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Eisenhower 2
Words: 2426 / Pages: 9 .... Eisenhower hesitantly entered politics, and ran for president under the Republican ticket.
"My first day at the president's desk," Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote in his diary on January, 21 1953. "Plenty of worries and difficult problems. But…today [just seems] like a continuation of all I've been doing since July of 1941-even before that. To Eisenhower the political game was a new experience, but all the demands of the presidency were very familiar. As Supreme Allied commander and Army Chief of Staff, Eisenhower developed beliefs and ways of doing things that would shape his presidency. During the months between his election and his inauguration, .....
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Francios Rabelias
Words: 776 / Pages: 3 .... St. Thomas More were humanists. They were concerned with human welfare, this is the reason why it is represented in there works. The one I am going to focus on is .
Rabelias was a writer. Over time many of the information we have about him as been lost or destroyed. “We have most of his works, but it is believed there is more. ” Below I have listed a believed chronology of Rabelias, it may have inaccurate due the lack of information on Rabelias.
“1494 Now the Generally accepted date of Rabelias’s birth, although at times it has
been published back as far as 1483. Born at La Deviniere, a family
property near Chinon, .....
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A Biography Of Henry Ford
Words: 1106 / Pages: 5 .... the
people. Henry Ford was a man who gained world-wide business success through his
innovative ideas, brilliant management skills, and down-to-earth tactics.
Henry Ford was born on a farm near Dearborn, Michigan, on July 30, 1863,
and educated in district schools. He became a machinist's apprentice in Detroit
at the age of 16. From 1888 to 1899 he was a mechanical engineer, and later
chief engineer, with the Edison Illuminating Company. In 1893, after
experimenting for several years in his leisure hours, he completed the
construction of his first gasoline engine. His first automobile was completed
in 1896. The body was a small crude wooden box, i .....
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Alice Walker
Words: 1479 / Pages: 6 .... after graduating in 1965, she married Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer; afterward, they worked together in Mississippi, registering blacks to vote. In the summer of 1968, she went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off farms or taken off welfare roles for registering to vote. In New York, she worked as an editor at Ms. Magazine, and her husband worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
In 1970, Walker published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, about the ravages of racism on a black sharecropping family. In Meridian, 1976, her second novel, she explore .....
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1984: Winston's Hatred Of Big Brother
Words: 716 / Pages: 3 .... the only hope to
rebel. Winston wrote in his diary "if there is hope, it lies in the
proles."
Winston was sane and acted upon feelings knowing he would be
executed for them. When Winston first met Julia, he thought that she was a
spy and he wanted to bash in her skull. When he read her message which was
"I love you", he was stunned and also pleased that someone had feelings for
him. If Winston was totally under Big Brother's power he wouldn't have felt
the urge to return the love, and have the anxiety of wondering if she did
really love him rather then just throwing away the incriminating message.
Winston felt the feeling of hatred toward the Part .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Words: 1215 / Pages: 5 .... spaces in America. He designed everything: banks and resorts, office buildings and churches, a filling station and a synagogue, a beer garden and an art museum. ’s life truly was a work of art.
Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. His early influences include his clergyman father's playing of Bach and Beethoven and his mother's gift of geometric blocks. Growing up, Wright spent much of his summers at a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the scho .....
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The Life Of Jackie Robinson
Words: 2402 / Pages: 9 .... field, and helped lead his basketball, baseball, and football teams to championships. Once in a track and field meet in Pomona, California, he competed in the long jump. His final jump was twenty five feet and six inches. Not only did he win the meet, but he also set a new record. (Stealing Home)
After his impressive performance that day, several major universities offered him scholarships for his last two years of athletic eligibility.
Jackie chose the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to finish his last two years. Basically because UCLA was the college that was closest to home.
He had a repeat performance and became the first four let .....
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Jacques Louis David
Words: 2109 / Pages: 8 .... ideals of the French Revolution, David imposed a fierce discipline on the expression of sentiment in his work. This inhibition resulted in a distinct coldness and rationalism of approach.
David's reputation was made by the Salon of 1784. In that year he produced his first masterwork, The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre). This work and his celebrated Death of Socrates (1787; Metropolitan Mus.) as well as Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789; Louvre) were themes appropriate to the political climate of the time. They secured for David vast popularity and success. David was admitted to the Académie royale in 1780 and worked as co .....
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David Letterman
Words: 993 / Pages: 4 .... to do was to make people laugh. In high school I was the class
clown, making fun of everything and everyone." This personality trait was what
gave him his thousands of faithful fans, watching his show every night to see
Dave rip to shreds anyone who dare challenge him. Another thing that was
important to him was his mother and father. His father, Joseph Letterman, and
Dave went fishing quite often when he was young. Dave looked up to his father
tremendously. When Joseph had his first heart attack when he was thirty-six,
Dave and his father started to drift away. Later, Dave's Dad died when he was
fifty-three. One of David's top regrets was ne .....
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Earl Warren
Words: 434 / Pages: 2 .... the top of his political career, after loosing an election in 1948 being a Republican candidate for vice president.
Receiving his appointment sooner than expected, did not wait too long to begin his tenure. Warren gained his position as a chief justice in the Supreme Court of the United States in the center chair early October 1953. His first two months with the court flew by fast with no major cases, while everyone focused on the upcoming case of school desegregation.
Warren waited another six months before receiving the chance to announce his first major opinion, in the decision in the case Brown. Instead of commenting on the 14th Amendmen .....
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