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Papers on People and Biographies
Leadership Ability Of Robert Kennedy And Lyndon Johnson
Number of words: 864 | Number of pages: 4.... extraordinary position to fill; the young JFK seemed to have done no wrong, and the nation was still in shock from his untimely death. Johnson, like any good leader, used this opportunity to introduce social legislation in “the memory of Kennedy”, namely the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Kennedy had not been able to get passed. This was one instance in which LBJ was able to accurately read the emotions of the people, and was able to use this trait to his advantage. However, many of Johnson’s popular social programs were undermined by the growing conflict in Vietnam. Johnson’s handling of the Vietnam War not only damaged .....
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Ben Franklin
Number of words: 1325 | Number of pages: 5.... extra wood because less wood was required for burning. It was also was a lot less dangerous because it was a closed flame rather than an open fire. Ben found out that the women in his family that stayed home each day, did not get as many cold and toothaches as they used to(Cousins 89). “Soon every women in Philadelphia wanted a Franklin stove”(Cousins 89). “The Pennsylvania authorities were very pleased. They offered Franklin the patent for his design of the stove. This meant that he could earn money for every Franklin stove made. He refused saying that he was glad to be able to serve others.” (Parker 13) This was a truly .....
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Mohandas Gandhi
Number of words: 1437 | Number of pages: 6.... schooling to help plead for
Indian settlers in South Africa that were being oppressed by the white
population. His personal experiences, including being ejected from a train
in Maritzburg, of not being allowed the same rights as others lead him to
begin a movement to help his people.
While in South Africa, Gandhi made himself poor so that he could
identify with his the peasants. He then proceeded to start a colony that
consisted of abused labourers. The colony became very large and many cities
were crippled by the lack of labourers. The government reacted to this by
jailing Gandhi several times along with many other of his foll .....
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Malcolm X
Number of words: 364 | Number of pages: 2.... Muslim temple in Detroit, and took the well known name of . In 1958 he married Betty Shabazz, and together they had six
daughters.
By the early 1960s, the Nation of Islam had become well known and Malcolm was their most known and popular speaker. In 1963, however, the Black Muslims silenced Malcolm for his remark that the assination of United States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the Nation of Islam and formed a secular black nationalist group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU).
In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to .....
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Thomas Edison
Number of words: 2091 | Number of pages: 8.... asked questions. After three months of school, the teacher called Thomas, "addled". Thomas was pissed. The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk with Reverend Engle. The teacher told his mother that Thomas couldn't learn. Nancy also became angry at the teacher's strict ways. “She took Thomas out of school and decided to home-school him.”(Allen pg. 34) It appears he briefly attended two more schools. However, his school attendance was not very good. So nearly all his childhood learning took place at home. Edison's parents loved to read. They read to him works of good literature and history. They had many .....
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Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 1479 | Number of pages: 6.... when he was exposed to poison gas. In 1919, Adolf joined the German Workers’ Party (later renamed National Socialist German Workers’ – or Nazi – Party). In 1921, he was elected as the party’s chairman, or Führer. Later in 1923, Hitler led an uprising against the Weimar Republic, the German government. Unfortunately for him, the uprising failed, and he was sentenced to five years in prison. He only served nine moths of this sentence though, during which he dictated his auto-biography, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). "[The Jews'] ultimate goal is the denaturalization, the promiscuous bastardization of other peoples, the lo .....
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Number of words: 1454 | Number of pages: 6.... subtleties for which the disciples of Zeno were known.
Cicero was the first Roman who found his way to the highest dignities of the State with no other recommendation than his powers of eloquence and his merits as a civil justice. The first case of importance which he undertook was the defense of Roscius Amerintis, in which he distinguished himself by his courageous defense, of his client, who had been accused of parricide, by Chrysogonus, a favorite of Stilia's. This obliging him, however, according to Plutarch, to leave Rome from Prudential motives, the power of Sulla being at that time paramount, he traveled for tw .....
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Neve Cambell
Number of words: 693 | Number of pages: 3.... the Degas girl in "The Phantom of the Opera". She preformed at the Pantages theatre in Toronto. Neve had preformed in over 800 shows when she was done in "The Phantom of the Opera" Neve says she likes the theatre because she gets an automatic response from the audience. It was this part of her career that Neve found the love of acting, not only on a stage but to reach higher in her career and be a movie star.
Neve’s career as a movie star was just the beginning of her debut on television. Neve Campbell appeared in the NBC movie " I know my son is alive". She also played Daisy in the television s .....
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Dorothea Lange
Number of words: 335 | Number of pages: 2.... she was dismissed for the last time.
In the 1950’s and 60’s Dorotheas’s husband, Paul, spent six months
photographing developing countries and Asia. Dorothea began having
reoccurring ulcers. She was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. When
she was in the Near East she caught malaria.
Ansel Adams described her as a difficult woman who was
opinionated, impatient, and willful. A woman who defied the social gender
expectations. Her last project was entitled, “Dorothea Lange Looks at the
American Country Woman.”
Dorothea can definitely be described as someone who stood up for
women and k .....
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Laura Secord
Number of words: 1072 | Number of pages: 4.... servants, a small pleasant house and a wealthy store. When they first got married, they lived in St. Davids and after being married for a while they moved to Queenston. Laura did not work but James was a Merchant. Life was good for Laura, James and their family, and it seemed the future held nothing but happiness.
On June 18, 1812, war was officially declared. It was Great Britain with the Native Americans against the United States. Queenston and Niagara Falls were long awaiting the attack of the US forces from across the Niagara River. James had already left to fight in the battle in which Sir Isaac Brock was killed. After .....
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