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- 6351: 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 ...
- 6352: Napoleon 3
- ... Although Corsica was Napoleon s home most of his schooling was conducted in France. On December 15, 1778, at the age of nine, Napoleon left Ajaccio to go and study the French Language at a school in Brienne. Later, at the age of sixteen, Napoleon decided to enter the artillery so that maybe his brains and industry would balance his lack of outward advantages. On October 28, 1785 he joined the ...
- 6353: 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 ...
- 6354: Imagery Words And Their Role In Literature
- ... clean, well-lighted place. Light and dark act as a contrast to loneliness and shelters for comfort. Through images described in the story, the readers can actually feel the characters. When I was at high school, I read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. It tells how lonely California ranch life was in the early 1930. George and Lennie, the 2 main characters, always come together. Lennie is retarded, like ...
- 6355: 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 ...
- 6356: Pythagoras
- ... very significant person in the history of the world. He made many contributions to the fields of math, music, and astronomy. Pythagoras's teachings and beliefs that were once taught by him in his own school in ancient Greece, are still taught today. The thing that Pythagoras is probably the most famous for is the Pythagorean Theorem. The Pythagorean Theorem is used in the field of mathematics and it states the ...
- 6357: Napoleon 4
- ... hospital. Here twelve to fifteen of the men about me died every day, which made me sick at my stomach...In this fortress of Stettin the Wόrzburg soldiers were stationed and were all dressed in uniforms of white and red, that is, like Austrian soldiers. This stronglhold had a position which could be besieged only by land from the side facing Berlin. Here the Oder River flows into the Baltic Sea ...
- 6358: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... by ending the long-standing convertibility of the dollar into gold. Shortly afterward he rescinded the import surcharge. Under a Supreme Court decision of 1969, communities had been required to start busing students from one school district to another to achieve racial balance as soon as so ordered by a federal district court. Congressional approval was given in June 1972 to legislation that would delay for up to 18 months the ...
- 6359: James Buchanan
- ... 1783. At the age of six his family moved to Mercersberg PA. where his father would open a general store . James was the second of eleven in his family. James was able to go to school where he lived but when he was not studying he was helping his father in the shop. James father made James work hard and taught James that he must be ready to take care for ...
- 6360: Herman Melville
- ... common. Melville was a New Yorker, born in 1819, one of eight children of a merchant of distinguished lineage. His father, however, lost all his money and died when the boy was 12. Herman left school at 15, worked briefly as a bank clerk, and in 1837 went to sea. For 18 months, in 1841 and 1842, he was crewman on the whaler Acushnet. Then he jumped ship in the South ...
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