People Essays
Posted: January 10th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, Film and Music, Music, People | Tags: Jazz Music, Miles Davis, Music History | Comments Off
Miles Davis is considered one of the four great jazz players along with Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington (Miles Davis Biography, 2004). Davis’ career spans five decades, from the mid 1940’s to 1991, which is almost unheard of in the music industry where careers tend to be short. His long career includes awards [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, Film and Music, People | Tags: Artists, Famous Painters, Impressionism | Comments Off
Although he is almost unknown during his brief lifetime, Vincent Willem van Gogh, was born Mar. 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, the Netherlands and is today probably the most known and appreciated representative of art. His work became an important bridge between the 19th and 20th centuries; and it was particularly influential.
Van Gogh [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Philosophy | Comments Off
Born on November 7, 1913 in Mandoui, Algeria, Albert Camus earned a worldwide reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. Though his writings, and in some measure against his will, he became the leading moral voice of his generation during the 1950’s. Camus died at the height [...]
Posted: June 6th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, Law & Politics, Middle East, People | Tags: Israel, Judaism, Netanyahu, Palestinians | Comments Off
The middle east has many problems trying to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The peace process started about four years ago with the Middle East countries. Through the process many people have had major influence on it. One person who might have one of the greatest influences of the peace agreement is Israeli [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Philosophy | Tags: French Government, Paris, Voltaire | Comments Off
Francois Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire) was born on November 21, 1694 in Paris. Voltaire’s style, wit, intelligence and keen sense of justice made him one of France’s greatest writers and philosophers.
Young Francois Marie received an excellent education at a Jesuit school. He left school at 16 and soon formed friendships with a group of [...]
Posted: May 8th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Women | Tags: A Vindication of Rights of Woman, Feminism, Philosophers, Women, Women in Society | Comments Off
Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759 in Spitalfields, London. Mary grew up with her seven siblings and was the second oldest child. Growing up in her years, Mary was close to her oldest brother Edward and her youngest sister Elizabeth. Mary was brought up in a home where she witnessed her mother being [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, World War 2 (WW2) | Tags: Deutschland, Germany, Gestapo, Himmler, Hitler, Nazi, Reichstag, SS, Third Reich, Waffenn-SS, World War II | Comments Off
Reichsfuhrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945 and organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich on 7 October 1900. The son of a pious, authoritarian Roman Catholic schoolmaster who had once been tutor to the Bavarian [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Artists, Famous Painters, Filmakers, Hollywood, Pop Art | Comments Off
Andy Warhol Pop art is a movement that occurred near the end of the 1950’s. It was a reaction to the seriousness of Abstract Expressionism. Pop art emphasized contemporary social values, the sprawl of urban life, the vulgar, the superficial, and the flashy. Advertising provided a number of starting points for the subjects. A particular [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Poetry | Tags: A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, The Giving Tree | Comments Off
Shel Silverstein has been recognized as one of the most talented and successful authors for poetry of his time. Shel grew up learning more talents than most of the other children. His career was full of success; many believe he was born with the natural ability to write. He had a strong sense of humor [...]
Posted: November 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Literature, People | Tags: Harper Lee, Southern, To Kill A Mockingbird | Comments Off
Early Life
Born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28, 1926, Nelle Harper Lee is the youngest of three children of Amassa Coleman Lee and Francis Lee. Before his death, Miss Lee’s father and her older sister, Alice, practiced law together in Monroeville. When one considers the theme of honor that runs throughout Miss Lee’s novel, it [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Australia, People, Social Issues | Tags: Entrepreneurs | Comments Off
In the early 1980’s a young confident man named Christopher Charles Skase became world famous by amassing a list of assets including a multi-million dollar company called Quintex, the channel 7 network, Mirage resorts and a number of extravagant houses across the world.
