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Clara Barton
615 Words - 3 Pages.... Growing up one trait, which Clara possessed, was her extreme shyness.
’s adult life was filled with success. Barton had a long career of public service. At age seventeen Barton became a teacher in Massachusetts. She taught many years and then decided that it was time to establish her own school in North Oxford where she was born. Eventually teaching began to loose its zest and she wanted more from life. She decided to further her education and attend the Liberal Institute. The Liberal Institute was located in Clinton, New York; it was an advanced school for female teachers. yearned to teach once again and accepted a job in New Jersey. Following this she op ....
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Ivan The Terrible
563 Words - 3 Pages.... doing so. Ivan was crowned Russia's first Tsar at the age of 17. Three weeks later he married, having chosen his bride in a national virgin competition. Virgins over the age of twelve were brought to the Kremlin to be paraded before him. He chose Anastasia, the daughter of a minor noble, and their marriage proved to be a very close one. Ivan had huge ambitions for his new Imperial dynasty. He launched a holy war against Russia's traditional enemy, the Tartars. Showing no mercy to these Muslim people Ivan's conquest of Kazan, and later Astrakhan and Siberia, gave birth to a sixteenth century personality cult glorifying him as the Orthodox crusader. His wife Anastasia hel ....
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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
1934 Words - 8 Pages.... private schools.
As a teen Poe was very gifted in foreign language. He wrote some of his early works in both French an Latin. At age fifteen Poe had already written enough works to publish a book but John would not allow it. Poe was also very fit as a teen. Poe was supposedly a very fast swimmer and runner. It is reported that Poe once as a teen swam the James river from Lundhams Wharf to Warwick Bar which is six miles against a strong current (Woodberry 20). At 15 Poe was the Lieutenant of the Junior Morgan Riflemen. Poe was then reviewed by the famous Marquis De Lafayette. Poe’s grandfather General Poe is where Poe most likely got his military influence from. ....
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The Life Of John F. Kennedy
509 Words - 2 Pages.... as United States Ambassador to Great Britain.
During John's childhood, his family often moved. Some of these moves sent
the family into New York. All of the Kennedy children developed a strong
competitive spirit. The boys enjoyed playing touch football together.
John Kennedy's education included elementary schools in Brookline
and Riverdale. By the age of thirteen his father sent him to the
Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. He then transferred to
Choate Academy in Wallingford, Connecticut, and graduated in 1935 at
eight-teen years old. In 1936, after a summer in England, John entered
Princeton University. After Christmas, of that same year, he developed
jaun ....
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The Legend Of Baby Doe
1499 Words - 6 Pages.... acres and left more than 1,000 people dead. This
ended the lumber boom and mcCourt went into debt to the bank.
Elizabeth loved attention from men when she was a teenager and she
liked to be talked about, even if the talk didn't compliment her. Her
sisters were jealous of her most of the time. Even their parents lavished
affection on her. To put it plainly, Elizabeth was spoiled. She always
went her own way and damned anyone who tried to stop her.
After winning an ice skating contest with an incredibly revealing
costume, a man named Harvey Doe began courting her. Soon after, they
decided to be married.
There were disapproving glances at the wedding from both mot ....
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Herbert Spencer
1610 Words - 6 Pages.... 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 Government his belief that "everything in nature has its laws," organic as well as inorganic matter. Man is subject to laws b ....
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Charles Wang
317 Words - 2 Pages.... make everybody strive harder towards
excellence, but it also creates an environment in which everyone wants to
work. Employees don't get bored with "stale" jobs that they have been
doing for several years, or even decades. The employees that work for Wang
get to experience the different aspects of a company, until they reach the
quality of an executive worker. At that point, the are promoted and re-
trained by Wang to insure excellence.
Wang's method of running his company could help him to succeed in a
variety of situations. For example, when Wang wants to retire, he would
not have to worry about the way his company was run. Since he taught his
own executives exactly h ....
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Charles Darwin
339 Words - 2 Pages.... at that University.
He was more interested in geology than theology though.
The “Beagle” landed on the Galapagos Islands on September 7th.
Darwin collected specimens and other evidence which was later used for his
theory of evolution by natural selection. Charles married Emma Wedgewood,a
cousin in 1839.His first book, Journal of Researches was published in 1839
as well. Charles and Emma live in England until the end of their lives. He
started to write out parts of his theory in 1842-1844 in Vestiges of
Natural Creation.
Darwin had many volumes of Origin of Species published from 1859-82.
Darwin’s natural selection was basically saying that some things aren’t
needed. ....
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