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Papers on People and Biographies
Emperor Hadrian Of Rome
Number of words: 719 | Number of pages: 3.... years of age was very young even in Roman terms of marriage. Hadrian became emperor in 117a.d. This occurred when Trajan, Hadrian's deceased father's cousin and guardian, made Hadrian his successor on his deathbed. "Certainly Hadrian's relationship with the Senate was not a good one(Coleman-Norton 674)." At the beginning of his reign, he put four former consuls to death for conspiracy. This created negative personal relations between Hadrian and the Senate; however, "Hadrian generally treated the Senate with the utmost respect(Coleman-Norton 674)." Throughout the years 120-133, he traveled eminsly. He visited Britain, Spa .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of words: 1936 | Number of pages: 8.... is the force of this superpersonal content and the depth of the conviction concerning its overpowering meaningfulness, regardless of whether any attempt is made to unite this content with a divine Being, for otherwise it would not be possible to count Buddha and Spinoza as religious personalities. Accordingly, a religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance and loftiness of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation. They exist with the same necessity and matter-of-factness as he himself. In this sense religion is the age-old endeavo .....
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Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech
Number of words: 698 | Number of pages: 3.... to aid in the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Thus, he was there because injustice was present (154). He was not content with a system that saw his people or people of any color, as second class citizens. He set out to bring equality for people everywhere. So often they had become victims of broken promise (155). As a result, he was determined to create an unstoppable organization, reshape a struggle and with his articulated vision, craft a strategy that took defeats and turned them into victories. Although fellow clergymen urged him not to come to Birmingham, he could not sit idly and be unconcerned wit .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of words: 1679 | Number of pages: 7.... A
favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marvelled 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 education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he
was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through the
school's strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of
teaching led to his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these differences
that ca .....
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Will Rogers
Number of words: 736 | Number of pages: 3.... and total absence of sham endeared to Americans of all backgrounds. He had no pretensions, and his pleasures were simple: he liked to ride horses, rope cattle, and read the papers. In fact he often said, "I only know what I read in the papers." In this way, he tried to show that he wasn't a Washington insider; he got his information out of the newspapers, just like regular folk. During the Depression, many people were worried about what was going on in Washington. When Will pointed out some politican who said one thing and did another, or criticized some program in Washington he didn't approve of, he'd disquise his crit .....
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Number of words: 1911 | Number of pages: 7.... as Harvard would pave the way for the future of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
It was 1932, when Roosevelt, would acquire the renowned title of
President of the United States by winning the election. It was sort of a
platform for his campaign, as he said in Chicago Stadium, “I pledge you, I
pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people....This is more than a
political campaign’ it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win
votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to it’s
greatness.” (Freedman, p.82) As soon as Roosevelt was sworn in it seemed
as though he was already making changes. In 1933 .....
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Mark Twain
Number of words: 674 | Number of pages: 3.... and the pilot was the most important man aboard the boat. He wrote of these years in 'Life on the Mississippi'.
The Civil War ended his career as a pilot. Clemens went west to Nevada and soon became a reporter on the Virginia City newspaper. Here he began using the pen name . It is an old river term meaning two fathoms, or 12 feet (4 meters), of water depth.
In 1864 he went to California. The next year he wrote his 'Jumping Frog' story, which ran in many newspapers. He was sent to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) as a roving reporter, and on his return he began lecturing. He was soon on a tour of the Mediterranean and the Ho .....
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Benito Mussolini
Number of words: 468 | Number of pages: 2.... Communists, Catholics, and Liberals.
In October 1922 Mussolini secured permission from King Victor Emmanuel
lll to form a coalition government. In 1925-26, after a lengthy crisis with the
parliament following the killing of the Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, he
imposed a Totalarian Dictatorship. His Corperative State came to terms with
Italian Capitalism but abolished the free trade unions. In 1929 he ended
conflict with the church through the Lateran Treaty of 1929.
In the 1930's Mussolini turned to an aggressive foreign policy,
conquering Ethiopia(1935-36) and helping General Francisco Franco in the Spanish
Civil .....
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George C. Wallace
Number of words: 1462 | Number of pages: 6.... on August 25, 1919. While attending Barber County High School, he was involved with boxing and football. George even won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way through college by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, and driving a taxi. He received his degree in 1942 from the University.
After receiving a medical discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he returned to Alabama. In 1946, Wallace got a job as an assistant to the attorney general for .....
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Number of words: 323 | Number of pages: 2.... and Efficiency in Dispute Systems” in 1990, “Bargaining and the Ethic Process” 1989, and “Equal Employment Law: Crisis in Intervention, Survival Against the Odds” in 1988.
Some of her numerous leadership positions include service as chair of the ACLU National Advisory Council, the Workplace Health Fund, and the Women’s Law and Policy Fellowship. In addition she serves on the Boards of Martin Luther King Jr., Center for Social Change, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Washington, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
In November 1990, she was elected as the District of .....
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