Hitler
.... faileor to all and was destined to rule the world. The paper blamed Communists and Jews for all their problems and Hitler agreed with those views. Hitler agreed with most of the points made in the news paper. He continued to live a poor life in Vienna and then eventually in 1913 decided to move to Munich. Still living in Vienna and being Austrian by birth, Hitler showed more loyalty to Germany. He thought that the Aryan race was destined to rule the world. Many believed that he tried to escape the draft, but it was never proven. His life in Munich was not much better then before and he continued to be poor. Then in 1914 W .....
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Jessica Savitch: The Dark Side Of A Golden Girl
.... market. She goes on to produce three award winning series and anchors the 10:00 news with Mort Crim, a respected anchor in the business. Ron Kershaw moves to Philadelphia, but cannot find a job because he is Jessica Savitch's boyfriend. This creates more turmoil in their relationship, and they continue their process of breaking up and making up. Dave Neal, one of Jessica's mentors says, "They were addicted to each other," (Nash, 183). During a separation, Jessica meets Mel Korn, a successful advertising executive eighteen years older than her. He gives her the encouragement and love that she craves, but she still loves Ron .....
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Jailhouse Rock: The Story Of Elvis Aaron Presley
.... singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar.
In 1949, Elvis was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, Elvis graduated from high school and began working as a truck driver while he studied evenings to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, Elvis noticed a sign that read, "Memphis Recording Service-Make Your Own Records. Four Dollars for Two Songs." This sign would change his life forever.
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Andrew Jackson: Indian Fighter
.... authorization, he violated Spanish-owned territory by chasing the hostile Seminole into Florida, where he then created another international incident by putting two British subjects to death(Sellers 105). Then to further his aggression, he campaigned on to Pensacola where he attacked the Spaniards there that gave permission to the British enturpenurs to sell guns to the Seminoles. He then took down the Spanish flag and hoisted up the Stars and Stripes(Remini 186). Although this behavior disturbed the administration of President James Monroe, it was enthusiastically endorsed by the nationalistic majority of Americans. The Secret .....
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The Life Of Henry Ford
.... enable the saws to work. He examined the steam ports and saw how the slide valve controlled the steam. Shortly afterwards, as Henry and his father were going into town, they met a huge, steampowered vehicle on the road. Henry had his father stop so he could talk to the driver. The driver explained to him how the engine boiler and cylinder worked.
A year or two later, Henry fixed a broken watch that his friend had and soon after, everybody started bringing their broken watches to him. He fixed all of them for fun and never demanded anyone to pay him. Then Henry's mom died, and the Ford home became a sad place to live. .....
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Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation Of The Chinese Military
.... All of this would help him later in his military career. In 1886, Shih-k’ai would be taken to begin preparing for his career in the civil service.
China had been using exams for many generations to decide who its leaders would be, and these test would be based on the Confucius theories. Its desire to hold on to the old ways would cause the country to become a target for foreign countries to try and control. The foreign invasion would begin after Japan had defeated China in the first Sino-Japanese War. In the Shimonoseki Treaty, Japan would insert a “most-favored-nation clause,” which would alow Japan and other countries to .....
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Ivan The Terrible
.... He loved to torture animals, often throwing them into the Moscow city walls, yet he spent hours in church.
Two major events took place at the age of 17. In December of 1546, Ivan made an announcement in the presence of the Metropolitan Makari and the Boyars. He said, "By the mercy of God and his pure Mother, by the intercession of the great miracle workers Petr, Sergei, and other Russian wonder workers in whom I put my trust, and with your blessing, Holy Father, I herewith announce my intention of taking a wife. I had first considered marriage with a foreign princess of royal blood, but then I decided otherwise, for if I marr .....
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Winnie Mandela: Trial And Error
.... land to lose respect for their king. Mandela also had this raise to power and arrogance when she allegedly ordered the murder of young boys believed to be spies. "(I) was ordered to sing loudly to drown out the screams of boys being beaten for allegedly leaking information" (Maclean 55). Her followers and the people who believed in her goals eventually lost respect for her. Because both Mandela and Oedipus took their power too far, a lot of their followers lost respect causing them to fall from power.
Stubbornness is a trait that also causes the downfall of many people. While it is not always negative to stand up for beli .....
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Alexander The Great: A Life With A Meaning Like No Other
.... Macedon. Therefore, Macedon's power and influence are due almost entirely to Philip. At the time, Greece was not a single nation, but rather a collection of individual states, each with its own government. The Greeks did not derive their power form military strength, but from the cultivation of new ideas in the different areas of study. Due to the fact that Macedon was a city of farmers and herders, they were seen as second rate citizens in the Greek Empire, and were referred to as barbarians. With Philips ascendance to the throne and with Alexander's continuance, the situation would change.
Aristotle was Alexander's tutor and .....
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George Dantzig
.... in 1952, and then in 1960 he was appointed professor at Berkeley and Chairman of the Operations Research Center. While there he wrote Linear Programming and Extensions (1963). In 1966 he was appointed Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at Stanford University.
His work in a wide range of topics related to optimization and operations research over the years has been of major importance. In spite of impressive developments in computational optimization in the last 20 years, the simplex method, invented by Dantzig in 1947, has stood the test of time.
Through his research in mathematical theory, computation, .....
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Terry Fox
.... the test results, and sadly, he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma: a rare bone cancer. With his parents by his side, Terry cried. This marked the beginning of the battle for his life, yet the start of a new hope. Eventually, since the cancer had spread, Terry was forced to have his leg amputated. The night before his operation Terry's former basketball coach visited him at the hospital, his coach spoke to him about the amazing things Terry could do and learn from his horrible tragedy (Brown 13). As a result of very supportive friends and family Terry had a dream, that night, and in life. "I had a dream that night, th .....
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
.... with the Republicans in criticizing the Truman administration’s handling of China. In China, the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which had been supported by the United States, was unable to withstand the advance of Communist forces under Mao Zedong. By the end of 1949 government troops had been overwhelmingly defeated, and Chiang led his forces into exile on Taiwan. The triumphant Mao formed the People’s Republic of China. Truman’s critics, including Kennedy, charged that the administration had failed to support Chiang Kai-shek against the Communists.
Despite Kennedy’s wavering within his own party platfor .....
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