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Martin Luther King Jr

... old he decided to become a minister and started to work in his father’s church. After graduating college in 1948, he entered the Crozer Theological seminary. Martin was the speaker of his class in 1951 and won a graduate fellowship. Then in 1955 he received a Ph.D. in theology. In Boston Martin met Coretta Scott. Then later in 1953 martin and coretta got married and had four children, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott, Yolanda Denise, and Bernice Albrtine. In December 1958 Martin became the president of the group, Southern Christian Leaders ...

Number of words: 403 | Number of pages: 2

Henry VII

... Thames to the sea. How Old I Am Now: I am 17 years old presently, nine weeks and four days off my eighteenth birthday. Today my father has died, it is the 22nd April 1509. Occupation Of Parents: My mother was Lady Elizabeth of York, Henry VII’s wife. My father was Henry VII, King of England until his death in 1509. What I Look Like: They say I was a precious child, alert and observant. At 17 I inherited the throne that had been destined for my brother Arthur, I also inherited his widow Catherine. I am almost 200 centimetres tall with pi ...

Number of words: 1662 | Number of pages: 7

Desiderius Erasmus

... much confusion about his early life. It has been discerned that he as born in Gouda, Holland in 1469 and that he had a brother. Erasmus tried to keep all these facts hidden, confusing modern day historians. He died in 1536. Erasmus's writings included The Praise of Folly, a satire which pointed out major problems in the clergy, saying that monks were beggars, the clergy was greedy, and that the pope had no resemblance to the Apostles. He also wrote a short satirical skit in which Pope Julius II had trouble getting into heaven. In the ...

Number of words: 573 | Number of pages: 3

Thomas Jefferson

... maintained an enduring commitment to democracy, and was obsessed with the exploration of the frontier (Rayner, p.302). Upon his inauguration as President of the United States in 1801, Jefferson was concerned about the land given to France by Spain known as the Louisiana Territory. This would bring European restrictions to the United States commerce along the Mississippi River (Fleming, p.183). The territory extended from the west bank of the Mississippi River to the crest of the Rocky Mountains. After Spain ceded the immense area o ...

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"Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"

... he did have some authority in the town. In 1596 he was given by the College of Arms the right to a coat of arms and a crest. Doing that advanced his status to that of a country gentleman. He would belong to the upper class of rural society. That was the class just under the knights and the nobility to which the country gentleman could be promoted if he made money in trade or the law and had influence at court. His rise in authority began the year after he was married. He became constable of Stratford, in charge of keeping the town ...

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James Clerk Maxwell

... was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy from 1841 to 1847, when he entered the University of Edinburgh. He then went on to study at the University of Cambridge in 1850, graduating with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1854. He became a professor of natural philosophy at Marischal College in Aberdeen in 1856. Then in 1860 he moved to London to become a professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at King's College. On the death of his father in 1865, Maxwell returned to his family home in Scotland and devote ...

Number of words: 1673 | Number of pages: 7

William James: The Later Years

... a theory. But James's own experiments were only one source of his ideas about psychology. He came up with many of his major insights and hypotheses from another and very different source: introspection, of a kind quite unlike that practiced by Wundt and his students. In James's opinion, any effort to seize and isolate individual elements of a thought process by means of Wundtian introspection would fail. But he felt that a naturalistic kind of introspection, to observe our own thoughts and feelings as they actually seem to us, could te ...

Number of words: 1193 | Number of pages: 5

Helen Keller

... methods by which she was taught. It will also explain to the reader the difficulty of not having the ability to speak, see, and hear and overcoming this to be a wonderful person in history. Once Helen did not respond to the sounds of bells her parents knew at once that something was wrong with Helen. They soon discovered that Helen was deaf. They discovered later that she was blind when she did not blink when her mother clothed or bathed her. She was declared legally as an idiot. She soon started going to a special school called th ...

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Colin Powell

... peasant farmers. Muad and Luther while in New York not in Jamaica (source 1, page 20, 21). is a smart man. Surprisingly when he was in fourth grade he was in the slow class. When he attended Junior High School, he went to an all male school. He did well academically but he was over looked by his parents because his sister, Marilyn Powell, always did better. He attended Morris High School in 1950. He was good in high school; he never got into any fights or any sort of trouble. He completed High school in 1954 (source 1, page 29, 30, 32). Pow ...

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The Life Of Georgia O'Keefe

... fall of 1903. Chatham offered an art program, which I excelled in. In 1905, I was accepted into the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago, where my studies were as successful as ever. I was prevented from returning the following fall due to a severe case of typhoid fever. By 1907, I was ready to attend school again, this time at New York City’s Art Students League. I continued to enjoy my success almost without interruption. I began a series of one-year teaching positions which I held in Amarillo, Texas in 1912-1913, as a drawing su ...

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The Life Of Michael Jordan

... 1998). He was once again an ALL-NBA First Team member in 1996 after making his return from baseball. You can always pencil Mike in as the starting guard for the all-star game (12 appearances in 1985 and from 1987-1993 and again in 1997). He started for the ninth time in 1998, as the first player ever to receive more than 2 million votes. Jordan was once again elected to start (10th time in 12 appearances) in 1998 after leading the eastern conference in voting. Jordan holds the record for most career scoring titles with eight, including 7 ...

Number of words: 804 | Number of pages: 3

Ivan The Terrible

... position, and she feared for the safety of her sons since she knew that Vasili's family wished to seize the throne. After involving Russia in two wars, in both of which it failed miserably, Ivan's mother Elena was poisoned. Now Ivan was an orphan, with both parents dead when he was just eight years old. This is Scar Number One: The Death of Both of His Parents. The ruling class at this time was known as the Boyars, and these Boyars held the responsibility of "taking care" of Ivan. During his childhood, Ivan would live in constant fear of t ...

Number of words: 2253 | Number of pages: 9

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