Christopher Skase was born on the 18th of September 1948 in Melbourne, Australia. [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, Marxism, People | Tags: Karl Marx | Comments Off
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, known for their social commentary. His [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, People, World War 1 (WW1), World War 2 (WW2) | Tags: Battle of Stalingrad, Communism, Great War, Hitler, Joseph Stalin, League of Nations, Russia, Socialism, Soviet Union, Stalin, USSR, World War I, World War II | Comments Off
In a country full of chaos, a great leader is needed to restore order. In Russia’s case, that leader was Joseph Stalin. After Lenin’s death, Stalin controlled the communist party in 1927. He believed in socialism in one country. After Stalin came into power, his goal was to make Russia a powerful communist country. To [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, People, World War 2 (WW2) | Tags: British Prime Ministers, Great Britian, Hitler, Nazi, NAZI Germany, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day, World War II | Comments Off
Sir Winston Churchill was the eldest son of aristocrat Lord Randolph Churchill and was born on 30th November 1874. He is best known for his stubborn and courageous leadership as Prime Minister for Great Britain when he led the British people from the brink of defeat during World War II, ultimately to victory over NAZI [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, People, Philosophy, Social Issues | Tags: Alcohol Abuse, Aristotle, Philosophers, Substance Abuse | Comments Off
An ethical issue that is debated in our society is the concern of driving while intoxicated. Although this was naturally not the case during Aristotle’s time, many of his ethical beliefs can be applied to refute this dilemma. I will prove the standing issue to be unethical through Aristotles discussion of virtue and his concept [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: British Colonialism, India, Justice, People | Tags: Activism, British Government, British Law, Caste System, Gandhi, Human Equality, Indian History, Indian Independance, Salt March, Social Inequality | Comments Off
Mohandus Karamchand Gandhi was a major figure in Indian history. He was best known for his policy of passive resistance and civil disobedience against unjust laws set by the British government. He inspired other nonviolent movements notably the U.S. civil right movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s lead by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Encarta [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Charity, Oil, philanthropy | Comments Off
John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was the guiding force behind the creation and development of the Standard Oil Company, which grew to dominate the oil industry and became one of the first big trusts in the United States, thus engendering much controversy and opposition regarding its business practices and form [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Classical Music, Classical Period, Composer, Mozart, The Enlightenment, Violin | Comments Off
“The classical period produced more instrumental than vocal music, a wealth of serious and comic operas as well as vocal religious music also appeared during this time”(Ferris, 231). One of the best composer of this time was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this paper I will go through his childhood, his friends and family, and of [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Charles Manson, Crime, Criminals, Murder, Serial Killer | Comments Off
Charles Manson is known as one of the most sinister and evil criminals of all time. He organized the murders that shocked the world and his name still strikes fear into American hearts. Manson’s childhood, personality, and uncanny ability to control people led to the creation of a family-like cult and ultimately to the bloody [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne, Short Stories, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Comments Off
The father of Science Fiction, a visionary French novelist, a short story writer, and a dramatist. This is the essence of the man we know today as Jules Verne. In his voluminous writings he foresaw a number of scientific devices and developments that were more than a century ahead of his time. Some of the [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Battle of New Orleans, Federal Election, First Seminole War, US Presidents, War of 1812 | Comments Off
The year was 1824. The election of this year was very unusual because of the number of candidates running for president. One of the candidates was Andrew Jackson, or “Old Hickory” as they called him, a general that had won the Battle of New Orleans(which was a battle not needed) in the War of 1812. [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Comments Off
There is no doubt that those in every city who by their merits obtain fame become a blessed light to those who are born after them. For there is nothing that arouses the minds of men, and makes them indifferent to the hardships of study, so much as the thought of the honour and advantage [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, World War 2 (WW2) | Tags: Albert Einstein, Anti-Nazism, Atomic Bomb, Germany, Judaism, Mass–Energy Equivalence, Nobel Prize, Patents, Photoelectric Effect, Physicists, Physics, Scientists, Theory of Relativity, World War II, Zionism | Comments Off
Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man’s work, everyone knows that its impact on the world of science is astonishing. Yes, many have heard of Albert Einstein’s General Theory [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Crime, Criminals, Robbery | Comments Off
On June 22, 1903 a man named John Dillinger was born. He grew up in the Oak Hill Section of Indianapolis. When John was three years old his mother died, and when his fatehr remarried six years later, John resented hes stepmother.
