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- 6181: Frederick Douglass's Physical and Intellectual Struggles
- ... began to bear heavily upon [his] my heart."(32) At that point, Douglass's true strength began to show and his true development began. Douglass used the strength gained from literacy to hold a Sabbath school that taught other slaves how to read. Douglass also used literacy in an escape attempt. When Douglass tried to escape for the first time his writing skills were used to make fake "protections". These were ...
- 6182: John Gotti
- ... first major incident with the police occurred when he tried to steal a cement mixer and it fell on his feet, an injury that affected his gait for the rest of his life. He quit school at sixteen and rose to leadership in a local street gang of thieves called the Fulton-Rockaway Boys, named after two streets in their neighborhood. At an early age he exerted his bad temper, dominance ...
- 6183: Life Of Fredrick Douglass
- ... that illustrates discrimination is Joseph Brant s, Indian Civilization Vs. White Civilization. Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and died in 1807 (Barnett et al. 938). Brant, or Thayendanega, was educated at Wheelock s Indian school in Connecticut. He served the British in the French and Indian war and the American Revolution. Being a Mohawk Chief, Brant was subject to much racially motivated discrimination. Discrimination, though most author would like you ...
- 6184: Marilyn Monroe
- ... her pictures that were to be sent to the troops. With her rare talent and beauty she found many other assignments easily and was picked up by a modeling agency. They enrolled Marilyn in charm school and featured her on a number of magazine covers. In 1946, Marilyn signed with 20th Century Fox. She only made two small films before the studio dropped her, although. Two years later she signed with ...
- 6185: Charles Augustus Lindbergh
- ... the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit. He attended the University of Wisconsin for two years but withdrew to attend a flying school in Lincoln, Nebraska. He began flying in 1922, and four years later he piloted a mail plane between St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago. He decided to compete for a prize of $25,000 offered in ...
- 6186: Malcolm X
- ... from the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm's mother suffered a nervous breakdown and the eight children were taken by the welfare department. Malcolm was sent first to a foster home and then to a reform school. After the eighth grade, Malcolm moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked at various jobs and eventually became involved in criminal activity. In 1946 he was sentenced to prison for burglary. While in prison, Malcolm ...
- 6187: Biography of John Dalton
- ... known as Daltonism. Irish author and translator from Spanish and German, born in 1814; died at Maddermarket, Norwich, 15 February, 1874. He spent his early years at Coventry, England, and was educated at Sedgley Park School. He then proceeded to Oscott College, where he was ordained priest in 1837. After serving some time on the mission at Northampton (where he established large schools), he laboured at Norwich for three years, and ...
- 6188: Biography of Ernest Rutherford
- ... of Ernest Rutherford Ernest Rutherford was born at Bridgewater, close to Nelson, New Zealand. His parents had emigrated to New Zealand from Britain approximately 30 years earlier. Rutherford was a successful all-round student at school, though did not show any real interest in science. He entered Canterbury College at Christchurch, where his interest and ability for science developed and he graduated with first class degrees in science and mathematics. He ...
- 6189: Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life
- Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life Dutch Schultz is one of the best known New York mobsters of the prohibition era. After dropping out of school in the fourth grade and turning to a life of crime, Schultz started with pick-pocketing and petty theft, moved up to bootlegging and smuggling, and eventually left his mark in bloody gang wars. Schultz ...
- 6190: Mark Twain: Racist or Realist?
- ... in the book A Conecticut Yankee in King Authurs Court through the chuch against the state (Simpson 18). In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain depicts soul in conflict through humans against moralizing Sunday school tales (Simpson 18). Mr. Clemens had presented the contrasts between the two social orders but could not or would not accept the tragic fact that the one he had rejected was an image of a ...
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