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- 1491: The Life of Jackie Robinson
- ... better life, Jackie's mother packed up all five children and moved to Pasadena, California to work as a maid.(Grate time Coming ,the life of Jackie Robinson) As Jackie got older, he went to John Muir Technical High School. He not only participated in sports, but went as far as earning letter awards in four. Football, baseball, track and field, and basketball. (Grate time Coming ,the life of Jackie Robinson) Upon graduation from John Muir Technical High School, Jackie attended a Junior College called Pasadena J.C. . He continued to participate in track and field, and helped lead his basketball, baseball, and football teams to championships. Once in a ... Rights) It seemed as Jackie aged, his political perspective grew increasingly pessimistic, and by the last year of his life, 1972, it seemed he had lost all hope. He had grieved over the assassinations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King as well as the deaths of three people that were closest to him. Branch Rickey, his mother Mallie, and his son ...
- 1492: William Wordsworth Biography
- ... 7, 1770 in the village of Cockermouth, Cumberland, into a comfortable middleclass family with roots firmly planted in Lake County. In 1778, Ann Wordsworth died suddenly, and then, over the Christmas holidays of 1783-1784, John Wordsworth followed. (Dome critics have attributed Wordsworth's early maternal loss and his subsequent use of nature as a "surrogate mother.") Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School, known for excellent instruction in mathematics and classics. Rather ... Prelude. She gave him considerable freedom to discover the power of the natural world and to begin to define himself in relation to that power. Wordsworth's college years were from 1787-1791 at St. John's college, Cambridge. He went on a walking tour with Robert Jones, a Cambridge student, over the French and Swiss Alps in 1790 and another such tour in 1791. In 1792, Wordsworth went to France ... his daughter, and later that year, he married Mary Hutchinson, with whom he had five children with by 1810. The years from 1805-1812 were marked with hardship, beginning with the death of his brother, John. In 1810, he poet became estranged from Coleridge, and in 1812, two of his children, Catherine and Thomas, died. The Wordsworths moved on several occasions throughout this timespan, before eventually settling at Rydal Mount, ...
- 1493: William Shakespeare
- ... greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare was born to middle class parents. His father, John, was a Stratford businessman. He was a glove maker who owned a leather shop. John Shakespeare was a well known and respected man in the town. He held several important local governmental positions. William Shakespeare's mother was Mary Arden. Though she was the daughter of a local farmer, she was related to a family of considerable wealth and social standing. Mary Arden and John Shakespeare were married in 1557. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years ...
- 1494: "The Idea of a University": Education as Moral Training
- "The Idea of a University": Education as Moral Training John Henry Newman is a Catholic who had a different goal in life for other people, including himself. As a pronounced Catholic, Newman had reservations about these changes and wanted to defend the value of learning ... a University" talks about the attempts to define in Liberal Arts education. The believes that he had raised a lot of questions in the society. Many people agree and disagreed with his point of views. John believed that education should be moral training rather than instructions. Newman's believes for just a liberal education was definitely not enough for students. "It is a great point than to enlarge the range of ... professes, even for the sake of the students; and, though they cannot pursue every subject which is open to them" (Newman p. 40, 41). The students should be able to learn whatever their interests are. John believes that all the subjects connect together so there is no point for "Majors." In our society today, majors are very important to our course of studies and our future because we can get ...
- 1495: King Henry IV
- Henry IV was born in April 1367 and was the only son of John of Gaunt, the son of Edward III, and Blanche, the daughter of Henry Grismond, Duke of Lancaster. Known as Henry of Bolingbroke after his birthplace in Lincolnshire, he was made a knight of the Garter ... by battle. Both men were banished from the realm. Norfolk for life and Henry for 10 years with a proviso that he would be allowed to inherit from his father. But on the death of John of Gaunt in 1399, the Lancastrian estates were confiscated by the King, and Henry decided to return, seemingly to claim his promised inheritance. Taking advantage of the Kings absence in Ireland, Henry landed on ... an active supporter of the Orthodox Church against the Lollards, and in 1401 De heretico comburendo, one of the most important medieval statues, was passed. In 1402 he married Joan of Navarre, the widow of John V, Duke of Brittany, who survived him without issue. In the north the Percy family rose against the King, but Henry defeated them in July 1403 at Shrewsbury and the following year at Dartmouth. ...
