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Napoleon
Words: 2573 - Pages: 10.... fled to France with his family. He was assigned, as captain, to an
army besieging Toulon, a naval base that was aided by a British fleet, while in
revolt against the republic. It was here that Napoleone Buonaperte officially
changed his name to Napoleon Bonaparte, feeling that it looked "more French".
It was here too that Napoleon replaced a wounded artillery general, and seized
ground where his guns could drive the British fleet from the harbor, and Toulon
fell. As a result of his accomplishments, Bonapatre was promoted to brigadier
general at the age of 24. In 1795, he saved the revolutionary government by
dispersing an insurge .....
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Tiger Woods: The Making Of A Champion
Words: 502 - Pages: 2.... days. Tiger won the 1991, 1992, and 1993 U.S
Junior Amateur championships. When winning his third he brought out a record
attendance of over 15,000 spectators. Woods was also the first African-
American to win the U.S Juniors. He quotes " when I am up at the tee all I
think about is where I want my ball to go". During this whole time Tiger
attended Stanford college and maintained straight A's in his sophomore year. He
had originally planed to graduate from Stanford before going pro, but when Nike
offered him a 42 million dollar deal to wear their clothes for 5 years he couldn'
t resist. This was not the only reason he decided .....
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Andy Worhal
Words: 1957 - Pages: 8.... intermingle with anyone at all who might be able to assist him in the art world. His portfolio secure in a brown paper bag, Warhol introduced himself and showed his work to anyone that could help him out. Eventually, he got a job with Glamour magazine, doing illustrations for an article called "Success is a Job in New York," along with doing a spread showing women’s shoes. Proving his reliability and skills, he acquired other such jobs, illustrating adds for Harpers Bazaar, Millers Shoes, contributing to other large corporate image-building campaigns, doing designs for the Upjohn Company, the National Broadcasting Company and ot .....
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Warren G. Harding
Words: 553 - Pages: 3.... election as a mandate to stay out of the League of Nations.
Harding, born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, became the publisher of a newspaper. He married a divorce, Mrs. Florence Kling De Wolfe. He was a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, a director of almost every important business, and a leader in fraternal organizations and charitable enterprises.
He organized the Citizen's Cornet Band, available for both Republican and Democratic rallies; "I played every instrument but the slide trombone and the E-flat cornet," he once remarked.
Harding's undeviating Republicanism and vibrant speaking voice, plus his willingness to let the mach .....
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The Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci
Words: 1433 - Pages: 6.... While living with his
father, he was receiving the best education he could get and his talents
and intelligence started to show at a very early age.
In 1469, by the age of 17, his father sent him to study in the
workshop of a well-known Italian Renaissance master named Andrea del
Verrocchio. He remained there until 1476 and Leonardo had picked up a
variety of skills. He spent several years there practicing a variety of
things, drafting engineering, architecture, and building, but most of all
he study painting and drawing. The education Leonardo received from
Verrocchio was very practical. For his first project, Leonard .....
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Benjamin Harrison
Words: 451 - Pages: 2.... to his work at the Supreme Court and his law practice. He also took over again his large Bible class in the Presbyterian church, where his wife taught Sunday school.
In 1876 Harrison ran for governor of Indiana. The Democrats called him "cold as an iceberg" and nicknamed him Kid-Glove Harrison. The Democratic candidate, nicknamed Blue Jeans, won the election.
Four years later the Indiana legislature elected Harrison to the United States Senate. He served from 1881 to 1887 and won the good will of veterans by supporting the many private pension bills that came to him.
Great was the confusion in the Republican nominat .....
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Martin Luther King
Words: 512 - Pages: 2.... will come when King's dream is recognized. Dr. King's dream is "…a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers." In his speech Dr. King hopes to persuade the "Great America" to abolish all racial prejudice.
Dr. King uses many different but effective methods to convince the reader of his point. King uses the words from an old Negro spiritual, the famous line, "Free at last! free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" (505) This phrase serves as an exclamation point on an emotional speech that is sure to deeply m .....
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Michael Jordan
Words: 371 - Pages: 2.... his first
season , Leading the NBA in the 1984-85 season in points scored . He
also was named rookie of the year and started in the All Star game .
In the 1986-87 season Jordan became the second player
ever to score 3000 points in one season . In the following six
seasons he led the NBA in scoring averaging more than 30 points per
game . Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to their first NBA championship
tittle in 1991, and did it again in 1992 and in 1993 . Jordan
retired from basketball in 1994 to play baseball . He only played for
about one year but he didn .....
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Colin Powell
Words: 1137 - Pages: 5.... but he was over looked by his parents because his sister, Marilyn Powell, always did better. He attended Morris High School in 1950. He was good in high school; he never got into any fights or any sort of trouble. He completed High school in 1954 (source 1, page 29, 30, 32). Powell applied to two colleges City College of New York (CCNY) and New York University (NYU). Both accepted him but he went to CCNY because it only ten dollars a semester as opposed to seven hundred and fifty dollars a semester at NYU. Powell majored in Engendering. He finished college in 1958 (source 1 pages 32, 36). While in college Powell joined the Recruit Officer .....
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Virginia Woolf
Words: 1165 - Pages: 5.... out with this completely unconventional opening sentence she was already showing that the rules could be broken.
Woolf starts her essay by explaining to her audience what she could have talked about and what other things her topic might mean, she is letting the audience be drawn in to her consciousness. Woolf wants them to know why she decided to use this topic instead of some less meaningful one, that may have made for a good speech but would not have really covered the full scope of the problem. Woolf said:
They just might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontes and a sk .....
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