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- 5921: John D. Rockefeller: Obsession Into Success
- ... these influences. Rockefeller seemed to make his fortune with hardly any effort; a brief outline is appropriate. After dropping out of high school and serving a clerical apprenticeship, Rockefeller went into business, forming a produce house with one partner and $4,000 of capital between them. In its first year its gross income was $450,000, with a net income of $4,400- better than one hundred percent return. After flourishing ...
- 5922: Martin Luther King
- ... normal. Blacks had to walk to work, and so they did not have time to do any shopping and therefore the sales decreased dramatically. On January 30, while M.L was making a speech, his house was bombed. Luckily his wife and baby had left the living room when the bomb exploded, but a black mob formed and was angry about what had happened, and Policemen were sent to the scene ...
- 5923: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... presentation at the courts of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. After about 1608, Shakespeare's dramatic production lessened and he spent more time in Stratford. There he established a family in and imposing house, the New Place, and became a leading local citizen. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in the Stratford church. Although the precise date of many of Shakespeare's plays is in doubt ...
- 5924: Autobiography on Ernest Hemingway
- ... with life and yet by his own admission obsessed with death." (Hemingway 221 (2)) By 1960, Hemingway was driven out of Cuba (Because of Castro), and moved to Finca, and then he moved to a house in Ketchum, Idaho. Hemingway was suffering from severe depression, and anxiety attacks. He had gone to the mayo clinic in Massachusettes, to recieve electro-shock therapy, but it didn't work out for him at ...
- 5925: Biographies: Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison
- ... for another president (similar with Clinton, today). The Whigs (later known as the Republicans), used Harrison's "War Hero" past to sell him, and said "Harrison preferred life in a Log Cabin to the White house" (which was very ironic, since Harrison had never been in a Log Cabin and came from a rich family). This election proved people could easily vote from their heart above their head. This election is ...
- 5926: Muammar al Qaddafi
- ... was leading a bloodless coup against the Libyan monarchy. He became head of state. He is still in power today. Another success is that fact that most Libyans lead good lives. All Libyans have a house or an apartment, a car, and most have televisions, phones, and recording equipment. The young people are well dressed and fed. He has survived many coup attempts against him. His face and picture are in ...
- 5927: Carl Gustav Jung
- ... rational and irrational forces of the psyche never ceases either. One's integrity of "self" can actually determine whether or not this opposition will cause a shattering of a personality. Must personality always by a house divided against itself, though? Jung thought not. There can always be a union of opposites, a theme that looms very large in Jung's writings. DYNAMICS -------- The psyche is a relatively closed system that has ...
- 5928: Geoffrey Chaucer
- ... guarded against invasion, but long enough time had passed since such a threat had approached that the defenses had loosened. Houses perched upon the walls, and Chaucer in fact, lived for a time in a house built over Aldgate, (one of the gates of the city). London was a city less than three-quarters of a square mile in size: It ran east and west along the Thames less than one ...
- 5929: George Washington Carver
- ... He was then orphaned and Moses Carver, his owner, bought George back in exchange for a horse. The horses value was estimated at 300 dollars. Carvers first schooling took place in a single room school house for black children. After regular schooling, he enrolled at Highland University. He had the grade but due to the fact that he was black he was denied. He then enrolled at Simpson College in Iowa ...
- 5930: Albert Einstein
- ... New Jersey.He accepted this position and he directed the school for the rest of his life.Einstein became an American citizen in 1940.After he took the job he moved into a two-story house at 112 Mercer St. in Princeton.He lived and worked there until he died. Albert Einstein is best known for his theory of relativity,which he first advanced in 1905 when he was 26 years ...
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