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Compare And Cantrast Web Du Bois & Booker T Washington
Words: 1340 / Pages: 5 .... University in Nashville, Tennessee. There he "discovered his Blackness" and made a lifelong commitment to his people. He taught in rural Black schools in Tennessee during summer vacations, thus expanding his awareness of his Black culture.
Du Bois graduated from Fisk in 1888, and entered Harvard as a junior. During college he preferred the company of Black students and Black Bostonians. He graduated from Harvard in 1890. Yet he felt that he needed further preparation and study in order to be able to apply "philosophy to an historical interpretation of race relations." He decided to spend another two years at the University of Berlin on a Slate .....
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Mother Teresa
Words: 1216 / Pages: 5 .... She always had special interest in reading about missionaries and the lives of the saints.
In 1919 her father, Nikolle Bojahiu, died of poisoning after attending a political meeting. said, “ We were all very united, especially after the death of my father. We lived for each other and made every effort to make one another happy.” On September 26, 1928, set out on her trip to Dublin by train. She arrived at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto. Here she went through two months of intensive English language studies. Then December 1, she set sail on a thirty-seven day trip to India. She stayed in Calcutta for one week .....
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Renior - The Apple Seeder
Words: 878 / Pages: 4 .... space and volume and use of light. The painting as a triangular composition, containing all four figures, they are in turn drawn together within a harmonious ensemble. The painting itself depicts an older peasant woman selling fruit to what seems to be a middle class woman and her children. The painting is set deep in the forest, where the mother and her children are enjoying a pleasant spring afternoon. The blurred background of the piece brings the figures to the front of the painting creating a more personal situation for each viewer. Incidentally, this creates the effect of a personal link between the viewer and the figures in th .....
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Issac Newton
Words: 1269 / Pages: 5 .... class. Oddly, it was a savage kick by a school bully that caused Newton's great mind to awaken. The mild, dreamy boy flew into a rage and beat the other boy thoroughly. Isaac determined to beat the bully in school work as well. Soon Isaac was at the head of his class.
In 1656 Newton's stepfather died. His mother returned to Woolsthorpe to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she could not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and brought home to help her.
As a farmer, Newton proved to be a dismal failure. He neglected the necessary chores and thought only of books to study and mechanical things to ma .....
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Stalin
Words: 1662 / Pages: 7 .... December 27, 1879. He was born in the town of Gorion the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains. This is glorious country. Swift rivers, fed by runoff from snow capped peaks, course through fertile valleys. His father was a very aggressive low life drunk cobbler. His mother was a housecleaner. His father died in a bar from wounds he got from a bad brawl. His town was a very aggressive town that liked to show each other their power by beating one another. Young Joseph was the one and only survivor out of his four siblings.
In 1888 began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian, and excelled at his studies, winning a schol .....
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Lewis Latimer
Words: 1035 / Pages: 4 .... in Boston. When the trial judge ruled that Latimer still belonged to his Virginia owner, an African-American minister paid $400 for his release. Although free, George was still extremely poor, working as a barber, paper-hanger and in other odd jobs to support his wife, three sons, and one daughter.
, the youngest child, attended grammar school and was an excellent student who loved to read and draw. Most of his time, though, was spent working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave named Dred Scott could not be considered a free man although he had lived in a free state. G .....
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Peter The Great 3
Words: 1975 / Pages: 8 .... made that Peter and his half-brother Ivan (also son of Maria), who was also slightly retarded, would be joint czars (4:89). He spent most of his young childhood life in the Kremlin, which he grew to hate, due to the dusky rooms, the labyrinthine corridors, and the bloody memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobra .....
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Albert Einstein
Words: 503 / Pages: 2 .... papers.
Einstein submitted one of his scientific papers to the University of Zurich to
obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second paper to the University
of Bern and became lecturer there. The next year Einstein received a regular
appointment as associate professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By
1909, Einstein was recognized throughout Europe as a leading scientific thinker.
In 1909 the fame that resulted from his theories got Einstein a job at the
University of Prague, and in 1913 he was appointed director of a new research
institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
Words: 719 / Pages: 3 .... the Long Island Bird Club.
He also established himself as a historian (he was President of the American Historical Association) and as a naturalist (he was considered the world's authority on large American mammals and he led two major scientific expeditions for prominent American Museums, one in South America and one in Africa, each lasting many months). Had he not become President, he would be remembered for his contributions in both of these fields.
In between these busy enterprises, he found time to ranch in the West, hunt on several continents, raise a family of six rambunctious children, read a remarkable number of books (often one a day), wri .....
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Jesse Owens
Words: 766 / Pages: 3 .... and there his high points were the running broad jump (long jump),
the one-hundred meter dash and the two-hundred meter dash. After graduating from
high school he attended Ohio State University (OSU).
Charles Riley taught him after he first saw him in junior high. He was a
excellent track runner in high school, one of the best in the world. Like
mentioned above, he was excellent in the broad jump, 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 wo .....
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