Louis Armstrong’s Influential Career
.... in the band the Brown Skinned Babies. Kid Ory, leader of the band, once said that after Louis joined them he, “…improved so fast it was amazing. He had a wonderful ear and a wonderful memory. All you had to do was hum or whistle a new tune to him and he’d know it right away” (Boujut 21). At the end of 1918 Armstrong married Daisy Parker, a prostitute he had met at a dance hall that he played on Saturday nights. The marriage ended only four years later due to her beating him regularly (Bergreen 87).
Louis Armstrong was hired in May of 1919 to play on a riverboat that traveled the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis. Ar .....
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The Presidency Of Gerald Rudolph Ford
.... operations officer, including two years aboard the aircraft carrier USS Monterey. He was discharged as a lieutenant commander. After practicing law again, Ford ran for congress in 1948 with the support of Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Mich.). he defeated an isolationist republican, Rep. Bartel J. Jonkman, in the primary and then defeated the democratic candidate in the general election.
Ford first received national attention when he was elected chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1963. His victory was considered the first step in rejuvenating the “Old Guard” image of the congressional Republicans. Two years late .....
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Benedict Arnold
.... Massachusetts. On September 19th, they sailed for the Kennebec River from Newburyport on eleven schooners, and on the twentieth, they camped on Swan Island in Merrymeeting Bay. Some of the men, along with the supplies, continued up the Kennebec in a bateaux, and the rest continued along on foot (Encarta).
By September 23rd, they had arrived at Fort Western. They continued marching to Fort Halifax in Winslow, where today there is a rock in Lithgow Street, marking where they stopped. Continuing, they reached Ticonic Falls in Waterville, and on October 3rd reached Skowhegan Falls. They went on to Caruntunk Falls in Solon on Oct .....
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Life Of Tupac Shakur
.... of Bishop. On September 22nd, Vice President Dan Quayle accused that Tupac's 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society."
Next year on February 1, 1993 Tupac came out with another album. Once it was released it went platinum. It went platinum on April 19, 1995 along with 2Pacalypse Now but that went gold only.
On July 23, 1993 Tupac makes his second movie appearance on John Singleton's Poetic Justice. Just before filming the movie Janet makes 2Pac take an HIV test before kissing him in any scenes.
On Halloween of 93' 2Pac gets arrested for shooting two-off duty police officers from Atalanta. 2Pac said that he was harassed .....
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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X Comparison
.... attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday, achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Malcolm X, however, promoted nationalist and separatist doctrines. For most of his life, he believed that only through revolution and force could blacks attain their rightful place in society. Bo .....
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Madonna
.... a mentor in dance instructor Christopher Flynn, who introduced her to the world of spunkiness and sophistication at Detroit gay clubs. Madonna’s wild sexuality made her fly sky high! She went on dates with guys, had her first rape encounter at 14 and toyed with the idea of lesbianism and practiced mutual things with her female classmate. Having excellent academic performance in addition to her dancing skills, Madonna graduated early in 1976 with a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan, where she studied poetry and dance. There, she had her first acquaintance with Steven Bray. Bray was a black drummer in an R .....
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Ernest Hemingway: His Life And His Stories
.... and damnation"
Grace hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hater dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always.
Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was all right until .....
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Antoine Lavoisier
.... “ If, by the term elements, we mean to express the simple and indivisible molecules that compose bodies, it is probable that we know nothing about them; but if, on the contrary, we express by the term elements or principles of bodies the idea of the last point reached by analysis, all substances that we have no yet been able to decompose by any means are elements to us.” His proposed oxygen theory discredited the phlogiston theory and described oxygen’s role in respiration.
Antoine Lavoisier lived a monumental life and in his attempt to introduce reforms in the French monetary and taxation system and in farming methods, as one o .....
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The Impact Of Frederick Douglass
.... Interactive
Deluxe 1)
At the age of 13 he read “The Colombian Orator”, a book
of speeches denouncing slavery and oppression deepened his
hatred of slavery.
“In 1833 Frederick was sent to work for Auld's brother,
Thomas, at a plantation near St. Michael's, Md. Frederick's
pride angered his new master, who placed him in the hands of
a "slave breaker" in an effort to "tame" him. One day the
two fought, and Frederick emerged victorious. Sometime
later he wrote that the fight had been a turning point in
his life. “I was nothing before--I was a man now."
(Compton’s Interactive Deluxe 1)
On September 3, 1838, Frederick escap .....
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The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
.... I paid him seventy-five dollars.
After leaving the army, I drafted a poem dubbed “Al Aaraaf.” Carey, Lea and Carey decided that they would publish it if Allan gave his consent and guaranteed that if it was not a success that he would pay them back. He did not want to do this however, so they would not publish it.
I wanted to attend West Point and as I was waiting to get in I concentrated on my poetry. I sent some of my poems to a very prominent critic and he regarded them as good works of literature.
After that, I had Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, published. I was only twenty-one and most of these poems had bee .....
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live”
.... term of legal work turned into twenty-one years to proclaim and work for Indian rights.
He first started a newspaper called “Indian Opinion”, and he also led campaigns boosting Indian Rights. A note worthy fact for Gandhi was that when he felt justice was on the British side, he would work for them by being a paramedic in the Boer War (1899-1902) and the Zulu Rebellion (1906) where he received decorations. (World Book, 25).
Unfortunately, not everybody was a follower of Mohandas Gandhi. Tragically on January 13, 1948 at the age of 78 Gandhi was assassinated by an Indian who was opposed to and resented Gandhi’s program of t .....
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Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer
.... and in 1827 published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, though he never presented a lecture. He founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 and in 1832 he published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery". 1833 marked the beginning of his work on the Analytical Engine. In 1834 he founded the Statistical Society of London. Thirty years later, in 1864 Babbage published “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher” and then in 1871 he died in London.
During his life, Charles Babbage also invented the cowcatcher, dynamom .....
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