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Lester Pearson
Words: 1250 / Pages: 5 .... training but
as fate would have it he was hit by a London Transport Bus. He remained in the
hospital until he revived in the spring of 1918. In November 1918 he enrolled in
the University of Toronto again. On June 5 1919 he graduated. Like many other
young veterans he was at a loss for something to do. Law was a respectable
profession at the time so he ground away at the ungrateful task of articling for
law. After a week he decided that business was more promising. He worked at a
number of places but in the end he decided to teach at the University of Toronto.
He taught history in the University of Toronto from 1924-1928. All his students
sai .....
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Jim Henson, A Gentle Genius
Words: 617 / Pages: 3 .... everyone’s father telling us right from wrong. Henson helped
sustain the qualities of fancifulness, warmth and consideration that have
been so threatened by our coarse, cynical age. Henson created the muppets
which led to his great success with children.
Henson was very successful in life. He accomplished many things
that people might dream of as a child. His success first started in high
school when his family first moved to Washington and he became fascinated
by television. In the summer of 1954, just before he entered the
University of Maryland he learned that a local station needed someone to
perform with puppets on a children’s show. .....
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Langston Hughes
Words: 1001 / Pages: 4 .... in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications(Jackson,1).”
“One of Hughes’ finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”. It spoke of Black writers and poets, “who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration”, where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet. Hughes argued, “no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself’. He wrote in this essay, “We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we a .....
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King Henry VIII
Words: 696 / Pages: 3 .... wife. The
only one of Catherine's six children who survived infancy was a sickly
girl, the Princess Mary, and it was doubtful whether a woman could succeed
to the English throne. Then too, Henry had fallen in love with a lady of
the court, Anne Boleyn.
When the pope (Clement VII) would not annul his marriage, Henry turned
against Wolsey, deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to
Rome we .....
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Adolf Hitler's A Oratory Genius
Words: 374 / Pages: 2 .... Hitler made his presence known
in the form of a Messiah rather than a political leader, offering his
countrymen not only economic but political salvation as well as the kind of
cultural magnificence which he truly believed in, i.e. the Aryan race.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the Austrian town of Braunau am
Inn, the son of Alois, a customs official, and Klara Hitler. He was not a
successful student, and his earlier years are said to have been
characterized by melancholy, aimlessness and racial hatred. It was in
Vienna where he developed what is considered to be a life-long obsession
with the danger that the world Jewery posed to the Ary .....
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Hitler And World War I
Words: 1824 / Pages: 7 .... pride as well. Weimar government members had to bear the disgrace of signing the treaty. This, in Hitler's view, was humiliating Germany. Moreover, he and the German army denied being defeated in the war and blamed the loss on cowardly politicians. The treaty restricted the size of the German army and forbid Germany to join together with Austria. Adding to Germany's already vast economic problems, the country had to pay financial reparations for the war. Hence, the Treaty of Versailles fueled nationalist propaganda and played a major role in collapsing the Weimar Republic in the early 1930s.
Besides the Treaty of Versailles, several other f .....
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Pythagoras
Words: 897 / Pages: 4 .... a body was bound to excite jealousy and mistrust, and we hear of many struggles. himself had to flee from Kroton to Metapontion, where he died.
It is stated that he was a disciple of Anaximander, his astronomy was the natural development of Anaximander's. Also, the way in which the Pythagorean geometry developed also bears witness to its descent from that of Miletos. The great problem at this date was the duplication of the square, a problem which gave rise to the theorem of the square on the hypotenuse, commonly known still as the Pythagorean proposition (Euclid, I. 47). If we were right in assuming that Thales worked with the old 3:4:5 triangle, .....
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Anne Frank
Words: 1267 / Pages: 5 .... childhood. The situation became worse with the restrictions placed on the Jews. One restriction was that Jewish children were only allowed at Jewish schools. Anne went to the Jewish school called The Jewish Lyceum.
In July 1942, Anne’s family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne’s family called it the "Secret Annex". During these times people they knew like, Miep and Jan Gies and many others, brought the family’s food. You would have to be very brave to take on a job like that because, if you got caught you could be killed.
Life in the Annex was not easy at all. Anne had to wake up at 6:45 A.M. every morning. Nobody .....
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Michael Jordan: King Of The Court
Words: 1049 / Pages: 4 .... of these specials on the sports channels and the news so I had to find out what all the commotion was about. This is why I chose Michael Jordan to be the topic of my research paper. I hoped to find out how he became to be considered the greatest basketball player to ever play the game. I learned about a lot about Michael during the first week of my search since he was getting so much attention from the media at the time.
When Michael Jordan was attending Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina nobody thought that he would ever turn out to be the player he is today let alone make it to the NBA. In fact, James Jordan, Michael’s father, .....
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Words: 1303 / Pages: 5 .... established
a tariff favorable to British goods, and worked to strengthen the ties between
the two countries. But he saw the British Empire as a worldwide alliance of free
and equal nations, and he opposed every attempt to limit Canada's freedom.
Laurier's liberal immigration policy brought hundreds of thousands of settlers
to the western provinces. He reduced postal rates, promoted the building of
railroads needed for national expansion, and appointed a commission to regulate
railroad rates. After 15 years in office his government was defeated, presumably
on the issue of reciprocal trade with the United States. Laurier believed,
however, that his .....
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