Alexander Graham Bell
.... resembled that
of a human voice. Next, Alexander discovered that a wire vibrated by speech
when placed in a conducting liquid, like mercury and would produce a current.
Basically speech could be transmitted by wire. On March 10,1876 Alexander and
Watson were working on the machine when Alexander knocked over battery acid. He
shouted, "Mr. Watson, come here. I need you!" and Watson working in the
receiver room heard his voice coming through the wire.
Later, the Bell Company was formed, which is now AT&T. Before Alexander died
in 1922, he had invented an electric probe for locating metal objects in bodies,
and the artificial .....
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ADOLF HITLER
.... and gave him a really hard
time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really
crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school
of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years
of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the
dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would
have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more
talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the world might
have been spared the nightmare into which this boy was eventually to plunge
it.
2.World .....
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Abraham Lincoln - Civil War President
.... and Maryland. He managed to stop
and European nations from interfering with his foreign diplomacy and his
speeches, such as the famed Gettysburg address, held the peoples's support
to him and the Union.
During the Civil War, all was not concentrated on the battle on the
field. Life did go on, however nervously, and out of this period arose
several beneficial policies of Lincoln's. These policies aided towards the
peaceful and prosperous nation in the United States today. Economically,
the policies Lincoln created were ideal. The first federally controlled
paper money was issued in 1861, establishing a secure standar .....
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The Works Of Graham Greene
.... reasons, she leaves for Pyle. Fowler and
Pyle still remain friends, but Fowler always carries some envy for Pyle*s
youth and confidence. Fowler is against personal involvement in the war
and when he realizes that Pyle is supplying plastic bomb materials to a
"third force," he discourages him. Even then, Pyle does not listen and
Fowler kills him indirectly. While the novel*s theme lies in the issue of
personal involvement, the relationship of Fowler, Pyle, the American, and
Phoung, a Chinese woman, is also described in detail. Greene rep resents
himself through the British reporter, Fowler, and shows his opposition to
personal .....
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Theodore Roosdevelt
.... towards the labor movement was that of an
enlightened conservative. He supported many labor demands such as shorter
hours for women and children, employers' liability laws and limitations on
the use of injunctions against workers in labor disputes.
In reform, Roosevelt wanted gradual change. He moved in the direction of
the reformers and ended up as the candidate of the progressive party in the
Bull Moose presidential campaingn in 1912. He had broken with the Repub
lican party.
In 1907 immigration reached its all-time high 1,285,000 in one year.
Theodore Roosevelt said, "There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man
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Wilson, Woodrow
.... as
professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer,
Wilson also wrote a score of articles and nine books, including Division
and Reunion (1893) and his five-volume History of the American People
(1902). In 1902 he was the unanimous choice of the trustees to become
Princeton's president. His reforms included reorganization of the
departmental structure, revision of the curriculum, raising of academic
standards, tightening of student discipline, and the still-famous
preceptorial system of instruction. But Wilson's quad plan--an attempt to
create colleges or quadrangles where students and faculty members would .....
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Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, And Humanist
.... his aunts offered to help. With
the assistance of his family and the beneficiary funds of Harvard he went
to Cambridge in August 1833 and entered Harvard on September first. "He
[Thoreau] stood close to the top of his class, but he went his own way too
much to reach the top" (5).
In December 1835, Thoreau decided to leave Harvard and attempt to
earn a living by teaching, but that only lasted about a month and a half
(8). He returned to college in the fall of 1836 and graduated on August 16,
1837 (12). Thoreau's years at Harvard University gave him one great gift,
an introduction to the world of books.
Upon his r .....
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Charles Dickens
.... members of his family, a newspaper reporter. Here, he got his first
taste of journalism and fell in love with it immediately.
Drawn to the theatre, Charles Dickens almost pursued the career of an
actor In 1833, he began sending short stories and descriptive essays to
small magazines and newspapers. These writings attracted attention and
were published in 1836 under the name, Sketches by "Boz". At the same time,
he was offered a small job of writing the text for a small comic strip,
where he worked with a well know artist. Seven weeks later, the first
instalment of The Pickwick Papers appeared. Within a few months Pi .....
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Herbert George Wells
.... measures to improve their place in life.
And it was because of this that he did not care for the working class and
envied the solidly established middle class.
As a boy H. G. Wells had always been physically active, but after
he broke his leg at the age of 8 in 1874, he couldn't do too much. During
his period of convalescence he turned to books for the first time. When
Herbert's mother went to work at the gentry's house, she took Herbert with
her (his older brothers were apprenticed into the drapery trade). Sir
Harry Featherstonhaugh had a large variety and number of books. With this
large availability of new books, Wells's .....
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Herman Melville
.... Publishes white jacket. Moves to Arrowhead farm in Pittsburg,
massachustettes.
1851 Publishes the famous moby-dick. Oct. 22 Stanwix Melville is born.
1852 Publishes Pierre which prompted one newspaper made a headline
"herman melville crazy".
1853 Elizibeth Melville is born.
1855 March 2: Frances Melville is born. Publishes Israel potter.
1856 Publishes the Piazza tales.
1856-57 sails to europe and the holy land where he gathers materials for
tyhe long poem clarel.
1857 Publishes the confidence man.
1857-60 lectures in the north and the midwest.
1863 the melvilles move to new york city.
1864 gathers m .....
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Autobiography On Ernest Hemingway
.... who had his next 2 children. Based in Paris, he had
travelled for skiing, bullfighting, fishing, or hunting that by then had
become what most of his work was all about. Hemingway, started writing
short stories, among them was "Men Without Women" in 1927, and "A Farewell
to Arms" in 1929. This story ("A Farewell to Arms"), shows a lovestory
within a war time setting. Many people believe that Hemingway, did his
writing at this period of his life. He once confessed "If I had not been
hunting and fishing, I would have probably been writing." (Hemingway 283
(3)). Hemingway's stories were based on adventure, and different aspect .....
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John Dos Passos
.... until in
1910, he was considered "illegitimate" for about 14 years; this theme of
alienation is found in many of his writings. Most of the time spent during
his childhood was with his mother, who travelled abundantly, and this was
the time where he grew closer to his mother and started to drift away from
the man he called "dad". His travels with his mom led him to places such as
Mexico, Belgium, and England. Dos Passos's association with France began
when he was very young, and his knowledge of the language was quite
thorough. Much of his French expertise is showed off in his works,
including Manhattan Transfer.
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