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People and Biographies Term Papers and Reports
On Mr. Booker T. Washington's Trickery
1570 Words - 6 Pages

.... very akin with his contemporaries and previous leaders, differing only in the extent to which he was willing to go to fulfill it. I suggest then the deep analysis of Booker T. Washington's speech to reveal he was a mere trickster that knew how to best satisfied the skewed mind of the white in order to save the future of his people. Booker T. Washington in his address delivered at the opening of The Cotton States' Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia meant to attain at least three goals. The first was of course the most clear-cut, that of winning white advocates that would sponsor his cause (albeit by the use of trickery). The second was that behind the purpose of the ....


John Hancock
1545 Words - 6 Pages

.... well-being of all members of the parish. Ever since John’s (Jr.) birth, he was perceived to go to Harvard. At the age of six, his parents sent him to a local dame school. Later he was sent to another school, in which he might have met John Adams, with whom he struck up a casual acquaintance. Like all the other children in town, he learned the basics of reading, writing, and figuring.All things seemed to go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of the reason that they would have to move. Mary’s parents were both dead and a very difficult decision would ....


Al Capone
1691 Words - 7 Pages

.... Yale's Brooklyn dive, the Harvard Inn, as a bouncer and bartender. While working at the Inn, Capone received his infamous facial scars and the resulting nickname "Scarface" when he insulted a patron and was attacked by her brother. In 1918, Capone met an Irish girl named Mary "Mae" Coughlin at a dance. On December 4, 1918, Mae gave birth to their son, Albert "Sonny" Francis. Capone and Mae married that year on December 30. Capone's first arrest was on a disorderly conduct charge while he was working for Yale. He also murdered two men while in New York, early testimony to his willingness to kill. In accordance with gangland etiquette, no one admitted to hearing ....


Louis Armstrong
301 Words - 2 Pages

.... offered Armstrong his position a group that was considered to be one of the better ones in town. Soon after this he was called to Chicago by King Oliver to join his orchestra at Lincoln Gardens. A particularly important accomplishment of Armstrong's during the '20's was his development of "scat singing," a type of wordless singing derived from folk and blues music. He continued touring with his own groups, generally consisting of six to eight- musician groups ( Hot Five, Six, & Seven) through the thirties and forties, his fame only hampered by the fact that the best venues were generally reserved for white musicians. In his later years, Armstrong remained a good trumpet pla ....


B. F. Skinner
1070 Words - 4 Pages

.... old. He was a natural inventor and he loved build things. One of his inventions included a device that automatically reminded him to hang up his pajamas in the morning. He played the saxophone in a jazz band during high school and played piano until his failing eyesight made it hard for him to read the music. In college, he was very independent, and sometimes even a prankster. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1926 and later received his P.h.D. in psychology at Harvard University. (Ulrich, 1997) John B. Watson John Broadus Watson was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January 9th 1878. He went to college at Furman University and the University of Chicago. Watson ....


Josephy P. Kennedy II
260 Words - 1 Pages

.... by Thomas "Tip" O'Neil, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. His formal education includes a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts in l976. He is married to the former Beth Kelly and is the father of two children. His father was the late Senator Robert Kennedy of New York and his uncle was the late President John F. Kennedy. Congressman Kennedy's political background includes a strong family history in public service. Upon his graduation, his occupation was to form a non profit company devoted to providing heating oil at affordable prices for the poor and the working poor. He successfully manged this ....


Freud 2
1287 Words - 5 Pages

.... nervous system in the physiological laboratory under the direction of the German physician Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke. Neurological research was so engrossing that Freud neglected the prescribed courses and as a result remained in medical school three years longer than was required normally to qualify as a physician. In 1881, after completing a year of compulsory military service, he received his medical degree. Unwilling to give up his experimental work, however, he remained at the university as a demonstrator in the physiological laboratory. In 1883, at Brücke's urging, he reluctantly abandoned theoretical research to gain practical experience. Freud spent three years ....


Tupac Shakur
1420 Words - 6 Pages

.... (u.a., "original area," n.p.). From there he released a couple albums and then was offered to be in some movies. He became friends with a couple of popular rap artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre (Placid n.p.). He made some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. This really helped his popularity. He released a double CD with the songs on it and a lot of his own songs and sold millions of copies (u.a., n.t., n.p. letter code D) More people were influenced to buy his CD. People listened to the music and did what he said he did. So Tupac was influencing all of these people. Tupac was rich and famous now. He was showing off his own ....



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