When John was a teenager he was frequently in trouble. He finally quit school [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Calculator, Mathematics, Philosophers, Physicists, Physics | Comments Off
Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont, Auvergne, France on June 19, 1628. He was the son of Etienne Pascal, his father, and Antoinette Begone, his mother who died when Blaise was only four years old. After her death, his only family was his father and his two sisters, Gilberte, and Jacqueline, both of whom played [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Poetry | Tags: Battle of Philippi | Comments Off
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin, the son of a freedman, but himself born free. His father, though poor, spent considerable money on Horace’s education, accompanying him first to Rome for his primary education, and [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Patron Saints | Comments Off
1. Birth
Saint Francis was born Giovanni Bernadone in either 1181 or 1182 in the Italian hill town of Assisi. His parents, Pietro and Pica, were members of the rather well-to-do merchant class of the town. Pioetro Bernadone was away in France when his son was born. On his return, he had the boy’s name changed [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Comments Off
I chose to do my paper on John Saul. I chose this author because I have already read many works by him. His books are psychological thrillers that keep you turning pages. Every book of his that I’ve read has been awesome. I plan to read his 15th novel, Second Child. I have already learned [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Ancient Greece, Music, People | Tags: Geometry, Mathematics, Pythagoras, Pythagorean theorem | Comments Off
Pythagoras was a very significant person in the history of the world. He made many contributions to the fields of math, music, and astronomy. Pythagoras’s teachings and beliefs that were once taught by him in his own school in ancient Greece, are still taught today.
The thing that Pythagoras is probably the most famous for is [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, World War 2 (WW2) | Tags: Fighter Planes, Pilots, U.S Air Force, World War II | Comments Off
U.S. Air Force pilot Charles (“Chuck”) E. Yeager was born on February 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia. Yeager was the first person to fly a plane faster than the speed of sound. His father was a driller for natural gas in the West Virginia coal fields. As the United States began mobilizing for World [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Cubism, Famous Painters, Fine Arts | Comments Off
Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. As a young boy he attended Barcelona’s School of Fine arts. By the age of 15 he was a well- rounded figurative painter. He was inspired early on by the capital of art, PARIS, which was where he soaked up the sketchy style of works [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Music, People | Tags: Classical Music, Composer, Orchestra, Piano | Comments Off
The rise of Ludwig van Beethoven into the ranks of history’s greatest composers was parallelled by and in some ways a consequence of his own personal tragedy and despair. Beginning in the late 1790’s, the increasing buzzing and humming in his ears sent Beethoven into a panic, searching for a cure from doctor to doctor. [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cancer, People | Tags: Canada, Canadian History, Cancer Research, Famous Athletes, Osteosarcoma | Comments Off
In Canadian history there are many famous people. In my mind one really stands out among the rest. His name is Terry Fox and he is one of the greatest athlete to run on the face of this planet. Terry discovered he had cancer and then decided to run across Canada. He was a brave [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Music, People | Tags: 2Pac, Rap | Comments Off
Tupac Shakur was a very influential person in 20th century USA. He was born on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn New York, and died on September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas Nevada (unknown author, no title, no page, letter code C). But his family moved around a lot while he was a kid (Bastin, J.D.). [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Poetry | Tags: Leaves of Grass | Comments Off
Through the history of the United States there have been a countless numbers of poets. With them came an equal number of writing styles. Certainly one of the most unique poets to write life’s story through his own view of the world and with the ambition to do it was Walter Whitman. Greatly criticized by [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: House of Romanov, Murder, Rasputin, Russia | Comments Off
Introduction
Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin is known as the Siberian Mystic Healer, whose life has been retold numerous of times and almost each time it is told it is retold in a different way. Since Rasputin lived in a civilization not that advanced, little is know of his first forty years of life. So most information on [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Industrial Revolution, People | Tags: British Monarch, Great Britain, Queen Victoria, United Kingdom, Victorian Era | Comments Off
On November 6, 1817 Princess Charlotte, the only heir to the crown of England died. She was the only child of the Prince Regent and was not a happy women. She was married off to prince of Orange at the age or 17, but broke off the marriage after falling in love with Prince Augustus [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: British Colonialism, People | Tags: Native Indians, North America | Comments Off
