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- 4591: Thomas Edison
- ... ticker. But the ticker had such a huge impact on the stock market, and they became so popular that he was able to sell the rights for nearly $40,000. the stock ticker, was a great success. (Clark p. 25). This was his biggest payday ever, after he was given the check he just paced around his lab with amazement. He didn’t believe that any bank would honor a check ... on it, but he soon returned to using carbon, this time with a much greater vacuum. And when he turned the current on, the first real electric light was turned on. This was such a great advance in technology that the papers had a full page, plus an additional column, devoted to this amazing discovery (Clark p. 98). Edison opened the laboratory to the public and the Pennsylvania Railroad ran special ...
- 4592: Selena
- ... the Mexican people did not respect them because they sang English songs. By the time Selena reached age 10, it became very obvious that Selena was a natural born performer and that she had a great amount of singing talent. Abraham decided to start a band, he was afraid that the same thing would happen to her, so he decided to teach her some Spanish songs, but one problem, Selena only ... the 80’s finally paid off, because in 1987 "Selena y Los Dinos" came to national attention, when Selena won a Tejano Music Award for Female Vocalist and Performer of the Year. It was a great accomplishment for a 15 year old girl. Until then the two categories didn’t even exist. Her fame was definitely being brought to the Latino communities, but Selena wanted more. In 1989, Selena and her ...
- 4593: Ron Howard
- ... which is a drama about the jeopardized 1970 American space mission, which stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton and featured the filmmakers mother and brother. I personally think that Ron Howard is a great famous person to do my report over because he is an extraordinary actor and a great film director. My favorite role of all of his has to be Richie Cunningham on Happy Days because I love the show and still watch it sometimes. (Current Biographies)
- 4594: Robert Hunter
- ... traditional themes Hunter uses is that of travel. "Jack Straw" is a good example of this that also demonstrates the use of the railroad as a symbol: Catch the Detroit Lightning Out of Santa Fe Great Northern out of Cheyenne Sea to shining sea. Gotta get to Tulsa First train we can ride... The chorus is a good model of the travel motif in the poem: Keep a rollin' Just a ... dog has not been fed in years It's even worse than it appears But it's all right. I will get by I will survive. This poem stresses faith even in the face of great adversity and the idea that somehow, life will go on. The most prevalent of Hunter's themes that cannot be classified as modern or folkloric is the light/dark or "opposite" theme. This is a ...
- 4595: Richard III
- ... the past in the war with Scotland. When Edward IV wanted a crushing blow to the Scots, Richard realized that it would be too costly and at the same time England had already accomplished a great feat. Richard pushed for Edward to end the fighting and sign a treaty that would end the bloodshed. This shows Richards strategic savvy as well as his diplomatic nature to maneuver for the best interests ... that took on public meaning. With rumors circulating about the Richard's involvement in the murder of the princes, the ramifications of Richard's son dying took on new meaning. Not only was it a great personal blow to Richard, who had worked to ensure his son's place on the throne, but it had religious implications for the public. The public saw this and the Queen's death as a ...
- 4596: Ray Bradbury
- ... publishing his adult novel Fahrenheit 451, it was soon considered one of his best works. There is a question to be asked, Where does he get his inspiration and imagination to write wild stories of great fantasy? He stated that "When people ask me where I get my imagination, I simply lament, God, here and there, makes madness a calling" (Bradbury I). American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and ... in May 1927. By 1931 he began writing his own stories on butcher paper. His childhood was very important to him because it was a constant source of intense sensations, feelings, and images that generate great stories. As a child he was first inspired by seeing "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". "His childhood was that of a pleasant memory of a half-forgotten dream" (Person I). In 1932, after his father ...
- 4597: Rasputin: The Man, The Mystery
- ... not that advanced, little is know of his first forty years of life. So most information on the man are normally from stories families have passed on. Some say he is a holy monk with great powers, on the other hand he may be known as a phony with a false connection to God. The Beginning Rasputin was born between 1864 and 1865 in his own home of Pokrovskoe. It is ... power to astonish people with his healing powers and his insight into the future. People in the city had different views on the man. One was that he was a very holy man who possessed great powers. The other is that he was just a cynical, and that he used religion to mask his drive for sex, money, and power. Sex Life Rasputin had a very active sex life. He was ...
- 4598: Rasputin
- ... likely assassin than Prince Felix Youssoupov. Rich, handsome and decadent, he had lived a life of unequalled privilege and luxury. In 1908, on the death of his only brother he became sole heir to the great family fortune, said to be even larger than that of the Romanovs themselves. In 1914, he reached the apex of his charmed life when he married Nicholas II's niece. Yet it was the wealthy ... path to glory for Nicholas, who himself is man of poor intellect. Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich. At the time of his father's death in late 1894, Nicholas was an inexperienced youth wholly unprepared for the great task destiny had placed on his shoulders. Nicholas II was barely twenty-six years old at the time of his accession. During his son's golden youth, Alexander III did not allow his son Nicholas ...
- 4599: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... government becomes an extension of the person in charge. His or her own ideas become, in one way or another, the way of government. "Don't trust children with edge tools, don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has, until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell should we make of the world if we could do what we would! Put a button ... man was really close with God he would pray for, and put all others before himself. Technology, Emerson believes, should be carefully used because misuse, and overuse can lead to laziness. i.e. Calculators are great and timesaving, but you still need to know how to do math without them. "The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost he use of his feet." Here Emerson is saying that as ...
- 4600: Ralph Waldo
- Introduction Ralph Waldo Emerson "…was truly one of our great geniuses" even though he may have a short biography (Hodgins 212). But as Emerson once said himself, "Great geniuses have the shortest biographies." Emerson was also a major leader of "the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism". (Encarta 1) Transcendentalism was belief in a higher reality than that found everyday life that a human can ...
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