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Jackie Robinson 3
1169 Words - 5 Pages.... athlete’s to come.
Jackie Robinson grew up in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie attended UCLA where he played baseball, basketball, football, and track. After collage Jackie enrolled in world war two. After the war Jackie got an honorable discharge. After the end of the war Jackie didn’t know what he wanted to do and he was very short on money. Finally Jackie decided he wanted to join the Negro Leagues. In 1944 Jackie officially was on a Negro baseball team.(Shorto,Russell p. 5-10)
In 1945 Branch Rickey the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers was looking for a black player to break the serration barrier and rise above it all and join the
Major League Baseball Associ ....
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Heinrich Schliemann
4640 Words - 17 Pages.... 18,19; Burg 8). Indeed, by presenting his life in romantic autobiographies as a series of adventures, starring as the epic hero (Duchêne 14), he ensured his status as a lasting folk hero and perennial bestseller (Calder 19).
The reality was that was an incredible con man, a generally unlikable braggart who succeeded only because of his queer mix of genius and fraudulence. He had a shylock's conscience when it came to business dealings, and his shady methods pervaded both his life and his archaeology (Burg, 15-31). Schliemann had a habit of rewriting his past in order to paint a more dramatic picture of himself. Among the events he reported that have been found to be ....
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The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven
1466 Words - 6 Pages.... force in that it challenged him to
try and conquer the fate that was handed him. He would not surrender to
that "jealous demon, my wretched health" before proving to himself and the
world the extent of his skill. Thus, faced with su!ch great impending loss,
Beethoven, keeping faith in his art and ability, states in his
Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven in the
development of his heroic style.
By about 1800, Beethoven was mastering the Viennese High-Classic style.
Although the style had been first perfected by Mozart, Beethoven did extend
it to some degree. He had unprecedently composed sonatas for the cello
which in combination with ....
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Sophocles
811 Words - 3 Pages.... was in his acting career. During his first competition, had the honor of competing against the great Aeschylus himself and defeated him taking first place. There would be many more plays to follow this accomplishment and would walk home with nothing less than a second place.
, noted as being a talented actor, performed in many of his own plays. In one of his plays called, "The Woman Washing Clothes," he performed a juggling act that was talked about all over town for many years because the audience was so fascinated. But before you knew it was to take another route and end his acting career to venture elsewhere. For many years served as a dictated priest i ....
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Louis Pasteur 2
1001 Words - 4 Pages.... Dec. 27, 1822, in Dôle, France. His father was a tanner. In 1827 the family moved to nearby Arbois, where Louis went to school. He was a hard-working pupil but not an especially brilliant one.
When he was 17 he received a degree of bachelor of letters at the Collège Royal de Besançon. For the next three years he tutored younger students and prepared for the École Normale Supérieure, a noted teacher-training college in Paris. As part of his studies he investigated the crystallographic, chemical, and optical properties of various forms of tartaric acid. His work laid the foundations for later study of the geometry of chemical bonds. Pasteur's investigations soon brought ....
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George C. Marshall
486 Words - 2 Pages.... from assistant chief-of-staff of the U.S. Army (July, 1938) to deputy chief of staff (October, 1938), to chief of staff the following year. In 1944, Marshall was promoted to General of the Army. He spent a year in China in 1945-46 as President Truman's representative, attempting to bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict between the nationalists and the communists.
As Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949, he developed an economic program, the Marshall Plan, to help bring relief to war torn nations in Europe. The plan stipulated that the United States war prepared to assist Europe on certain terms. The European countries were to (1) Confer and Determine thei ....
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Yasir Arafat
1048 Words - 4 Pages.... Arafat addressed the UN
general Assembly in 1974, and the UN then organized the PLO as the
representative of the Arabs of Palestine.
In 1983, fighting broke out between PLO supporters of Arafat anti
those who opposed him. The rebels forced Arafat and his supporters to
leave their in northern Lebanon, but Arafat remained chairman of the PLO.
The PLO did not recognize Israel's rights to exist. Bur in 1988,
Arafat persuaded the PLO it accept Israel's rights to exist along side an
independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had
occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip
and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence o ....
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Thomas Jefferson
588 Words - 3 Pages.... after Thomas was born, William Randolph, a cousin of Mrs. Jefferson and a close friend of the family, died. His will requested that Peter Jefferson move to his estate, take care of the house and land, and make sure Randolph's four children get educated. The Jefferson’s remained at Randolph's estate for seven years. The estate was called Shadwell. was quite the little intelligent boy. At age nine, Started Latin, Greek, and French Studies at a boarding school. Thomas liked to Horse back ride, Canoe, Hunt, and fish. When Thomas was fourteen years old, his father passed away. was the oldest son, so Thomas had to take care of the family. Jefferson was a tall, slender bo ....
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