Papers on People and Biographies
Martin Luther King Jr.
Words: 645 - Pages: 3.... communicated efficiently and peacefully with the opposition. King realized that all around him there was hostility, so he counteracted this with an anti-violence approach. He had plenty of commitment to his cause and showed unquestioned patience at all times, even going to jail and undergoing racial abuse to further his beliefs.
Martin Luther King, Jr. had plenty of authority, power and efficiency to get his ideas across to millions, as is evident in The March on Washington. A good leader is able to induce respect, loyalty, and cooperation from others, and King was able to do all of those things. King’s followers listened obediently to .....
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Benito Mussolini: Biography
Words: 137 - Pages: 1.... Mussolini rise to power In tribute to the
postwar Milan, Mussolini and other war vetrines founded Fasci di
Combattimeto in March 1919. The Nationalistc,antilieral, and antisocialist
movement attracted the lower and middle-class support and took its name
from the faces, an ancent Roman symble of Roman disciplen. When the Fascist
thretend to march on King Victor Emmanuel 3rd he invited Mussolini to a
coalition goverment. By this time the fascist leader transoformed the
country in to a single-party totalitarian regime. The party controlled
representing groups differnt sectors of the ecomeny. The systome prevented
captialism and social sevic .....
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Newton And Prisms
Words: 778 - Pages: 3.... was intrigued by light and was curious about its composition. When trying to explain how colors occur, he came to the theory that light is a heterogeneous mixture of different colored light rays. He theorized that each ray was a different color, and that reflections and refractions cause colors to appear through the separation of the "white" light. To demonstrate and prove his theory, Newton used a prism.
A prism is a type of lens with sharp angled edges that are able to separate light. Prisms can be very simple boxes or triangles or prisms can be in complex shapes like diamonds. The prism's ability to bend visible light into the dif .....
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John F. Kennedy
Words: 397 - Pages: 2.... except for America's weak stand against communist's. later Kennedy ran for a seat in the Senate and won. During a stint with sickness Kennedy wrote a Politzer price winning book about military heroes.
In 1960 Kennedy ran for president against Nixon, and because Kennedy looked good on TV he won the vote. But by less then 115,000 popular votes.
For Kennedy the most important part of his presidency came on October 16, 1960 when he found out about the Russian missiles being moved into Cuba. Some of the missiles that they were moving in were, MRBMs, which are medium range ballistic missiles, and IRBMs which are intermediate range missiles. Th .....
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Anna Knight
Words: 1249 - Pages: 5.... formally educated. This was also the case for . She did not go to school as a child, and was not taught to read or write. However, through playing with the young white children in her neighborhood, she was able to convince them to teach her to read and write. She learned to write by copying words in the sand. Like a good neighbor, Anna taught the children younger than her the things she had learned. In this way, she was teacher even as a young child.
Anna was introduced to the Adventist Church in a very unconventional way. Usually the case with new converts is that they have friends that bring them to church, or maybe even complete st .....
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Elizabeth Arden
Words: 371 - Pages: 2.... spent much of her time perfecting current products and creating new and innovative products. Her downfalls though were her violent temper, she was a very demanding and difficult employer who easily blew up at hr employees and was often too proud and arrogant to apologize. In 1904, Arden began her career in cosmetics working at the Eleanor Adair shop. Later in 1909, she opened her own shop and facial cream line. In 1914, at a time when women scorned make-up and women who did wear it were gossiped about terribly, Arden opened a new cosmetic line. Where many others had failed in the past, her products and advertising changed the way women vi .....
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Thomas Alva Edison
Words: 557 - Pages: 3.... by her continuous support of his interests.
Edison’s personal choices greatly lead him to opportunities for new inventions. He worked at a railroad station when he was only twelve years old. That is where he was lead to the invention of both the Stock printer and the telegraph transmitter, as well as many other patents dealing with telegraphs such as the Automatic Telegraph, Duplex Telegraphs, Quadruplex Telegraph Repeater, Telephonic Telegraphs, and Acoustic Telegraphs.
When he was working at the train station a choice that he had no idea would lead to his interest in telegraphs came about. The station operator’s son had fallen on the .....
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The Life Of Walt Disney
Words: 1332 - Pages: 5.... art classes at the Chicago
Academy of Fine Arts.3 When he was sixteen he lied about his age to join
the American Red Cross during World War I.
Walt Disney had difficulty holding a steady job. His father
advised him to take a job at the Chicago jelly factory. But, he
determinedly replied," I want to be an artist."4 His first endeavor was
the Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small
studio and designed ads for local businesses. They payed the rent of the
studio in artwork.5 In April of 1920, Disney took a better paying job at
the Kansas City Film Ad company. Ub also took a position at the company.6
Later Wa .....
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Jacques Louis David
Words: 2109 - Pages: 8.... a fierce discipline on the expression of sentiment in his work. This inhibition resulted in a distinct coldness and rationalism of approach.
David's reputation was made by the Salon of 1784. In that year he produced his first masterwork, The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre). This work and his celebrated Death of Socrates (1787; Metropolitan Mus.) as well as Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789; Louvre) were themes appropriate to the political climate of the time. They secured for David vast popularity and success. David was admitted to the Académie royale in 1780 and worked as court painter to the king.
As a powerful .....
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Tupac Shakur
Words: 673 - Pages: 3.... locations and had just had her bail revoked. In Incan dialect, his name Tupac Amaru means "shining serpent" and Shakur is Arabic for "thankful to God." For most of his childhood his crack-addicted mother shuffled Tupac between the ghettos of Harlem and the Bronx. Young Tupac began his performance career with the 127th Street Ensemble and then enrolled Baltimore School for the Arts where he was educated in ballet and acting. Tupac was forced to drop out of the school and move to California where his criminal career began. Tupac began selling drugs and had several altercations with the law including several shootin .....
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