Papers on People and Biographies
Wyatt Earp
Words: 365 - Pages: 2.... that it was during this tiem that Wyatt met Bat Masterson.
In 1876 he became chief deputy marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, a lawless frontier town. Within a year, having brought relative peace to Dodge City, he moved on to Deadwood in the Dakota Territoy.
In the fall of 1879, Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil journeyed by horseback down to Tombstone, Arizona. There he furthered his reputation as a gunfighter, first as deputy sheriff of Pima Co. and later as deputy U.S. marshal for the entire Arizona Territory. Earp and three of his brothers, together with the American frontiersman Doc Holliday, participated in the famous O.K. Cor .....
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Sister Helen Prejean
Words: 831 - Pages: 4.... six persons is a food-stamp recipient, one of every three babies born has an unwed mother, and the violent crime rate is ninth highest in the nation…I am meeting seventeen-year-old girls who have had one sometimes two children. Without a chance for college… [they are] vulnerable to the first young man who looks at them (7-8).
As she talks about this she seems surprised that things like this actually occur. She then meets Patrick Sonnier, a death row inmate. Through him she is once again thrown into a world that she is unfamiliar with but she quickly learns all about the legal system and all of its inequities. She would probably a .....
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Ida B. Wells
Words: 709 - Pages: 3.... There were a few advantageous elements that helped
Wells’ success in her activist efforts. One being that
gender relations, of that time, were honorable within the
African-American community. Another advantage for Ida B.
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Wells was her biological sex. Ida B. Wells fought hard in
her effort to secure America as a safe environment for
Blacks, but she managed to accomplish a remarkable amount of
her efforts due to various gender and sex related assets
which were in her favor.
One advantage Ida B. Wells was fortunate to claim was
that gen .....
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Glorious Sceptre
Words: 556 - Pages: 3.... again gave it to Atreus, the shepherd of the people. Atreus dying left it Thyestes of the rich flocks, and Thyestes left it in turn to Agamemnon to carry and to be lord of many islands over all Argos. (II, 102-109)"
In naming Hephaistus, Zeus, Hermes, and the kings of Mycenae, Homer describes a legacy that enhances the sceptre’s image as a token of influence and power. Moreover, it is important to note that the sceptre was not conceived by a mortal, but rather by Hephaistus. Using the wood from a living tree in the mountains, he constructed an immortal device for Zeus. Hephaistus’ creation of the sceptre both bolsters the n .....
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Blaise Pascal
Words: 588 - Pages: 3.... to two right angles. His
father noticed his sons ability in mathematics and gave him a copy of Euclids's
Elements, a book which Pascal read and soon mastered. At the young age of
fourteen he was admitted to the weekly meetings of Roberval, Mersenne, Mydorge,
and other French geometricians. At the age of sixteen he wrote an essay on conic
sections; and in 1641 at the age of 18 he construced the first arithmetical
machine, an instrument with metal dials on the front on which the numbers were
entered. Once the entries had been completed the answer would be displayed in
small windows on the top of the device. This device was improved eight year .....
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Carlos Santana
Words: 536 - Pages: 2.... town of Tijuana brought a renewed hope and opportunity for a new life. Both for Carlos and his family. The eight-year old Carlos quickly left the violin for the guitar, studying and emulating the sounds of B.B. King, T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker. Soon he was being asked to join local bands like the T.J.'s, where he added a unique touch and feel to his own renditions of all the great songs of the 1950's. As he continued to play with different bands along the busy Tijuana Strip, he not Page Two only started to perfect his style and sound, but actually started bringing home enough money to really help his family. His future looked prom .....
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John Maynard Keynes
Words: 1397 - Pages: 6.... Keynes wrote another book called “The Economic Consequences of
the Peace” in 1919. In this book he predicted that the staggering
reparations levied against Germany would goad that country into economic
nationalism and resurgence of militarism. Keynes being a well-educated man,
made some great investments in a decades time. Within that decade he made
his two million fortune by speculating in international currencies, stocks
and commodities. In addition to his newly made fortune Keynes served as a
trustee of King's College and built it's endowment from 30,000 to 380,000
pounds. Keynes went on to write other books like .....
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Prince William
Words: 4966 - Pages: 19.... obtain as much information on a famous person's life as they want and because of this abundance of information, 's life will be detailed along with his influences in his life like Princess Diana, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Henry, and Alexandria "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke. "History-to-History" will include another member of the royal family born in 1066 named William I "the Conqueror," who was as famous during his ruling period as much as is in the 1990s. This essay will cover the above topics.
of Whales is second in line of inheritance to the British throne after Prince Charles of Whales, who is first. He was born June 21, 1982 a .....
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Life Of William Shakespeare
Words: 917 - Pages: 4.... respected prominent people. When
William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending
the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students
went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The
teachers were strict disciplinarians.
Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably
fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known
to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several large
fairs during the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live. Stratford
also had fields and woods surrounding it giving William the oppor .....
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Charles Manson
Words: 2794 - Pages: 11.... to make the payments for the school and once again Charles was sent back to his mother’s abuse. At only fourteen, Manson left his mother and rented a room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caug .....
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