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- 2451: The Color Purple
- ... isn't her father. Shug then decides to leave there and Celie is very upset until Shug tells her she is going with. While gone with Shug she starts making pants and starts her own business. Celie finds out that her stepfather died and everything he had actually belonged to Celie's mother, she also finds out that she and Nettie were left the house and all the land. Celie eventually ...
- 2452: The Connections Between Violen
- ... characters downfall, but not after they have become excessively wealthy and highly regarded among their fellow compatriots. Mafia movies make it look so easy to get rich quick and seem to promote violence as a business venture rather than a criminal act, much like Hip Hop. The Great Gatsby details the lives of wealthy civilized folk who become corrupt and in some instances, violent. Most all of the corrupt characters in ...
- 2453: Silent Cal: An American President
- ... of President Coolidge, Walter Lippmann pointed out in 1926, was his talent for effectively doing nothing: "This active inactivity suits the mood and certain of the needs of the country admirably. It suits all the business interests which want to be let alone.... And it suits all those who have become convinced that government in this country has become dangerously complicated and top-heavy...." Coolidge was both the most negative and ...
- 2454: Jimmy Hoffa, His Life and Disappearance
- ... their crimes. He made thousands of dollars in extortion schemes that bled innocent businessmen of all they had. He had set his wife up, under her maiden name, in a truck leasing company that received business from trucking companies eager to get Hoffa to go easy on the wages they had to pay their Teamsters drivers. He had bribed members of Congress with 5 or more hundred dollar bills stuffed into ...
- 2455: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
- ... should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together. The house being obliged to attend at that time to some other business, the proposition was referred to the next day, when the members were ordered to attend punctually at ten o'clock. Saturday June 8. They proceeded to take it into consideration and referred it to a ...
- 2456: Jimmy Carter: The 39th President of the United States
- ... then became a commissioned officer. He also married Eleanor Rosalynn Smith that year. Then, in 1948, Jimmy went into Submarine School until 1952. His father died, so Jimmy went to take over the family's business (Hudson). II. Jimmy Carter's political career began started very quickly in 1962. He had lived a normal life as a civilian from 1953 until 1962. He was then elected to the Georgia state senate ...
- 2457: Kenichi Ohmae
- ... of 10,000 yen($90). Ohmae is also the founder and Managing Director of the "Ohmae and Associates". Since October 1996, Ohmae has been a visting professor of the Global Management Course, Graduate School of Business at Standford University. January 1997, he joined the UCLA School of Public and Social research as chancellor's Professor of Public Policy. He currently serves on the boards of MIT Corporation, The Wharton School at ...
- 2458: Jackie Robinson
- ... the color barriers of major league baseball. Jackie had a tough time getting his chance to play in the majors. "The owners besides sharing in the general prejudice, were afraid that integration would cost them business by driving away the white fans without bringing in enough black fans to make up the difference"(Weidhorn 34). A lot lot of black athletes had trouble make it to the big leagues. "Though black ...
- 2459: The Cookie Conspiracy
- ... have been happening recently in Cookieland. Keebler Elves have been on strike, Oreo's aren't just fun to twist, and Little Debbie has been on the rise and is taking away a majority of business from these wonderful people. So, like immigrants back in the 1800's, the cookies want to get out of their homeland and onto a better place. So, this is where the Cookieland Government comes into ...
- 2460: Nevil Shute
- ... is when he completed his first novel, Marazan. When the R100 disaster occurred, the company ended the building of airships and Nevil Norway turned his devotion to the manufacturing of airplanes and created his own business, Airspeed Limited. His second novel, So Disdained, was published in 1926 and released in the United States, as The Mysterious Aviator in 1928 (Kunitz and Haycraft 1034). During this time he began to write under ...
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