Who really was Pocahontas? Was she like the Indian girl in the Disney movie, who saved her reservation? Yes and no. She was an Indian of the Algonquian Indians. Her father was Powhatan, the chief. Her original name, however was in fact, Matoaka. But Pocahontas mean playful, frolicsome little girl and so they nicknamed her [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Poetry | Tags: African American, African American Literature | Comments Off
Phillis Wheatley, one of Americas most profound writers, has contributed greatly to American literature, not only as a writer, but as an African American woman, who has influenced many African Americans by enriching their knowledge of and exposure to their Negro heritage and Negro literature. As one of Americas most renown writers, Wheatley, said to [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: African American, Celebrity, Influential Women, philanthropy, Television | Comments Off
“The Oprah Winfrey Show”. Her show is known to not only all over the United States, but also known to all around the world. Today she is known as the America’s most famous and powerful woman. Every woman in America envies her great fortune and her intelligence. But Oprah insists that she is not special [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Russian Revolution, World War 1 (WW1) | Tags: House of Romanov, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Nicholas II of Russia, Russia, Russian Tsar, Russo-Japanese War, World War I | Comments Off
In his book, The Last Tsar, Edvard Radzinsky describes a very interesting viewpoint of the life and death of Nicholas Alexandrovich, the last Russian Tsar. Radzinsky’s illustration of this ill-fated monarch follows the diaries of Nicholas from their beginning on March 1, 1881, to the final entry on July 16, 1918.1 Radzinsky mainly goes over [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: France, French Revolution, People | Tags: French Consulate, French Empire, Invasion of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I, Napoleonic Wars, Peninsular War, War of the Third Coalition, Warfare | Comments Off
Napoleon Bonaparte, who is also known as the “little Corsican”, was born on August 15,1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. His family had moved there from Italy in the 16th century. His original name was Napoleone. He had 7 brothers and sisters. His original nationality was Corsican-Italian. He also despised the French. He thought they were oppressors [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Federal Election, Fugitive Slave Act, Millard Fillmore, Slavery, The Mexican War, US Presidents, Zachary Taylor | Comments Off
Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874), 13th president of the United States (1850-1853) and the second vice president to finish the term of a deceased president. He succeeded Zachary Taylor at a critical moment in United States history. The Mexican War (1846-1848) had renewed the conflict between the Northern and Southern states over slavery, since it had added [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Poetry | Tags: 16th Century, Famous Painters, Sistine Chapel, Statue of David | Comments Off
Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelo’s artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it’s natural state. Michelangelo’s poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo’s sculpture brought out his optimism. Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb of [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Vietnam War | Tags: African American, American Civil Rights Movement, Assassinations, Civil Rights, March on Washington, Nobel Peace Prize | Comments Off
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born at noon Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at his home in Atlanta, Georgia. He was first named Michael Luther King Jr., and later changed his name to Martin, after his father. He was the first son and second child born to the reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Vietnam War | Tags: African American, American Civil Rights Movement, Assassinations, March on Washington, Nobel Peace Prize | Comments Off
Martin Luther lived from 1483-1546. Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben in the province of Saxony. His protestant view of Christianity started what was called the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Luther’s intentions were to reform the medieval Roman Catholic Church. But firm resistance from the church towards Luther’s challenge made way to [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Comments Off
Marco Polo is one of the most well-known heroic travelers and traders around the world. In my paper I will discuss with you Marco Polo’s life, his travels, and his visit to China to see the great Khan.
Marco Polo was born in c.1254 in Venice. He was a Venetian explorer and merchant whose account of [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Canada | Comments Off
The greatest Prime Minister of Canada was? Mackenzie King our 10thPrime Minister of Canada and by far one of our greatest. William Lyon Mackenzie King accomplished a lot in his twenty-0ne years of ministering our Country Canada!
“It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.” (Mackenzie King august 26, [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Women | Tags: Actors, Film, Jazz Music, Women in Society | Comments Off
The flapper era was the time of the worship of youth (pandorasbox/flapper). Flappers were women of the Jazz Age. They had measurements of pre-adolescent boys, with no waistline, no bust, and no butt. Flappers had short hair worn no longer than chin length, called bobs. Their hair was often dyed and waved into flat, head-hugging [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: French History, People | Tags: Louis the Great, War of the Spanish Succession | Comments Off
Louis XIV was only four years old when he succeeded his father to the French throne. Often uncared for, he nearly drowned because no one was watching him as he played near a pond. This began to shape in his young mind an early fear of God.
