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- 6281: Malcolm X
- ... receiving threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm's mother suffered a nervous breakdown and the welfare department took the eight children. 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 ...
- 6282: Benito Mussolini
- Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasnt always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. Benito Mussolini founded the Fasci di ...
- 6283: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel. In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among ...
- 6284: 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 ...
- 6285: "The Loons"
- ... was older than Vanessa, but they were together in the same grade. Piquette failed several grades, because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork was negligible. She missed a lot of school because she had tuberculosis of the bone, and had once spent months in hospital Piquette's voice was hoarse and she was limping when she was walking. She wore grimy cotton dresses that were always ...
- 6286: Cyrano de Bergerac and Mother Teresa: Heros?
- ... so little) flaw he possessed-his nose-run his life. Roxane, unaware of Cyranos love for her, fell in love with the most handsome face of another man, Christian de Neuvillette. Giddy, like a school girl, Roxane tells Cyrano of her feelings for Christian. Cyrano was crushed. His heart was truly broken. Poor Cyrano didnt know what to do. Well, now for the juicy part, Cyrano and Christian decide ...
- 6287: Al Capone
- Al Capone Al Capone, the most famous gangster in history, had quit school at fourteen after he lost his temper and struck his teacher. He was soon after accepted into a notorious street gang, Johnny Torrio was the gangs leader. Later Capone was hooked up with a job ...
- 6288: Maya Angelou 2
- ... dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent ...
- 6289: Adolf Hitler: Pure Evil in the Flesh
- Adolf Hitler: Pure Evil in the Flesh Shepaug Valley High School Modern World While reading A Guide In Expository Writing For the Study Of History, By Charles Olivea, I was learning how to write a thesis. "The concept may be written as a single word or ...
- 6290: Michael Collins
- ... learn patriotic ballads and poetry. West Cork was the heartland of Fenianism, the Irish nationalist movement founded in the 19th century. Jermiah O'Donovan Rossa, one of its founders, had been a teacher in a school in Rosscarberry, three miles away from the Collins household. Michael's own teacher, Denis Lyons, was a member of the Fenian organisation, the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood) and was to prove an inspirational figure. The ...
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