Papers on People and Biographies
Bill Bradley
Words: 813 - Pages: 3.... an optional prescription drug benefit for all seniors, and creates a Medicare option for home and community-based coordinated care systems.
understands that education is the bedrock of our economic strength, essential to ensuring that all Americans have the skills they need to build a better future in this time of technological change. Bill will enroll an additional 400,000 children in the Head Start program, helping nearly every eligible child to enter school prepared to succeed. He will create Teach to Reach partnerships to place 60,000 new, well-trained teachers each year into low-income urban and rural school districts. Bill will .....
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Andrew Carnegie
Words: 936 - Pages: 4.... to give back to the world. As stated in “Andy Did It” by Harry Schwalb (ARTnews, June 1997), Carnegie gave the world thousands of libraries. Many communities gratefully accepted Carnegie’s generosity, but his actions were met with mixed reviews. The book, Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development by George S. Bobinski shows the impact of his philanthropy and the reaction it received.
lived by his philosophy that “The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced.” He not only wrote these words, but lived by them. “Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher t .....
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Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
Words: 746 - Pages: 3.... can be considered as consisting of particles, and I also
hypothesized that energy carried by any light particle, called a photon, is
proportional to the frequency of the radiation. The formula for this is E=hv,
where E is the radiation, h is a universal constant known as Planck's constant,
and v is the frequency of the radiation. This proposal, that the energy
contained within a light beam is transferred by individual units, or quanta,
contradicted the hundred year old tradition of considering light as a
manifestation of continuous processes.
My third and most impotant paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving
Bodies", contained what .....
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Joel Poinsett
Words: 540 - Pages: 2.... in which key individual decision
makers govern policy. In addition, Polk's policies were secondarily
influenced by the consideration of relative power, American mass ideology,
and Public opinion. In 1845 President Polk began, cofidentially from the
public, considering the annexation of California. Polk's initial desire was
to simply purchase California, attempting to maintain peace. He soon
learned this would be impossible. When Polk ordered General Taylor to cross
the Nueces River and eventually to fortify on the Rio Grande, he fully
understood the possilble consequences of these actions. In fact, by
deploying Taylor and his troops, P .....
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Geoffery Chaucer
Words: 683 - Pages: 3.... human nature.
One trait shown in these tales is greed. Chaucer shows how greed is present in a common miller, a summoner, or a religious canon. The Reeve tells others in his tale of a miller who "was a thief ... of corn and meal, and sly at that; his habit was to steal" (Chaucer 125). The summoner in "The Friar's Tale" "drew large profits to himself thereby," and as the devil observes of him in this tale, "You're out for wealth, acquired no matter how" (Chaucer 312, 315). The miller is not shown as badly in "The Reeve's Tale" as the others, however; his trickery against the clerk is repaid when the clerk sleeps with his wife and daught .....
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Thomas Edison
Words: 2111 - Pages: 8.... lot of questions. "Edison began school in Port Huron, Michigan when he was seven. His teacher, the Reverend G. B. Engle considered Thomas to be a dull student."(Allen pg. 22) Thomas especially did not like math. And he asked too many questions. The story goes that the teacher whipped students who asked questions. After three months of school, the teacher called Thomas, "addled". Thomas was pissed. The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk with Reverend Engle. The teacher told his mother that Thomas couldn't learn. Nancy also became angry at the teacher's strict ways. "She took Thomas out of school an .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Words: 263 - Pages: 1.... appointments included positions at the courts of Weimar and
Anhalt-Kother, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's
choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of
Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death.
Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. His
second wife, Anna Magdalena Wulkens, was a soprano singer; she also acted
as his amanuensis, when in later years his sight failed.
Bach was a master of contrapuntal technique, and his music marks the
culmination of the Baroque polyphonic style.
Important Works
Sacred music includ .....
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Napoleon And Caesar
Words: 1658 - Pages: 7.... strategies (Duggan 117).
Julius Caesar was to become one of the greatest generals, conquering the whole of Gaul. In 58 BC, Caesar became governor and military commander of Gaul, which included modern France, Belgium, and portions of Switzerland, Holland, and Germany west of the Rhine. For the next eight years, Caesar led military campaigns involving both the Roman legions and tribes in Gaul who were often competing among themselves. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome's transition from republic to empire (Duggan 84).
Caesar's principles were to keep his forces united; to be vulnerable a .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Words: 1554 - Pages: 6.... bring European restrictions to the United States commerce along the Mississippi River (Fleming, p.183). The territory extended from the west bank of the Mississippi River to the crest of the Rocky Mountains. After Spain ceded the immense area of land to France, they tried to sell it back to Spain. Spain, nonetheless, didn’t have use for this massive piece of land (Boorstin, p.94). Jefferson, however, felt that if the United States owned the land, farmers west of the Appalachian Mountains could use the land strictly for agricultural purposes. If the Treaty of 1795 had not been signed, the United States would have gone to war with Fr .....
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John Lennon
Words: 645 - Pages: 3.... of poetry, illusions of grandeur...Just say what it is, simple English, make it rhyme and put a backbeat on it, and express yourself as simply [and] straightforwardly as possible." His most fully realized statement, as a solo artist was 1970's /Plastic Ono Band. Lennon's first solo album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature of Plastic Ono Band reflected the primal-scream therapy that Lennon and Ono had been undergoing with psychologist Arthur Janov.
There were, in fact, numerous facets to Lennon's character capt .....
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