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- 6001: Malcolm X
- ... which rejects all forms of racism, the Nation of Islam declared that whites were the "devil by nature," and that God was black. However, the Black Muslims predicted that in the near future a Great War would take place in which whites would be destroyed and black people would rule the world through the benevolence of Allah, their creator. To prepare for this new order, the Nation of Islam stressed personal self-restraint, opposed the use of drugs and alcohol, and organized economic self-help enterprises that ... into more trouble, Malcolm decided to change his lifestyle and devise a plan to better himself. He goes through a gleaning stage. He began to read and expand his mind. As he did this, a world of knowledge opened up to him. He also tried to improve himself in other ways. He worked on his social skills and his physical appearance. He decides not to associate himself with former friends ...
- 6002: Life On Michelangelo
- ... Instead of being obedient to classical Greek and Roman practices, Michelangelo used motifs - columns, pediments, and brackets - for a personal and expressive purpose. Michelangelo, a partisan of the republican faction, participated in the 1527-29 war against the Medici and supervised Florentine fortifications. The Medici Tombs While residing in Florence for this extended period, Michelangelo also undertook - between 1519 and 1534 - the commission of the Medici Tombs for the New Sacristy ... de' Medici to Leo X, Clement VIII, and Pius III, as well as cardinals, painters, and poets. Neither easy to get along with nor easy to understand, he expressed his view of himself and the world even more directly in his poetry than in the other arts. Much of his verse deals with art and the hardships he underwent, or with Neoplatonic philosophy and personal relationships. The great Renaissance poet Ludovico ... human figure: Raphael, Annibale Carracci, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Titian. His dome for St. Peter's became the symbol of authority, as well as the model, for domes all over the Western world; the majority of state capitol buildings in the U.S., as well as the Capitol in Washington, D.C., are derived from it.
- 6003: Frederick Banting
- ... the University of Toronto with the aim of entering the ministry, but instead he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined the army and served as a medical officer during World War I. He was awarded the Canadian military cross for bravery. After the war, he practiced medicine in London, Ontario, until 1921, when he and Charles Best began their research into the hormone insulin. Banting, along with John J.R. Macleod, head of the physiology department at the ...
- 6004: Arnold Schwarzenegger
- ... was liked better than Arnold by his father. Arnold's family believes he inherited his physique from Karl Schwarzenegger, Arnold's grandfather. Arnold's father was the head of the German military police during the war years in Belgium. Gustav was legendary for his strict discipline toward Arnold and Meinhard. For example, he would make Arnold eat every meal with books pressed tightly under his arms to teach him to keep ... Joe Weider to come to the United States and compete in the National Bodybuilding Association. Arnold felt that it was time to expand his career further to prove that he was the best in the world, and so in 1968 he came to the United States. As a result of Joe Weider's training, and Arnold's competitive nature, he went on to win Mr. Universe a total five times. By 1970, at the age of 23, Arnold had reached the premier status of bodybuilding. He won The Gold Triangle (the three top competitive events in bodybuilding) which consists of Mr. Universe, Mr. World, and Mr. Olympia. By 1980, Arnold had accumulated seven Mr. Olympia crowns in a row. Arnold's success extends far beyond his titles, in that he earned bodybuilding great respect, because then it was ...
- 6005: Adoph Hitler
- ... total control, and he had to answer to no one. The expansion of on Germany began in 1938, when Hitler’s army marched into Austria, and later into Czechoslovakia. The invasion of Poland 1939 triggered World War II, a war that last almost five years and cost the lives of nearly fifty million people. Hitler’s intense racism led to the infamous Holocaust, in which, the exterminating of million innocent people, especially Jewish. On ...
- 6006: Harriet Tubman
- ... we do know that she was one of history’s great heroines. With courage and determination, she escaped from slavery herself and then led more than 300 slaves to safety and freedom. When the Civil War began, she tirelessly scouted for the Union army and continued to free her people. Many of these newly freed slaves became new recruits for the Union army. Tubman rose from slavery to become one of the most remarkable stories in the history of the United States of America. About 40 years before the Civil War began, a slave child, Araminta. Like others born into slavery, Araminta, who later become known as Harriet Ross Tubman, was never to know her birth date. Her parents, Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross, couldn’t ... was no longer known by her “basket name.” Now she would be called Harriet. Harriet later continued to live and work as a slave. Because she was unable to read, her only contact with the world outside of the plantation was by word of mouth. Harriet had heard of the prophet and his uprising. She had heard of his hanging. She also heard that there were some white people right ...
- 6007: Sylvia Plath Compare To Esther
- ... come to terms with her father's death. The only fiction in the poem is that her father was a Nazi. Plath remembers him as having similar characteristics, but he was not involved in the war. Consequently, the reader must conclude that, "Daddy is a love poem," it is just the opposite(DM, pg. 63). While Sylvia Plath loved her father while he was alive, she no longer has any love ... with unbearable situations(kJ, pg.6). Some people cannot cope with it as others can and they feel suicide is an easy way out. It is a known fact that in today’s fast moving world there is too much of competition everywhere in every field(kJ, pg7). Every day we hear cases of adults, teenagers, and even children being pushed around to their best. It brings out the best in ... Jar and through her poetry. Sylvia’s life has been surrounded by death, seeing all of this made her want to end her life. Sylvia wrote the Bell Jar as her good bye to the world before she committed suicide. Sylvia has lived a less than perfect life with more downs than ups. As we read her poems we see that she has lead a painful life with full of ...
- 6008: Salvador Manuchin
- General systems theories emerged in the biological and social sciences following World War II. This led to the conceptualization of the individual as an interdependent part of larger social systems. Systemic therapy does not focus on how problems start, but rather on how the dynamics of relationships influence ... 1962 Minuchin formed a productive professional realtionship with Jay Haley, who was then in the famous Palo Alto symposium. In 1965 Munuchin became the director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, which eventually became the world's leading center for family therapy and training. At the Phiadelphia Clinic, Haley and Minuchin developed a training program for members of the local black community as paraprofessional family therapists in an effort to ...
- 6009: Sir William Lawrence Bragg
- ... studying mathematics, but switched to physics at the suggestion of his father. Lawrence Bragg began research under the direction of British physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson in 1912. Bragg served in the British army during World War I, developing techniques to locate the enemy by the sound of their artillery fire. After the war, he held positions at Trinity College and then the University of Manchester. In 1937 Lawrence Bragg moved to the National Physical Laboratory as director, but soon accepted an invitation to Cambridge as the Cavendish ...
- 6010: San Martin
- ... gave moral support to the defenders of American sovereignty." Jose de San Martin died in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France on August 17, 1850. BIBLIOGRAPHY Rock, David. Argentina, 1516-1982: from Spanish Colonization to the Falklands War. Berkeley; University of California Press, 1985 (304) Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975. New York; Greenwood Press, 1992 (550) Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975. New York; Greenwood Press, 1992 (550) McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography. New York; McGraw-Hill Book co., 1973 (382) Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975. New York; Greenwood Press, 1992 (551) Rock, David. Argentina, 1516-1982: from Spanish Colonization to the Falklands War. Berkeley; University of California Press, 1985 (92) Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975. New York; Greenwood Press, 1992 (552) Argentina, a Country Study., US Government, Department of Defense, 3d ...
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