethic Process” 1989, and “Equal Employment Law: Crisis in Intervention, Survival Against the Odds” in 1988.
Some of her numerous leadership positions include service as chair of the ACLU National Advisory Council, the Workplace Health Fund, and the Wo .....
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John Lennon
.... John and his 3 sisters, John’s mother sent him away to live with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George when he was young. His Aunt Mimi took him in as if he was her own son. In 1946, John’s father Fred, returned from sea and tried to take John with him to New Zealand. Julia stepped in and kept John in Liverpool with his Aunt Mimi. (Fogo)
The first school that John attended was Dovedale Primary School. Here he began his streak of rebelliousness that would last him throughout his entire adult life. Here Jo .....
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Oskar Schindler - A Saint In Disguise?
.... Righteous? The answer is simple: To more than 1200 Jewish people held as prisoners in camps during World War II, Oskar Schindler and his factories are all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis. Schindler's motives, even to this day, are not completely clear. As you learn about a man full of flaws just like the rest of us, I know that you too will appreciate the fact that an ordinary man can do extraordinary things.
Oskar Schindler is a hero to over 6,000 Jews currently living acro .....
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