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John Harlan
Words: 851 / Pages: 4 .... in 1923.
After returning from England, Harlan began working for a law office in New York. At the same time, he was studying law at the New York Law School. In 1925 Harlan received his law degree and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he .....
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Bill Bradley
Words: 813 / Pages: 3 .... will also preserves Medicare and expands it with an optional prescription drug benefit for all seniors, and creates a Medicare option for home and community-based coordinated care systems.
understands that education is the bedrock of our economic strength, essential to ensuring that all Americans have the skills they need to build a better future in this time of technological change. Bill will enroll an additional 400,000 children in the Head Start program, helping nearly every eligible child to enter school prepared to succeed. He will create Teach to Reach partnerships to place 60,000 new, well-trained teachers each year into low-income urban .....
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Australia
Words: 4707 / Pages: 18 .... are the temperate rain forests of Tasmania, dominated by the myrtle beech and swathed in tree-ferns and mosses--called moss forests.
The second type of vegetation, communities dominated by the tall, straggly eucalyptus trees, is the most ubiquitous, forming a wide, concentric band around the desert core. Of the 500 species, two or three typically form a mosaic in one locality and intermingle with other plant associations. Eucalyptus trees are classified according to their bark types--hence the names stringybark, ironbark, bloodwood, and smoothbark (the gums that shed their outer bark annually). The most widespread is the river red gum. Mallee eucal .....
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Hannibal 2
Words: 1249 / Pages: 5 .... the Ebro River, except for the city of Saguntum, an ally of Rome. When Saguntum began trouble between Carthage and Rome in 219 B.C., Hannibal raided the city. This began the Second Punic War. Hannibal began a long and dangerous journey, with battle elephants marching at the front of his army (Green 21).
Hannibal left a lasting reminder of his deeds in the names of Spanish places such as Potus Hannibalis, Insula Hannabalis, and Scalae Hannibalis (Lancel 12).
In the spring of 218 B.C., Hannibal handed over command of the Spanish armies to his brother Hasdrubal. He then led his troops north toward the Pyrenees Mountains and began one of the mo .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Words: 288 / Pages: 2 .... country through one of our most difficult times, the Civil War.
was born in Kentucky. The Lincoln Family then moved to Konob Creek, Kentucky. The farm work was really hard. They moved to Indiana to have more land. There, Abraham’s mom died of poison in the milk. Then they moved back to Kentucky, where Abraham’s dad married Sarah Bush Johnston. Abraham called his stepmother, “My angel mom.”
Then Abraham started working. He was most skilled at clearing forests. He was also really good at making fences. He was good because he was big for his age and could use the ax really well. He was so good that people started calling him, “the .....
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Sarah (Moore) And Angelina (Emily) Grimke
Words: 422 / Pages: 2 .... the Society of
Friends, due to the strict regulations they lived under. Soon afterward both
sisters moved to North Carolina to join the Anti-Slavery movement.
In 1835 Angelina wrote a letter of support to Abolitionist leader
William Lloyd Garrison who published it in his newspaper The Liberator. The
following year, 1836, she composed a thirty page pamphlet entitled An Appeal to
the Christian Women of the South. This pamphlet urged southern women to persuade
their influential husbands to re-examine the morality of the slavery institution.
A similar plea was made towards the Southern Church institutions months later in
An Epistle to the Clergy of the .....
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Emmy Noether
Words: 958 / Pages: 4 .... clavier. At the time of her graduation from high school, she passed a test that allowed her to teach both French and English at schools for young women.
At the age of 18, decided to take classes in mathematics at the University of Erlangen. Her brother, Fritz, was a student there, and her father was a professor of mathematics. Because she was a woman, the university refused to let take classes they granted her permission to audit classes. She sat in on classes for two years, and then took the exam that would permit her to be a doctoral student in mathematics. She passed the test, and finally was a student in good standing at the University. After f .....
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Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Comparison
Words: 1325 / Pages: 5 .... 1925 in Omaha, Malcolm was six years old, when his father was murdered by the Black Legion, a group of white racists belonging to the KKK. He changed his name to Malcolm X while in prison.He went to prison because of a robbery and was serving ten years. Also while in prison he became a follower of Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad was the leader of an organization called the Nation of Islam. During the 1950's, Malcolm became the primary spokesman for the Nation. He also came of the surveillance of the FBI along with Elijah Muhammad. As was Dr. King's, Malcolm's every move was followed and documented.
Malcolm became a powerful speaker in the movement. As Ki .....
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JFK: The Death Of A Conspiracy
Words: 1748 / Pages: 7 .... were not aware of the massive head damage because
the huge flap of frontal scalp that was loosened from the head was held in
place by the clotting of the blood on the scalp. This concealed the
degree of the wound. They were desperate to save the life of the President
and examined him quickly without taking the time...to wash off the blood
and debris” (1542). The doctors removed the President’s clothing to check
the body for other wounds. While Dr. Perry began the tracheostomy, Dr.
Jenkins recalled, that Mrs. Kennedy was circling the room with something “
cupped” in her hands. As Mrs. Kennedy passed by, she nudged Jenkins with
her e .....
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Words: 317 / Pages: 2 .... theologian, Niebuhr was notable primarily for his examination of the interrelationships between religion, individuals, and modern society. Outside the field of theology, he took a keen interest in trade union and political affairs. He was an active member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s, waged a vigorous fight against isolationism and pacifism before and during World War II, and in 1944 helped to found the Liberal Party in New York State. He received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 and was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on June 1, 1971.
Niebuhr indicated his overriding interest in what has .....
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