To Race The Wind By Krents And All But My Life Klein
.... his life, one after another. He needed to learn to read and write Braille in order to return to school. This proved to be a test of his strength, as well as that of his mother. They both became frustrated with each other many a times, and she occasionally called him ‘stupid’. Harold always tried his best. One summer in camp he received an award. Not out of the sake of pity, not because he was blind, but because he tried his hardest and did the best he could do. As his life progressed, Harold was .....
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Paul Ehrlich
.... of mastcells through his staining experiments. Paul then returned to the University of Breslau in 1874. He continued to experiment with dyes in Leipzig, where his university studies continued. In 1877, Paul Ehrlich published a paper on dyes. A year later, he graduated as a doctor of medicine.
Ehrlich's major contributions to science began as soon as he became a doctor. Now a doctor Paul Ehrlich became assistant and eventually the senior house physician at the Charite Hospital in Berlin. While worki .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
.... and in and yet sometimes quarrelsome. In all the practical relations of his life he was what the child is at a party, genuinely delighted, delightful, affectionate and happy, and in some strange way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the experience remain with him all his life.
Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, an .....
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Richard Henry Lee
.... of the Constitution.
The first main reason why Richard Henry Lee opposed the Constitution was because he felt that the Constitution would “rob the states of their sovereignty”. With the Constitution giving so much power to the central government, the states would eventually lose their own power and the federal government would take over. This meant that the federal government would ultimately control over all the land within its borders. This, Henry Lee felt, would be impossible for a central g .....
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Newton And Prisms
.... mixture of different colored light rays. He theorized that each ray was a different color, and that reflections and refractions cause colors to appear through the separation of the "white" light. To demonstrate and prove his theory, Newton used a prism.
A prism is a type of lens with sharp angled edges that are able to separate light. Prisms can be very simple boxes or triangles or prisms can be in complex shapes like diamonds. The prism's ability to bend visible light into the different .....
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Marco Polo
.... way from China to Russia and the Levant. The Mongol hordes also threatened other parts of Europe, particularly Poland and Hungary, inspiring fear everywhere by their bloodthirsty advances. Yet the ruthless methods brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes such as the famous Silk Road. Eventually ,the Mongols discovered that it was more profitable to collect tribute from people than to kill them outright, and this policy too stimulated trade (Hull 23).
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
.... children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always.
Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townsp .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... the hypocrisy was that Jefferson believed that the slaves were dependent upon the white man, while he, himself was dependent upon the slaves. Jefferson also was hypocritcal in his acquisition of the Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large expansive governments were bad, and small was good. This was a antithesis of that principle. Jefferson knew that the acquisition of the Loisiana territory was beneficial to the welfare of the U.S. According to the constitution, nowhere in the constitution .....
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Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Jr.
.... largely responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both men ultimately became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whi .....
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Jim Thorpe
.... integrate into the American culture. They hired Glenn S. "Pop" Warner as a football coach. When Jim went there, in 1904, he was learning a trade as an electrician.
One day in the spring of 1907 Jim walks by the athletic fields and watches the track team practicing the high jump. Jim's only 5'9" and 144lbs. He asks if he can try. So wearing a pair of overalls he clears the jump. The boys run and tell Pop Warner that Jim just broke the school record. Soon enough Jim's on the track team. That year .....
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Mark Twain
.... false names. After a visit to New Orleans in 1857, he learned the difficult art of steamboat piloting, an occupation that he followed until the Civil War closed the river, and that furnished the background for "Old Times on the Mississippi" (1875), later included in the expanded Life on the Mississippi (1883).
In 1861, Twain traveled by stagecoach to Carson City, Nev., with his brother Orion, who had been appointed territorial secretary. After unsuccessful attempts at silver and gold mining, he retu .....
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The Beliefs Of Martin Luther King Jr.
.... his humanity, leadership and his love of his fellow man regardless of skin color. This presence of strong moral values developed King’s character which enabled him to become one of the most influential leaders of our time.
Integrity is a central value in a leader’s character and it is through integrity that King had vision of the truth. The truth that one day this nation would live up to the creed, “all men are created equal”. No man contributed more to the great progress of blacks during the 195 .....
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Muhammad Allah
.... grandfather Abd-almuttalib. After living there for a little while Muhammad moved again, this time with his Uncle Abu Talib, who succeeded as head of the Hashim clan. At the age of twenty five he went to work for a rich and beautiful widow named Khadijah, who owned a wealthy commercial enterprise. After a brief time the to were married and tried to start a family. They had two sons, both of whom died, but then four daughters were born. At about 610 A.D. while in a cave on mount Hira, Muhammad had a message .....
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Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
.... political government came into existence, and what society would be if there was no government.
Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau created a revolutionary idea of the state of nature. They did not believe government should be organized through the Church, therefore abandoning the idea of the divine right theory, where power of the King came directly from G-d. Starting from a clean slate, with no organized church, they needed a construct on what to build society on. The foundation of society began with the .....
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Henry Ford
.... opened a plant in River Rouge. By 1926, Henry began loosing sales to General Motors and Chrysler, because his Model T was getting old. His newer cars received moderate sales. Henry’s son, Edsel was named president in 1919, but Henry remained in control. When Edsel died in 1943, Henry resumed presidency. Two years later he handed the presidency over to his grandson, Henry Ford II. Henry Ford died on April 7, 1947. My two affiliations for Henry Ford are: He made cars, and he was wealthy.
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