John F. Kennedy
.... limousine
through Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck by a gunmen.
Kennedy was rushed to the Parkland Memorial Hospital, were efforts to save
him failed. Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded in September 1964 the
assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald. The state funeral of President John Fitzgerald
Kennedy was watched on television by millions around the world. He was the
youngest president ever elected and the first Roman Catholic. John F. Kennedy
was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Hellen Nellie McClung: A Canadian Feminist
.... collections of speeches, articles and wartime
writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. Two of her most famous books are:
Clearing In The West and The Stream Runs Fast. All this served as a "pulpit"
from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social
transformation. She was convinced that God's intention for creation was a "Fair
Deal" for everyone; and that Canada, particularly the prairie West, was a
perfect place to begin to bring that about. Women's suffrage, temperance and
the ordination of women were keystones in the battle - engaged. In contrast to
contemporary stereotypes, with a wit and compell .....
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John Lennon
.... injured, controlling, perfectionist.
By 1964, The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport. They were greeted with
mass hysteria. Two days later, more than 73 million people watched them perform
live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Four weeks later, The Beatles held the top five
music singles in America at the same time.
John was influenced by many things in 1965-1966 such as psychedelia,
marijuana, and Bob Dylan. Many felt that these years were the best song writing
years of John Lennon's life.
1966---The Beatles had been touring for over four years, and they,
especially John were tired of it. John wanted to spend more time with his wife,
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John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice
.... the position of attorney general under George Washington's
administration, but declined because he wanted to stay with his family and
practice law in his home town of Richmond, Virginia. He was one of three
delegates sent to France by John Adams in 1798. His reasoning for taking the
job in France was partly because it was only a temporary mission and also
because he wanted to be of service to his country, aiding in peaceful relations
with France. When he found out that France expected to be paid, he was outraged
and believed they were soliciting bribery. Although the mission to France was a
failure, he returned to the US a her .....
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John Muir
.... to send an article to the
New York Tribune. To his surprise, the newspaper published "Yosemite Glaciers"
on December 5, 1871, and paid him $200, that was a lot of money back then. On
New Year’s Day in 1872, the same newspaper printed "Yosemite in Winter." John
thought that he might be able to earn his living by writing, what he called "pen
work." He stayed in his cabin for the winter and wrote it. He went through a
couple of earthquakes. He joined his valley neighbors and suggested they smile
a little and clap their hands. He said that Mother Earth is only trotting them
on Earth’s knee to amuse them and make them good! .....
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John Muir: His Achievements/Journeys
.... need much more
energy to travel to South America. He decided to visit Yosemite Valley, where
he would regain his strength. He took up the job as a herder there and began to
explore the area. Then he got a job as guide to the Yosemite. Muir quickly
became an expert on Yosemite. John believed that glaciers had helped in the
formation of the valley. People began to pay attention to his ideas. Some
agreed and some didn't. John spent years studying glaciers and tracking
glaciers in the Sierra Nevada.
In 1874, Jeanne Carr introduced John Muir to Louie Wanda because she
wanted John to leave his lonely life. John first tramped .....
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John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
.... Steinbeck then moved back to
California and lived with his wife at Pacific Grove. In 1934, he wrote for the
San Franciso News, he was assigned to write several articles about the 3,000
migrants flooded in at Kings County. The plight of the migrant workers motivated
him to help and document their struggle. The money he earned from the newspaper
allowed him to travel to their home and see why their reason for leaving and
traveled to California with them, sharing in with their hardships (Steinbeck,
127). Because John Steinbeck was able to travel with the Okies, he was able to
accurately portray them and their struggles.
Each .....
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Jonas Salk
.... was "raised on the verge of poverty." Although
his family was poor, he did do exceptionally well in all the levels of education.
He graduated from Townsend Harris High School in 1929 and then went on to the
College of the City of New York where he received his B.S. in 1934. He finally
earned his M.D. degree in June of 1939 from the New York University College of
Medicine. Jonas Salk was "a somewhat withdrawn and indistinct figure" but was
always reading whatever he could lay his hands on. Dr. Salk went on to intern
for two years at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He then moved on to the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor .....
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Karl Marx
.... your chains."
Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches,
help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion,
according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells working
people to forget about the injustice they meet in their lives and to think
instead of how wonderful it will in the after- life when they go to heaven.
Marx, with his colleague, Engels, spread his ideas in two famous
books, Capital' and 'The Communist Manifesto'.
In the early years of the twentieth century, Russia was ready for the
ide Marx. The Russian people were extremely discontented with their ruler,
Tsar Nic .....
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King Henry VIII
.... on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to
Rome were broken. Appeals to the pope's court were forbidden, all payments
to Rome were stopped, and the pope's authority in England was abolished. In
1534 the Act of Supremacy declared Henry himself to be Supreme Head of the
Church of England, and anyone who denied this title was guilty of an act of
treason. Some changes were also made in the church services, the Bible was
translat .....
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Knute Rockne - Coach And Legend Of Notre Dame
.... other sports. His school
attendance slipped and his grades became mediocre. Persistence paid off, and
after 3 years on the scrubs, Knute finally made it to the starting football team.
After this successful senior football season, it was time for him to leave high
school. It was a wonder that he got into Notre Dame with his high school record.
At the age of 22, Rockne decided that he wanted to fulfill a dream. That
dream was to become a pharmacist and to eventually own his own drug store. Two
of Knute's friends gained acceptance to a small college in South Bend, Indiana
called Notre Dame. Knute decided to try to get into t .....
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