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- 2121: Black Civil Rights
- ... social struggle of the black americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. In 1962, the civil rights movement accelerated. James Meredith, a black air force veteran and student at Jackson State College, applied to the all-white University of Mississippi and rejected on racial grounds. Suing to gain admission, he carried his case to the Supreme Court. An even more violent confrontation began in April 1963, in ...
- 2122: Bill Gates 2
- ... After successfully graduating high school, Gates wasn t quiet sure what to do next. He decided to attend Harvard with no specific career goal in mind. While going to Harvard he was your average smart college student with a special interest in the Popular Electronic magazine. While reading an issue in 1975, he found an article on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair 8800. This was a turning point for ...
- 2123: Bill Gates
- ... now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. BASIC was first developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960s. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. Guided ...
- 2124: Beginnings Of The Stock Market
- ... In 1882, the three jumped ship to form a publishing venture of their own. Poor Bergstresser. Not only did he bankroll Dow Jones & Company with the savings he'd acquired by working his way through college, but he also gave the company's publication, a daily two-page financial news bulletin called the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a more lasting appellation: The Wall Street Journal. But "Bergstresser" was deemed too long ...
- 2125: Baseball And American Popular
- ... press. Eventually, people came to realize that African Americans had a place in baseball and the rest of society. Soon, more black players gained positions into the realm of professional baseball. Jackie Robinson was a college educated and outspoken individual. In 1957, he retired from the major leagues and took a position as Vice President for a restaurant chain. Later, in 1959, Robinson began writing a regular column for the New ...
- 2126: Bangladesh
- ... Dhaka. Others include Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Jahangirnagar University, both are in Dhaka. Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh. The University of Chittagong and the National University, Khulna University. Some colleges include Bangladesh College of Textile Technology in Dhaka. The Bangladesh Institute of technology. Some private universities have been established during '90s. Higher cultural life is concentrated in Dhaka, which is where the Bangla Academy is devoted to the ...
- 2127: A Reflection Of Egypt In The 2
- ... life beyond their father's domination. Yasin is twice divorced and incapable of resisting any woman. The two married daughters are split by an open feud. And Kamal, the intellectual center of the novel, enters college and grapples with religion, science and romance. Kamal Kamal can be seen as an autobiographical character of Mahfouz, displaying his same characteristics: his "romantic idealism, his intellectual aspiration, his religious scruples and his spiritual yearnings ...
- 2128: Andrew Jackson 3
- ... started to study law and became a lawyer and a landowner. he was a general in the War of 1812. He graduated high school from Waxhaw Presbyterian Church and is believed to have gone to college. He got married to Mrs. Rachael Donelson Robards, a dark eyed, dark haired woman. They did not have any children together. So they adopted a nephew of Rachael s and named him Andrew Jr. As ...
- 2129: American Transcendentalism
- ... the chief proponents of American Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson is widely regarded as its central figure and catalyzing force. Critics often cite his essay Nature and An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College as touchstones of the movement. His subsequent essays, journals, and poems are credited with giving further shape to its ideals. Emerson was also an important inspiration to such authors as Walt Whitman, who, along with ...
- 2130: Flowers For Algernon - Review
- ... characters of the story are the central character, Charlie, who is a mentally retarded individual involved in a remarkable experiment which increased his I.Q., Alice, a teacher at the special education faculty at Beekman College who taught Charlie how to read and write, the professors who performed the experiment on Charlie, Fay, one of Charlie's aquaintances which he meets as the book progresses, and last but not least Algernon ...
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