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Shannon Lucid
<view this essay>.... to leave when the communists took over.
They then settled in Bethany, Oklahoma.
She always had the dream that someday she would be a space explorer.
People thought her crazy for this dream though, because the United
States didn't even have a space program. After graduating from Bethany High
School in 1960 she got her pilot's license. In regard to her dream she said,
"the Baptists wouldn't let women preach, so I had to become an astronaut to get
closer to God than my father." By this time America already had a space program.
She could not believe that of the first seven Mercury astronauts, none were
females. This is just one more instance .....
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Clinton Impeachment
<view this essay>.... of impeachment. These incidents later turned out to be a political soap opera and ended with Clinton’s presidency preserved, but it is a soap opera that many believed it could be prevent from happening.
Clinton’s impeachment made headlines news across the nation ever since it was revealed to the public. Unfortunately, many people still have a long way to know what went on behind the close door of the impeachment. The majority do not have an idea if the Congress is making the right move or not to impeach our President. Hence, many do not realize how the impeachment might affect our nation politically. To answer this, I conducted an interview .....
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Michael Collins
<view this essay>.... year Collins was ambushed and murdered by extremist republicans. Collins's life and death are apt metaphors for the long, ongoing tragedy of Irish nationalism: a tale of incandescent love of country, savage violence, gleeful melancholy, and treachery Early on, Collins erupts into its most spectacular moment -- British artillery blasting the handful of Republican volunteers defending the General Post Office in the Easter Rising. It's the Irish equivalent of the Alamo, and the terrible beauty addressed in Yeats's poem "Easter 1916" can almost be glimpsed in the painstakingly re-created destruction, carnage, and valor. Wooed by Boland and won by Collins w .....
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George Washington Carver
<view this essay>.... him he was no longer a slave, he remained on their plantation until he was about 10 or 12 years old, when he left to achieve an education. He spent some time wandering about, working with his hands and developing his keen interest in plants and animals.
By both books and experience, George acquired a incoherent education while doing whatever work came to hand in order to exist. He supported himself by varied occupations that included general household worker, hotel cook, laundryman, farm laborer, and homesteader. In his late 20s he managed to obtain a high school education in Minneapolis, Kansas, while working as a farmhand. After a university in Kansas refus .....
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Thomas Edison
<view this essay>.... His mother was a former schoolteacher; his father was a jack-of-all-trades - from running a grocery store to real estate. When Thomas was seven years old, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. He was a very curious child who asked a lot of questions. “Edison began school in Port Huron, Michigan when he was seven. His teacher, the Reverend G. B. Engle considered Thomas to be a dull student.”(Allen pg. 22) Thomas especially did not like math. And he asked too many questions. The story goes that the teacher whipped students who asked questions. After three months of school, the teacher called Thomas, "addled". Thomas was pissed. The next day, Nancy .....
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Peter The Great
<view this essay>.... therefore very fragile. Bitter rivalries went up for 6 years between the widow and ex-wife of Alexis, until Feodor died of natural causes in 1682 (4:89). It was then that a truce was made that Peter and his half-brother Ivan (also son of Maria), who was also slightly retarded, would be joint czars (4:89). He spent most of his young childhood life in the Kremlin, which he grew to hate, due to the dusky rooms, the labyrinthine corridors, and the bloody memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Nata .....
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Michael Smith Biography
<view this essay>.... from the University of Manchester in 1956. After serving as a research fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Smith worked for the Fisheries Research Board of Canada from 1961 to 1966. He then returned to the University of British Columbia, where he became a professor of biochemistry in 1970 and where he still works in the biotechnology lab.
Proteins perform a variety of crucial chemical functions in plants and animals. The best way to study the function of a specific protein is to mutate it, then observe how this changes the behavior of the entire organism. Prior to Smith's innovation, mutation was achieved by exposing random cells to muta .....
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J.D. Salinger
<view this essay>.... Stories" in 1953, "Franny and Zooey" in 1961, "Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction" in 1963, "Young Folk" in 1940 and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in 1948. Many critics have considered a very controversial writer because of the subject matters he wrote about. For example Salinger wrote about religion, intellectuals, emotional struggles of adolescents, loneliness and symbolism (Jones).
Some critics feel his writing was inappropriate because of the topics he wrote about. The main characters were considered misfits of society. The characters generally did not fit in with tra .....
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