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President Gerald Ford
... started his presidency.
Early Life
Ford had a more interesting early life than he had during his
presidency. He was born in Omaha Nebraska on July 14, 1913. He wasn't
always called Gerald Ford, his original name was Leslie Lynch King Jr. His
parents were Leslie and Dorothy King. When his parents got divorced while
he was two, his mother married a man named Gerald R. Ford from whom he got
his most widely known name. Together, they moved to Grand Rapids Michigan
(1, Page 1). During his High School years, he was the most popular Senior
having been a great athlete and competing ...
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Derek Morris: A Personal Bio
... utmost level, the pros. It probably won't
come true but who knows. Being a student at Shrewsbury I have had much success.
I have been on the honor roll many times and a few months ago I was accepted to
Bryant College. On the baseball field I have also received various honors and
awards. I was captain of the baseball team in my junior and senior year and was
named most valuable player in my junior year.
Shrewsbury is not were I've always lived. I was born in Natick, lived
there for a few months then moved to Framingham. I lived in Framingham for
eleven years then moved to this town I never heard of, Shrewsbury. ...
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John Dalton
... The condition of color-blindness came to be known as Daltonism in France.
In 1793, Dalton moved to Manchester as tutor at New College founded by the Presbyterians. It was here that he did his greatest work. He immediately joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. In 1793, he published his first book, Meteorological Observations and Essays. In it he said that each gas exists and acts independently and purely physically, rather than chemically. Meaning, that gases act according to mechanical repulsion rather than chemical attraction. As a chemistry tutor, John taught from Lavoisier's Elements of Chem ...
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Thomas Paine
... from Ben Franklin, he was accepted into a hospital and given
special care, until he recovered. With that same letter from Ben Franklin, he
found many doors opened for him, including jobs tutoring many of the sons of the
wealthiest men in Philadelphia.
Paine started over again, by publishing African Slavery In America, in
the spring of 1775, in which he criticized slavery in America as being unjust
and inhumane. At about this same time, he became the co-editor for the
Pennsylvania Magazine. When he arrived in Philadelphia, Paine noticed the
tension, and the rebellious attitude, that was continually getting larger, af ...
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The Marquis De Sade's Attitude Towards Women
... a crime, he explained, and is in fact less than
robbery, for you get what is used back after the deed is done (Bloch 108).
Opinions about the Marquis de Sade's attitude towards sexual freedom for
women varies from author to author. A prevalent one, the one held by Carter,
suggests Sade's work concerns sexual freedom and the nature of such,
significant because of his "refusal to see female sexuality in relation to a
reproductive function."
Sade justified his beliefs through graffiti, playing psychologist on
vandals:
In the stylization of graffiti, the prick is
always presented erect, as an aler ...
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Biography Of Gordie Howe
... and
then he would go right back out. In a couple more years he got his first
hockey stick. He played with friends on a small frozen pond. He wanted to
play hockey for life.
Gordie played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for a couple of years
then he went to the Detroit Red Wings for around twenty-five years. He
played four Detroit Stanley Cup championships. He was the league's leading
scorer six times. He was also named “Mr. Hockey.” He is in the Hockey Hall
of Fame for all kinds of high records. He had 1,518 assists, 1,071 goals;
he scored 2,589 points, and played in 2,421 games. He also received the
Hart ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
... the organist at Eisenach's most important church, instructed the young boy on the organ. In 1695 his parents died, he was only 10 years old. He went to go stay with his older brother, Johann Christoph, who was a professional organist at Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph being a professional organist, continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so he left his brother's tutoring.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian ...
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Biography Of Irene Kuhn
... She only worked at the herald though for a year because she got
homesick. She got a job back at New York but she was let go due to
financial problems with the company. She then moved all the way to Italy
to replace a reporter at the salary of ninety dollars a month. She loved
her job and didn't care where she had to go to do it. She was very
determined to succeed. After that job fell through she and a friend moved
all the way to Shanghai. When she arrived at Shanghai she only had 25
dollars to her name. Within only a few days she found a job with The
Evening Star. There she met her future husband. Wh ...
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Allama Muhammad Iqbal
... Maktoobat, Volume I, page195)
Iqbal's contribution to the Muslim world as one of the greatest thinkers of Islam remains unparalleled. In his writings, he addressed and exhorted people, particularly the youth, to stand up and boldly face life's challenges. The central theme and main source of his message was the Qur'an.
Iqbal considered the Qur'an not only as a book of religion (in the traditional sense) but also a source of foundational principles upon which the infrastructure of an organization must be built as a coherent system of life. According to Iqbal, this system of life when implemented as a living force is ...
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Robert Boyle
... was referred to at the time. There he found a private tutor by the name
of Marcombes in Geneva. While traveling between Italy, France, and England,
Boyle was being tutored in the polite arts, philosophy, theology, mathematics,
and science.
As the years went by, Boyle became more and more interested in medicine.
His curiosity in this field led him to chemistry. At first Boyle was mainly
interested in the facet of chemistry that dealt with the preparation of drugs,
but soon he became genuinely interested in the subject and started to study it
in great detail. His studies led him to Oxford where he joined such sci ...
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