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- 991: Causes Of Civil War
- ... of Secretary of State, but James Madison did not allow it. It was then taken to the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Marshall said the Supreme Court do not have control over such matters. Dartmounth College vs. Woodward case was about New Hampshire wanting to turn Dartmounth College from a private to a state unversity. The case was thrown into the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Marshall ruled that the state did not have the right to change the school from private to ...
- 992: Daniel Webster
- ... born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on January 18, 1782. His parents were farmers so many people didn't know what to expect of him. Even though his parents were farmers, he still graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801. After he learned to be a lawyer, Daniel Webster opened a legal practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1807. Webster quickly became an experienced and very good lawyer and a Federalist party leader ... Congress and move to Boston in 1816. Over the next 6 years, Webster won major constitutional cases in front of the Supreme Court making him almost famous. Some of his most notable cases were Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v. Maryland. He made himself the nations leading lawyer and an outstanding skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and ...
- 993: John Grisham
- ... was not the best student, but Grisham found his passion in high school sports, especially baseball (Hubbard 44). After high school Grisham found himself in the situation of choosing where he wanted to go to college and what to major in. He chose to attend Mississippi State University and found he wanted to become a tax lawyer. After earning his B.S. degree in accounting, Grisham enrolled at the University Law ... and into criminal defense law. In 1981 he graduated from law school with a J.D. degree (Current 221). John Grisham wasted no time going right into his new business of a lawyer. After finishing college Grisham set up a private practice in Southaven (Ferranti 42). Almost as soon as he opened his practice, Grisham disliked his chosen field. After accepting, and winning, his first case he decided to switch to ...
- 994: Ben And Jerrys
- ... native of Brooklyn, New York, attended Colgate University for only a year before dropping out to return to his high school job as a neighborhood ice cream man. He had a brief stint at Skidmore College as well as NYU, and moved to upstate New York before going into business with his partner and long time friend Jerry Greenfield. Jerry was also born in Brooklyn and after high school attended and graduated from Oberlin College. After being rejected form medical school twice and moving to North Carolina, he and Ben decided to make their dream a reality. They decided to move to Vermont, and with a $12,000 investment opened ...
- 995: The Beliefs of Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... community. He was able to accept and adopt wise counsel, i.e. in choosing to be a preacher. From the pulpit he could reach the people. MLK was well aware of Negro stereotypes and in college made pains to avoid such labels being attached to him. As he grew in understanding of humanity he knew to speak to individuals on a one to one basis to get a truer picture of ... literal interpretations of scripture, but he always greatly admired black social gospel proponents such as his father who always viewed the church as an instrument for improving the lives of African American. President of Morehouse College Benjamin Mays further shaped his identity by influencing him to become a minister and serve society. His continued skepticism led him towards theological studies at Crozer Theological Seminar in Chester Pennsyvania and at Boston University ...
- 996: Videoconferencing
- ... has, however, proven effective in reducing the need for an organizations staff to travel long distances for meetings. It has been used successfully for educational programs in the Arizona courts, by the Alabama Judicial College, and for a faculty development workshop preceding the Fourth National Court Technology Conference (CTC4). A medical college in Georgia even conducts remote interactive diagnostic conferencing: doctors can examine the retina or inner ear of a patient in a rural area without leaving their offices. Roughly 25 firms market a wide range of ...
- 997: Critiscisms Of My Antonia
- ... The movement from a rural to an urban area made Antonia mature quicker so she would be able to survive in the city. While on the other hand Jim leaves the farm to go to college, in which inclosing walls unlike that of Antonia protects him. Then Antonia moves into adulthood with a marriage and birth while Jim is at college toiling on the prospect of adult love with Lena Lingred. Finally, Jim moves into an odd marriage and then goes back to the farm with Antonia and her children. In the novel the reader encounters ...
- 998: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Two Views, One Cause
- ... traces of racism can disappear and leave behind a united society in which everyone can work together for the good of the country. WORKS CITED King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter From Birmingham Jail." The Borzoi College Reader, 3rd edition. Ed. Charles Muscatine and Marlene Griffith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. ------- Pilgrimage to Nonviolence '58. Memeo. Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. ------- "The Ballot or the Bullet." The Borzoi College Reader, 2nd Edition. Ed. Charles Muscatine and Marlene Griffith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1974.
- 999: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... as a way of getting change was well established in his childhood. Martin Luther King lived in an entirely different environment. He was a smart student and skipped two grades before entering an ivy league college at only the age of 15. He was the class valedictorian with an A average. King paraded his graduation present in a new green Chevrolet before his fellow graduates. He was raised in the perfect ... vast power of the black churches, blacks now had an unprecedented, powerful tool to combat the forces of southern democrats in favor of segregation. Less organized was the sit-in movement sparked by four black college freshmen in Greensboro, North Carolina. Nonetheless, the sit-in spread like wild fire throughout the south as many previously segregated businesses wielded under the increasing pressure. At the end of the decade, southern black students ...
- 1000: "The World Today Seems To Be Going Crazy": The Unabomber's Manifesto
- ... store. Kacyznski was a suspect who was in the Task Force's database; but, he was ignored because of his age. LETTERS The letters written to several newspapers, leaders in the field of technology, and college professors give some important clues to the Unabomber's identity. The Unabomber always refers to himself as "we" but FBI investigators always believed that the bombings were a sole effort. Through them we find a ... did not work with power tools (due to the fact that there was no plumbing let alone electricity in his shack), was raised by a loving and supportive family, and he not only excelled in college academically; he went or get his doctorate and taught mathematics at Berkeley. Other than the virtual bomb laboratory found in Kaczynski's shack, bottles of anti-depressant medication were supposedly found. But other than that ...
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