... of boxing. After his bike was stolen, in the month of October 1954, when he was twelve, his whole life destiny changed in an instant. Upon finding out that there was a police officer in the basement of a gym, Ali went down in a horrendous state of mind exclaiming a "state wide bike hunt (http://www.planetpapers.com/jump.cgi?ID=182.html)," and said he was going to beat up the person that sole his bike. The way his life changed was that the police officer asked him if he knew how to fight and he said "no." The policeman offered Ali lessons in how to box so that he could seek on the bike thief. Th ...

... her natural drive to search for the truth. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her father, James Wells, was a carpenter and her mother was a cook. After the Civil War her parents became politically active. Her father was known as “race” man, a term given to African Americans involved in the leadership of the community. He was a local businessman, a mason, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Shaw University. Both parents provided Ida with strong role models. They worked hard and held places of respect in the community as forward-looking people. James and Elizabeth ( ...

... Bear on Nickelodeon. Sendak grew up a sickly child who was not allowed to go outside often. Therefore, being the youngest child in a family of three, he was left alone with his imagination. He enjoyed drawing and reading from an early age, but was often dissatisfied with the children books that were available to him. He attempted to read what he called "real books" even when he was a young child; he felt it was an embarrassment even to enter the childrens' section of the library. Sendak writes the type of books he wished he had as a child; entertaining stories which are not limited by any effort to make thin ...

... had a fascination with books, and he enjoyed reading. Franklin writes in The Autobiography, "From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books" (530). He learned French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin. His idea about education was to read to gain knowledge, and work hard in order to educate yourself. He was a jack of all trades and master of many. He felt that a man should learn what he called his "business" throughly and work hard in order to succeed. In the "The Way to Wealth," one of his most popular articles which help shape American culture, he ...

... near San Antonio, Texas. Shortly after his arrival, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, and later on July 1st of 1916, they got married. In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, he was promoted to captain, and he was assigned to training duty at Fort Oglethorpe and also Fort Leavenworth as an instructor in officer courses. In 1918 he commanded 6,000 men at Tank Training Center at Camp Colt, near Getttysburg, Pennsylvania and was promoted to temporary major and then lieutenant colonel when he commanded the Tank Brigade at Camp Meade. Even though he never went overseas, he was given the Distinguished Service ...

... easy, leaving me so much free time that the sun saw more of me than my room...". Although as he got older his marks started to slip and the teachers began to get a bad impression of him, he was still very bright (one cannot become stupider). He eventually went on to join the army and become a semi-successful soldier (on the account that he was merely wounded and not killed).CHILDHOOD The Hitler family consisted of the mother, Klara, the father, Alois, and two children, Alois and Angela. Klara gave birth to a baby boy named Adolf on April 20, 1889 at the Pommer Inn. The Hitlers soon moved to Braunau. His godpare ...

... Elizabeth was eleven her family settled in Manhattan, which is known today as New York City. Then her father raised enough money and they bought a house in New Jersey. Uncle Charles came to America and married Miss Major. In 1837 hard times came to America. In 1838, Elizabeth's father went to see the Ohio River Valley, and when he came back he announced that they were all moving to Cincinnati, Ohio. It was a long hard trip, but when they got there they found a house and furniture. They had asked a friend back home to sell their house and send them the money, but the friend sold the house and disappeared with t ...

... Thomas Jefferson was the symbol of the Democratic-Republican party. He saw the purpose of the government as the protection of the individuals right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He valued social harmony. He believed that property was among the natural rights of man. He encouraged public opinion. He had a system of free public education. Alexander Hamilton was the symbol of the Federalist party. He had a dream of national grandeur to which he was prepared to subordinate the interests of the people. He had a wish to replace the Articles of Confederation with a strong centralized government ...

... richest pluralists, which is a practice that allows one man to hold many state and church offices at the same time. This help s the king because then the church officials have to report to the king directly. My wife Lucie had warned me about a terrible dream that she had before we left about Ned and I. Her dreams were usually right in one way or another. The dream was of a burning town, with Ned and I standing in it, and the citizens were accusing us of a crime and they were taking Ned away. I had a bad feeling about the journey mainly because I knew there would be fighting and I had only one eye and a lot of sc ...

... present in a simple stone as He is in other great entities. In “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower,” Thomas again makes the connection of body and earth, implying that there is only one holy force that has created all motion and life on this planet. This force, because it is so pure and boundless, is present in the shadows and poverty of our world, as depicted in “Light breaks where no sun shines.” God’s sacred presence in the body and earth is the ultimate theme within these chosen poems. In “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower,” ...