Alexander The Great
.... battle that gave Alexander insight into the eyes of past heroes. His teacher, Aristotle, made him an amazing strategist. This later helped him immensely when faced with insurmountable odds.
Aristotle also showed him that leaders must have compassion and understanding. Alexander applied this with his troops. He used the theme, might tempered by mercy, to win over his troops morale and lead them into victory. Early on in his life, Alexander made a life long bond. It was with a horse named Bucephalus. They rode into every battle Alexander ever faced together. Alexanders applications of knowledge on the battlefield were what made .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
.... childhood sweetheart Edith Kermit Carow. Theodore and Edith had four sons and one daughter. The energetic young Roosevelts would become the liveliest group of children to live in the White House. In 1887, President William McKinley named Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In this office, Roosevelt worked behind the scenes for war against Spain, which was struggling to suppress an independence movement in Cuba. He was animated both by strategic considerations and by the conviction that “superior” nations had the rights and duty to dominate “inferior” ones in the interest in civilizations. In his address he declared: .....
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Jordan Does It All
.... Laney High School in Wilmington. Now Michael can be found living in Highland Park with his family and dog. He has a wife, Juanita, and has three children; Jeffrey; Marcus; and Jasmine (Michael Jordan’s, 1999).
It doesn’t hurt Jordan’s image being the greatest basketball player to ever play the game (Costas, 1999). Not only is he a great basketball player, but he is a great all around athlete. Jordan can do more than just play basketball. He can play baseball at the higher level too. He is not as good in baseball as in basketball, but better than most people could ever be. Jordan is also a pretty good golfer. Golfing is .....
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Malcolm Little
.... At the age of fourteen he moved to Boston to live with his sister, Ella. He was impressed by the blacks on the street, the clothes they wore, how proud they were, and the city of Boston it self. He met a man named Shorty who helped him learn the ropes of the street life and to get a new image. Shorty also got Malcolm a shoe shining job. Malcolm was basically living on the streets, and this is where he got the nick name Detroit Red. In his late teen years he was arrested for burglary. A white man for the same crime would have served two years in jail at the most, but Malcolm received eight to ten years of hard labor.
While in jai .....
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Madam Walker's Life And Her Cosmetic Products
.... qualify that the company must always be headed by women, as it is today Madam Walker's business thrived even after her death in 1919. Pictured above are Walker Beauty School gradates and official in St. Louis, MO, in the 1930s Madam Walker took her products door-to-door in a brilliant marketing strategy that made her a millionaire in 7 short years.
An ad for Madam Walker's products In 1917, she was denied an appointment with President Woodrow Wilson about making lynching a Federal crime. She became the largest donor at that time to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) with a gift of $5,000. C .....
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Freud Vs. Jung
.... believed in more sex because of the sin and lack of inner peace from his environment, and religion. Jung felt his inner peace and happy state of mind from his environment, which affected his thinking and view to hopeful and contented view of life (6). In a study done by the U.C.S.C it shows the dreams which Freud and Jung both recorded and it compares the two. Freud had more dreams of friends than Jung did, which suggest Jung had more dreams of family than Freud did. Freud had less failure in his dreams than Jung did, and when he was involved in striving situations; he was far above the male norm in ending up successful. On .....
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Michelangelo
.... hands of his teacher caught the eye of Lorezno Medici the Magnificent, the power in Florence. Lorenzo invited Michelangelo to sculpt for him. This visit allowed Michelangelo to meet many people who immersed in him in the principles of humanism.
During his visit, Michelangelo sculpted the Madonna of the Stairs and the Battle of the Centaurs. After Lorenzo, his patron, died in 1492, Michelangelo left Florence. When he returned to his home, he studied the anatomy of the human body by dissecting humans. This followed the religious practices of Sarenetto, who was eventually burned at the steak. Soon after, Michelangelo created the S .....
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Nostradamus's Prophecies
.... period. It was then that he began to treat victims of the plague in communities of southern France. “Nostradamus used inventive methods of treatment, and his success in curing extremely ill patients earned him a reputation as a specially gifted healer” (Encarta ‘97 CD-ROM). After traveling for almost four years helping the sufferers of the Plague, he returned to Avignon and won fame.
In 1532, he got his Doctorate and became a Professor at the Montpellier University, but resigned within the same year. He then moved to Agen, in this city he got married and had a son and daughter. His life then seemed complete until an outb .....
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The Good Times Of Clark Gable
.... Gable tended to play opposite virtually every MGM female star- Greta Carbo, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Myrna Loy; in such films as No Man of Her Own (1932), Red Dust (1932), Strange Interlude (1932), Dancing Lady (1933) and Manhattan Melodrama (1934). He was loaned to Columbia Pictures to star opposite Claudette Colberte in the romantic comedy It Happened One Night (1934), the performance that won his only Academy Award. A string of successful roles followed in films as Call of the Wild (1935), China Seas (1935), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), San Francisco (1936), Saratoga (1937) and Idiot’s Deli .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
.... 1,1898 him and his men charged up Kettle Hill and defeated the Cubans. He and the Rough Riders became nationally famous.
Roosevelt also helped out with labor unions. In 1902 members of the United Mine Workers went on strike. Coal started to became low and some hospitals and schools were beginning to run out of fuel. Roosevelt went in and suggested they settle in arbitration's. The miners agreed but mine owners didn’t agree. At Roosevelt’s request JP Morgan was able to reach a compromise with other mine owners. The miners ended up getting a pay raise.
Teddy Roosevelt made great achievements in conservation. He put aside a .....
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The Life Of Georgia O'Keefe
.... Normal College in 1916-1917, and I taught summers at the University of Virginia. Despite my studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York, the University of Virginia, and Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, I was never able to remain at one institution long enough to receive an academic degree.
My career began on April 3, 1917 with the opening of my first solo show, sponsored by Alfred Stieglitz, who I later married in December 1924. My work displayed bold originality, unlike the work of any American artist of that time. My shows were controversial because my work was seen as in .....
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The Bill Clinton Story
.... trust, or profit under the United States." (Corwin, 3) A person convicted in an impeachment, however, is subject to further "indictment, trial, judgement, and punishment according to Law." Impeachment originated in England, where the House of Commons would present articles of impeachment to the House of Lords, which then tried the case (internet, 2)
Since the adoption of the Constitution, only one president, Andrew Jackson (1868), has been brought to trial in the Senate on charges voted by the House. The Senate failed by one vote to convict Johnson. In 1974 the House Judiciary Committee voted the three charges of impeachment a .....
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