W.E.B Du Bois
.... Du Bois excelled in Latin and
Greek and participated in active discussions about the meaning of Love and Life.
At the age of 15, William began to write weekly columns in the New York Globe
and Springfield Republican.
Attending Harvard was W.E.B.'s longtime dream, however after receiving a
scholarship to Fisk University in Nashville he gladly accepted. Du Bois was
amazed by the South, he felt a home on the campus of Fisk. William had never
been surrounded by fellow blacks, and he began to understand the plight of the
Negro. He enjoyed concerts given by Fisk's Jubilee Singers, giving him faith
about blacks, and how they will h .....
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Woodrow Wilson
.... other was made
with William McCombs.
Both of these alliances profound effect on his future.
A sad incident that happened in this story was when Woodrow suffered his
paralytic stroke.Rumors spread that Woodrow was incapable of handling even the
smallest duties.Wilson kept succeeding though.
There was still many people that believed in him.
If I could choose one thing that Wilson did that I could do it would be a
lawyer.First of all most lawyers make a good living.Another thing is that people
depend on you.Finally it would be challenging for me.
The main thing that Wilson is remembered for is being Presiden .....
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Jesse Owens
.... the one-hundred meter dash,
and the two-hundred meter dash. He loved running when he was young, he said “
...it would always get me where I was going...” He would always run. He then
went on to attend Ohio State University and there he set the new worlds record
for the broad jump at the length of 26 feet and one forth inch. Going on to the
next year he set another worlds record for the one-hundred meter dash at the
time of 10.2 seconds. He then was so good he went on to the 1936 Olympics as a
member of the U S Olympic team, the games were held in Berlin, Germany where
blacks were not accepted as well as whites and because of tha .....
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Jim Abbott
.... that their son loved sports. They hoped that Jim would play soccer, which
didn't require the use of hands, but right from the very beginning, Jim loved
baseball. So, Jim's parents bought him a baseball glove. However, Jim was not
just involved in baseball. He was the top scorer in his school's intramural
basketball league, and played two years of varsity football. Jim's various
athletic exploits resulted in press attention. When Jim got to college, he
picked up right where he had left off in high school. His two main goals were
to get an education and to become the best possible pitcher he could be. At
this point, h .....
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Michael Jordan: The Early Years.
.... in an intense situation. When
Michael reached the ninth grade, he tried out for basketball. Coach Lynch,
Michael's coach, cut Michael which in turn may have made the best player alive
today. Michael then took practicing basketball to another level. He played his
brother Larry whenever he could. Michael never expected what would come in the
near future.
The College Years.
Michael Jordan went to the University of North Carolina as a basketball
recruit. Even though Jordan at 6'5" was a man with potential, he still studied
very hard in an attempt to get a good education, while competing in sports.
Mike wasn't expected to be .....
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Muhammad Ali
.... take
off, Ali was provided with an opportunity to represent his country. At this
point he had fought 103 amateur matches, and had only lost five. Ali went with
the Olympic team to Rome, and he did not only participate, he also won the
precious Olympic gold medal. Ali returned home from Italy, and he felt that he
had made a difference when he won the gold medal for his country. When he got
back to his hometown, Louisville, he thought that he was going to be treated as
a champion, but he was still discriminated by the white society. In anger, Ali
decided to throw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio river, as a protest
against what .....
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Shaquille O'neal
.... a.k.a. Shaq has taught me a lot about
being able to do anything that I want and has been a great influence in mine and
many other peoples lives.
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Stefan Edberg
.... But my trainer convinced me to continue, Stefan says with a smile on his
face. The young Edberg soon became taken by the sport. Soon he played matches
with the boys' team, and outside his home he played fantasy Davis Cup-matches. In
the sommer holidays he almost lived at the tennis court. At the age of ten he
stopped playing his two other sports, football and icehockey, and concentrated
everything on tennis. Soon he won his first tournament, ”Ostkustenspärla,” a
very memorable victory for him.
Star even in school
But a couple of years went by before he ”dared” to go in for tennis full time.
He was in the ninth grade as took the b .....
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The Life Of Babe Ruth
.... work, and right from wrong. Ruth showed a
startling natural talent with a baseball bat, so Brother Matthais tried to round
young George into a complete baseball player by teaching him to pitch and field.
Ruth says that, ”Brother Matthais was the greatest man I ever knew.” Ruth was
taught to make shirts and became quite good at it, he boasted that he could sew
a shirt in less than 15 minutes.
Ruth never had to use this skill because he was discharged from
St.Mary's School on February 27, 1914 to join the Baltimore Orioles baseball
team of the American League. Ruth was paid a salary of $600 to play in the
International League, o .....
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Ty Cobb
.... batting average at .367, a number nearly unreachable even in just one
season by today's standards. Other records he set that have since been broken:
3,034 games played, 4,191 hits, 892 stolen bases, 392 outfield assists, 1,136
extra base hits, and 1,961 runs batted in. He also struck out just 357 times in
11,429 times at bat, a phenomenal achievement. After his career ended, in 1936,
he was the leading vote-getter of the first class of the Baseball Hall of Fame,
beating even Babe Ruth. However, Cobb's career was marred with controversy and
scandals. He was hated by nearly every player in the league, including his own
tea .....
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Andrea Dworkin
.... rape is much
lower per capita than in the United States, where violence in porn is
restricted.” Mcelroy attacks the belief that pornography cause violence,
stating that even if a correlation is present, is does not necessarily mean
there is a causal relationship. (McElroy 102)
Lynne Segal sees in inherent harm in trying to link the two together.
She believes that feminists who try to do so are wasting valuable time that
could be spent on other important issues. “In the end, anti-pornography
campaigns, feminist or not, can only enlist today, as they have invariously
enlisted before, guilt and anxiety around sex, as well .....
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Julius Caesar: Military And Political Strength
.... Marius saw to it that Julius Caesar was appointed flamen
dialis which is a archaic priesthood with no power. Caesar marriage in 84 BC to
Cornelia, the daughter of Marius's associate was a political match. When Lucius
Cornelius Sulla, Marius's enemy and leader of the Optimates, was made dictator
in 82 BC, he issued a list of enemies to be executed. Caesar was not harmed but
he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia. Caesar refused that order and left
Rome he did not return until Sulla's resignation in 78 BC. At the age of 22
Caesar was unable to gain office and went to Rhodes where he studied rhetoric.
In 73 BC he returned .....
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