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Selenacould you Imagine what it would be like to grow up as a performer in a world that didn’t even except female Tejano singers? Can you imagine how much courage and work it would take to make it to the top? That’s was Quintanilla Perez had to go through. was born in Lake Jackson, Texas on April 6th, ...
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Milton Friedman, like so many great life stories, was the subject of a very tough childhood. He was son to a couple of poor immigrants, born on 31 July 1912, in New York, America. At the age of fifteen, Friedman\'s father died. Despite this, he won a scholarship to both Rutgers University and the University of ...
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Jackie Robinson 2Robinson, Jackie (1919-72), American athlete and business executive. He was born Jack Roosevelt Robinson in Cairo, Georgia. He attended Pasadena Junior College (now Pasadena City College) in California and the University of California, Los Angeles. As an undergraduate, Robinson excelled in ...
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Led ZeppelinHollywood, 1973. It was only the second day of 's stay in Los Angeles. Already, the word was out. Hordes of fans prowled the hallways of their hotel, the infamous Continental Hyatt House. The lobby was filled with photographers, groupies teetering on platform heels, even an impatient car salesman ...
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Alexander The Greats StrugglesAlexander The Great’s Struggles
Alexander the Great was most likely the greatest leader ever. His tactics and reasoning are still studied all over the world even after 2,000 years ago. Being a teenager from a divorced family and forced to rule at such a young age intensely impacted ...
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Benedict ArnoldThe name has become a synonym for a traitor to one's country. In the first years of the American Revolution, however, Arnold was a brilliant and dashing general, highly respected for his service to the patriot cause. He distinguished himself in several battles, reached the rank of major general, ...
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Oedipus RexThe great poet and philosopher Aristotle was a highly intellectual man who loved to reason. One of his ideas was his structured analysis of the quintessential “tragic hero” of Greek drama. In his work Poetics he defines a tragic hero as “...The man who on the one hand is not pre-eminent in ...
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Toni Morrison InterviewToni Morrison is one of America's most acclaimed and recognized writer of the twentieth century. The recent interview that I had the opportunity to view featured Toni Morrison and focused on her prize winning book, Beloved. At the beginning of her interview, she discussed how her novel was ...
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Frank SinatraFrancis Albert Sinatra born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey later became known as and one of the greatest entertainers of his generation. American singers - Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, influenced . Sinatra then developed a signature vocal phrasing in his music that influenced ...
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Maya Angelou 3The readings from "Graduation Day" by: Maya Angelou and "On Becoming A Chicano" by: Richard Rodriguez were different but they the same point across. They were of different cultures, race, and time era, and they both overcame adversity to excel in their schooling.
Maya Angelou excelled greatly in ...
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J.P. MorganJohn Pierpont Morgan is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern United States economy. He was an industrial genius that is accredited with the founding of many companies including General Electric and AT&T. However, Pierpont is looked upon as a saint and demon the same. He ...
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Boris Yeltsin\"We don\'t appreciate what we have until it\'s gone.
Freedom is like that. It\'s like air.
When you have it you don\'t notice.\"
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, president of Russia, elected shortly before the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991. Yeltsin, who was elected to a ...
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Henry FordWhen was born on June 30th, 1863, neither him nor anyone for that matter, knew what an important role he would take in the future of mankind. Ford saw his first car when he was 12. He and his father where riding into Detroit at the time. At that moment, he knew what he wanted to do with his life: ...
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Jonathan LarsonJanuary 21. The time is around 6:45 pm. Writer, composer Jonathan
Larson was sitting in the very last few rows listening as cast he had chosen for
his "about to be" Broadway musical, "Rent" went through one of the final dress
rehearsals in The New York Theater Workshop. He and the Director of ...
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Alexander The GreatThe greatest conqueror of all times perhaps, was a force to be reckoned with. Never losing a single battle, he will be heralded for all time as a master general and leader.
His parents were King Philip of Macedonia and Olympia. Philip was the great king who united Greece and Macedonia into one ...
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Martin Luther King Jr.A good leader builds and maintains a group, gets the job done, helps the group feel comfortable and at ease, helps set and clearly define objectives while assuming the role of guiding or helping others perform. Despite what some might think, there are no born leaders. Leadership is something ...
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Allama Muhammad Iqbalis generally known as a poet and philosopher, but he was also a jurist, a politician, a social reformer, and a great Islamic scholar. People even bestowed on him the title of "Shaere-Mashriq" (Poet of the East!). It may sound strange that Iqbal never considered himself a poet as is evidenced by ...
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Biography On Guy De MaupassantGuy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 at Chateau de Miromesnil in
France. He was a descendent of a very old French family. As a boy, Maupassant
went to school at Yvetot in Normandy, and then attended Lycee at Rouen. During
his childhood and youth in Normandy, he picked up a great deal ...
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Influences Of Virginia WoolfOne of the greatest female authors of all time, Virginia Woolf, produced a body of writing respected worldwide. Driven by uncontrollable circumstances and internal conflict, her life was cut short by suicide. Her role in feminism, along with the personal relationships in her life, influenced her ...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doylewas more than just an author. He was a knight, a soldier, a spiritualist, a whaler, a doctor, a journalist, and most of all, he was adventurous. He was not the quiet type of person, so he enjoyed expressing himself. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on the 22nd of May 1859 in Picardy Place, Edinburgh. ...
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William FaulknerFaulkner grew up in Mississippi in the beginning of the twentieth century (“” 699). He was the son to Murray C. and Maud Butler Faulkner (Hoffman 13). Growing up in the South in the early 1900’s meant being exposed to harsh racism. He watched the blacks endure unbelievable ...
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The Life Of John CalvinJohn Calvin was born into a middle class family in the early 1500's
to Gerard Calvin and Jeanne Le Franc. His father was a lawyer for the
Roman Catholic Church. His father's relations to the church initiated
John's religious career. Calvin studied both theology and law and many
different ...
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Ptolemy Of Alexandriawas the most influential astronomer of the
ancient world. The books and theories Ptolemy developed served as a major
basis for future astronomers. It was during the Renaissance period that
his work became thoroughly studied and revised.
Ptolemy collected all ancient knowledge of astronomy ...
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Wyatt Earpwas born on March 19, 1848. He is the son of Nicholas Earp, a lawyer/farmer and Virginia Earp and was born at 406 South Third Street, Monmouth, Illinois. Wyatt was given the name of his father\'s Army captain.
When Wyatt was quiet young, his two older brother, James and Virgil, went off to fight ...
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Henrik Ibsen was born in the Stockman Building in Skien, Norway. He spent part of his childhood on Venstøp Farm after his father went bankrupt. In 1843, he was apprenticed to a chemist in Grimstad. That was when he began writing satire and elegant poems in the style of the time. He wrote his first ...
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