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- 691: Bruce Lee
- ... The chinese triads, who are similar to the mafia, ordered him to close his schools or he would face the consequences. He refused and had to fight one of their gradmasters in order to continue teaching. He won the fight, but was discouraged at the time it took him, so he decided to device his own style of martial arts. He called it Jeet Kune Do or"the way of the ...
- 692: Malcolm X
- ... Afro-American Unity (OAAU). In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Based on this trip, and other travels to Africa and Europe, he renounced his previous teaching that all whites are evil, began advocating racial solidarity, and adopted the Arabic name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. On February 21, 1965, while addressing an OAAU rally in New York City, men allegedly connected ...
- 693: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... the slightest idea what he would do next. Vincent decided to return to England, where he found a job as a teacher in a boarding school. After he gave up that job, he took another teaching job at a school in Isleworth. As a young man Vincent Van Gogh's strongest compulsion was to love and help mankind. The son of a minister, he chose quite naturally to take up religion ...
- 694: A Critique of C. S. Lewis
- ... and Language at Magdalen College, Oxford and remained there till 1954. During this time period in his life, Lewis wrote the majority of his work. Lewis moved to Cambridge for the remainder of his life teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature.1 C. S. Lewis was a man dedicated to the pursuit of truth who" believed in argument, in disputation, and in the dialectic of Reason. . ."2 He began his pursuit of ...
- 695: The John Scopes Trial
- ... Also known as the Monkey Trial, it came about because of John Scopes', a 24-year-old biology teacher, violation of the Butler Act. The Butler Act was a state law in Tennessee forbidding the teaching of theories that denied the story of creation as stated in the bible in public schools or universities in Tennessee that is funded by the state. Any teacher found doing so would be fined $100 ...
- 696: David Livingstone
- ... 700 miles, winning the confidence of the natives wherever he went by his medical activity. A sec-ond trip, alone, was made into the interior February to June, 1842. Returning, he stayed until February, 1843, teaching, preaching, caring for the sick, and building a chapel at an outstation. Then it was off to the interior again in search of a suitable location for another mission site. On this trip he discovered ...
- 697: Sinclair Lewis
- ... write a book in a month and would take a while off and then write some more. In 1938, he wrote The Prodigal Parents and in 1940, Bethel Merriday. In 1940, he was offered a teaching job at the University of Wisconsin and taught there for a brief period of time. In 1942, he divorced his second wife, Dorothy Thompson. In 1943, he published Gideons Planish. Then, in 1944, Lewis received ...
- 698: Socrates
- ... major reasons: he told important people exactly what he thought of them, he questioned ideas that had long been the norm, the youth copied his style of questioning for fun, making Athenians think Socrates was teaching the youth to be rebellious. But these reasons were not the charges against him, he was charged with being an atheist and with corrupting the youth. The charge of being impious was completely absurd because ...
- 699: Rembrandt
- ... people he saw around him. He was influenced by the work of Caravaggio and was fascinated by the work of many other artists. When Rembrandt became an established painter, he began to teach and continued teaching art throughout his lifetime. In 1631, when Rembrandt's work had become well known and his studio in Leiden was flourishing, he moved to Amsterdam. He became the leading portrait painter in Holland and received ...
- 700: Malcolm X
- ... wanted to end segregation and have blacks and whites live peacefully. My opinions toward Malcolm X's beliefs are that I disagree with most of what he said. I believe that what he taught was teaching hatred. I also believe that he set the civil rights movement back because he "un-did" everything Mr. King stood for and did. I also disagree with his idea of usage of violence because I ...
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