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- 6201: Upton Sinclair
- ... was making the government rich. But according to Upton Sinclair and his "Conditions at the Slaughterhouse," unsafe and repulsive sanitary conditions were at play, putting thousands of carnivorous Americans and factory workers in danger of death, disease and poverty. Although America had expanded to be the most rapidly industrious nation in the world, few agree that it was worth the expense of its populous' health and well being. Upton Sinclair was ...
- 6202: Thurgood Marshall
- ... to serve in the Supreme Court in the history of the U.S. With this high ranking position, Thurgood was determined to end inequality once and for all in the U.S. Up until his death in 1993, Thurgood Marshall wrote more than 300 papers and essays on his personal beliefs and court cases that he had dealt with. He declared that his papers should be open for immediate use by ...
- 6203: Thomas Jefferson
- ... and played the harpsichord and piano. The marriage was happy, except Mrs. Jefferson's ill health. Of their six children, only two, both of them girls, lived to maturity. Martha Jefferson died in 1782. The death of his wife had a profound effect on Jefferson and probably influenced his return to politics, which Thomas Jefferson had considered leaving. On June 21, 1775, Jefferson took his seat in Congress. The following summer ...
- 6204: St. John The Evangelist
- ... If you would ask any person to list his challenges almost everybody would tell you that he wrote a gospel. It is believed that he wrote a Gospel at the year of 96, after the death of Domitian. His object in writing it he tells us himself: "These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, you may have life ...
- 6205: Slobodan Milosevic
- ... little sense of the horror of Kosovo. To speed up the Kosovo exodus, buses and even trains are being used to dump civilians near the borders reminiscent of Nazi efficiency in transporting Jews to their death. The controlled Serb media is showing this exodus to its people. But they are being told that the Kosovars are fleeing from NATO bombs, and the Serb government is helping out by providing transport. Few ...
- 6206: Sir Thomas More
- ... the end of the play. In the conclusion of the play because Thomas chose to go against Kings divorce, he was put to trial for treason. Sir Thomas More is still given chances to escape death throughout the trial, but chooses not to because of his strong religious beliefs. Cromwell asks "Sir Thomas you stand upon your silence" More answers "I do" to this. Richard Rich is used as convicting evidence ...
- 6207: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... father had died 3 months before. Newton had a difficult childhood. His mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton remarried when he was just three, and he was sent to live with his grandparents. After his stepfathers death, the second father who died, when Isaac was 11, Newtons mother brought him back home to Woolsthorpe in Lincolnshire where he was educated at Kings School, Grantham. Newton came from a family of farmers and ...
- 6208: Shaka Zulu
- ... was an extremely successful military leader. When his father died, Shaka was not the named heir, but becoming the chief of the Zulu was vital to his future plans. The named heir had a timely death, allowing Shaka to take the chieftainship. One of the first changes he implemented was to conscript all males under the age of forty into regiments where they would learn to use the weapons and tactics ...
- 6209: Sam Walton
- ... dealings. Sam Walton could do anything he put his mind to. This can be witnessed in his ability to transform a small town store into a 25 billion-dollar industry at the time of his death. Walton did not want to be poor, and this helped to push him when the going got tough because he knew what the possible outcome would be. For example, when Walton first started producing more ...
- 6210: Rudyard Kipling
- ... most famed novel "Kim". In 1907 Kipling won the Nobel prize in literature in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterized his writings. Death of both his children, Josephine and John, deeply affected his life. Both these incidents left a profound impression on his life, which his works published in the subsequent years after their deaths displays. Between 1919 ...
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