Papers on People and Biographies
J.P. Morgan
Words: 1122 - Pages: 5.... saving several railroads with his successful
reorganizations. In the steel industry, Morgan combined many holdings into
one of the successful ventures of the time. In his lifetime, J.P. Morgan
was certainly a captain of industry who saved the American financial system
and numerous companies while overseeing one of the biggest ventures of the
time.
During his career, Morgan bailed out America's financial system
several times. When Congress adjourned in 1877 without appropriating money
to pay soldiers. Morgan came up with the $550,000-a-month payroll and set
up a disbursement system (Gross 64). In 1895 when the U.S. gold reserves
fell .....
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Dimitri Shostakovich
Words: 1484 - Pages: 6.... Prokofiev. The cultural climate in the Soviet Union was, compared to the Soviet Union at its peak, free at the time. Even the music of Igor Stravinsky and Alban Berg, then in the avant-garde, was played. Bela Bartok and Paul Hindemith visited Russia to perform their own works, and Shostakovich toyed openly with these novelties. His first opera, The Nose, based on the satiric Nikolay Gogol story, displayed a thorough understanding of what was popular in Western music combined with his "dry" humor. Not surprisingly, Shostakovich's undoubtedly finer second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (later renamed Katerina Izmaylova), .....
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words: 1053 - Pages: 4.... to take, because it will sometimes destroy our egos. Through his
faith in god it helped him to motivate us so that we could be the better
race. It took more than whips, hoses, sticks, and segregation to keep
Black America down. The government kicked them off the high horse
to the ground, and as a Black Nation we jumped back on the saddle and
rode on to victory.
Dr. King started with the Civil Rights Movement, and from there
he kept on going. This movement started with a phone call about Rosa
Parks being arrested for not surrendering her seat to a white bus rider.
King and other leaders felt that a protest of some kind was n .....
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Alphonse Capone
Words: 1263 - Pages: 5.... a saloon he ran on James Street. Capone looked up to Torrio and said " I looked on Johnny like my adviser and father and the party who made it possible for me to get my start". (Pg. 26)
Al and his family moved to another Italian neighborhood in 1907. When Al was in the 6th grade, he got in trouble with his teacher, so she reproved him and he struck her for it. After this incident he quit school, never to return. He worked at many places such as a clerk in a candy store, a pinball setter in a bowling alley, then as a paper and cloth cutter. For a while Capone worked for Yale's Saloon as a bouncer, but only after making a rude comment to .....
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Karl Marx
Words: 955 - Pages: 4.... words, peaceful progess toward
equality and social justice was impossible. The only way to establish
justice, he said, was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means
of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against
their rulers. "Workers of the world unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to
lose but your chains."
Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches,
help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion,
according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells working
people to forget about the injustice they meet in their lives and to think
instead of how .....
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Bill Clinton's Affair With Monica Lewinsky
Words: 595 - Pages: 3.... the young
kids can look up to, because when they get out of college, they will not
have to worry about paying back a huge amount of money. They can save that
money and get a house or an apartment. They will benefit from it very well.
Secondly, he actually cares about the people and his family. Every
time you see him with his family the Clinton's are always happy, and he is
usually hugging his daughter or wife. The Americans never hear anything bad
about his wife and daughter on the news or in the newspapers. When
Clinton's administrative people heard about his impeachment, some of them
walked out, but most of them stayed and kept thei .....
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The Life Of Stalin
Words: 1973 - Pages: 8.... his life completely in his office. Although, he did allow public worship of himself on a scale rarely matched in any country in the 20th Century. In his personal life, he withdrew almost completely, living either in his Kremlin apartment or in his new country house at Kuntsovo, constantly surrounded by officers and bodyguards until his death. Frantic to catch up with the West in 1928, Stalin and his men launched a set of policies known as the "five-year plans," designed to turn backward Russia into an industrial and military world power, which he accomplished in only one decade. Though this was a great success, the peasants paid dearly, .....
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Deng Xiaopeng
Words: 517 - Pages: 2.... to his people in their own homes much like President Roosevelt did here in America. Deng listed technology as on his list of expansion goals but he also listed three other important goals agriculture, economy, and military. Deng had great need to expand Agriculture because China has the highest population in the world. If Deng could not put food on the table then chances are the people are not going to really like him or trust him. So he increased farming technology and with the increase in technology the military grew stronger as well. Now Deng had the ability to protect his country from foreigners and he could also now enforce laws. With .....
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Malcolm X
Words: 2440 - Pages: 9.... his life struggling to free the American negro from the misery and oppression that White America had forced them to suffer for over four hundred years. The X represented the African tribal name his ancestors had lost when they were brought in their millions as slaves from Africa to America. From his initial, radical stance as a "Black Nationalist" seeing evil in all whites, he came to think that blacks and whites could work together for international revolution, a belief that ultimately led to his murder in 1965 by rival Black Muslims. Though he came from the American ghetto, spoke for the American ghetto and directed his message first and .....
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Charles Darwin
Words: 1122 - Pages: 5.... with current genetic
studies.
According to Oparin's hypothesis (hypothesis formulated about the
creation of life on earth) the first simple cell, emerged about four
billion years ago. How can that hypothesis be extended to explain the
variety of life forms that exist on earth today? (Question formed by
scholars in an attempt to stump Darwin)
Darwin in his "Origin of Species" published an answer to this
question in 1859. Darwin wrote:
"As many more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there
must be in every case, a struggle for existence, either one individual with
another of the same species, or with individuals of dis .....
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