|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 2401 - 2410 of 4262 matching essays
- 2401: Ernest Hemmingway
- Ernest Hemmingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was the owner of a prosperous real estate business. His father, Dr. Hemingway, imparted to Ernest the importance of appearances, especially in public. Dr. Hemingway invented surgical forceps for which he would not accept money. He believed that one should not profit from something ...
- 2402: Pythagoras
- ... ratios which determine the concordant intervals of the musical scale. Similar to musical intervals, in medicine there are opposites, such as the hot and the cold, the wet and the dry, and it is the business of the physician to produce a proper 'blend' of these in the human body. In a well-known passage of Plato's Phaedo (86 b) we are told by Simmias that the Pythagoreans held the ...
- 2403: Jacqueline Kennedy
- ... Street stock broker. The Bouviers were considered to be socially prominent New Yorkers(Mills 105). Jacqueline has a younger sister who is now married to Prince Stanislas Radziwill, a Polish nobleman who has prospered in business in London (Kennedy). Jacqueline grew up on Park Avenue. She greatly resembled her father who was considered to be a very handsome man and was also often mistaken for Clark Gable. They both shared the ...
- 2404: Andrew Carnegie: "Capt. of Industry" or "Robber Baron"?
- ... him simply as trust funds, which he called to administer
to produce the most beneficial results for the community." Being a Scottish immigrant and coming out of the slums, he wasn't just a pampered business man. But he didn't believe in charity to the poor. He believed that a person must help oneself and earn their bread, not live off given opportunities. He valued the importance of education though ...
- 2405: Accomplishments of John D. Rockefeller
- ... barrels. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is estimated that Standard Oil owned three-fourths of the petroleum business in the US in the 1890s. Rockefeller recognized the difficulties of wisely applying great funds to human welfare, and he helped to define the method of scientific efficient, corporate philanthropy. The method was this: to ...
- 2406: Tattoo History
- ... why the Bible said tattooing was wrong and a sin. But Lucky made it very clear that he was not persuading the sailors from attending Sunday service, therefore the priest should not interfere with his business. While in Brazil his was titled the Grand Old Man of tattooing. After his death in 1983 he has kept a reputation of a very successful tattoo artist. The people of Brazil remember and are ...
- 2407: Doris Lessing's Life and Her Writings
- ... novel, The Grass Is Singing. Lessing said that Ive always been a writer... but not until I was quite old-twenty-six or seven-did I realize that Id better...get down to business. I was working in a lawyers office at the time, and I remember walking in and saying to my boss, Im giving up my job because I m going to write a novel ...
- 2408: Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms
- Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was the owner of a prosperous real estate business. His father, Dr. Hemingway, imparted to Ernest the importance of appearances, especially in public. Dr. Hemingway invented surgical forceps for which he would not accept money. He believed that one should not profit from something ...
- 2409: Van Gogh
- ... sixteen years old, he went to a boarding school. That next year he was sent to The Hague to work for an uncle who was an art dealer, but van Gogh was unsuited for a business career. Actually, his early interests were in literature and religion. Very dissatisfied with the way people made money and imbued with a strong sense of mission, he worked for a while as a lay preacher ...
- 2410: The Nomination of Andrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... in less than a year. Later he served as a Tennessee superior court judge for six years starting in 1798. In 1804 he retired from the bench and moved to Nashville and devoted time to business ventures and his plantation. At this time his political career looked over. In 1814 Jackson was a Major General in the Tennessee Militia, here he was ordered to march against the Creek Indians (who were ...
Search results 2401 - 2410 of 4262 matching essays
|
