Alexander Graham Bell
.... also a method of locating icebergs by detecting echoes from them. With his
many inventions (especially the insanely popular and universally applied
telephone), his efforts to educate the deaf, and the founding and financing of
the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (now
called the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf), Alexander Graham
Bell has become a very important historical figure indeed (Berstein 9).
Perhaps a key factor in Bell's successful life was his invigorating
background. His family and his education definitely had a deep influence on his
career. Born in Scotland, h .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson was not a man of many words. Not
known for his speaking abilities, he was shy and seldom spoke in public. When
delegates at the Congress gave long speeches, Thomas Jefferson oftentimes just
listened. John Adams said of Jefferson, "During the whole time I sat with him
in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together."
Instead, this Virginian contributed his pen rather than his voice to the
patriotic cause. Being known throughout the colonies as a fine writer on
political questions, he received the most votes to become the chairman of the
committee elected to write a Declaration of .....
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Thomas Paine
.... noticed the
tension, and the rebellious attitude, that was continually getting larger, after
the Boston Tea Party.
In Paine's opinion, the Colonies had all the right to revolt against a
government that imposed taxes on them, and which did not give them the right of
representation in the Parliament at Westminster. Then he went one massive step
further, he decided there was no reason for the Colonies to stay dependent on
England. He published his opinions in the American independence pamphlet Common
Sense.
In Common Sense Paine states that sooner or later Independence from
England must come, because America had lost touch w .....
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Alexander III
.... father was not present. When Alexander was 16 Philip left him in charge of
Macedon when Philip went to fight the Byzantines.
When Alexander was 20 his father was murdered at the theatre. Some say
that Alexander had a part in the plot to assasinate his father but almost all
agree that his mother Olympias was a key figure in the death of Philip.
Whatever the case may be Alexander took the throne in 336 B.C.
Alexander is known for his conquest into Persia. When there, he
performed hellenization. Hellenization is the attempt to become "Greek."
Alexander helped this process along in the lands that he conquered.
Another of .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... Jefferson and his mom Jane Randolph were members
of the most famous Virginia families. Besides being born rich, Thomas
Jefferson, was well educated. He attended the College of William and Mary and
read law (1762-1767) with George Wythe, the best law teacher of his time in
Virginia. He went into to the bar in 1767 and practiced until 1774, when the
courts were closed by the American Revolution.
He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and
doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton. He was
elected to the House of Burgesses, when he was 25, he served there from 1769 to
1774, p .....
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Tiger Woods: The Making Of A Champion
.... to go". During this whole time Tiger
attended Stanford college and maintained straight A's in his sophomore year. He
had originally planed to graduate from Stanford before going pro, but when Nike
offered him a 42 million dollar deal to wear their clothes for 5 years he couldn'
t resist. This was not the only reason he decided to go pro. After an excellent
finish in the British Open, Tiger felt that he also had enough mental strength
to go pro. His parents are very supportive of him and felt fine with this. Wood'
s first pro win was the Las Vegas invitational. At the Honors Course in Texas
he brought out an enormous crowd. .....
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Tony Kronheiser
.... this statement as a reference
to the famous TV show, so Kornheiser's slang was effective in grabbing the
reader, even if a large majority of them have no idea what the word "nouvelle"
means. Kornheiser uses an array of such adjectives throughout his pieces but he
does not pretend to be above his readers. He fills his work with colloquial
speech such as his references in "It's Now an Off-Road Vehicle" to other
Washington Post columnists such as Michael Wilbon, and to his "Redskins
Bandwagon." (The Redskins Bandwagon was a common phrase used by Washington
Redskins fans when the team won the Superbowl in 1991). Kornheiser assumes .....
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Vincent Van Gogh
.... more
than 700 letters that he wrote to Theo and others.
Van Gogh's early years includes all his work from 1879 through 1885. Between
August 1879 and November 1885 he worked in Etten, The Hague--where he received
some instruction from his cousin, Anton Mauve and in Nuenen, among other places.
In Nuenen he painted The Potato Eaters, his first important picture, which
underscores his lifelong interest in peasant subjects.
During the winter of 1885-86 Van Gogh studied at the academy in Antwerp, where
he was forced to draw from plaster casts and to adopt academic principles that
did not suit him. He moved to Paris, where he live .....
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Walt Whitman
.... war, the
people wouldn't be that way. He doesn't state these beliefs directly, however
it is easy to see through his words. Walt Whitman mentions his dislike of war
throughout his poems. He may do this indirectly but his message is abundantly
clear. He is obviously anti-war and has only negative aspects of it. He hates
the idea of war and shows it in his poetry.
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Wayne Gretzky: Comparing Two Biographies
.... Walter. However, in the book "Gretzky and Taylor", it did
not show anything in Gretzky's childhood. It was started when Gretzky became
the NHL player, a member of Edmonton Oiler's rookie. How he became the hall of
the frame. The description of this book was very interesting. The writer show
the thing through the game. For example the first chapter was talking about
the 1984 Stanley Cup final between the Edmonton Oilers and New York Islander.
"Wayne," he said, "don't worry about not scoring so far. Just make sure
that when you do get a goal for us is a big one. " (Page 15 Gretzky and Taylor
) From this conversation, we could kno .....
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Albert Einstein
.... of teaching led to
his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these differences that caused
Einstein to search for knowledge at home. He began not with science, but with
religion. He avidly studied the Bible seeking truth, but this religious fervor
soon died down when he discovered the intrigue of science and math. To him,
these seemed much more realistic than ancient stories. With this new knowledge
he disliked class even more, and was eventually expelled from Luitpold Gymnasium
being considered a disruptive influence.
Feeling that he could no longer deal with the German mentality, Einstein moved
to Switzerland where he continu .....
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Orson Welles
.... in the Chicago Opera's
production of 'Samson and Delilah', then in a more important role of Butterfly's
love-child Trouble in 'Madame Butterfly'. He also got a temporary job dressed
up as a rabbit at Marshall Fields.
Shortly after Orson's sixth birthday his parent's formally separated,
his father taking off and his mother remaing to pursue her music ambitions in
Chicago. Welles live most of his time with his mother and Dadda Bernstein, but
regularly traveled with his father on holidays.
His health effectively kept him out of school until he was eleven, so he
had acquired a lot of cultural groundings at home with his mother an .....
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