Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
.... to 8 years in prison while Sophia was
only sentenced to 2 years because she was white. This relates to the
social organization of arrest, which suggest that police arrest blacks at a
higher rate than whites.
While Malcolm was in jail, he was well known to the guards. One
time he was asked to state his number, but instead he said he forgot his
number. The guards beat the hell out of him and sent him to the darkroom.
In the darkroom he met Brother Baines. Baines was a man everyone respected
inc .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
.... child”
because of his many talents. As a boy, Leonardo was described as being
handsome, strong, and agile. He had keen powers of observation, an
imagination, and the ability to detach himself from the world around him.
At an early age Leonardo became interested in subjects such as botany,
geology, animals (specifically birds), the motion of water, and shadows
(About Leonardo).
At the age of 17, in about 1469, Leonardo was apprenticed as a
garzone (studio boy) to Andrea del Verrocchio, the lea .....
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Abraham Lincoln
.... Abraham later married on November 4,1842. He married Mary Todd. They
were married for sixty-four years. In those sixty-four years, they had
four children. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and died in 1926.
Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived
from 1850-1862, and finally, Thomas Tad Lincoln lived from 1853-1871.
In February 1860, Lincoln made his first major political appearance in
the Northeast, when he addressed a rally at Cooper Union in New York. .....
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Biography Of Genghis Khan
.... such as shortage of food and shortage of money. Though unable to
read, Genghis was a very wise man. His mother told him at a very early age
the importance of trust and independence. "Remember, you have no
companions but your shadow" Grolier Encyclopedia. (1995) CD ROM
This quote was to mean to Genghis, don¹t put to much trust in anyone,
trust no one but yourself and if you must go your own way then do so. In
1206, Genghis Khan proclaimed the ruler of Mongolia. Genghis was a very
respec .....
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The Works And Influence Of Christopher Marlowe
.... to give Marlowe his degree because of his good
service to the Queen as a government agent”(“Christopher Marlowe (1564-
1593)” par. 2).
“After receiving his degree in 1587, he moved to London to begin
his career as a playwright. All of his plays were believed to be written
between 1587 and 1593. His works include Tamburlaine, parts one and two,
the Jew of Malta, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Edward II, Queen
of Carthage, and the Massacre at Paris. He also wrote the great poems, Hero
and Leand .....
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Albert Einstein
.... often be found in the lakes
that were scattered about the countryside near Munich.
As a child, Einstein's sense of curiosity had already begun to stir. A
favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marveled at his
uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by
certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure
to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to
believe he was disabled.
Einstein's post-basic .....
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Michael Jackson
.... the Jacksons. He
began to perform some of his solo hits in benefit concerts. For example,
the UNICEF, The Atlanta Children’s Foundation at the Omni Auditorium in
Atlanta , Georgia and raised $100,000 for the charity. The Foundation is
established in response to a series of kidnappings which had been occurring
in Atlanta, a charity album is released in 1984 "Let’s beat it" with the
money raised being donated to the Music and Entertainment Industries own
charity , the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia a .....
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The Nomination Of Andrew Jackson To The "Presidents Hall Of Fame"
.... South Carolina. He was orphaned
at age 14. After studying law and becoming a member of the Bar in North
Carolina later he moved to Nashville Tennessee. Their he became a member of
a powerful political faction led by William Blount. He was married in 1791
to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later remarried to him due to a legal
mistake in her prior divorce in 1794. Jackson served as delegate to Tenn.
in the 1796 Constitutional convention and a congressman for a year (from
1796-97). He was elected senator in 17 .....
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Van Gogh
.... more to the poor. The missionary
society objected to Vincent's behavior and fired him in 1879. Heartsick,
van Gogh struggled to keep going socially and financially, yet he was
always rejected by other people, and felt lost and forsaken.
Then, in 1880, at age 27, he became obsessed with art. The intensity
he had for religion, he now focused on art. His early drawings were crude
but strong and full of feeling: "It is a hard and a difficult struggle to
learn to draw well... I have worked like a .....
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Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power
.... out with a
ruthless disregard for world opinion,including the use of poison gas. When
the British and French leaders condemned him for these acts, he looked
elsewhere for allies and found Germany and Japan.
He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-
1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo
Franco, but being associated with the atrocities of this brutal war lost
him still more support in the rest of the world. His biggest mistake,
however, .....
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JFK: The Death Of A Conspiracy
.... of the wound. They were desperate to save the life of the President
and examined him quickly without taking the time...to wash off the blood
and debris” (1542). The doctors removed the President’s clothing to check
the body for other wounds. While Dr. Perry began the tracheostomy, Dr.
Jenkins recalled, that Mrs. Kennedy was circling the room with something “
cupped” in her hands. As Mrs. Kennedy passed by, she nudged Jenkins with
her elbow and handed him “a large chunk o! f her husband's brain.” .....
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Frederick Douglass
.... At the age of twenty, Douglass succeeded in
escaping from slavery by impersonating a sailor.
After Douglass escaped, he started to show people the evils of
slavery. He became an orator and a writer. Whenever he could he attended
abolitionist meetings. In October, 1841, after attending an anti-slavery
convention on Nantucket Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Lloyd
Garrison. He published his own newspaper called The North Star. Do .....
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Donato Di Niccolò Di Betto Bardi
.... "flattened out." The carving was extremely shallow with details
executed to catch the light in a pictorial manner rather than deeply carved
figures against relatively plain backgrounds.
Donatello also worked in bronze, beginning in about 1423. The most
important bronze works were 'David', the first large-scale, free-standing
nude statue of the Renaissance; 'Gattamelata' in Padua, the first bronze
equestrian, or man-mounted-on-horse, statue to commemorate a non-ruler and
the model for all subse .....
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The Comparison And Contrasting Of The Masters Of Fredrick Douglass
.... this
was one of meanest men in his life. The importance of this relationship
was that Douglass would gain stronger view towards slavery and it’s
misfortunes. This would also drive his want for freedom.
Douglass eventually becomes the property Thomas Auld of who loans
him to his brother Hugh Auld. Keep in mind Lucretia could be Douglass’s
sister. This was a good thing for Douglass because he would start to learn
how to read and write. Sophia Auld began teaching him the ABC’s in her
spare time. Thi .....
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Maya Angelou
.... 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 under
the black nationalist regime of Karane Nkrumah she taught music, dance,
and studied cinematography in Sweden. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr.
Martin Luther Ki .....
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