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Rutherford Hayes
Words: 1106 / Pages: 5 .... the equal chance to go to the polls and vote. Congress created and electoral commission, which carefully decided that Hayes would receive all twenty votes. Facing the possibility that the country would be left without a president, both parties were considering taking the office by force. In spite of all the conflict, a deal was finally struck. Republicans made a secret deal with Democrats in congress, who agreed not to dispute the Hayes victory in exchange for a promise to withdraw federal troops from the south and end reconstruction . Hayes made good on the deal. He swiftly ended Reconstruction and pulled federal troops out of the last two oc .....
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Jackie Robinson
Words: 292 / Pages: 2 .... to win varsity letters in four sports-football, basketball, baseball and track.
In 1941 he left college to join the Army. He became a second lieutenant in his journey through the Army. It was a segregated army then. He received an honorable discharge in 1944 after he was acquitted from a court-martial.
Robinson began his professional baseball career in 1945. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the leading teams in the Negro Leagues. Later in the year he signed with the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was sent down to the minors in 1946 but called up to the Dodgers in 1947. He became the first black to play major l .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright 2
Words: 701 / Pages: 3 .... of Sullivan’s clients. This was known as “moonlighting”. These houses soon revealed an independent talent that was distinct from that of Sullivan. Wright’s houses had low, sweeping rooflines hanging over uninterrupted walls of windows. His plans were centered on massive brick or stone fireplaces at the heart of the house. His rooms became wide open to one another and the overall configuration of his plans became more and more alike, reaching out toward some real or imagined expansive horizon.
In contrast to the openness of those houses and as if in conflict with their immediate city environment, Wright’s urban buil .....
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Martin Luther King
Words: 1566 / Pages: 6 .... These
efforts to improve the way of life for Blacks could be seen by his son.
In December 5, 1955 King began to be significant in the changing of
the Black man's way of life. The boycott of the Montgomery Bus was begun
when Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man on
December 1st. Two Patrolmen took her away to the police station where she
was booked. He and 50 other ministered held a meeting and agreed to start a
boycott on December 5th, the day of Rosa Parks's hearing. This boycott
would probably be successful since 70% of the riders were black. The bus
company did not take them seriously, because if there was bad weather, t .....
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Stephen Hawking
Words: 1424 / Pages: 6 .... electricity and magnetism. It took his friends, Derek, Gordan, and Richard, a week to complete two and a half of the problems. Hawking did the first ten in three hours, he did not complete the others because he said he did not have enough time. Once, in college, he fell down a flight of stairs. After he fell down, he could not remember anything, gradually he began remembering, until he remembered it all, which took all of two hours. graduated from Oxford University at the age of twenty in 1962. He then took a trip to Prussia with a friend. During the visit, he became ill. Upon returning to England, he had a series of tests to identify his hea .....
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Diaghilev
Words: 1192 / Pages: 5 .... to St. Petersburg where he studied law, while continuing to pursue a career as a composer. After many failures, he was successfully dissuaded from his dream by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, who was a famous Russian composer, and one of ’s idols, at the time. In another failure to succeed, reluctantly joined a circle of famour writers and painters, led by the Russian painters Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois. During this time, did succeed and indeed felt he had finnaly found his place in life. He founded AND edited a progressive art journal – "Mir Iskusstva" ( The World of Art) from 1899 – 1904. In 1899, as a project, became t .....
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Robert Johnson
Words: 2949 / Pages: 11 .... 1911, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Robert was the eleventh child born to Mrs. Julia Dodds. Robert’s mother described little Robert as a playful little boy, who "Always used to be listenin, listenin to the wind or the chickens cluckin in the backyard or me, when I’d be singin round the house. And he just love church… Little Robert set on my lap and try to keep time, look like, or hold on to my skirt and sort of jig up and down and laugh and laugh." (Lomax, 14) Thus, Robert was first introduced by his church into the world of music and was forever captured by its beauty. Mrs. Johnson didn’t have much trouble with Robert as a chil .....
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Paul Dunbar Research Paper
Words: 2075 / Pages: 8 .... he was in high school. He acquired much praise and respect from his peers due to his experiments with both poetry, and fiction. This all took place in Dayton, Ohio, where Dunbar attended school with such people as the Wright Brothers. Dunbar began to build a reputation for himself, and at the tender age of twenty, wrote his first book, Oak and Ivy . At the age of twenty-one, while Dunbar was still working as an elevator boy at a local hotel, he received the welcomest news that he had ever heard. Dunbar received a personal invitation to recite some of his poetry at the 1893 Worlds Fair. While at the Worlds Fair later that year, Dunbar was intr .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
Words: 1971 / Pages: 8 .... Poe's first book "Tamberlane and other poems" came under the pseudonym of
"A Bostonian". These poems were very influenced by Byron and showed a youthful
attitude. Later the same year he joined the army. He succeeded there and In 1829
he signed for an officer-training. This was the same year as he published his
second book "Al Aaraaf, Tamberlane and minor poems" but this time under the name
of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the other
cadets to publish his third version of the book, although Poe called this book a
second version. In this book there are famous poems as "To Helen" and "Israfel".
These poems show the mu .....
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John F. Kennedy
Words: 1926 / Pages: 8 .... Bouvier. However one year later a spinal operation brought him to the
edge of death's door, causing him to deeply reflect on his character (Sorensen
28). After his dangerous operation he researched and wrote a book, about
democracy. The next year narrowly missing the Vice Presidential nomination of
his party, Kennedy emerged as a national figure in large demand.
"John Kennedy was not one of the Senate's great leaders" (Sorensen 43).
Very few laws of great importance bear his name. Even after his initial “
traditionally' inactive freshman year in the Senate, his chances for major
contributions to the Senate excluding his stance .....
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