|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 1531 - 1540 of 2278 matching essays
- 1531: J.P. Morgan
- ... Harvard university that read: "Public citizen, patron of literature and art, prince among merchants, who by his skill, wisdom and courage, has twice in times of stress repelled a national danger of financial panic." But Robert LaFollette, the Wisconsin progressive, saw him as "a beefy, red-faced thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power." Despite conflicting opinion on his persona, his influence and character shaped the business world more ...
- 1532: Howard Hughes
- ... boxes instead of shoes and insisted that any item be handed to him covered by a Kleenex. The disease went undiagnosed in his lifetime. In the early 1960’s Hughes hired an ex-FBI agent, Robert Maheu, as his right hand man. Hughes knew that Maheu had been involved in many cloak and dagger activities with the FBI and CIA, including an assassination attempt on Cuba’s Fidel Castro. At the ...
- 1533: George Washington Carver
- ... exchange in helping with the chores. He was more that willing to work hard for a great education. As he stepped through the door of a one room school house to meet his teacher Stephan Frost, it was then that he finally met someone with more knowledge than he. This began to fall apart because he learned so well and fast, he had to look else where. He moved to Fort ...
- 1534: George Washington
- ... of the districts into which Virginia was divided, with the rank of major. Washington played an important role in the struggles preceding the outbreak of the French and Indian War. He was chosen by Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia to deliver a strong calling on the French’s forces to stop their gradual entrance in the Ohio River Valley. The young messenger was also instructed to observe the strength of French ...
- 1535: George Washington
- ... Washington married Martha Dandridge on January 6,1759. Washington spent his early adult years as a farmer and as a surveyor until he was appointed adjutant for the southern district of Virginia by Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddle. The next year he became the adjutant of the Northern Neck and Eastern Shore. In 1753, Dinwiddle warned the French to stop their infringements on the Ohio Valley land that was claimed by the ...
- 1536: George Washington
- ... which Virginia was divided, with the rank of major. Early Military Experience Washington played an important role in the struggles preceding the outbreak of the French and Indian War. He was chosen by Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia to deliver an ultimatum calling on French forces to cease their encroachment in the Ohio River valley. The young messenger was also instructed to observe the strength of French forces, the location ...
- 1537: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... into his own. America’s other great artists—our painters, sculptors, composers—don’t really rank with the tops of all time. They’re not Rembrandt or Michelangelo or Beethoven. Wright alone has that standing." (Robert Campbell) One of America’s most influential and imaginative architects was Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout his 70 year career, Wright has not only designed nearly a thousand structures, but he has explored the ideas of ...
- 1538: Eva Peron
- ... N.Y. 1978 -"THE WOMAN WITH THE WHIP" Maria Flores. Doubleday and Co. N.Y 1952. -"EVA PERON, THE MYTHS OF A WOMAN" J.M. Taylor. The University of Chicago Press. 1979 -‘THE PERON ERA" Robert J. Alexander. Rusell & Rusell INC. 1965
- 1539: Donald Barthelme
- ... the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982. Barthelme also had the privilege of being widely regarded as one of the ablest and most versatile American stylists (Robert et al, 919). Donald Barthelme passed away July 23, 1989 from cancer in Houston Texas. According to the Literature book Barthelme’s stories contain plots that are "unconventional episodic, a clutter of styles, absurdities, and ...
- 1540: Dimitri Shostakovich
- ... resulting in Shostakovich’s creations. Since then, I have listened to many of his symphonies and other works. Every time I hear the Fifth, I cannot help but be moved. Works Consulted Blokker, Roy and Robert Dearling. The Music of Dmitri Shostakovich: the symphonies. Tantivy Press, 1979 Brown, Royal S. ‘Interview with Shostakovich.’ High Fidelity, 23 (October 1973). Fanning, David. The Breath of the Symphonist: Shostakovich’s Tenth. Royal Musical Association ...
Search results 1531 - 1540 of 2278 matching essays
|
