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- 371: Marlowe Cut Short
- ... same year that the infamous William Shakespeare was born. Marlowe was raised in Canterbury, England and attended King's School in Canterbury in 1579 and 1580 after which he received a scholarship to Corpus Christi College in Cambridge and was expected to take a post in the Anglican Church. Marlowe received his bachelor of arts degree in 1584 and his masters in 1587. The college did not want to grant him his masters degree because they believed that he was going to be ordained a Catholic priest upon graduation. The college believed this because Marlowe visited a Catholic seminary. However, Queen Elizabeth explained to the college that Marlowe had been sent to this seminary on matters relating to national security. Due to the Queen's ...
- 372: Affirmative Action
- ... are discriminated against."(1997) Two wrongs don't make a right. Therefore, Affirmative action doesn't make discrimination ok just because it's against blacks instead of whites. Tom Buchanan once said "Affirmative action in college is the most discriminating thing this country has ever seen since the old laws many years ago."(1996) At ivy league colleges the median GPA of applicants is close to 4.0 and S.A ... of discrimination on the basis of gender, race, ethnic backround or any other criterion that deprives people od opportunities to live and work. (McCrensky, 1999) Obviously, affirmative action is allowing undereducated citizens to get into college when the people that are qualified aren't getting accepted when they should. When we passed the equal opportunities law, it didn't mean treat different races differently, it means we should treat all people ... to give minorities jobs now, it won't change. Giving someone a job won't do any good in making the quality of life of minorities better. Just because you enroll more minorities in your college, doesn't mean you're making the playing field even. When someone isn't good enough to get into a certain college, they're out of their league when they get in. Only 15% ...
- 373: Important Presidential Electio
- ... He was a philanthropist and patron of the arts and science and, as canal commissioner, championed construction of the Erie and Champlain canals The method in which these candidates received nomination was by the Electoral College, or by King Caucus. The idea of political conventions had not been present at this time. There were no third-party candidates in this election. The major issue of this election was the War of ... 1908, near Johnson City, Texas, the eldest son of Sam Early Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson. 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. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President ... in 1948. Michael Stanley Dukakis, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, November 3, 1933, a three-term governor of Massachusetts, was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988. The son of immigrants from Greece, Dukakis graduated from Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School. He was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1962, serving four terms. Elected governor of Massachusetts in 1974, Dukakis was denied re-nomination in 1978. Re-elected in 1982 and ...
- 374: Michael Jordan: The early years.
- ... may have made the best player alive today. Michael then took practicing basketball to another level. He played his brother Larry whenever he could. Michael never expected what would come in the near future. The College Years. Michael Jordan went to the University of North Carolina as a basketball recruit. Even though Jordan at 6'5" was a man with potential, he still studied very hard in an attempt to get ... had sixteen points and led the team with nine rebounds. In the final twenty seconds, Michael made a title winning shot from the left baseline. In Michael's sophomore and junior seasons, he was voted College Basketball's Player of the Year. Through Michael's three years at Carolina, he average 17.7 points per game, while maintaining a "B" average. The Rookie Season. After a great college career, Michael was drafted by the Chicago Bulls as the third pick of the 1984-85 season. Michael quickly signed a $6.15 million contract. Michael made a huge impact in the National Basketball ...
- 375: Luis Gutierrez
- ... area for the following passage, "If you work hard, sweat and toil and play by the rules, you will be rewarded...with clean street, safer and better schools, the opportunity to send your kids to college." He won sixty percent to forty percent and sixty-four percent to thirty-four percent in the primary. In the district, Gutierrez is well respected, he has been running various programs to better the fourth ... four percent Hispanic; fifty-nine percent were white and forty percent were of other ethnic groups. There were 383,285 people eligible to vote. Fifty-eight Hispanic; six percent African-American; twenty-four percent had college education's; forty- nine percent married and thirty- one percent married with children. The average rent was 393 dollars a month. The cost of housing is relatively low in this area. The average value of a home was 64,300 dollars Since the people in Gutierrez district lacked college education according the Ross text book, they are less likely to vote. Gutierrez chose a clear cut campaign "Anti-crime". The use of one major topic enabled him to gain the votes of people ...
- 376: Lester Pearson
- ... 27 1972. He was born the son of a Methodist parson. As a child he worked very hard in school, and he became one of the minority of high school graduates who went on to college. In his studies he went to Victoria College and the Methodist College inside the University of Toronto. In his free time he played hockey and baseball. He then became a medical doctor in the Royal Flying Corps. He was Private Pearson in the Canadian Army Medical ...
- 377: James Buchanan
- ... made James work hard and taught James that he must be ready to take care for his brothers and sister when James father died. At the age of sixteen James father sent him to Dickinson College in Carlisle PA. James was a serious student but he also wanted to have a good time. He began to smoke a drink with the other students, and later was expelled from college. He begged for them to take him back, and he would turn over a new leaf. He was allowed to return and graduated on high honors. After college he left and went to study law in Lancaster PA. James worked hard and later became a successful lawyer. He made more than 11,000 a year. James became a canidate for the Pennsylavania ...
- 378: Charles Babbage
- ... everything and in the supernatural. He reportedly once tried to prove the existence of the devil by making a circle in his own blood on the floor and reciting the Lord's Prayer backward. In college, he formed a ghost club dedicated to verifying the existence of the supernatural. When in Trinity College in Cambridge, Charles carried out childish pranks and rebelled because of the boredom he felt from knowing more than his instructors. Despite this, however, he was on his way to understanding the advanced theories of ... children. After Georgina died at the age of 35, his mother took over the upbringing. In 1816, Babbage had his first taste of failure when his application for the professorship of mathematics at East India College in Haileybury was rejected due to political reasons, as was his application, three years later, for the chair of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. Fortunately, his elder brother supported his family while Babbage ...
- 379: Leonard Bernstein
- ... s director offered him a permanent job with the ships staff. Music really changed Leonard's shy personality for the better, along with his poor health. From Boston Latin School Bernstein went on to Harvard College. He wrote for and performed in college productions, played the piano for the glee club and provided the background music for silent motion pictures. In 1939 Bernstein graduated from Harvard with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and a cum laude in ... being the best artist he could be. When Mrs. Bernstein became seriously ill, though, they were reconciled. Bernstein has received such awards as the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award in the Arts from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; the John H. Finley Medal for service to New York City; the Golden European trophy, an annual award given to an outstanding figure in popular music; the Datsun Award for outstanding service ...
- 380: Napolean Bonopart
- ... had laughed at his Corsican accent and mocked his poor clothes and rough manners. When Napoleon had learned to speak French fluently, he went to study at Brienne, it a training school for the Military College in Paris. He found that the students there were even crueler. They looked down on him because he was of Corsican nobility. Taunting Napoleon, they called him a "slave" because his home had been conquered ... to take care of. Napoleon decided to earn his military commission as quickly as possible so that he could start helping her out financially. Working day and night, he completed the courses at the Military College within the year, though the program usually took two to three years. At sixteen he graduated with the rank of lieutenant and was assigned to an artillery unit. Napoleon had specialized in artillery at the Military College, because he understood its importance in warfare and wanted to learn how cannons could most effectively be used in battles. During the next few years he devoted himself to reading about military science, history, ...
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