Louis’ character was also shaped by the French Civil [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Celebrity, Movies | Comments Off
“At 17 Leslie Hornby took hold of the world. At 21 she let it go, she was the original waif, a 60s phenomenon a superstar. She was Twiggy” (Vogue). Leslie Hornby was the revolutionary woman who changed the idea of beauty in the eyes of the fashion industry and the entire world. Twiggy exemplified the [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Marxism, People, Philosophy | Tags: Communism, Karl Marx, marxist, Philosophers, Socialism | Comments Off
Karl Marx was the greatest thinker and philosopher of his time. His views on life and the social structure of his time revolutionized the way in which people think. He created an opportunity for the lower class to rise Above the aristocrats and failed due to the creation of the middle class. Despite this failure, [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Marxism, People, Philosophy | Tags: Communism, Karl Marx, marxist, Philosophers, Socialism | Comments Off
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, known for their social commentary. His [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Roman Empire | Tags: Ancient Rome, fall of the roman empire, Julius Caesar, Latin, Politician, Roman, Roman Republic | Comments Off
Julius Caesar was born on the thirteenth day of the month Quintilis in the year of 100 BC. His full name was Gaius Julius Caesar, the same as his fathers. Gaius was his given name and Julius was his surname. He was a strong political and military leader who changed the history of the Greco-Roman [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Roman Empire | Tags: Ancient Rome, fall of the roman empire, Julius Caesar, Latin, Politician, Roman, Roman Republic | Comments Off
A baby was born on July 12 or 13 of 100 BC in Rome. Little did the proud parents of this baby know that he would rule most of the known world. This baby was born to the name of Gaius, his personal name, Julius was the name of his family’s clan and the name [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Roman Empire | Tags: Ancient Rome, fall of the roman empire, Julius Caesar, Latin, Politician, Roman, Roman Republic | Comments Off
Julius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of the history of the Greco – Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength he created a strong empire . What happened during his early political career? How did he become such a strong dictator of the Roman Empire? [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: English History, People | Tags: Church of England, Henry VIII, King of England, Roman Catholic Church, Tudor | Comments Off
On June 28, 1941 Henry the VIII of England was born. This young man will form his own church. He will succeed to the throne in 1509. He will also marry six women! Something good will happen when he is king, he will unite England and Wales and will also do some bad things like [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Automobile, Automotive, Ford, Ford Motor Company, Fordism, Henry Ford | Comments Off
Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 to William and Mary Ford. He was the first of six children. He grew up in a rich farming household in Dearborn, Michigan. He enjoyed a typical childhood, spending his days in a one-room schoolhouse and doing farm chores. Ever since he was young, he showed an [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Automobile, Automotive, Ford, Ford Motor Company, Fordism, Henry Ford | Comments Off
Henry Ford was a genius in many aspects of our everyday life. He changed industry, production, and everybody’s lifestyle. Many people know about him inventing some of the first automobiles, but what came out of it for America was a new encouragement for technology and an easier lifestyle for the average American.
Also Henry Ford has [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: English History, People | Tags: Gunpowder Plot, London, Roman Catholic Church | Comments Off
Fawkes Guy, was one of the greatest conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot. Fawkes, pronounced fawks Guy, English conspirator, born in York. A protestant by birth, he became a Roman Catholic after the marriage of his widowed mother to a man of Catholic background and sympathies(Miller 578). In 1593 he enlisted in the Spanish Army in [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Philosophy | Tags: Astronomy, kinematics, Mathematics, Philosophers, Physicists, Physics, Scientific Revolution | Comments Off
Galileo Galilei was born at Pisa on the 18th of February in 1564. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family and had gained some distinction as a musician and a mathematician. At an early age, Galileo manifested his ability to learn both mathematical and mechanical types of things, but his parents, wishing to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, The Old Man and the Sea | Tags: American literature., Author, Hemingway, Journalism, Novels, Short Stories, Spanish Civil War, World War I | Comments Off
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois July 21, 1899. Hemingway is known to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He has written more than one hundred short fiction stories, many of them to be well known around the world. Some of these short stories had just as [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Author, Journalism, Novels, The Adventures of Oliver Twist | Comments Off
INTRODUCTION
This report will talk about the life of a famous author, Charles Dickens. It will tell you about his early, middle, and later years of his life. It will also talk about one of his great works of literature. In conclusion, this report will show a comparison of his work to his life.
