.... about his career choices. At the age of fourteen he moved to Boston to live with his sister, Ella. He was impressed by the blacks on the street, the clothes they wore, how proud they were, and the city of Boston it self. He met a man named Shorty who helped him learn the ropes of the street life and to get a new image. Shorty also got Malcolm a shoe shining job. Malcolm was basically living on the streets, and this is where he got the nick name Detroit Red. In his late teen years he was arrested for burglary. A white man for the same crime would have served two years in jail at the most, but Malcolm received eight to ten y .....

.... was not really interesting to them. His early life was not a happy one. He lived in poverty, sickness, and frustration. On April 26, 1807, his brother John Clarke died. His father then died on May 12, 1811 and left his mother to take care of the children alone. One of his brothers died of a mental illness in 1834. Another one died of tuberculosis in 1836. was also not a very healthy person. He had lung disease and periods of temporary blindness until he was thirty years old. (Clendenning) He attended the Boston Latin School from 1812 to 1817. then started to study at Harvard College in August 1817. He worked his way t .....

.... academy, and he enjoyed going to the edge but not over it. The fellow cadets loved Custer for his fun-loving and joking ways. Though Custer was frequently punished for his behavior, he understood why he was at the Academy, and wanted to make something of himself. At the Academy, Custer became a good writer. He felt the need to write throughout his lifetime, and it was an integral part of his character as was his courage, ambition, and joyful nature. He ended up graduating last in his class, but graduating last in a class from the Academy was still a great accomplishment. During the Civil War, which began when he was attend .....

.... with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the world might have been spared the nightmare into which this boy was eventually to plu .....

.... for his people. So they set out again in 1271, and this time they took Marco. From Venice the Polos sailed to Acre, in Palestine. There two monks, missionaries to China, joined them. Fearing the hard journey ahead, however, the monks soon turned back. The Polos crossed the deserts of Persia (Iran) and Afghanistan. They mounted the heights of the Pamirs, the "roof of the world," descending to the trading cities of Kashgar (Shufu) and Yarkand (Soche). They crossed the dry stretches of The Gobi. Early in 1275 they arrived at Kublai Khan's court at Cambaluc (Peking). At that time Marco was 21 years old. .....

.... on a Negro baseball team.(Shorto,Russell p. 5-10) In 1945 Branch Rickey the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers was looking for a black player to break the serration barrier and rise above it all and join the Major League Baseball Association. Rickey said that whoever the person was to be would have to cope with taunts and insult, with name calling and abuse. Rickey heard of the success of Jackie on the Negro League and sent his scouts to see Jackie. (Ritter, S. Lawrence p. 43-51). After a long meeting with Rickey, Jackie agreed to join the Brooklyn organization. Rickey singed Robinson to a Minor League deal in 1945. Jackie̵ .....

.... Spirit that God shows in the Word. Sacrifice became a daily thing for Hudson, as God molded and shaped Hudson for His will. was just that sort of man, one who you could call a saint. He would go where no one would want to go. And do what no one would want to do. He willed to do Gods will, and that was to go to china and spread the good news of salvation to all the lost and hurting people in china. He was to a fairly financially stable family. Except he was not saved yet when he was just a lad. Yet his mother prayed earnestly for a long time for the salvation of her only son. The prayer was answered by God, when Hudson accidental .....

.... 1964 to 1968 he served as special assistant for civil rights to Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Robinson starred in the motion picture The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and was the author, with Alfred Duckett, of I Never Had It Made (1972) ROBINSON, Jackie (1919-72). The first black player in either of the major baseball leagues was Jackie Robinson. He broke the color barrier in 1947, two years after he was signed by Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn (now Los Angeles) Dodgers. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., on Jan. 31, 1919. He grew up in Pasadena, Calif. In high school and at Pasadena Junior College .....

.... Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York. was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in Europe and one in America. He combined classical European training in Holland with a love for popular American culture. The restlessness and energy of American life was a source of great inspiration and passion for him. Gary Garrells, the chief curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art said, " He had the wildness of Pollock but mi .....

.... underwent a religious conversion at 18, where he was introduced to the Khlysty sect” (Rasputin). Rasputin’s ideas were heretical from the chruch’s viewpoint, however he was charged with using religion to impress people and “advance himself” (Fuhrmann 44). A doctrine of the Khlysty sect states that “one was nearest God when feeling holy passionlessness and that the best way to reach such a state was through the sexual exhaustion that came after prolonged debauchery” (Rasputin). After marrying Proskovia Fyodorovna and bearing four children, Rasputin left home and wandered through Greece and Jerusalem. (R .....