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John DeLorean And His Acomplishments
<view this essay>.... 17. Even as a
young child, he was exposed to the underbelly of the automotive industry.
When young John was 6 or 7 the family was awakened in the middle of the
night by a squad of Harry Bennett's infamous Ford security officers. They
searched the house with reckless abandon looking for stolen tools from the
Ford plant. They found nothing, and were gone as quick as they came. When
John was old enough for high school, he chose to attend Cass Tech which was
where his best friend was going. Since his grades at the time weren't of
the highest caliber, he was entered as a probationary student. He excelled
at Cass, and won a scholarship to Lawrence Institute of Techno .....
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Who Was Adolf Hitler?
<view this essay>.... and 1913, he lived in Vienna. There is controversy as to whether he was destitute there. He moved to Munich (Germany) in 1913, and was still there when World War I broke out in August 1914.
Hitler enlisted in the German army and saw four years of front-line service during which he was wounded several times and decorated for bravery twice. He was gassed near the end of the war. During this time, he served as an intelligence agent for the military authorities, in the course of which he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, l .....
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Michael Faraday
<view this essay>.... Reading many of the books in the shop, Faraday became fascinated by science, and wrote to Sir Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution asking for a job. On 1st March 1813, he was appointed laboratory assistant at the Royal Institution. There Faraday immersed himself in the study of chemistry, becoming a skilled analytical chemist. In 1823 he discovered that chlorine could be liquefied and in 1825 he discovered a new substance known today as benzene.
However, his greatest work was with electricity. In 1821, soon after the Danish chemist, Oersted, discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism, Faraday built two devices to produce what he called electromagnetic ro .....
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Woodrow Wilson And His Ability To Be An Effective President
<view this essay>.... life were dedicated to convincing the
U.S. to join his League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson was born December 28, 1856. Through his childhood he was
often sick. This did not keep him from building an interest in education. His
father and him would read out loud to each other and discuss the books. If they
were not reading often the two would sit and talk about recent events. He later
moved onto college and studied American and British political history, public
speaking, and law. After college he set up a law practice with Edward Renick.
Because he had not learned the field of law thorough while in school, he showed
a poor ability to be a lawyer. During .....
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Lou Gehrig
<view this essay>.... until the Yankees needed him.
Gehrig was 22 when he became a big league rookie. He sat on the bench until one day in June in the 1925 season when he finally broke into the Yankees' line up as a first baseman. It happened because the team's veteran first baseman couldn't play because of a severe headache. He stayed first baseman for fourteen seasons, five thousand eighty-two playing days, he played a total of two thousand, one hundred and thirty major league games. It was a record that will never be broken or even equaled.
To create that unbelievable endurance, feat, strong and powerful nicknamed "The Iron Horse," played in every one of the two thousand .....
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
<view this essay>.... feel guilty (In a way). This for of resistance is formally known as Passive Resistance. The mission he was fighting for did not quite work and after 20 years of on-and-off imprisonment, he want back to India. At the time, India was under the rule of the British Empire. Gandhi devised a form of a political group to make a free and independent India. The forms of activities this group participated in were protect marches, gatherings and this was all done with Passive Resistance. During Gandhi's life, he was so into this idea of Passive Resistance, if anyone that wanted an Independent India resorted to violence, he would fast until the violence stopped. he did t .....
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Miyamoto Musashi
<view this essay>.... Masana no Kensei. When Musashi was a child his mother died when he was six years old and his father abandoned the family a year after her death. Musashi was raised by a number of family members and started to train in the ways of Kendo (fencing) under his uncle’s guidance. Musashi proved to have tremendous talent with a blade. He was also very big and strong for a boy of his age. But with this strength and size came aggression. Musashi was not known a calm and mannerly youth. Rather he was considered a troublemaker and a uncontrollable child by the town elders.
Musashi used his strength and demeanor in his first real duel with a known samurai w .....
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The Writing Of Edgar Allan Poe
<view this essay>.... a house that is haunted. The dark, dreary settings that are part of his story add to the effect of what is really happening in the story.
Most of Poe’s stories deal with what is happening in the mind of the characters. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator is compelled to kill and then is forced to confess because of his conscience. Poe also made use of the idea that if you destroy one part of yourself, then you will wholly be destroyed. In “William Wilson” the hero, by killing his conscience (in the story it is his double), destroys himself. In “The Cask of the Amontillado” the reason for murder is revenge. The Critical Survey of Short Fiction states .....
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