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- 6671: Thomas P. O'Neill
- ... real." (Sennot 17) His gigantic figure and weather beaten face symbolizes a political force of five decades, from Roosevelt's new deal to the Reagan retrenchment. He was the last democratic leader of the old school and "the longest-serving speaker of the house (1977-1986) and easily the most loved." (Clift) Thomas P. O'Neill (1912-1994) always knew why he was in Washington, and what he stood for. He ...
- 6672: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... background of war, made possible the rise of a military dictator. Since childhood, Napoleon was taught stratagies and tactics to help him succeed through battles. At the age of fifteen, he entered the advance military school, the Ecole Militaire in Paris. Napoleon was promoted to a general at the age of twenty four, where he was put in charge of the Italian campaigns. After conquering most of the Italian Penninsula, Napoleon ...
- 6673: Ernesto Guevara
- ... influenced by the war and refugees. He began to hate military politicians, the U.S. dollar, and parliamentary democracy. Ernesto's parents were both anti Franco activists. In Buenos Aires, Mr. Guevara went to medical school. He graduated in l953. After several years, Ernesto went to Guatemala writing articles on the Inca and Myan ruins. During his stay in Guatemala, he had the chance to become a government medical personnel. He ...
- 6674: In To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout
- ... emotions, and begins to mature into bright young woman. Scout is learning that things are not always what they seem. She and Jem always believed that their father was not like any other fathers in school. They saw him as old man who cannot do anything; however when a mad dog appears on the street, Atticus kills the dog with one shot. "Jem became vaguely articulate, you see him, Scout? You ...
- 6675: Abraham Lincoln: Biography
- ... Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by studying and reading books on his own. He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible. In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own ...
- 6676: Biography of William Shakespeare
- ... on 22 or 23 April, in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father, John, who was a prosperous glover there, preparing and selling soft leather, became alderman and later high bailiff. Shakespeare was educated at Stratford Grammar School. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway - eight years older than he and already, she was pregnant. Six months later their daughter Susanna was born. They had twins, a boy Hamnet and a girl ...
- 6677: A Martyr's Victory in a Spiritual Sense
- ... he used the humiliation to make him better. In his life he examplified many of the things Frankl wrote about, but he also depicted many of the quotes in the hallway of Kellenberg Memorial High School. There is one quote that stood out to me more than any of the quotes on the wall it is
. COURAGE Don't follow where the path may lead
go instead where there is no ...
- 6678: Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Comparison
- ... amount of discrimination from the whites and found it very difficult to achieve civil rights. They were at one stage deprived of voting, being intitled the same things as blacks and going to a white school. In order for blacks to achieve civil rights they really needed someone to follow, they needed a leader. Many black leaders did emerge for the fight for civil rights, some had some ways of thinking ...
- 6679: Michael Jordan: The early years.
- ... Wilmington's newspaper. By the age of fifteen, he wasn't the star in baseball he once was. He was still very good, but he had lost some of his focus. Later, in his high school career, he dropped baseball to pursue another interest. Basketball and Michael. When Michael was younger he adopted the game of basketball. Mike used to work with his father in the garage. While working with his ...
- 6680: Andrea Dworkin
- ... women victimized by sexual abuse are prime targets of censorship. (Strossen 77) An episode involving Dworkin and her cohort in censorship, Catherine MacKinnon, demonstrates the dangers of censorship. At a symposium at A Michigan law school, at which Dworkin and MacKinnon were speaking, a group of feminists had prepared a series of documentaries of the topic of the conference, prostitution. Dworkin refused to speak at the symposium if adversarial speakers were ...
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