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John Cabot

... Europe and Asia were bought, sold, and traded. But the journey to buy spices and other goods from the east, was long and slow. Like Columbus, Cabot believed that the Earth was not flat, but a sphere, ans that Asia could be easily reached by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. Cabot tried to get Spain and Portugal to back an ocean voyage to Cathay, China. But Spain had already sent Columbus, and Portugal had plans for a voyage to Asia around the southern tip of Africa. Joh Cabot then went to England where he recieved the fin ...

Number of words: 383 | Number of pages: 2

Tiger Woods

... year to play professional golf) and presently resides in Orlando Florida. What interests me most about Tiger is his mastery of the game of golf. At the young age of 23, Tiger has already won 11 tournaments, eight of which are on the PGA tour. He won the 1997 Masters, which secured him a place in history as the youngest Masters champion ever. His twelve-stroke win at the Masters was the biggest margin of victory ever in the history the Masters. It all started when at the age of 6 months, when Tiger watched his father hit golf balls int ...

Number of words: 955 | Number of pages: 4

William Penn And The Quakers

... England. George Fox, the son of a Leicestershire weaver, is credited with founding it in 1647, though there was no definite organization before 1668. The Society's rejections of rituals and oaths, its opposition to war, and its simplicity of speech and dress soon attracted attention, usually hostile. King Charles II owed William Penn £16,000, money which Admiral Penn had lent him. Seeking a haven in the New World for persecuted Friends, Penn asked the King to grant him land in the territory between Lord Baltimore's province of Maryland and t ...

Number of words: 2246 | Number of pages: 9

The Life Of Walt Disney

... Since he was too young to work on the farm, he drew the animals. When he was seven, he and his sister began attending school, but in 1917 his family returned to Chicago.2 In Chicago he took a summer job on a railroad. When he began at McKinley High School, he took the money he earned to pay for art classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.3 When he was sixteen he lied about his age to join the American Red Cross during World War I. Walt Disney had difficulty holding a steady job. His father advised him to take a job at the Chicago je ...

Number of words: 1333 | Number of pages: 5

Otto Eduard Leopold Von Bismarck-Schönhausen

... Bismarck's policies were not well received by Parliament, public opinion began to favor his side in 1864. Bismarck knew that war would be necessary to achieve German unification and so he began to plan accordingly. In 1864, Christian IX of Denmark tired to seize the border territories of Schleswig-Holstein. Prussia and Austria joined forces verses Denmark to stop Christian IX. Denmark lost. This resulted in the Gastein Convention. This convention declared joint control over Schleswig-Holstein. Two years later, Bismarck accused Austria ...

Number of words: 776 | Number of pages: 3

Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy

... Batista had already broken ties with the Soviet Union and became an ally to the U.S. throughout the cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with his gangster style politics, the tiny rebellions that had sprouted began to grow. Meanwhile the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for a reg ...

Number of words: 3347 | Number of pages: 13

John Paul Jones

... to sail something. Whether it was a leaf as a child or a bit of wood blown by a small paper sail, John Paul was a seaman from birth. He attended Kirkbean School but spent much of his time at the small port of Carsethorn on the Solway Firth. As he grew up others often found him teaching his playmates to maneuver their little boats to mimic a naval battle, while he, taking his stand on the tiny cliff overlooking the small river, shouted shrill commands at his imaginary fleet. At the age of thirteen he boarded a ship to Whitehaven, wh ...

Number of words: 1501 | Number of pages: 6

Henry Ford

... achievements such as going from a poor farm boy to a wealthy inventor who helped Thomas Edison. When he was a young man, he figured out how to use simple inventions, such as the light bulb. He then taught himself the design of a steamboat engine. His goal was to build a horse-less carriage. He had come up with several designs and in 1896, he produced his first car, the Model A. When Ford’s first car came out, he had been interviewed by a reporter and when asked about the history of the car, he had said "History is more or less b ...

Number of words: 1846 | Number of pages: 7

Alice Walker

... the brothers. Throughout her writing career, has been involved in the black movement and displays strong feelings towards the respect black women get. In 1961, Walker entered Spelman College, where she joined the Civil Rights Movement. Two years after graduating in 1965, she married Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer; afterward, they worked together in Mississippi, registering blacks to vote. In the summer of 1968, she went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off ...

Number of words: 1479 | Number of pages: 6

Sir Thomas More - A Unique Her

... his faithful and loving wife, had any romantic escapades. Still, however, he is an undeniable hero of great stature. Almost every hero from King Arthur to Spiderman is characterized with physical prowess, whether it is agility, strength, or skill in combat. Thomas More on the other hand, was none of the above. His strength was not in his arms, but in his mind, his wit was his agility, and his words were his sword. Thus More’s knowledge and moral self are the only things that distinguish him as a hero. More’s own opinion in fact, was valu ...

Number of words: 466 | Number of pages: 2

Adam Smith

... the grammar school of Kirkcaldy where he received his education during his youth. Smith had a profound passion for books and had an extraordinary memory. He was described as being “[uncommonly to a] degree friendly and generous.” He was habitual in that he spoke to himself whenever he found himself without company, which was frequent. After his attendance of the grammar school Smith entered the University of Glasgow in 1737 and became a student of moral philosophy. He then transferred to Balliol College, Oxford, three years later. ...

Number of words: 1011 | Number of pages: 4

Mark Twain 3

... sketches to his brother Orion's Hannibal Journal. Subsequently he was a journeyman printer in Keokuk, Iowa; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and other cities. Later Clemens was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War brought an end to travel on the river. In 1861 Clemens served briefly as a volunteer soldier in an irregular company of Confederate cavalry. Later that year he accompanied his brother to the newly created Nevada Territory, where he tried his hand at silver mining. In 1862 he bec ...

Number of words: 1006 | Number of pages: 4

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