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- 2061: Booker T Washington
- ... buy an abandoned plantation where he moved the school. By the time of his death in Tuskegee, the institute was now a university. It had over 1,500 students and 100 equipped building and a big faculty. Booker T Washington always knew blacks could promote their rights by impressing southern whites with their economic progress. Booker T wants blacks to forget about the whites political powers and, to worry about their ...
- 2062: Frederick Douglass's Physical and Intellectual Struggles
- ... the narrative would not have had such a profound effect on the readers. In order to write a successful autobiography, one must first have an interesting story to tell. Douglass witnessing this brutality was a big part of his story and contributed to the man he became. One of the biggest influences in Douglass's life was his knowledge and literacy. Without literacy Douglass would not have written his narrative and ...
- 2063: Theodore Roosevelts Domestic Accomplishments As President
- ... control of the people. He established the department of commerce and labor. He preached a Square-Deal for all Americans enabling millions to earn a decent living wage. He built up the Navy as the Big Stick thereby establishing America at the major world power. Rosenthal reduce the national debt by over 90 million dollars. Roosevelt also secured the passage and the Elkins Act, and the Hepburn Act, for regulation of ...
- 2064: Biography of John Dalton
- ... He began a series of meteorological observations in 1787 and he continued them for 57 years. Dalton accumulated some 200,000 observations and measurements on the weather in the Manchester area. Dalton's had a big interest in meteorology which led him to study a variety of phenomena as well as the instruments used to measure them. He was the first to prove that rain is precipitated by a decrease in ...
- 2065: John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
- ... saw the Ranger he was furious of its construction. Jones noticed that the sails were made of cheap hessian instead of quality canvas, the masts were too long and heavy, and the spars were too big. With his keen eye, he saw that the ship could not support the twenty guns it carried so he reduced the number to eighteen. Thoroughly disgusted in its construction, Jones took matter into his own ...
- 2066: Mark Twain: Racist or Realist?
- ... detail lacking. I am the whole human race with out a detail lacking; I have studied the human race with diligence and strong interest all these years in my own person ; in myself I find big or little proportion every quality and every defect that is findable in the mass of the human race (Simpson 16). Mark Twain had never lost his love for the common people, no matter where he ...
- 2067: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... after Lewis's life. Whether people read them for pure enjoyment or to find a connection with Lewis's Christian faith. All who have read them agree that they are magnificent works. There is a big battle in the world of C. S. Lewis scholars on these chronicles. When the Chronicles were published they were not written in chronological order but seem to jump from different time periods in the land ...
- 2068: Adolph Hitlers' Rise to Power
- ... became appealing to the public. These photos give you the idea that he was actually caring for the people, loving and completely concerned for the well being of them. The use of propaganda was a big contributor to his success. Since Hitler was able to manipulate people with his propaganda, he could convince people of just about anything. This proves him to be amoral. He would do whatever he thought was ...
- 2069: The Biography of Ernest Hemingway
- ... interest in music. Ernest enjoyed guns and fishing trips in the Michigan north woods, and that phase of his childhood formed important impressions reflected later in his stories of Nick Adams like Indian Camp and Big Two-Hearted River. Hemingway played high school football and learned to box, incurring permanent eye damage that caused the army to reject his repeated efforts to enlist in WWI. Boxing also gave Hemingway a lasting ...
- 2070: The Good Times of Clark Gable
- ... ones which included a rough, masterful, romantic, hero type. He faced much adversity throughout his life; having dropped out of school, having three wives total and going through much struggle until he made it big. Decades now after his death, we still look back upon him and recognize him as one of the greats to make it in Hollywood. Clark Gable definitely experienced one thing many aspire to, which is ...
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