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Terry Fox
Words: 1236 - Pages: 5.... to receive the schools highest athletic award.
Terry knew that aches and pains are common in athlete’s lives. At the end of his first year of university there was a new pain in his knee. One morning Terry woke up to see that he could no longer stand up. A week later Terry found out that it was not just an ache he had a malignant tumor; his leg would have to be cut off six inches above the knee. Terry’s doctor told him that he had a chance of living but the odds were fifty to seventy percent. He also said that he should be glad it happened now fore just 2 years ago the chance of living was fifteen percent. The night before his operati .....
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Howard Hughes
Words: 956 - Pages: 4.... His uncle was Hollywood writer Rupert Hughes. Howard took his first airplane ride when he was fourteen years old.
attended private elementary and high school in California and Massachusetts. He attended the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas. He also attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools.
His father’s great fortune left Howard very wealthy. After his father’s death he was left an estate worth $871,000, and a patent for a drill. The drill was for oil drilling
which made much money. In 1925 Howard got married to Ella Rice, he was twe .....
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All Good Things
Words: 1176 - Pages: 5.... when Chuck blurted out, "Mark is talking again." I hadn't asked any of the students to help me watch Mark, but since I had stated the punishment in front of the class, I had to act on it.
I remember the scene as if it had occurred this morning. I walked to my desk, very deliberately opened by drawer and took out a roll of masking tape. Without saying a word, I proceeded to Mark's desk, tore off two pieces of tape and made a big X with them over his mouth. I then returned to the front of the room.
As I glanced at Mark to see how he was doing, he winked at me. That did it!! I started laughing. The class cheered as I walked ba .....
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Eliot Ness
Words: 2931 - Pages: 11.... type of American family. His parents, Peter and Emma Ness, were Norwegian immigrants who had earned a comfortable middle class life for their family by very hard work and practical living. Over the years, Peter had made his wholesale bakery into a thriving business. It is supposed that Ness gained his father’s work-aholic traits that drove him so hard later in life. Eliot was the youngest of the five Ness children. There was a huge age difference between Eliot and his siblings. His brother whom was closest to Eliot in age was none the less thirteen years older. Hence Eliot received a great
deal of individual attention from his paren .....
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Lockes Influences On Education
Words: 616 - Pages: 3.... (On Ideas as the Materials of All Our Knowledge)
Locke considers the new mind as white paper or wax. It is to be moulded and formed as one pleases. It is up to the teacher to insure that it is formed the correct way and that there is no inate knowledge. This is incorporated into education the grade system. Children start out in kindergarten or pre-school with a blank slate; we start teaching the very basics as if they know nothing. The more information and experience they gather, the further they move along the grade continuum.
Locke was considered the founder of British empiricist. He believed that all knowledge comes to us t .....
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Sir Thomas More
Words: 673 - Pages: 3.... In their meeting the topic of the Kings re-marriage is what the Cardinal wanted to talk to More about, When Woolsey says "...that thing out there is at least fertile, Thomas". More shows that he is against the divorce by saying "But she's not his wife". More again shows his beliefs that a dispensation was given so that Henry could marry Catherine and Thomas knows that the Pope will not give a dispensation on a dispensation. More believes that the Pope should make the decision about the divorce. And More chooses to go against the divorce until the pope is approached.
Thomas More chooses not to sign the oath to the Act of Succ .....
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Hitler's Life
Words: 4214 - Pages: 16.... Civil Services. He was used to giving and taking orders and liked his children to do the same. The children had many chores on their small farm outside Linz, Austria.
Adolf’s mother, Klara, was more attending to Edmund and soon Paula than to Adolf. The family now consisted of Edmund, Paula, Adolf and an older half brother Alois Jr., a half sister Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm.
The oldest, Alois Jr., 13, spent much of his time getting beat and listening to his fathers’ harsh words. At age 14 he ran away, never seeing his father again. That put Adolf , the next olde .....
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Nelson Mandela
Words: 417 - Pages: 2.... Mandela led the NAC's para military wing known as
Umkhonto we Sizwe which translate to "Spear of the Nation." He was arrested in
August of 1962, sentenced to five years in prison and while incarcerated was
again convicted of sabotage and treason and was sentenced to life imprisonment
in june, 1964 at the famous Rivonia Trial. During his twenty-seven years in
prison, Nelson Mandela became a symbol of resistance to the white-dominated
country of South Africa throughout the world. After complex negotiation,
Mandela was finally released from prison by President F.W. deKlerk in February,
1990, after lifting the long ban on the ANC. .....
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Christopher Columbus
Words: 1227 - Pages: 5.... and those who followed him, recognized the significance of the New World; in this sense they certainly deserve credit for having "discovered" America.
Over five hundred years ago he landed in the Americas and now we are starting to question weather or not he should be given credit for discovering America. This doesn’t seem fare. After so many years without controversy it’s just been recently that we have started to question the lagitamitity of his discovery. What brought on this sudden change? Perhaps is was the coming of the five hundred year celebration of our country that brought this on, or maybe no .....
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