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- 9911: Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life
- Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life Dutch Schultz is one of the best known New York mobsters of the prohibition era. After dropping out of school in the fourth grade and turning to a life of crime, Schultz started with pick-pocketing and petty theft, moved up to bootlegging and smuggling, and eventually left his mark in bloody gang wars. Schultz ...
- 9912: John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
- ... what made Jones such an incredible naval officer. His devotion to his duty before taking pleasure led him to become a distinguished officer. John Adams once wrote, "Jones has art, and secrecy, and aspires very high, he is the most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American Navy." Jones achieved his recognition through years of discipline and self-motivation. He was constantly searching for opportunities to further himself in tactical knowledge ...
- 9913: Mark Twain: Racist or Realist?
- ... in the book A Conecticut Yankee in King Authurs Court through the chuch against the state (Simpson 18). In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain depicts soul in conflict through humans against moralizing Sunday school tales (Simpson 18). Mr. Clemens had presented the contrasts between the two social orders but could not or would not accept the tragic fact that the one he had rejected was an image of a ...
- 9914: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... the black community throughout the nation that it was felt to have contributed substantially to Kennedy's slender election victory eight days later. In the years from 1960 to 1965 King's influence reached its high point. The tactics of active nonviolence aroused the interest of many black and liberal whites in all parts of the country, as well as support from the administrations of President Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson ...
- 9915: Pablo Picasso
- Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 and he died in France in 1973. Picasso's father was an art teacher in a local school. He wanted Picasso to become a great artist some day. Picasso's painting style changed more over the period of his life than any other great artist. He was always trying new and different things ...
- 9916: Isaac Newton's Life
- ... months before. His mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, remarried when he was three, and left him with his grandmother until her second husband died, in 1653, when Newton was 11. He was educated at King's School, Grantham, and it was assumed he would continue in the farming tradition of his family, but finally his mother became convinced that he should be prepared for entry to university, and in 1661 he went ...
- 9917: William Shakespeare and His Life
- William Shakespeare and His Life William Shakespeare, a writer and poet, was born on April 23,1564. He was thought of as a genius. He is mentioned with the same high position given to the masters of the arts who have become larger than life. He is one like them, so famous, that they are known by their last names only. William Shakespeare has had many ...
- 9918: Life of Tupac Shakur
- ... the Sun." In that play Tupac played Travis. In June of 1986, Tupac's family moved to Baltimore from New York. That is where Tupac wrote his first rap. 3 months later Tupac attended Baltimore School for the arts. That is where he studied ballet and acting. About two years later Tupac moves west of the United States to Marin City, California. He moved in with a neighbor and then he ...
- 9919: Louis Armstrongs Influential Career
- ... Louis Armstrong was hired in May of 1919 to play on a riverboat that traveled the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis. Armstrong soon became very popular in St. Louis and was in high demand (Collier 124). Two and a half years later, he was thrown off the riverboat and fired due to a fight. After returning to New Orleans, he received a telegram from King Oliver in Chicago ...
- 9920: Hank Williams
- ... winning singing contests, and formed his first band, The Drifting Cowboys, at the age of fifteen. He would spend most nights playing in bars, only for him to wake the next morning to go to school. So, at the age of nineteen, still in the ninth grade, Hank realized that his schooling could go no further. He dropped out (Escott 43). It was during this year, 1942, that he met his ...
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