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Margaret Bourke-White
... a position at the Museum of Natural History and went to Cleveland to open her own photography studio.
Margaret had courage and talent from the beginning. At first she did advertising work for schools and other businesses but never stopped working on her artistic skills. For example, as she was walking by she noticed a preacher speaking in a square with only a group of pigeons to hear. Margaret wanted to take his picture but she didn't have her camera with her. She ran into a camera store and asked to rent or borrow a camera. The picture became one of her first works of art and the owner of the store became one of ...
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J.p. Morgan
... on his persona, his influence and character shaped the business world more so than any other person at the turn of the century. Morgan was a banker, railroad czar, industrialist, financier, philanthropist, yachtsman, and ladies' man. He was king to a handful of millionaire barons who controlled the country's wealth in an era of little government regulation.
The wealth of the Morgan family did not begin with Pierpont but with his grandfather Joseph Morgan. Joseph prospered as a hotelkeeper in Hartford, Connecticut. He helped to organize a canal company, steamboat lines and the new railroad that connected Hartf ...
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William Lloyd Garrison
... began publishing the Liberator, an influential newspaper that vehemently aroused violent public reaction in both the North and the South. However, the abolitionists of Garrison’s time were a minority. The Liberator, published until 1865, never had more than 3,000 subscribers, and it never made a profit. Thus, it is fair to say that Garrison’s goal was not to become affluent through this publication.
Garrison used his religious, abolitionist views to elevate himself into renown. He wanted people to hear his views. In response to his abolitionist causes, Garrison proclaimed, “I am in earnestR ...
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Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
... However, he practiced his profession for a few years, because he became increasingly interested in political economy, sociology, biology, and philosophy. He was a subeditor of The economist from 1848 to 1853, and then ventured into a full-time career as a free-lance author.
As early as 1842 Spencer contributed to the Nonconformist a series of letters called The Proper Sphere of Government, his first major publication. It contains his political philosophy of extreme individualism and Laissez Faire, which was not much modified in his writings in the following sixty years. Spencer expresses in The Proper Sphere of Go ...
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Miles Davis
... Parker. He played with Parker live and in recordings from the period of 1945 to 1948. Davis began leading his own group in 1948 as well as working with arranger Gil Evans. Davis’ career was briefly interrupted by a heroin addiction, although he continued to record with other popular bop musicians.
1955 was ’ breakthrough year. His performance of “round midnight” at the Newport Jazz Festival alerted the critics that he was “back”. Davis form a quintet which included Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and John Coletrain. In 1957 Davis made the first of many solo recordings with the unusua ...
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John F. Kennedy
... 1946 Kennedy was voted into the US. House of Representatives. As a congressman Kennedy went for the bills that went to help the working class people. And he sided with Truman's foreign policies except for America's weak stand against communist's. later Kennedy ran for a seat in the Senate and won. During a stint with sickness Kennedy wrote a Politzer price winning book about military heroes.
In 1960 Kennedy ran for president against Nixon, and because Kennedy looked good on TV he won the vote. But by less then 115,000 popular votes.
For Kennedy the most important part of his presidency came on October 16, 1 ...
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John Dalton 3
... and in science. When John reached the age of twelve he opened a school of his own. This was a problem with the Daltons because he was often threatened and beat up.
Around 1790 he finished an eleven volume classified botanical collection. He became a well known person in the community for his amazing achievements in academics. He became very interested in becoming a doctor. The family although had to talk John out of becoming a doctor due to the lack of money in the families income. They also did not feel that John would like being a physician in the long run.
Later at the age of twenty six John discovered ...
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Biography Of Christopher Columbus
... with a convoy bound for
England. Legend has it that the fleet was attacked by pirates off the coast
of Portugal, where Columbus's ship was sunk, but he swam to shore and took
refuge in Lisbon. Settling there, where his brother Bartholomew Columbus
was working as a cartographer, he was married in 1479 to the daughter of
the governor of the island of Porto Santo. Diego Columbus, the only child
of this marriage, was born in 1480.
Based on information acquired during his travels, and by reading
and studying charts and maps, Christopher concluded that the earth was 25
percent smaller than was previously thought, a ...
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Mary Shelley
... the summer of 1816, staying at Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Mary was only nineteen at the4 time. She wrote the novel while being overwhelmed by a series of difficulties in her life. The worst of these were the suicides of her half-sister, Fanny Imlay, and Percy Shelley’s wife, Harriet (Student Handbook, 190). After these deaths Mary and Percy married. Fierce public hostility toward the couple drove them to Italy. Eventually they were happy in Italy, but their two children William and Clara Shelley died there. Mary never really recovered from their deaths. However, Percy empowered Mary to live as she most ...
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Roberto Clemente
... 1960 and .414 in 1971. He was the National League Batting
Champion four times, was awarded twelve Gold Gloves, selected National League
MVP in 1966 and was chosen as the MVP in the 1971 World Series. He was also a 12
time National League All-Star. Throughout his career, he played in 2,433 games. Out of the 9,454 times at bat, Roberto got a hit 3,000 of those times. He had 440 doubles, 166 triples, and 240 homeruns. Roberto had 1,305 RBI’s and he scored 1,416 runs for his team. Overall, his career batting average was a .317. On November 14, 1964, he married Vera Cristina Zabala in Carolina, Puerto Rico. They ha ...
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