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The Life Of Mohandas Gandhi
Words: 1244 / Pages: 5 .... life which he chose not to follow. Four years
later Gandhi was sent to work for an Indian firm in Durban South Africa,
which served to be one of the major turning points in his life. (Ramana
607) While in Durban Gandhi found himself being treated as a member of an
inferior race, thus drawing him into the struggle for Indian freedom.
While studying philosophy he came across “Civil Disobedience” by Henry
David Thoreau and John Ruskin's plea to give up capitalism for farm life
and traditional handicrafts (Sharpe 1979 43). These opinions stimulated
Gandhi's ideas for non-violent resistance.
The main principle behind all of Gandhi's teachin .....
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Gandhi
Words: 1175 / Pages: 5 .... aware of how deeply he would be
involved in South African affairs while he proceeded on his journey. Indians
in South Africa suffered many disabilities. For instance, an Indian “had to
carry a pass if he appeared on the streets after 9 p.m.”(Pg. 24). Gandhi felt
this was completely unfair and by the time he had finished his campaign against
colour prejudice in South Africa, “the three pound tax on farm indentured
labourers was annulled, Hindu, Muslim and Parsi marriages were declared valid;
free Indians and their wives could continue to come into the country from India”
(Pg. 47-48). Gandhi achieved this status for Indians in South Africa .....
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Charles Dickens
Words: 1068 / Pages: 4 .... transparent, tender-hearted, and honorable.
Dickens was always a little too irritable because he was a little too happy.
Like the over-wrought child in society, he was splendidly sociable, and in and
yet sometimes quarrelsome. In all the practical relations of his life he was
what the child is at a party, genuinely delighted, delightful, affectionate and
happy, and in some strange way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
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At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of
shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the
experience remain with him all his life. 3
Dickens attended .....
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Alfred Nobel
Words: 469 / Pages: 2 .... the world, but found it was too volatile to work with, and too many miners were dying using it. He began experimenting on how to control the substance. He wanted something that could absorb the nitroglycerin and not still have the same power. He Found that a substance called Kieselguhr. This substance consisted of (diatomeus earth) marine organisms diatoms. This way the explosive could be transported easily and detonated from a safe distance. It saved laves and time. He would name it Dynamite and got a patent for it in 1867.
Throughout his life he had poor health but was not worried about it because he expected many advances in medicine. He .....
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Maya Angelou 2
Words: 781 / Pages: 3 .... who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent her formative years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs .....
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Rudolph Christian Karl Diesel
Words: 348 / Pages: 2 .... give it exhaust valves water cooling for the cylinder
head and barrel and a compressed air fuel-injection system to ensure that the
liquid fuel was forced into the combustion space with sufficient pressure to
overcome the air in the cylinder. This basic idea of how to go about creating
the engine was modified and improved many times before finally prefected in 1896.
To do this Rudolph had to have a great understanding of Thermodynamics. He had
to know basic principles of engines and how they work. Rudolph got help from
many people. Some of the people that helped him are Machine-fabric Augsburg,
Gasmotoren-Fabric Deutz and Mannesmann-Werke. It .....
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Michael Jordan
Words: 1680 / Pages: 7 .... head teller and retired as chief of Customer Service. Jordan has two brothers and two sisters; James Ronald, Larry, Deloris and Roslyn. He married Juanita Vanoy. Juanita, who was a loan officer at Chicago Bank before marring Jordan, Michael and Juanita, have two sons; Jeffrey Michael and Marcus James.
Jordan’s friends admired him and value his friendship because he is a considerate and noble man. The Jordan’s are "pretty laid-back people". (Naughton, 1997, Pg. 19) Fred Whitfield, a friend of Jordan states, "he was just a real clean-cut guy with his head on straight." (Naughton, 1992, Pg. 18) "He hates to be embarras .....
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Bill Gates
Words: 1799 / Pages: 7 .... school he quickly surpassed all of his peer's abilities in nearly all subjects, especially math and science. His parents recognized his intelligence and decided to enroll him in Lakeside, a private school known for its intense academic environment. This decision had far reaching effects on Bill Gate's life. For at Lakeside, was first introduced to computers. In the spring of 1968, the Lakeside prep school decided that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers. Computers were still too large and costly for the school to purchase its own. Instead, the school had a fundraiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by G .....
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Clinton Impeachment
Words: 689 / Pages: 3 .... happening.
Clinton’s impeachment made headlines news across the nation ever since it was revealed to the public. Unfortunately, many people still have a long way to know what went on behind the close door of the impeachment. The majority do not have an idea if the Congress is making the right move or not to impeach our President. Hence, many do not realize how the impeachment might affect our nation politically. To answer this, I conducted an interview with my high school physics instructor, Mr. Arnold Burkert. I interviewed him as a person who strongly dislikes the notion of Clinton’s impeachment. My goal of this interview was to .....
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Ernest Hemingway
Words: 1728 / Pages: 7 .... Cited…………………………………………………………pg.10
Thesis Statement: Ernest Hemingway's experience in World War I affected his actions, writings, and emotions throughout his life.
Introduction
While handing out chocolate bars on the West Bank of the Piave River, Ernest Hemingway was severely wounded by a mortar shell. Even with both his legs penetrated with fragments of ammunition, he carried an Italian soldier to safety. For his courage he was award .....
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