Papers on People and Biographies
Martin Luther King Jr. 5
Words: 649 - Pages: 3.... his Ph.D. in 1955, King was asked to lead a bus boycott in Montgomery. It had been formed after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger. Throughout the 381 days which the boycott lasted, he was arrested and jailed, repeatedly threatened, and his home was bombed. The boycott ended later that year when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public transportation. This was his first victory and alone made Dr. King a highly respected leader. When he went to India in 1959, he studied Gandhi's principle of "Satyagraha" or nonviolent persuasion, which he planned to use for his social protests. In the follow .....
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Caravaggio
Words: 1228 - Pages: 5.... cannot be fully comprehended without the context of time and circumstance. The eighteenth century painting, Death of the Virgin, will be examined, for in it depicts the Madonna as a prostitute. Ideological aspects of culture and society are suggested through this piece, however it is only through an examination of the context that the authentic and intended meaning can be determined. His stylistic and contextual values of the visual arts of this period signified cultural changes and social realism as a consequential reaction.
was one of the premier painters who worked during the midst of the counter reformation in Rome. He is respo .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Words: 1485 - Pages: 6.... order of battle which
the two armies take, the first movements to come
to blows- this is the exposition; the counter-
movement of the army under attack form the
complication, which requires dispositions and
and brings on crisis from which springs the
result or Denouement (Gray 6)".
Napoleon thought himself to be invincible and God-like. He felt that he had a destiny to be one of the greatest military leaders to ever live. The man thought that he could not be killed on the battle field, he was right. He went from a soldier to the Emperor of France in just ten short years; he fell in less than three.
Napoleon led an army of six-hundred-thou .....
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George Washington
Words: 682 - Pages: 3.... down
a cherry tree, and unless his pitching arm was better than that of any
professional baseball player, he could have never thrown anything across
the river. The most startling fact is that he wasn't even the first
president.
Our first president was John Hanson. He was elected president of
the thirteen states in the Confederation. After Hanson, there were more
before Washington. There was Elias Boudinot, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Henery
and Cyrus Griffin.
At the age of 17, Washington began traveling across rivers,
mountains and Indian trails to remote parts of Virginia. He learned to
survive in the wilderness. When Washington was 20, h .....
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Words: 1830 - Pages: 7.... notice of me, I climbed upon his knee. He sighed and
said, " Oh my daughter, I wish you were a boy!" I threw my arms around his neck
and replied that I will try my hardest to be all my brother was.
I was determined to be courageous, to ride horses and play chess, and
study such manly subjects as Latin, Greek, mathematics, and philosophy. I
devoured the books in my father's extensive law library and debated the fine
points of the law with his clerks. It was while reading my father's law books
that I first discovered the cruelty of the laws regarding women, and I resolved
to get scissors and snip out every unfair law. But my father s .....
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Plato And Confucius
Words: 1833 - Pages: 7.... ruler of the city or regime would create a perfect and just man. And he felt that the ruler must be older, while the ruled younger. Age is something that gives his perfect regime more control than one based on wisdom. He
thought that the philosopher should be seen as the father, over the younger people of the city. He also feels that old men are afraid of death, and therefore less likely to risk torment in the afterlife by having selfish desires, such as for money. He believed that men would obey the laws in hopes of rewards and fear of punishment in this life and the next. He believed that the ruling regime must be most skilled at .....
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Margaret Mead
Words: 770 - Pages: 3.... was in high school that she met and later became engaged to a man by the name of Luther Cressman. After attending many high schools because of her family’s travel, she graduated, and was sent to DePauw University at Greencastle Indiana in 1919, where her intention was to major in English. Unfortunately, Margaret was looked down on in DePauw, so she transferred to Barnard College where she studied with Franz Boas and his student Ruth Benedict. It was also at Barnard College that she decided to make anthropology her main field of study. She received her B.A. degree from Barnard in 1923. In September of that same year, Margaret was marr .....
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Henry Ford
Words: 396 - Pages: 2.... Henry introduced his car, the Model T. Ford introduced the first assembly line in 1913. In 1917, the Ford was sued by his stock holders. He opened a plant in River Rouge. By 1926, Henry began loosing sales to General Motors and Chrysler, because his Model T was getting old. His newer cars received moderate sales. Henry’s son, Edsel was named president in 1919, but Henry remained in control. When Edsel died in 1943, Henry resumed presidency. Two years later he handed the presidency over to his grandson, II. died on April 7, 1947. My two affiliations for are: He made cars, and he was wealthy.
It took a lot of work and time for Henry to .....
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Arthur Miller-BIO
Words: 1648 - Pages: 6.... Incident at Vichy, and The Price. Who could forget the film The Misfits and the dramatic special Playing for Time. Death of a Salesman was not Arthur Miller's first success on Broadway. His first plays were Honors at Dawn (1936) and No Villain (1937) which won the University of Michigan Hopwood Awards. His Death of a Salesman won the Pulitzer prize in 1949, which was another proof of his excellent talent. Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953 during the McCarthy period when Americans were accusing each other of Pro-Communist beliefs. Many of Miller's friends were being attacked as Communists and in 1956, Miller himself was brought before th .....
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Bill Gates: Biography
Words: 649 - Pages: 3.... Microsoft's executive vice president for sales and
support. While at Harvard, Gates developed the programming language BASIC for
the first microcomputer -- the MITS Altair.
In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to
Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a
belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office
desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal
computers.
Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to
the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates is actively .....
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