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- 8421: The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford
- ... million votes and by a narrow margin in the electoral college. He was the first president in 44 years to be turned out of office by the voters. Overall, in my opinion Ford was a great president who required most of the respect for the presidency after Nixon has thrown away. Thats what I think about the presidency of Ford.
- 8422: Birth Order 2
- ... Order 39). First borns, in general, are people who like structure and order. They have a tendency to enter professions that are rather exacting (Leman, Birth Order 13). First born children can be found in great numbers in positions like accountants, bookkeepers, executive secretaries, engineers, and more recently, jobs including computers (Steelman 355). Some famous first borns that have gone on to be famous leaders, TV journalists, important business leaders, respected ...
- 8423: Catch 22
- ... a new career with uninhibited gusto" (Heller, 103). Certainly forgery wasn't looked upon as much of a career, however it gave Major. Major, Major a strong sense of accomplishment. Furthermore, Colonel Cathcart demonstrated the great impact his sound judgements had on others. Colonel Cathcart inquired to the chaplain about holding religious services in the briefing room before each mission. This would raise the morale and spirits of the soldiers. Although ...
- 8424: Socrates
- ... the church. Socrates was born and lived in Athens all his life. Through out his life he married Xanthippe, and had 3 sons. He was never very rich, but he never excepted money for his great teachings, but he would except food and other offerings similar to that. He was alone with his ideas and never really had a big influence in his life. His main method of living was always ...
- 8425: Marie Curie
- ... a woman to admired by all. Maria (Marie Fr.) Sklodowska-Curie (born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867) was one of the first woman scientists to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. She had degrees in mathematics and physics. Winner of two Nobel Prizes, for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911, she performed pioneering studies with radium and polonium and contributed ...
- 8426: George Washington Carver
- ... white America as a kind of saintly and comfortable symbol of the intellectual achievements of black Americans. Carver was evidently uninterested in the role his image played in the racial politics of the time. His great desire in later life was simply to serve humanity; and his work, which began for the sake of the poorest of the black sharecroppers, paved the way for a better life for the entire South ...
- 8427: Creative Writing: Slave Story
- ... because dad would need to get a job so we could have some money. We didnt have very much to start out with. A couple of days later, we reached Ohio. It was so great to smell freedom in the air. I could see African Americans walking everywhere without being ordered around. It was the year 1856 that we escaped to Ohio. It was hell going without food for 2 ...
- 8428: Deep Ecology
- ... their negative effects on the non-human world in record breaking time. Strategies need to be adopted to bring about change to get rid of human delusion and laziness on these issues. Time is of great importance, considering the longer we wait the greater the problem will become. Richness and diversity face major losses given the extinction rate in our time is exponentially greater than in the past. A significant decrease ...
- 8429: Autobiography of Marina Pitkowski
- ... first, and will take some getting used to. I grew up with my father, Vladimir, my mother Celeste, and my sister, Antonia. I went to school, but focused mostly on music. My family sacrificed a great deal to support my singing. My sister died when I was six of yellow fever, but I was much too young to know what was happening. I am eighteen. I was born on the 29th ...
- 8430: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- ... any other god. In fact, making a comparison with leaves, one of the simplest forms of nature he stated, "They posses a divine health. God is not more well" (Thoreau 247). Emerson, too, was a great writer and lover of nature. He lived in the town of Concord with his second wife and children. He entertained many guest in his moderately sized house when he wasn't traveling to places like ...
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