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- 3281: George Washington Carver
- ... teach full schedule of classes, assume responsibility for Tuskegee’s agricultural extension efforts in the rural South, and manage the institute’s two farms. Over the next 20 years, George’s knowledge of the agricultural world became better than ever. He developed various of ways to bring nutrients back to the soil. Crop rotation, organic fertilizers, and crops such as velvet beans, black-eyed peas, sweet potatoes, peanuts, alfalfa, and soybeans ... George threaten to quit his job at Tuskegee. Beside these troubles, the United States government had became interested in his work. He was asked to develop new ways of supplying food for the troops during World War I. Though the war had ended too soon for George’s help, they still did not ignore him. He was approached by an inventor by the name of Thomas Edison with a great job ...
- 3282: Talcott Parsons
- ... working airplane in December 1903. They flew this plane for thirty-seven miles around a town in Ohio, and it landed perfectly. The airplane was later used in WW1. Another main event that happened was World War 1. This war was fought from 1914-1918, while Parsons was a teenager. During this segment, America, Great Britain, Russia, and France, fought against the German army in Europe. Simultaneously, America was battling Japan on the other ...
- 3283: Henry Ford
- ... S. but he had not conquered the International regions. In early 1910, Ford Motor Company started to ship Model T’s to countries such as Turkey, Malaya, Newfoundland, Barbados, Mauritius, India, Africa, and Japan. When World War I started, Ford still produced cars yet at the same time, they started to produce airplanes for the airforce. When the war ended, many companies in other countries, tried to copy Ford’s Model T yet, they were not successful. One man, Morris Oxford, came so close to Ford’s design but did not produce the ...
- 3284: Indira Gandhfemalei
- ... in-law. Two sons, Rajiv and Sanjay, were born in quick succession, and it seemed that Indira was ready to settle down in her role as wife and mother(Malhotra 76). Following the end of World War II, the British Government was convinced, at last, that it could no longer rule India. In September 1946, Jawaharal Nehru became the head of an "interim" government and on August 15, 1947, the first prime ... and Indira was to be a puppet leader for a time while the actual struggle for power went on behind the scenes. So it was that Indira Gandhi, almost accidentally, became the leader of the world’s largest democracy. She had always claimed that she was not interested in power, and until now-she was nearing fifty-she had never actively pursued a position of power(Currimbhoy 126). With very ...
- 3285: Ghosts and Poltergeists
- ... bedroom on the second floor, they say, on the night before any threaten great calamity to the United States actually happens. This worries tread was heard on the night before the United States entered into World War I and again on the eve of World War II. Another ghost seen in the White House is one of Dolly Madison’s cat. The cat has been said to be seen curled up in the sun on a window seat or ...
- 3286: Jane Adams
- ... Addams was "busy with the old question eternally suggested by the inequalities of the human lot."(Pg.47 Ch.1) There were not many inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were poverty and frustration: the war widows, the desolate old couple who had lost all five of their sons, the farmers who were victims of the postwar depression, and the newcomers who could never really get started. And when she visited ... was also a local political leader who served for sixteen years as an Illinois state senator from 1854 -1870. A friend and admirer of Abraham Lincoln, John also fought as an officer in the Civil War. He was quiet and hard working and had a hatred of tyranny and injustice in the world. At the age of seven years old, a new woman entered the life of Jane Addams. Her father married Anna H. Haldeman, a widow with two sons. Jane felt no deep warmth for her ...
- 3287: Is Human Nature Simply The Enjoyment Of Sin?
- Is Human Nature Simply The Enjoyment Of Sin? In Saint Augustine's Confessions, the quote "…the world is drunk with the invisible wine of its own perverted, earthbound will" masterfully describes the broadest underlying concept of human nature as the will to sin. However, Augustine develops this concept much deeper, expanding a definition that can be compared to that of Thucydides in History of the Peloponnesian War. The accounts of human nature (and what it consists of) scripted by these two authors has many striking parallels, displaying very little trace of discrepancy (Augustine 45). Describing humans' universal inclination toward sin is the ... of sin being done for some self-fulfillment purpose. He argues this by saying "Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils," in reference to the war (Thucydides 243). Basically, he states that humans will always be compelled to sin (breaking laws, harming others, etc.) because of the feeling that something can be gained out of it. Thucydides embellishes this concept ...
- 3288: Night
- By: victor rosales Wiesel's Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but by extension, to humanity. People all over the world were devastated by this atrocious act, and there are still people today who haven't overcome the effects. One example of the heinous acts of the Germans that stands out occurs at the end of the war, when Elie and the rest of the camp of Buna is being forced to transfer to Gleiwitz. This transfer is a long, arduous, and tiring journey for all who are involved. The weather is painfully ... be destroyed in the end. The Jews fought for everything they had, from their possessions at the beginning, to their lives at the end. The result, however, was the same. At the end of the war, Elie looks into the mirror, and says he saw "a corpse." This "corpse" is Elie's body, but it has been robbed of its soul. This is similar to the loss suffered by people ...
- 3289: Alexander's Empire
- ... power was his, the young monarch swiftly brought order to his domain by armed force when necessary, by diplomatic guile whenever he could, Philip set out to make Macedon the greatest power in the Greek world. Alexander was born in 356 to the first wife of Philip. As a teenager Alexander was educated by Athenian philosopher Aristotle. By the year 337 all of the Greek city-states had been conquered or ... spite that the fact was that his army was smaller than that of the Persians, Alexanders superior tactics won the field, and Darus was forced to flee again. By this victory he effectively won the war, although much more fighting was needed before the Persian empire disappeared. It took three years to subdue all of eastern Iran. After the Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander entered the ancient city of Babylon as a ... Porus in what was to be his last great battle. He pushed on to the east, but on the banks of the Hyphasis (Beas) river-his army rebelled. They were tired after long years of war and were anxious to see their families back in Greece. Alexander could not persuade them otherwise and after sulking in his tent for two days agreed to lead them back home. Alexander shared the ...
- 3290: The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman?
- The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman? Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II, once said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may sound ludicrous, we can see many example of this in the world's history. One example would have to be the John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination. For over thirty years the people of the United States were led to believe that a single gunman shot and killed ...
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