Papers on People and Biographies
Jackie Robinson
Words: 1588 - Pages: 6.... his
junior year to join the Army in 1941 (1). Four years after entering the
Army Jackie was discharged because of a confrentation with another officer
when he would not give up his seat on a military bus (1). He was
discharged as a first Lieutenant (1).
After leaving the Army Jackie wanted to play baseball, his
favorite sport. He tried out for many teams and was drafted by the Kansas
City Monarchs Negro League Team (Hill 1). The Negro League schedule was
very tuff. The team was always on the road playing games. Jackie did not
like the life style of being on the Monarchs (“Robinson, Jackie”). He and
his teammates would h .....
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Maria Mitchell
Words: 931 - Pages: 4.... young ladies where she used to be a student. Following that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the public in the fall of 1836. At the Atheneum she taught herself astronomy by reading books on mathematics and science. At night she regularly studied the sky through her father's telesscope. For her college education even Harvard couldn't have given her a better education than she received at home and at that time astronomy in Americ .....
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Biography Of Bob Marley
Words: 377 - Pages: 2.... and
reggae.) By the late 1960s, influences from United States rhythm and blues,
Jamaican folk rhythm, and dub (rhythmic, improvised verses) were
synthesized into the rock-steady and poppa-top styles, and Marley emerged
as a rising talent in this new genre of Jamaican music. In 1967 he
converted from Christianity to Rastafarianism, a religion that has had a pr
ofound influence on reggae music. The Rastafarian movement of this period,
among other beliefs, recognized Haile Selassie I, king of Ethiopia, as the
living God; praised the spiritual effects of marijuana; and endorsed black
racial superiority. Influenced by the Rastafarian movem .....
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Robert E. Lee
Words: 3595 - Pages: 14.... Civil War. The biography ends in the
latter pages with an account of his work after his military career came to an
end, and finally, with his death after a prolonged period of ill-health, thought
to be stress induced.
Author Ian Hogg is a prolific writer in the field of defense and
military technology. He is a weapons expert, having written many books on all
types of rifles, shotguns and small arms, such as Modern Rifles, Shotguns and
Pistols, and Modern Small Arms. He is an acknowledged expert on infantry
weapons and is thought to be the world's leading expert on this and artillery
strategies. He is a well known author of military hi .....
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Classical Economist - Adam Smith
Words: 933 - Pages: 4.... life of a nation. Smith did not view favorably the motives of
merchants and businessmen. "People of the same trade," he wrote, "seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some
contrivance to raise prices." He suggested, however, that businessmen seeking their own interest are led "as if by an invisible hand" to promote the well-being of society.
Smith's Analysis of Economic Systems
This position is supported in the Wealth of Nations by an elaborate analysis of how economic systems function and develop over time. Smith sought to show how competition in t .....
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O.J. Simpson: Guilty
Words: 510 - Pages: 2.... 122).
Other evidence included a bloody footprint which matched O.J.'s shoes,
blood on O.J.'s Bronco door, on the console, on the interior side of the door, a
bloody footprint in the Bronco, bloody socks in O.J.'s house, O.J.'s injured
finger, blood found at Nicole's condo that matched O.J.'s, and so on(Posner,64).
The defense claimed that the evidence had been planted.
On June 30th, Allen Wattenberg, a knife store owner, testified during
the preliminary hearing that O.J. bought a 14-inch Stiletto knife from his store.
On June 12, O.J.'s limo driver arrived to drive O.J. to the airport and saw a
black man, with the same buil .....
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Albert Einstein
Words: 819 - Pages: 3.... not think very highly of him and would not recommend him for a university job. Einstein worked for two years as a tutor and substitute teacher until in 1902 he found a position as an examiner in the Swiss patent office in Bern. In 1903 he married a fellow classmate at the polytechnic, Mileva Maric. They later divorced after having two sons, and Einstein remarried. Though Albert had written other papers, the one he became most famous for was called, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” which explained a theory that became known as the special theory of relativity. This was Einstein’s third major paper to date, and was published in .....
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The Presidency Of Woodrow Wilson
Words: 622 - Pages: 3.... was a problem with monopolizing; especially J. P.
Morgan was a steal company that had a monopoly. This monopoly was in
violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1902. A Supreme Court ruling
found 5-4 that the Northern Security Company was in violation. Protection
the consumer was a big subject as well The Jungle was a book about the meat
inspections of 1906. The Meat Inspections Act of 1906 was to outlaw
incorrectly labeled meat.
Woodrow Wilson was next in the line of presidents. He was a strong
jawed, leader, and moral man. He did not like any republicans, including
Teddy Roosevelt, and in this light he ridiculed them at ever .....
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Yamamoto
Words: 1892 - Pages: 7.... had no sons, Isoroku was also the future of the clan. Not uncommon in Japan was the fact that men got married for the purpose of producing sons to keep the family name alive. This is exactly what Isoroku did. In 1918, he got married to Reiko, who, ironically, was from Watkamatsu. They had 4 children together, 2 sons, and 2 daughters. It was the standard Japanese family, the mother in charge of the household and of raising the children. He never really loved her, because he had many extramarital affairs, and 2 of the women he "loved". The life and times in Japan right before World War 2 are simply explained: The Imperialist Japanese Army, .....
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Dickinson
Words: 792 - Pages: 3.... expression of the emotions. Which is exatly what wrote about in many of her poems. Poem 214 is a prime example of this.
"I taste a liquor never brewed-
From Tankards scooped in Pearl-
Not all the Frankfort Berries
Yield such and Alcohol!"
"Inebriate of Air-am I-
And Debauchee of Dew-
Reeling-thro endless summer days-
From inns of Molten Blue-"
"When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee
Out of the Foxglove's door-
When Butterflies-renounce their "drams"-
I shall but drink the more!" -214
This Poem by Dickinson demonstrates her universal spirit and beleif that nature is not only a source of comfort but also Gods greatest ref .....
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