Papers on People and Biographies
Carlos Santana
Words: 534 - Pages: 2.... boom 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 p .....
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Marco Polo
Words: 1838 - Pages: 7.... conquest of Asia(Li Man Kin 9). Ruled by Kublai Khan, the Mongol Empire stretched all the way from China to Russia and the Levant. The Mongol hordes also threatened other parts of Europe, particularly Poland and Hungary, inspiring fear everywhere by their bloodthirsty advances. Yet the ruthless methods brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes such as the famous Silk Road. Eventually ,the Mongols discovered that it was more profitable to collect tribute from people than to kill them outright, and this policy too stimulated trade(Hull 23).
Into this favorable atmosphere a number of European traders .....
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Frank Lincoln Wright
Words: 1425 - Pages: 6.... Jane opened a school of their own pressing the philosophies of
German educator, Froebel. Wright was brought up in a comfortable, but certainly
not warm household. His father, William Carey Wright who worked as a preacher
and a musician, moved from job to job, dragging his family across the United
States. His parents divorced when Wright was still young. His mother Anna
(Lloyd-Jones) Wright, relied heavily on upon her many brothers sisters and
uncles, and was intellectually guided by his aunts and his mother.
Before her son was born, Anna Wright had decided that her son was gong
to be a great architect. Using Froebel's geometric block .....
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Aristotle (384 -322 BC)
Words: 323 - Pages: 2.... Alexander the Great later became the
ruler of all Greece, and over threw the Persian Empire. In 334 BC, Aristotle
returned to Athens and started his own school, the Lyceum. Because he taught
while walking around, his students were called the Peripatetic students, meaning
"walking" or "strolling". When Alexander died in 323 BC, Aristotle was charged
with impiety (lack of reverence to the gods) by the Athenians. The Athenians
probably did this because they resented
Lu-2 Aristotle's friendship with Alexander, the man who conquered
them. Aristotle fled to Euboea. He died there the next year.
ETHICS
Aristotle believe .....
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Jessica Savitch: The Dark Side Of A Golden Girl
Words: 1418 - Pages: 6.... than hate, but an obsession," (Nash, 101). One day, Jessica shows up at work badly bruised. She and Ron have been fighting, and everyone knows it. They break up and make up repeatedly, a cycle that continues throughout her life.
Jessica Savitch gets a career boost when she leaps from Houston to KYW T.V. in Philadelphia, the fourth largest market. She goes on to produce three award winning series and anchors the 10:00 news with Mort Crim, a respected anchor in the business. Ron Kershaw moves to Philadelphia, but cannot find a job because he is Jessica Savitch's boyfriend. This creates more turmoil in their relationship, and they cont .....
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live”
Words: 1130 - Pages: 5.... was under British control. Because he claimed his rights as a British subject, he was constantly discriminated against due to his Indian race. He witnessed malicious discrimination toward people of the Indian race by the British. As a result of being outraged by this hateful discrimination, Gandhi decided to stay in South Africa. His one-year term of legal work turned into twenty-one years to proclaim and work for Indian rights.
He first started a newspaper called “Indian Opinion”, and he also led campaigns boosting Indian Rights. A note worthy fact for Gandhi was that when he felt justice was on the British side, he would work .....
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Neil Simon
Words: 2466 - Pages: 9.... for first wave feminists were not used in Nellie McClung's era. Now, these activists are labeled as either maternal or equal rights feminists and such a label would seem to dictate a distinct philosophy and motives for reform. McClung is difficult to label since she seems to alternate between the two types of feminism. The discussion of first wave feminism is problematic as feminists are branded as maternal or equal rights feminists, terms which were not even applicable at the time. Maternal feminists, for example, sought the vote in order to reinforce the influence of women and the family in Canadian society, and to introduce "femini .....
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Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer
Words: 1062 - Pages: 4.... College, Cambridge. In 1814 he graduated Peterhouse and received his MA from Cambridge in 1817. In 1820 he founded the Analytical Society with Herschel and Peacock. Babbage started work on the Difference Engine in 1823 through funding from the British Government and in 1827 published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, though he never presented a lecture. He founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 and in 1832 he published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery". 1833 marked the beginning of his work on the Analytical Engine. .....
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Joseph Stalin
Words: 486 - Pages: 2.... be beaten!” Stalin gives the idea that his way of economy
would be great for Russia. At the beginning of the first Five Year Plan,
Stalin set high goals for the industry, almost doubling the amount of
production.Accordin to Joseph Stalin agricultural production can only be
increased by eliminating the kulaks, the wealthy farmers, and create
collective farms. Collective farms is when the land is split and many
people work on them instead of just one owner.Stalin’s Five Year Plans
created a huge drop in the number of livestock and wheat production also
decreased. This created a famine of food in Russia, starving most of the
people. Stali .....
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Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power
Words: 695 - Pages: 3.... Many Europeans felt that
his successes in restoring Italy outweighed any "rumors" of police
brutality. In 1935 Mussilini invaded Ethiopia was carried out with a
ruthless disregard for world opinion,including the use of poison gas. When
the British and French leaders condemned him for these acts, he looked
elsewhere for allies and found Germany and Japan.
He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-
1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo
Franco, but being associated with the atrocities of this brutal war lost
him still more support in the rest of the world. His biggest mis .....
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