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- 5141: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... in music Beethoven came from a musical family, and his early musical training was under his father's guidance. His father taught him piano and violin. His general education was not continued beyond the elementary school. He was practically illiterate in math. II. Self assertion As a youth of 19, in 1789, Beethoven took legal steps to have himself placed at the head of his family. He petitioned for half his ...
- 5142: Aristotle
- ... the importance of moral virtues as the key to happiness and a successful government. Aristotle thought that the need for government and authority developed on its own from nature. He taught in the Lyceum, a school he founded in Athens, how a just person should live and how a just state should rule. His messages of virtue and moderation transcend time and still are a great influence on modern western thought ...
- 5143: Andrew Jackson
- ... Presbyterian Church because he wanted to be a minister. Later on, he started to study law and became a lawyer and a landowner. he was a general in the War of 1812. He graduated high school from Waxhaw Presbyterian Church and is believed to have gone to college. He got married to Mrs. Rachael Donelson Robards, a dark eyed, dark haired woman. They did not have any children together. So they ...
- 5144: Analysis Of Karl Marx And Comm
- ... not even learning to speak the language properly. Shortly before Karl Marx was born, his father converted the family to the Evangelical Established Church, Karl being baptized at the age of six. Marx attended high school in his home town (1830-1835) where several teachers and pupils were under suspicion of harboring liberal ideals. Marx himself seemed to be a devoted Christian with a "longing for self-sacrifice on behalf of ...
- 5145: Al Capone
- ... about 1925 to 1931. Al Capone's parents immigrated to the United States from Naples, Italy in 1893. Six years later on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, Al Capone was born. He quit school after the fourth grade and became involved in petty crime and gangs. In a fight in a saloon, a young rival slashed Capone across his left cheek, earning him the nickname "Scarface." Al Capone spent ...
- 5146: African American Women
- ... Hurston writes. "
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed uo in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature
I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." It seems to me that Ms. Hurston has adapted really well to her situation. When exposed to the "other side" of ...
- 5147: Malcolm X
- ... in life he would blame these same agencies for destroying his family. He was bounced around from boardinghouses and schools, and dreamed of becoming a lawyer only to be discouraged by his teachers. After leaving school, in the eighth grade, he lived with a relative in Boston, Mass. He shined shoes, worked in a restaurant and on a railroad kitchen crew. In 1942 he moved to a section in New York ...
- 5148: Oklahoma History
- ... sit with whites in public places. They were also not allowed in some restaurants and public places. The blacks moved to Oklahoma because there were all black towns there like Langston. They could build a school and take their kids there to learn and not feel degraded. Oklahoma was a very good place to start if you were white. The land that was to become Oklahoma was shaped by broken promises ...
- 5149: Omar Khayyam The Enigma
- ... This very brief encyclopedia article gave me some specific dates I needed and informed me of the controversy over translations. Literature World Masterpieces(New York:Prentice Hall, 1991)98. This is our literature book in school. It helped me about as much as the encyclopedia article. Poetry Criticism: Khayyam(London: Cassell and Company)142-145. This is where I obtained my literary criticisms and discovered of the other translations of the ...
- 5150: Oskar Schindler
- ... satisfaction of looking at people with a smile and that is worth millions. Giving can also be showed in other ways. For example, my sister and my brother were always the best students of the school. For some reason they always understood the classes specially, mathematics even thought the other students sometimes did not understand. Whenever they always understood the material of the class the did not care and spend hours ...
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