- 1496: Love Poetry
- ... are to do with love. If one read or wrote a poem to his or her lover it would be seen to be romantic. Poems are often told as stories like in "The Flea" by John Donne which tells us of a man desperately trying to persuade the girl to sleep with him or in "Porphyria's Lover" we learn that the lover kills Porphyria to make sure the love they ... of view and what he thinks love is. All these poems are just three of the many love poems around, but each one has a different meaning and a different type of love is portrayed. John Donne was born in 1572 in London. He studied law in 1591 and then was ordained in 1615 and six years later became Dean of St. Pauls, a position he held until his death in 1631. John Donne wrote letters, elegies, satires, epigrams, devotions, sermons and poems. His songs and sonnets are loved by audiences and "The Flea" written for fun would have to one of them. In the poem it ...
- 1497: American Parties From The Civi
- ... a name that was originally applied to the advocates of ratification of the Constitution of the United States of 1787. Later, however, it came to designate supporters of the presidential administrations of George Washington and John Adams and especially supporters of the financial policies of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Until 1795, the Federalists were not a political organization in any modern sense. Federalism was a frame of mind, a set of ... as a part of the anti-Nebraskan majority in the House of Representatives. Plus, several Republicans were elected to the Senate and to various state houses. In 1856, at the first Republican national convention, Sen. John C. Fremont was nominated for the presidency but was defeated by Democrat James Buchanan. During the campaign the northern branch of the KNOW-NOTHING PARTY split off and endorsed the Republican ticket, making the Republicans ... Southern Cotton Whigs. In 1840 they were able to unify behind a popular military hero, W. H. Harrison, as a presidential candidate. He was elected but died after only a month in office. His successor, John Tyler, quickly alienated the Whig leaders in Congress and was read out of the party. In 1848, the Whigs elected another military hero, Zachary Taylor. He too died in office but his successor, Millard ...
- 1498: The Client
- ... talk different. Sights: people, blood, guns, hospitals, media. Sounds: gunshots, shouting, foul language, fighting. Smells: blood, death, air, sweat, fear, ciggarette smoke. Tastes: blood, dirt, hospital food, fear. Textures: the ground, bedsheets, steel of weapons. John Grisham, a.k.a. Master of Suspense, has done it once more! The Client is a powerful novel, a story based upon a boy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The ... time, where the Mafia is a big thing in New Orleans. Mark Sway and his little brother Ricky are in the woods smoking a ciggarette, when all of a sudden Mark s life completely changes. John Grisham takes us into Marks traumatic experiences and helps us understand his position and reasoning for things. As far as weak points go, I could not find a disappointing moment in the book at all ... if you have known these people all of your life, and the way Grisham writes his books, makes you feel as if you are right inside the plot itself! I give both thumbs up too John Grisham for doing it once again!
- 1499: Terrorist Bombs In The U.S.
- ... discuss any of the information they had concerning terrorism and their tactics with the general public. Because of this reason, I had to settle for a detective in the police department. I first asked Detective John Doe what position he held in the police department, what he did, and how long he had been working at it. I learned that John is a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department, Metro division and his basic duties is to figure out what happened at a scene of a crime and who that person/s was that committed ... and even missing persons. He said he has been a detective for about ten years and a police officer for about 16 years. Have you ever been involved with any cases dealing with terrorist activities? John said that he had been called to the scene of several bomb threats and suspicious packages that were laying around. He also said that he had reported to many crimes scenes where things were ...
- 1500: The Evolution of Apple - January 1976 to May 1995
- ... on the company. When I say a little bit. I mean this 6 page term paper was only one eighth of the information that I gathered on this company. Reference To Articles In Monthly Magazines John C. Dvorak, "Last Rites," MacUser, (April 1994), p. 210 John C. Dvorak, "Times A-Wasting," MacUser, (December 1994), p. 222 John C. Dvorak, "Welcome To WIMP," MacUser, (January 1995), p. 192 Reference To Internet World Wide Web Pages http://www.apple.com http://www.uce.com/machist.html
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