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Is The History Nonsense?
Words: 643 - Pages: 3.... is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present..." From his statement, we can see that Ford despises the effect of history in our human development; and doesn't acknowledge how the history in past influenced our society in the present. As we know, "Rome is not built in one day." Our human development depends on the flow of history. We absorb knowledge from our history, remold our society, make new inventions and make progress. For example, the interaction of bursts of technological development First, appeared the steam power and drove the industrial revolution ; then introduced the railways; third , with the .....
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Flo Hyman
Words: 1568 - Pages: 6.... on July 29, 1954 knew she would one day be a star, and a star she was.
“At six foot five, Hyman could have stood still and let the ball cone to her. Instead she pushed herself to go for the ball – and became the greatest American woman ever to play Volleyball”. (Encyclopedia of Women in Sports 1996).
Hyman’s dedication to sports and to the fight for equal opportunities for women in remembered by and honored with the Memorial Award, given annually by the Women’s Sports Foundation to female athletes who capture Hyman’s “dignity, spirit, and commitment to excellence”. (Sports Illustrated 1986) Hyman was known fo .....
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Socrates
Words: 2029 - Pages: 8.... of Athens, telling people of his ideas. His voice was heard, and he was soon declared to be the wisest of all men. ’ was skilled in the art of arguing. He developed a method by which he would win every debate. His favorite hobby was going to the marketplace and debating philosophical issues with other men in front of an audience. The result of these debates was that embarrassed the wise men in front of the crowd. This caused many to dislike him. After being named the wisest man, attempted to prove that this was not true. He debated with many men in the streets. These debates are some of his most famous argument methods. He start .....
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John Steinbeck
Words: 970 - Pages: 4.... friend of John’s father got him a job as an account for the Spreckles Sugar Company. "Although he had a job, John’s father was extremely devastated by the lose of his business"(Stephen)
"Encouraged by his parents John began to develop a love literature"(Morrow). At his ninth birthday John received a copy of the book Morte d’Arthur. This was the first book John ever owned. He later said it was a great influence upon his life. During his years at Salinas High School, John excelled in English. At the end of his Freshman year in High School John had determined that he wanted to become a writer.
At the en .....
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Karl Marx 6
Words: 459 - Pages: 2.... profits by paying their workers as little as possible, so workers would be increasingly impoverished. Eventually the wealth of the owners and poverty of the workers would lead to a revolution. But Karl Marx was wrong; conditions in England did not cause the proletariat (working class) to rise up and kill the bourgeoisie (prosperous middle class). Because life overall improved for the workers, there was no need for them to rise up and fight.
“During the 1800s, Parliament gradually passed a series of social and economic reforms. Many laws were designed to help the men, women, and children whose labor supported the new industrial .....
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John Wilkes Booth
Words: 2111 - Pages: 8.... will be a short one and a victorious one at that. You
will accomplish most of everything you set your mind too. ( this might
sound a little bit weird, but she's a " fortune teller") This might have
set a tick in his psychotic mind that maybe he thought that he could do
anything he wanted to do. ( Dort, Aaron)
Francis Wilson, who wrote a biography of Booth in 1929, stated that
Booth opened his stage career in 1855 at the Charles Street Theatre in
Baltimore. He began performing on a regular basis two years later. Once
Booth started upon his acting career, he wanted the comparisons between
himself and his late father to Cease. It was a com .....
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Emily Dickinson 6
Words: 1078 - Pages: 4.... brother, Austin, who also served as the treasurer for the college and other civic positions. Austin married Emily's best friend, Susan Gilbert. Lavinia was Emily's younger sister. She didn't marry anyone so she stayed in the family house. The three siblings shared a very close relationship. Their parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hundred forty-seven. After that she went to Mary Lyon's Female Seminary ( Moun .....
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The Life Of Thomas Edison
Words: 442 - Pages: 2.... candy on the Grand Trunk Railway. The train traveled from Port Huron to Detroit and then back again. He also Printed a newspaper, "The Weekly Herald" He spent the entire paycheck on Books and Chemicals for his lab. After a year on the job he was given permission to set up his lab in the baggage car of the train. He did his experiment in Detroit while he waited for the return trip. One day the train Lurched and some chemicals were spilled, And his lab caught on fire. The conductor Threw Thomas and his chemicals off of the train. He then sold newspapers at stops along the railroad.
Thomas had tons of problems with his ears, when he wa .....
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Jonathan Edwards
Words: 978 - Pages: 4.... At the age of
twenty-four, he married Sarah Pierrepont who was seventeen. He found her
when she was thirteen and decided that he liked her calmness and strong
religious beliefs. They had a daughter, Esther, who died in 1755 when she
was only twenty-three. Her son, Aaron Burr, became the Vice President of
the United States.
Edward was a strong willed pastor. His presence and brilliant
sermons helped to bring about the religious revival known as the "Great
Awakening". He drew such graphic pictures of the hell awaiting them that
the people began to frantically prepare for the conversion experience by
which they would be "born again" .....
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Herman Melville
Words: 440 - Pages: 2.... Uncle Thomas’s farm. Upon quitting his job in 1835 he attended the Albany Classic School and worked as a bookkeeper and clerk at his brother’s fur company. After a series of other jobs and moving around he gets “Fragments from a Writing Desk” published. But went to New York to become a sailor.
Melville got a job on the whaling ship Acushnet in New Bedford Harbor but abandons ship at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. After spending a month as a captive of cannibals in Types, he escapes aboard the Lucy Ann and is sent ashore as a mutineer. He escaped there and ended up working on a potato farm. Later that year he leaves on the whaling ship .....
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