Louis Armstrong
.... Hot Five, Six, & Seven) through the thirties and forties, his fame only hampered by the fact that the best venues were generally reserved for white musicians.
In his later years, Armstrong remained a good trumpet player. As his health declined, he began to rely more upon his singing than his trumpet playing. He became known to a generation as a singer and an entertainer rather than as a trumpet player.Armstrong defined jazz in many ways, helped create scat, tactfully dealt with racism, and has influenced many musicians.
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Martin Luther King Jr
.... But later in 1963 he was put into jail during a successful campaign to achieve the desegregation of many public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama.
Martin later became the youngest person ever to get the Nobel peace prize. In 1965 Martin Luther king Jr. led a drive to register black voters in Selma, Alabama. But to get this drive protesters did a five-day march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
He combined his civil right compains with a strong hand against the Vietnam war because he believed that the money and effort which was spent on the war could have been used to beat the discrimination against African Americans. W .....
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Gertrude Stein
.... thoughts” (Gombar 42), was often the way Gertrude wrote many of her literary pieces.
In 1897, she was denied her bachelor’s degree, but the next year, she graduated magna cum laude with the class of 1898. Because of high recommendations from James and her other professors, she was granted admission to Johns Hopkins Medical School, where her brother was also studying. They lived together in Baltimore, and Leo would gather friends on the weekends for their infamous salons. Leo, from his familiar post leaning against the bookcase, would direct discussions that lasted five to six hours. Life was pleasant in their ho .....
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Bill Bradley
.... time of technological change. Bill will enroll an additional 400,000 children in the Head Start program, helping nearly every eligible child to enter school prepared to succeed. He will create Teach to Reach partnerships to place 60,000 new, well-trained teachers each year into low-income urban and rural school districts. Bill will invest in community colleges to improve their technology infrastructure to provide students and working adults with training and new skills, in partnership with regional businesses and local high schools. Finally Bradley ensures that the 2.2 million new teachers of our country in the next decade ar .....
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Life Of Charles Robert Darwin
.... Erasmus was already attending school. The school was very strict, and Charles found the lessons mindless and boring. No Science was taught, and perhaps the only thing he felt joy in was famous literature. He read all the great works of Shakespeare, enjoying them immensely.
When Charles was 16 he was sent off to Edinburgh University in Scotland. Like the rest of the men in his family, his family he was to become a doctor. Erasmus attended there as well. He also was to be doctor. Unlike his younger brother, he liked the idea. Charles and Erasmus found a place to stay together in Edinburgh. Charles and his brother were .....
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Alexander Hamilton
.... in restoring the credit of the United States. His vision of a centralized economy provided the basic model for a system that has survived to the present day. Yet, in the implementation of his political ideas, Hamilton encountered many attacks against his character and beliefs.
I believe that Hamilton was a failure as a politician because he had many political ideas that were irrational and caused controversy amongst groups of people. He was against democracy and he characterized the public as selfish, unreasonable, untrustworthy, and prone to corruption. Hamilton wanted a strong centralized government to be able to keep order a .....
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George Mason's Views
.... of all backgrounds, culture, races, and religions to start fresh in a society granting freedoms and rights not available in other countries. The question from colonial times was the origin of those rights. Were rights able to be granted from person to person? Or were those rights inherited based upon the culture the given person is born or assimilated into?
Given George Mason’s views, a person is both his or her own individual authority and a product of his or her environment. When born, those rights, inalienable rights they have come to be called, should be granted to a person. This is not always the case. In certain cult .....
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The Works Of William Faulkner
.... Faulkner’s use of third person as narrator James Ferguson stated that Faulkner learned “that he could achieve a variety of different effects through manipulation of authorial voice”(97 Ferguson). Faulkner desired the reader to dislike Emily, and therefore he created a narration that disliked Emily. This limitation of the third person is one of several of Faulkner's devices to steer the imagination of his readers.
One of Faulkner’s most famous works is The Sound and the Fury. This novel demonstrates one of Faulkner’s major subthemes, which is women who have been wronged. Caddy is a woman who has lost her place in society .....
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Emperor Hadrian Of Rome
.... of marriage. Hadrian became emperor in 117a.d. This occurred when Trajan, Hadrian's deceased father's cousin and guardian, made Hadrian his successor on his deathbed. "Certainly Hadrian's relationship with the Senate was not a good one(Coleman-Norton 674)." At the beginning of his reign, he put four former consuls to death for conspiracy. This created negative personal relations between Hadrian and the Senate; however, "Hadrian generally treated the Senate with the utmost respect(Coleman-Norton 674)." Throughout the years 120-133, he traveled eminsly. He visited Britain, Spain, eastern provinces, and even Africa. Towns .....
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Robert Kennedy
.... in 1952 and for the presidency in 1960.Kennedy wrote The Enemy Within (1960), Just Friends and Brave Enemies (1962), To Seek a Never World (1967), and Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969)
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Virginia Law School. His son Joesph Kennedy of Massachusetts became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1987.
June 6th, 1968 after making a speech at the Ambassdor Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy made his way through a kitchen pantry. Out of nowhere, Sirhan Sirhan jumped out and fired 4 shots at Kennedy. He w .....
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
.... unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a sponge expert, Lamarckian evolutionist, a democrat and materialist, who trained Darwin in French-style invertebrate anatomy. At student clubs, where Darwin reported his observations, he saw fiery radicals censored for calling the mind a product of a material brain, and giving animals all of the human mental faculties. So, besides training in field geology and natural history that would serve him well, Darwin was taught the social consequences of subversive science.
His father wanted him in a profession, and Darwin was back again to conventional Anglicanism, afte .....
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Life Of John F Kennedy
.... Vol. 16, page362.” He had no idea how much of an important and influential life he was going to lead.
Kennedy’s political career began in 1946 when he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and then in 1952 to a seat in the Senate. During his political career he was a strong opponent of Communism. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. She was beautiful, cultured, refined, the perfect wife for the young politician and shared the same views as he.
In 1960 John Kennedy made a successful bid for the Presidency. He was elected over Richard Nixon by a small margin of only 119,450 votes out .....
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