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- 4671: Michael Jordan: King Of The Court
- ... he is today let alone make it to the NBA. In fact, James Jordan, Michael s father, actually thought that Michael s best sport was baseball. His high school didn t think he was so great at basketball either so they cut him from the varsity team when he was a sophomore. To Michael playing basketball in the NBA seemed something of a distant dream (Halberstam 20), but even after he ... announced his retirement from basketball just before the 1998-1999 season began. Now I can see why Michael Jordan was so popular after my search. He had a superfluous amount of talent and had a great career in basketball. It was interesting to learn about his college and high school years. I was flabbergasted when I found out that he was cut from his high school s varsity team, but I ...
- 4672: Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech
- ... was to spread the gospel of brotherhood and justice (152). From his peaceful persuasion, to imaginative solutions in changing times to the power of hope, optimism, nonviolence strategy, and finally to the need for a great dream, these valuable applications are comprehensive instruments for taking courageous action under even the most difficult of circumstances. Above all, King follows his method of careful reasoning and is convinced that his arguments will persuade ... hoped that the white moderate would recognize that desegregation simply removes legal and social prohibitions. He knew that collective ideas were more creative and more profound. King hoped to awaken the white moderate from their great moral and political sleep that had deepened. He wanted them to recognize the continuing urgency for democracy. In the meantime, he was appalled by the silence of the moral people. As a result, people with ...
- 4673: Mohandas Ghandi
- ... minds of the people around him. With all that can be said about Ghandi, I would like to focus upon his economic impact in Britain and India. Britain s self-glorifying empire building was a great hindrance on the Indian economy. Britain employed the Mother Country system in Indian. This is where the raw materials of the colony (i.e. India) are harvested and shipped to the Mother country (i.e. Britain.) The raw materials are manufactured into goods that are shipped back to the colony where they can be sold for a great profit. Britain had a firm grasp on the cotton market in India. The Indians were forced to sell their raw cotton to the British, and the British would manufacture it into clothes that were sold ...
- 4674: Milton Friedman
- Milton Friedman, like so many great life stories, was the subject of a very tough childhood. He was son to a couple of poor immigrants, born on 31 July 1912, in New York, America. At the age of fifteen, Friedman's ... public transport, prisons, and telecommunications to private investors. It appears that the government is sending the economy into a Friedman (laissez-faire) style society, which is probably at the will of those who already have great wealth and (and occasionally or) power (i.e. Jeff Kennett). The Government does this, only because it brings in immediate short-term revenue. I do not believe however, that this will be an overall gain ...
- 4675: Life Of John Milton
- ... and argued against a professional clergy and in favor of allowing people to interpret Scripture according to their own conscience. During his years as a prose writer and government servant, Milton composed part of his great epic poem Paradise Lost and 17 sonnets, among which are some of the most notable in the English language, including "On His Blindness" (1652?-1655) and "On His Deceased Wife" (1658). The apogee of Milton ... written with soaring imagination and far-ranging intellectual grasp in his most forceful and exalted style. Paradise Regained, which tells of human salvation through Christ, is a shorter and lesser work, although still one of great richness and strength. In Samson Agonistes, a tragedy on the Greek model composed partly in blank verse and partly in unrhymed choric verse of varied line length, Milton employed the Old Testament story of Samson ...
- 4676: Leslie Marmon Silko
- ... U.S. There is a myth that Native Americans are disappearing as a people; this is not true. Native Americans are a resilient people and hold strongly to their heritage. It is true that a great deal of Native American cultures, even entire tribes, have been lost. However, despite the hardships and oppression they have suffered they have remained as a people. Like I said before, Silko writes through eyes of ... Native American groups. She must truly understand them to write through their eyes. Silko is trying to break the myth that Indian cultures are dying. Native Americans must adapt under pressure of whites, but a great deal of tradition is still intact. Silko is a voice of truth and reality for the Native Americans.
- 4677: Louis Pasteur 2
- ... modest government allowance. In the laboratory he was a calm and exact worker; but once sure of his findings, he vigorously defended them. Pasteur was an ardent patriot, zealous in his ambition to make France great through science. Scholar and Scientist Louis Pasteur was born on Dec. 27, 1822, in Dτle, France. His father was a tanner. In 1827 the family moved to nearby Arbois, where Louis went to school. He ... became the first person saved by Pasteur's treatment. Pasteur had won many honors for his previous discoveries; now the world united to do him special homage. Thousands of people contributed funds to establish a great laboratory, the Pasteur Institute, where scientists conduct research on various diseases. Pasteur died near St-Cloud on Sept. 28, 1895.
- 4678: Lincoln
- ... Lincoln set an example that all Presidents are still measure by for eloquence and brevity. During Lincoln s presidency, the Civil War broke out. For Lincoln the country was out of control. Falling into a depression that would plague him throughout his life. Lincoln underwent endless crises that would have shattered a weaker man. Lincoln was a president that lacked administrative experience, suffered from depression, and was thrust into the middle of the Civil War. Lincoln became a tough wartime President. He flexed his powers whenever necessity demanded. He became a warrior for the American dream . Putting aside he hate ...
- 4679: Life Of Fredrick Douglass
- ... the Life of Frederick Douglass. At times it seems impossible for our society to overcome racism and discrimination. The only hope we have is the hope that someday everyone will think in the way that great men like Martin Luther King think. If we all have a dream in our lives, we have a great chance of living together in peace in the twenty-first century (King 19). Works Cited Brant, Joseph. Literature for Composition. Ed. Sylvan Barnet. New York: Sylvan Barnet, 1996: 938. Brant, Joseph. Indian Civilization Vs. White ...
- 4680: Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
- ... be proportional. Spencer explains that the intrusion of family ethics into state ethics is a dangerous interference with the laws of nature and society, and slowly followed by fatal results. The last essay is the Great Political Superstition. In which Spencer says that the great political superstition of the past, was the divine right of kings. Whereas, in the present it is the divine right of parliaments. He attacks the doctrine of sovereignty as propounded by Hobbes and rejects the ...
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