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- 2551: An Autobiography: Tom Landry
- ... After he had been coach for twenty-nine years there was a controversial firing. It was a controversy because the great things that he was doing for the Cowboys. Jerry Jones, coach of a Florida college team, had plans for buying the team. After he bought it, he fired Tom Landry. The firing happened on February 25, 1989. Jerry Jones named himself head coach. Up to this day Jerry Jones has ...
- 2552: Martin Luther King
- ... the hierarchy of social classes dominated the country. His influence onto black students was incredible. They felt the courage to revolt against segregation. For example, on February 1, 1960, there was a group of black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, who sat down in a lunch room for whites. This tactic became popular and was being used everywhere. As a result, King suggested that they create a permanent organization. The ...
- 2553: John Dos Passos
- ... swept the country. Dos Passos was stirred by ideas of idealism and began to write short autobiographical tales for the Harvard Monthly, which showed vague idealism. He later graduated in June of 1916. Out of college now, Dos Passos choose to volunteer for ambulance duty overseas but his father rejected his idea. So instead, he decided to make his first long visit to Spain, a country which held fascination for him ...
- 2554: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... had varied cultural interests and placed high value on education; she was fiercely ambitious for her children. Johnson attended public schools in Johnson City and received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During the next 4 years Johnson developed a ...
- 2555: President Gerald Ford
- ... Detroit Lions. He finally took a job as assistant Football coach at Yale. While at Yale, he became interested in law and asked to take courses. He was soon invited to learn law in the college and didn't graduate till he was 27 because of his late start. 1941, he set up a practice in Grand Rapids Michigan which closed after World War II (4, page 145). He joined the ...
- 2556: The Henchmen: German Government Officials in WWII
- ... was a quiet boy who never went looking for trouble and didn't express hatred towards anyone, mostly because his parents were Libertarians and never paid attention to the politics in Germany's heartland. In college, Hitler's ideas and notions had a strong impact on Roehm's personality. Though Roehm never graduated, he joined the Free Corps, a group of soldiers dedicated to changing injustices in the German government. After ...
- 2557: Sir Wilfrid Laurier of Canada
- ... Scotch girls, with more success in the latter than in the former." Remembering the past Laurier would carefully develop the politics of reconciliation rather than conflict. In the year 1854 the young lad went to college, De L'assomption. In his studies he took subjects such as Latin, Latin classics, pre- revolutionary French literature, Greek, English and some philosophy. The education which Laurier got from this school was to prepare him ...
- 2558: Descartes
- ... in his day. The first was what remained of the mediaeval scholastic philosophy, largely based on Aristotelian science and Christian theology. Descartes had been taught according to this outlook during his time at the Jesuit college La Flech_ and it had an important influence on his work, as we shall see later. The second was the scepticism that had made a sudden impact on the intellectual world, mainly as a reaction ...
- 2559: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... actress. Burgess went to a Catholic elementary school, and was one of the many victims of the "iron discipline and largely rote memorization" (Stinson 2) typical in such schools of the time. Burgess attended Xaverian College, and later moved on to the inexpensive University of Manchester, where he hoped to pursue an education in music. He was rejected form the music department because he had failed physics. Instead, Burgess entered the ...
- 2560: The Life of Anne Frank
- ... saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.'"--October 9, 1942 "All college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the effect that they 'sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New Order." Eighty percent have decided to obay the dictates of their conscience ...
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