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Malcolm X
<view this essay>.... by his teacher and left school after the eighth grade to go live with a relative in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1942 he moved to a black section of New York City. He lived as a gambler, cheating to make money. He sold drugs and became addicted himself. Then in 1946 he was sent to prison for burglary. While serving in prison Malcolm adopted the Islamic religion. After he was released from prison in 1952, Malcolm joined his younger brother in Detroit, Michigan where he replaced his slave last name with an X to symbolize his lost true African name.
soon became an active participant in the nation of Islam. He assisted Elijah Muhammad by starting many new Mu .....
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Benito Juarez
<view this essay>.... didn’t even speak the language.
He soon got a job helping a bookbinder, and attended a parish school. He soon left the school because of discrimination, and social class divisions. He worked, and was then able to enroll in the Holy Cross Seminary. Benito did not want to become a priest, but the free education kept him there. Then, at 22 he entered the Institute of Sciences and Arts, and he studies Physics, and then law.
In 1831 he finished his studies, and went to work in a law office. That same year, at age 25 he was elected to the position of city alderman. Then, in 1833 he was elected to the Oaxaca State legislature. Next, in 1834 he became the .....
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Louis Pasteur 3
<view this essay>.... which could rotate the plane of polarization of light, one to the right and the other to the left. This was his first important discovery in crystallography, the phenomenon of optical isomers. Paradoxically it incited him to abandon the field. But it won the acclaim of the French Academy and Britain's Royal Society. Thus Pasteur became famous at the age of 26.
Pasteur soon began researching the complexities of bacteriology. The prevalent theory of life at the time was spontaneous generation which states that certain forms of life such as flies, worms, and mice can develop from non-living matter such as mud and decaying fish. Pasteur di .....
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Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
<view this essay>.... Norse, Roman, and Greek myths (Johnson
1). “When he grew old enough to choose his own reading material, the boy
rapidly developed a fondness for the stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs and
the comic book heroes Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Prince Valiant.”
(Johnson 1). It was these comic book heroes who fueled Bradbury's fondness
for science fiction. After moving to Tucson, Arizona Bradbury got a job a
local radio station because of his experience in Waukegan as an amateur
magician. “‘I was on the radio every Saturday night reading comic book
strips to the kiddies and being paid in free movie tickets, to local cinema,
where I saw ‘The Mummy,' ‘The Murders in .....
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King Solomon
<view this essay>.... included 700 wives and 300 other mistresses (1). To insure the future peace and security of his kingdom, Solomon yielded to the custom of the times and made many domestic alliances with subject races and tribes by marrying foreign women.
An able administrator, Solomon kept the kingdom of Israel largely intact, strengthened its protection, and made alliances with several surrounding nations. He united his already strong position and even extended his influence by skillful diplomacy rather than war (8). International commerce and a large copper-mining industry aided in Solomon’s wealth. Contact with other nations showed his advanced intelligence .....
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William Blake
<view this essay>.... Hebrew, French, and Italian. His English was to be often strikingly original through other people's eyes. In 1767, he wanted to become an artist at the young age of 10. In pursuit of this dream, he attended the Henry Pars Engraving School in the Strand. By 1772, he was an apprentice to an engraver, James Basire, who taught him the secrets of the trade very well. Basire sent him to make drawings of the sculptures in Westminster Abbey, which sparked his interest in Gothic art. Blake's father was a hosier, and sent him to the Royal Academy in 1779 as an engraving student. While at school, Blake absorbed the religious symbolism and linear design charact .....
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Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
<view this essay>.... universe except individual bodies. Although he did not
offer a complete theory of the nature of the universe, he pointed the way that
science, as a new civil religion, might take in developing such a theory.
Bacon divided theology into the natural and the revealed. Natural theology is
the knowledge of God which we can get from the study of nature and the
creatures of God. Convincing proof is given of the existence of God but nothing
more. Anything else must come from revealed theology. Science and philosophy
have felt the need to justify themselves to laymen. The belief that nature is
something to be vexed and tortured to the compliance of man will not satisf .....
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Biography Of Thomas Edison
<view this essay>.... railroad which ran between Port Huron
and Detroit, Michigan. Unfortunately, about the same time he began this,
an accident occurred that left Edison deaf for the rest of his life. One
day he struggled to climb the freight car while carrying stacks of
newspapers. The conductor of the train saw him and grabbed him by both of
his ears, lifting him into the car. From that day forward, Edison was deaf.
But he said he did not mind. Being deaf helped him to work on his
inventions in quiet and without being disturbed.
At sixteen, Edison became a telegraph operator.He learned the Morse
code and spent his spare time taking apart and putting together telegraphs .....
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