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- 2571: Virginia Woolf
- ... men and women hold equal positions their treatment is far from equal. Woolf felt this comparison represented the everyday treatment of women. Virginia Woolf used her leadership and literary talent to fight for women's rights, and to bring justice to the unfair obstacles women were challenged with. "Only writing," Virginia Woolf said, "could compose 'the synthesis of my being" (Gordon 7). Virginia Woolf greatly affected the feminist movement with her ...
- 2572: Tim Paterson
- ... sold to OEM's (original equipment manufacturers) and big name companies like Microsoft. While modifying 86-DOS, Paterson decided that he could do better working for Microsoft instead of staying at Seattle Computer. By joining Bill Gates and going to Microsoft, he would be able to modify his DOS program to a PC-DOS program full-time. Once Paterson switched to Microsoft, they wanted to take everything that went with him ...
- 2573: Thurgood Marshall
- ... cases during the 1950s, leading to the desegregation of public parks, swimming pools, local bus systems and athletic facilities. Even after his retirement as a lawyer for the NAACP, Thurgood continued to fight for the rights of racial minorities, the uneducated and the poor. In 1965, Thurgood was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson and later confirmed by the Senate to the role of an associate ...
- 2574: Thomas Jefferson
- ... faction in the colonial house of burgesses. He helped form and was a member of the Virginia Committee of correspondence. During the First Virginia Convention, Jefferson prepared a paper called A Summary view of the Rights of British America in the year 1774. In the paper, he brilliantly expounded his view that the British Parliament had not authority over the colonies and that the only bond that the colonies had with ...
- 2575: Thomas Edison
- ... telegraph device. Once, Edison fixed a broken stock ticker so well that that the owners hired him to build a better one. Within a year he made the Edison Universal Stock Printer. Edison sold the rights for the stock ticker. He thought he might get paid around $4,000 for it. He got $40,000! With all this money, Edison started a business in Newark, New Jersey. He built stock tickers ...
- 2576: Theodore Dreiser
- ... years in a book titled Dawn. In 1938, Dreiser moved from New York to Los Angeles with Helen Richardson, who was his mistress since 1920. The main objective of his was to market the film rights of his earlier works. In 1942, he began to rewrite The Bulwark, which was a novel he began back in 1912. In that same year of 1942, his ex-wife, Sara White Dreiser, died of ...
- 2577: Stephen King
- ... on the weekends and evenings. Kings first big break came on the spring of 1973 upon the acceptence of Doubleday & Co. to publish Stephen Kings novel Carrie. After learning from his new editor, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would make him financially secure enough to quit teaching, Stephen moved his now growing family to southern Maine because of his grandmothers ever growing sickness. During the writing ...
- 2578: Ronald Reagan
- ... panic on Wall St. as the stock market fell as it had in 1929. After this Congress stopped approving increases in the military budget. Social Policy- Reagan had a powerful impact on civil liberties and rights. The Justice Department cut back its efforts in enforcing job discrimination and fair housing laws. After a public alarm about drug use he suggested that all employers test their workers for drug use and they ...
- 2579: Ron Howard
- ... include Backdrafr, The Paper, and Far and Away. Though his best film yet has been Apollo 13, which is a drama about the jeopardized 1970 American space mission, which stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton and featured the filmmakers mother and brother. I personally think that Ron Howard is a great famous person to do my report over because he is an extraordinary actor and a great film director ...
- 2580: Rasputin
- ... knew nothing of politics and was more a parrot to the Czarina when it came to ideas he did not understand. But he did suggest ideas of treating the peasants better by giving them more rights such as land ownership and the ability to earn social status. Rasputin himself was in actual fact a generous man who shared the wealth given to him by the Czarina with those around him. The ...
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