EARLY LIFE
Charles Dickens [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Evolution, People | Tags: Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Natural Selection, Origin of Species, Socal Darwinism | Comments Off
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the son of Robert Waring Darwin and his wife Susannah, and the grandson of the scientist Erasmus Darwin. His mother died when he was eight years old, and he was brought up by his sister. He was taught the classics at Shrewsbury, then sent to Edinburgh [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Guass, Mathematics, Physics | Comments Off
Carl Gauss was a man who is known for making a great deal breakthroughs in the wide variety of his work in both mathematics and physics. He is responsible for immeasurable contributions to the fields of number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy, and optics, as well as many more. The concepts that he [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Dracula, Novels, Short Stories | Comments Off
Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 at 15 The Crescent, Clontarf, North of Dublin, the third of seven children. For the first 7 years of his life Stoker was bedridden with a myriad of childhood diseases which afforded him much time to reading. By the time he went to college, Stoker had somehow [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Roman Empire | Tags: Dictators, fall of the roman empire, Roman, Roman Republic | Comments Off
The year 509 BC Rome finally became a Republic and thus started the Roman empire. As Rome rose to power they went through many wars and many conflicts between the plebeians and patricians. The republic was made out of 3 groups, the consuls which were 2 men elected from the senate, the senate which was [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Philosophy | Tags: Aristotle, Philosophers, Physics, Plato, Pythagoras, Pythagorean theorem, Socrates | Comments Off
Aristotle was born in 384 BC and lived until 322 BC. He was a Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato being considered the most famous of ancient philosophers. He was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court. When he was 17, he went to Athens to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Ancient Greece, People | Tags: Mathematics, Physicists | Comments Off
Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. Archimedes was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Famous Painters, Film, Filmakers | Comments Off
Andy Warhol, the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and film maker was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928, shortly afterwards settling in New York. The only son of immigrant, Czech parents, Andy finished high school and went on to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949 with hopes of becoming an art [...]
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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things. Knows not the vivid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull gray ugliness and [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Crime, Criminals, Gangster, Organized Crime | Comments Off
Al Capone is America’s best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city.
Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People, Women | Tags: US Presidents, Women, Women in Society, Womens Rights | Comments Off
Abigail Adams was a unique woman because she had an education and an interest in politics. She learned how to read and write and enjoyed poems most. She was also very resourceful by helping her husband on difficult problems.
Abigail was born on November 11 on the Julian calendar, or November 22 on the modern Gregorian [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: American Politics, People | Tags: Battle of New Orleans, Democratic Party, Native Indians, US Presidents, War of 1812 | Comments Off
Like any hall of fame, its inductees are the best in whatever they do, from baseball or football to something like being President. If you are a member of any hall of fame (including the one for the Presidents), it means that you have done something special or have a certain quality about yourself that [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: American Politics, People | Tags: Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Enlightenment, Louisiana Purchase, separation of church and state, US Presidents | Comments Off
Thomas Jefferson is remembered in history not only for the offices he held, but also for his belief in the natural rights of man as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and his faith in the people’s ability to govern themselves. He left an impact on his times equaled by few others in American history.
Born [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: American History, Bay of Pigs, People, Vietnam War | Tags: American Civil Rights Movement, Berlin Wall, Civil Rights Movement Kennedy, Cuban Missle Crisis, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy Assassination, US History, US Presidents | Comments Off
John F. Kennedy was destined to be president of the United States. He would rather mold history than let history mold itself. John Kennedy was born in Brookline, MA in 1917. His mother was Irish and his father was a graduate of Harvard University and had entered the business world. After their arrival as immigrants, [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: American History, Bay of Pigs, People, Vietnam War | Tags: American Civil Rights Movement, Berlin Wall, Civil Rights Movement Kennedy, Cuban Missle Crisis, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy Assassination, US History, US Presidents | Comments Off
John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th president of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected president. He was also the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20th century.
Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as president. Therefore his achievements were limited. Nevertheless, his influence was [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: People | Tags: Adolf Hitler, Dictators, Germany, Joseph Stalin, Nazi, NAZI Germany, Russia | Comments Off
During the period leading up to World War II, there were two men who were on opposing sides, the men were Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. These men were each triumphant in their rise to power in their countries and they were very comparable in the ways that they succeeded. Their success was mostly attributed [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: European History, People, War, World War 2 (WW2) | Tags: Adolf Hitler, Antisemitism, Axis Powers, Dictatorship, Fascism, Hitler, Mein Kampf, Nationalism, Nazi, NAZI Germany, World War II | Comments Off
Adolf Hitler did not live a very long life, but during his time he caused such a great deal of death and destruction that his actions still have an effect on the world nearly 50 years later. People ask what could’ve happen to this small sickly boy during his childhood that would’ve led him do [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: European History, People, War, World War 2 (WW2) | Tags: Adolf Hitler, Antisemitism, Axis Powers, Dictators, Dictatorship, Fascism, Hitler, Mein Kampf, Nationalism, Nazi, NAZI Germany, World War II | Comments Off
1.The Beginning
At half past six on the evening of April 20th, 1889 a child was born in the small town of Branau, Austria. The name of the child was Adolf Hitler. He was the son a Customs official Alois Hitler, and his third wife Klara.
As a young boy Adolf attendated church regulary and sang in [...]
