Papers on People and Biographies
Winston Churchill
Words: 1204 - Pages: 5.... through his genuine leadership, his firm resolution, and his unrelenting defiance.
It was divine intuition that put Winston Churchill in a position of leadership made evident by the amazing effect he had on his countrymen through the words that he spoke and through his idea of forming the "Grand Alliance". When his speeches were broadcasted over the radio during wartime, Britain stopped. Every citizen listened to each word he said with great attentiveness. Churchill’s Blood, Sweat and Tears speech is a fine example of his beautiful art of speaking as it filled the people of Britain with much needed hope and bounti .....
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Sinclair Lewis
Words: 1323 - Pages: 5.... Magazine". For two summers he worked on cattleboats. On his other summer vacations he went to England. He also worked as a janitor at Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall (utopian community) and he also took a shot as free-lance work in New York for a while. After working on some temporary jobs, he graduated Yale in 1908. After he got his degree, he worked for publishing houses and various magazines in Iowa, Carmel, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York City. During his time in Greenville Village, he associated with some radicals like John Reed and Floyd Dell, and he became, for a while, member of the socialist party. In 1912, Lewis pu .....
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Words: 327 - Pages: 2.... while he was still in
grade school. This became known to his mother after Martin said "You know,
when I grow up to be a man, I'm going to hit this thing, and hit it hard,
Mother; there's no such thing as one people better than another. The Lord
created us all equal , and I'm going to see to that."
Over the years King was involved in many famous boycotts and marches, but
none of them matched his famous march in Washington. He gave a speech that
showed bigotry in the government. Now, just 20 years later, our country is
changing, and helping to change South Africa.
The key to all this success was Martin Luther King Jr. who showed us that .....
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George Berkeley
Words: 575 - Pages: 3.... instance, if one could not ever perceive the pen, how could one ever know of its existence? He held that if an object is independent of one’s perception, then how could one know it to be real. He thought that you could not truly know something without first perceiving it in some way.
It was an easy step from that ideology for him to adopt the phrase – Esse Est Percipi, which means, “To be is to be perceived.” There is a crippling problem that arises in this mode of thinking that can best be demonstrated by the following limerick:
who said “God,
must find it extremely odd
to think that this tree will conti .....
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Hedda Gabler
Words: 643 - Pages: 3.... which caged her and made her lose her freedom. Her desire to escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom come to the surface as she discovers her father’s pair of pistols. Comparing Hedda with the other women of the play we can see that thea wasn’t the woman with the more control. She also had an unhappy marriage because of Eilert’s work. Aunt Julia is different; she likes to help people, she raised George and took care Rina. As far as Berda is concerned, there is not much to say because she is the servant of the house and she just takes care of everybody and obeys to orders from her bosses. Hedda is a powerfu .....
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Words: 1207 - Pages: 5.... was vodka. He drank it, and it utterly disgusted him. This was an important lesson to him. It made him not like alcohol, therefore making him want others to stay away from it. This could have saved his nation. Gorbachev noted, "After that experience I have never felt any pleasure in drinking vodka or spirits" (Gorbachev 37). That is important because if he had liked alcohol, there most likely never would have been any anti-alcohol campaign. "Temperance was the rule in the Gorbachev household on holidays, the men might take one shot glass of vodka or cognac in celebration, no more" (Smith 38). The Gorbachev family is an example of how alc .....
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Harriet Stowe
Words: 3684 - Pages: 14.... prayer, asking the Lord to call her six sons into the ministry. All eventually preached; Henry Ward Beecher, the youngest son became the most prominent. After her mother’s death, Harriet grew close to her sister, Catherine, teaching in her school and writing books with her soon after she turned thirteen. Harriet was brilliant and bookish, and idolized the poetry of Lord Byron.
When her father became president of Lane Theological Seminary in Ohio, she moved with him and met Calvin Stowe -- a professor and clergyman who fervently opposed slavery. He was nine years her senior and the widower of a dear friend of hers, Eliza Tyler. Their s .....
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Mother Teresa
Words: 1509 - Pages: 6.... a mission in Calcutta. This is where she took the name of Sister Teresa, after Saint Teresa of Lisieux, who also found her vocation while still a child.
As a nun, began teaching at St. Mary's high school in Calcutta. After a few years of teaching she became principal of the school. had a special place in her heart for children, and she showed it her actions. In 1982, during a the siege of Bierut, she convinced the Israeli army and Palestinian guerillas to stop shooting long enough for her to rescue thirty-seven children trapped in a front line hospital. Children were always delighted to be around , but many World leaders quailed at .....
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Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, And The Morality
Words: 753 - Pages: 3.... Issue”, the question should be reversed:
“...This was of asking the question... is essentially backward, and
reflects the pervasive presentism of our time. Consider, for example, how
different the question appears when inverted and framed in more historical
terms: How did a man who was born into a slave holding society, whose
family and admired friends owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was
dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery
was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished?”
(Wilson 66).
Wilson also argues that Jefferson knew that his slaves would be better off
wo .....
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Sir Sandford Fleming
Words: 383 - Pages: 2.... across the p rairies and
through the Rocky Mountains. He proposed constructing the ra ilway along a
northerly route through Edmonton and the Yellowhead Pass and then turning S
to Burrard Inlet on the Pacific. Altrough his spe cific recommendations
regarding the route were not followed, his extens ive survey work of
various routes, including the Kicking Horse Pass t hrough which the
Canadian Pacific main line was built , greatly facilita ted Canadian
railway construction. In the early years of the 20th ce ntury the Canadian
Northern railway work. He was a strong advocate of a telecommunication
cable from Canada to Australia, which he be .....
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