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- 3581: Biography of Thomas Edison
- Biography of Thomas Edison Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. When he was young his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan where he attended school for three months - the only formal schooling he ever had. At school most of his teachers often thought him dumb because of all the questions he asked to their answers, as well as him having a very large head. His mother understood that he asked these questions ...
- 3582: The American Dream 2
- ... to pursue your dreams and ultimately be happy. In the story Toño by César Gonzalez, Toño had many opportunities to have a better life. The teacher did everything in his power to get him into school and provide everything necessary. In essence, he gave Toño opportunities that he never had before. Toño could have chosen to continue school and lived a better life. However he decided what was in his family s best interest and got a job. He had brothers and sisters that he had to care for. He had to balance ...
- 3583: The Life and Career of Babe Ruth
- ... were Game's Greatest Hero, Babe, (his most common nickname), George Herman Ruth, and George Herman Shaw. Everybody calls him Babe Ruth. Babe had seven brothers and seven sisters. He stole from stores, he skipped school, and he chewed tobacco at age 7. His father often had beaten him because he was incorrigible. Babe's father was a saloonkeeper. Babe was incorrigible so he was sent to an orphanage. Babe was educated at Saint Mary's Industrial School. He drank in the orphanage with his friends. In 1913, Babe was playing baseball with kids older than he was. He began his career in 1914 as a left-handed pitcher for Baltimore's team ...
- 3584: Being An Inroads Intern
- ... that I must go to college in order to prepare myself, and that requires a whole new set of goals. Primarily, my main goal for my first five years after college, is to attend graduate school, and get a masters and/or doctorate in whichever field I end up pursuing. While, and after, attending graduate/professional school I plan to get a job that is related to my major. I’m not sure which type of job exactly, as I haven’t yet decided on a major or job, but I know ...
- 3585: Microsoft The Company
- Microsoft: THE COMPANY The thought of forming a company which supplies its customers with software, was a great idea--especially coming from a college dropout. Bill Gates, along with high-school friend Paul Allen, formed a software company in 1975. From the beginning, Microsoft had a tremendous potential to become a very successful corporation. Beginning with a revenue of sixteen thousand dollars, and three employees, Microsoft ... Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. Gates' father was a lawyer, and his mother was a teacher (Cusumano and Selby 23). Much of Gates' programming started while he was a thirteen year old, from Lakeside School (tripod 1). He learned BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction) programming with, then sophomore, Paul Allen. By 1973, Gates was a student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Allen had enrolled at the University of ...
- 3586: Hitler
- ... But as Hitler wrote later in his book, "the thought of slaving in an office made me ill…not to be master of my own time." Passively disobeying his father, Hitler filled most of his school hours with daydreams of becoming a painter. His one school interest was history, especially that of the Germans. Also as a young boy, he was devoted to Wagner's operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology. After his father's death, when Adolf ...
- 3587: Babe Ruth
- ... before he was known well by local police. When he was 7, Kate and her husband finally decided they could no longer tend to the mischievous boy, and brought him to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys. Despite his crying and begging to be brought home, his custody was singed over to a group of strange men dressed in black robes. Though he didn’t realize it at the time ... 6’6’’ and well built to about 250 pounds, which meant he could accomplish any objective without raising his voice or using physical force. The first time George swung a baseball bat was at the school. He knew then he was to be a hitter. He said to a friend, “It was one of those things you could just feel.”(59) Brother Mathias taught him to be a better ball player ...
- 3588: Hard Times And The Nineteenth Century
- ... what drop in the social ocean shall be free!" Dickens' has a more exact view of the educational system from a speech on November 5, 1857 he states, "I don't like that sort of school - and I have seen a great many of these latter times - where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged,. . . . . where I have never seen among pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and ... not aware of such a system being in operation anywhere in England. They believed that there might have been too great a part of the studies dedicated to mythology, literature, and history. "In almost every school in the kingdom passages of our finest poets are learned by heart; and Shakespeare and Walter Scott were among the Penates." It was their opinion that schools such as the one that Gradgrind governed were ...
- 3589: Miracles
- ... Corinthians 5:17). Creation is the greatest miracle of all and the Bible makes a comparison of salvation to creation (2 Corinthians 4:6). Miraculous conversions happen everyday, all over the world. God also answers prayer and heals the sick in many ways. God heals through the bodily processes He has created, he heals by inspiring good attitudes in us, He heals through providing our health and intervenes in answer to prayer. Miracles have not been proved to be impossible or incredible. They have not been shown as unscientific or unidentifiable. Biblical miracles are not mythological but historical. Miracles cannot be said as nonessential to Christianity nor ...
- 3590: Rabindranath Tagore
- ... and plays. His Collected Poems and Plays was published in 1966. He also composed several hundred popular songs. In 1929 he also began painting. Rabindranath Tagore was a dedicated internationalist and educator. He established a school in 1901 in his estate in Bengal. He did this to teach a blend of eastern and western philosophies. His school was expanded into an international university in 1921 called Visva-Bharati. He also lectured and traveled throughout the world. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali, but translated a number of his works into English himself ...
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