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George Washington: Biography
1897 Words - 7 Pages.... to survey Lord Fairfax's lands in the
Shenandoah Valley. He helped lay out the Virginia town of Belhaven (now
Alexandria) in 1749 and was appointed surveyor for Culpeper County. George
accompanied his brother to Barbados in an effort to cure Lawrence of
tuberculo sis, but Lawrence died in 1752 after returning to America. George
inherited the Mount Vernon estate.
Washington first gained public notice in October 1753 when he was
dispatched by Gov. Robert Dinwiddie to warn the French commander at Fort Le
Boeuf against further encroachment on territory claimed by Britain.
Washington at the age of 22, was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Although
he lacked experience, he le ....
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Biography Of Dr. Maria Montessori
704 Words - 3 Pages.... an educator, so her
decisions were based upon watching what children did and what they were
attracted to. In 1898, Dr. Montessori addressed the Congress for Teachers.
She spoke of an anthropological approach to childrenÕs development. This
led to teacher training at The State Orthophrenic School. Dr. Montessori
lectured on the function of the school teacher, Whose task it was not to
judge the children. She felt it was the teachers role to help guide and
enlighten something that was asleep in the student. Mental work would not
exhaust the child, it would give the child nourishment. Through her
observations and trial and error, she developed what became known as the
Mont ....
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Sir Robert Laird Borden
1253 Words - 5 Pages.... in Kentville, Nova Scotia. In 1882, Robert was back in Halifax and became a junior partner in the firm of Graham, Tupper and Borden. He was involved in cases that brought him before the Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Committee of he Privy Council in England. On September 25, 1889, Robert married Laura Bond with whom he had no children.
Growing up, Robert was a Liberal, but he left the party in 1886 to become a Conservative after the Liberal leader in Nova Scotia wanted he province to retire from he Canadian federation. In 1896, the Conservative party was in extreme need for new people and the Halifax Conservatives thought Robert to be a good candidate. In the begi ....
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Norman Rockwell
576 Words - 3 Pages.... and later on the Art Students League in New York. Here Rockwell was recognized as an above average illustrator with good potential. Rockwell then after developing his skills and contributing many illustrations to children’s magazines, managed to muster up the courage to show his work to a bigger periodical, the Saturday Evening Post. Happy with the quality of Rockwell’s work the Post gave Rockwell a job creating illustrations and cover art for its periodicals. This would be his arena, revealing his works to thousands of people, for over forty years. During this period Rockwell painted portraits of various celebrities and persona. Rockwell was a "people painter&quo ....
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Charles Lindbergh
2129 Words - 8 Pages.... of his baby and his fall from favor with the American public
following his pro-German stance during the 1930's. Charles Lindbergh, the famous
American aviator, was born February 4, 1902 in Detroit, Michigan. As a boy he
loved the outdoors and frequently hunted. He maintained a good relationship
with his parents "who trusted him and viewed him as a very responsible child".
His father, for whom young Charles chauffeured as a child, served in the U.S.
Congress from 1907 to 1917. Lindbergh's love of machinery was evident by the age
of 14; "He could take apart a automobile engine and repair it". Attending the
University of Wisconsin, Lindbergh studied engineering for two ....
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Mohandas Gandhi
1437 Words - 6 Pages.... of life, which he decided not to follow, and in the simple
Russian way of living he found: the New Testament, and the Bhagavadgita,
the bible of the Hare Krishna movement. It was here that he developed a
sense of the presence of God in his life and the lives of men.
Gandhi then returned to India and studied law in Bombay, but he quickly
denounced it, feeling that it was immoral and could not satisfy one's
conscience. Despite this, he used his schooling to help plead for Indian
settlers in South Africa that were being oppressed by the white population.
His personal experiences, including being ejected from a train in
Maritzburg, of not being allowed the same rights as ot ....
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Adam Smith
814 Words - 3 Pages.... Smith developed the concept of the invisible hand he assumed that the economy would relatively remain unchanged. Let us start with my first hypothesis.
Self-interest is defined as regard for one’s personal advantage or benefit. We see and carry out this everyday. It is natural to look of one’s self first and Smith knew that, in fact he encouraged it. He observed that if everyone acted in his or her own best interests the market would automatically produce what the people demand. He knew this would work be more effective and efficient than any governing body or groups of planners to decide the Three Economic Problems: What to produce? How to produce it? ....
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Octavian Augustus
2253 Words - 9 Pages.... three main parts: the senate, the assemblies, and the magistrates. The Senate was a group of former state officials, usually patricians, who acted as advisors, controlled public finances and handled all diplomatic dealings with other states. The assemblies were the various public meetings where citizens voted on laws and public office (Hanes 1997). Magistrates were the elected officials who put the laws into practice. The most important of these magistrates were the consuls. The two consuls, each elected for one year, acted as the chief executives of the state. Censors were also very important magistrates. Censors were elected every five years to take a census and record the ....
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