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Maria Mitchell

... her to mathematics and the night sky. He also encouraged her toward teaching and passed on a sense of God as in the natural world. By the time Maria was sixteen, she was a teacher of mathematics at Cyrus Pierce's school for young ladies where she used to be a student. Following that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the ...

Number of words: 931 | Number of pages: 4

B. F. Skinner

... language. (Ulrich, 1997) B. F. Skinner was very adventurous child. He lead a 300 mile canoe trip down the Susquehanna River when he was only 13 years old. He was a natural inventor and he loved build things. One of his inventions included a device that automatically reminded him to hang up his pajamas in the morning. He played the saxophone in a jazz band during high school and played piano until his failing eyesight made it hard for him to read the music. In college, he was very independent, and sometimes even a prankster. He graduated fr ...

Number of words: 1070 | Number of pages: 4

Frederick Douglass

... slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked." Frederick has absolutely no hatred toward the religion itself, all his hatred came from slavery. He goes on to say "I love the pure, peaceful, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, sl ...

Number of words: 1169 | Number of pages: 5

Amiri Baraka

... then transferred to receive his degree from Howard University. Baraka served in the military for three years before settling in Greenwich Village in New York, at the heart of the Beat scene. Baraka began writing seriously and with first wife, Hettie Cohen, founded the influential Beat literary journal, Yugen. Baraka then grew in notority when he won the Obie, awarded by the Village Voice newspaper, an off-Broadway award, for his play, Dutchman. With his new found reputation, Baraka opened the Black Arts Repertory School in 1964. The insti ...

Number of words: 281 | Number of pages: 2

Eisenhower 2

... work laboriously to persuade the general that he was what the American people wanted and needed for the country; however Eisenhower loathed the partisanship of the political arena and lacked any burning desire to hold public office. In early 1952 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 be ...

Number of words: 2426 | Number of pages: 9

Joan Of Arc

... and Jacques d'Arc raised her. Joan's father was a small peasant farmer, poor but not needy. Joan was the youngest of a family of five. She grew up herding cattle and sheep and helping in the fields during the harvest. Joan often referred to herself as Jeanne la Pucelle (Joan the Maid.) Joan, like most other children, spent much time praying to the statues of saints that stood around the church in her village. At the age of 13 in the summer of 1425, she began having religious visions and hearing what she believed were voices of sa ...

Number of words: 1059 | Number of pages: 4

Carl Jung

... mannikin. Carl was exposed to death early in life, since his father was a minister and attended many funerals, taking his son with him. Also, Jung saw many fishermen get killed in the waterfalls and also many pigs get slaughtered. When he was eleven, he went to a school in Basel, met many rich people and realized that he was poor, compared to them. He liked to read very much outside of class and detested math and physical education classes. Actually, gym class used to give him fainting spells (neurosis) and his father worried that Jung w ...

Number of words: 3700 | Number of pages: 14

Charlemagne

... Europe. was born in 742 A.D., to a very famous and well-known family. ’s grandfather was Charles Martel, the man who was responsible for the defeat of the Saracens. was also the eldest son of Bertrade (also known as Bertha Greatfoot) and Pepin the Short, the first to become king of the Franks. With the almost full extinction of schools in the 8th century, many historians say that received very little education, but did learn the art of reading from Bertrade. The one thing that kept motivated throughout his entire life was his de ...

Number of words: 1191 | Number of pages: 5

Margaret Mead

... and was educated at Barnard College and at Columbia University. In 1926 she became assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and she subsequently served as associate curator (1942-64) and as curator (1964-69). She was director of research in contemporary cultures at Columbia University from 1948 to 1950 and adjunct professor of anthropology there after 1954. In 1968 she was appointed full professor and head of the social science department in the Liberal Arts College of Fordham University at L ...

Number of words: 246 | Number of pages: 1

Miller's Incident At Vichy

... introduced to 17 characters who showed a range of emotions while waiting to be seen by the police captain. The seven main characters had very dramatic parts. The main characters I identified with were Bayad, a master electrician who is 25, Marchand, a cheerful and impatient businessman who was 25, Lebeau, a bearded, unkept painter who was also 25 and very out spoken, Monceau, an actor, Leduc, a doctor of psychiatry and captain in the French army, Von Berg, an Austrian prince, and Ferrand, a cafe proprietor. What a profound insight Arthur ...

Number of words: 497 | Number of pages: 2

Ty Cobb

... after the city and became one of baseball's most stubborn and hated men. The Georgia Peach, so-called, was a creature of extremes. Ty Cobb is, by bald statistics, measurably the greatest hitter ever; he was, by the reckoning of virtually everyone who met him, personally the most despicable human being ever to grace the National Pastime (Deford 56). Cobb's playing career, with the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics, was arguably the best anyone ever had. He won twelve batting titles in thirteen years, including a record nine in a ...

Number of words: 1754 | Number of pages: 7

Joseph Stalin

... Social Democratic party in Georgia. He also was ful-time in revolutionary work, he helped organize strikes. This had begun life for the young boy. He lived lived in pseudonyms, Koba (Americana). In March 1912, Joseph, arrived in St. Petersberg to help set up Pravda. The Pravda was the newspaper for the Bosheviks. The newspaper first appeared in 1912, on May 5. In March 7, 1913 he had to be returned in St. Petersberg and had gotten arrested then was deported to Siberia (Amaricana). In 1912, Joseph was rewardedfrom Lenin by coopting him to the ...

Number of words: 367 | Number of pages: 2

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